Is the Turkish Language Hard to Learn?

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  • @storylearning
    @storylearning  Рік тому +697

    🇹🇷 Learn the magical story of the Turkish language 👉🏼 ua-cam.com/video/4LrrDkBoI-4/v-deo.html

    • @Zeyede_Seyum
      @Zeyede_Seyum Рік тому +14

      When I was young I used to watch a Turkish series in Arabic and my mother used to translate it for me. So I used to think Turks spoke Arabic until I discovered on UA-cam it’s a completely different language 😅😅 I was shocked for a moment it sounded alien.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +12

      prefix is only to emphasis, such as sarı=yellow,
      sapsarı=excessive (fully/too much) yellow
      yaşlı=old , yapyaşlı=too much old.
      kara=black
      kapkara=excessive (fully/too much) black
      kızıl=reddish
      kıpkızıl=excessive (fully/too much) reddish.
      ------------------------------------------------
      li suffix means "with" (lı,li,lu,lü)
      tuz=salt
      tuzlu=salty (with salt)
      siz suffix means "without" (sız,siz,suz,süz)
      tuzsuz=saltless (without salt)
      bilgi=knowledge
      bilgili=informed (with info/knowledge)
      bilgisiz=ignorant (without info/knowledge)
      bilinç=the conscious/consciousness
      bilinçli=conscious (with conscious)
      bilinçsiz=unconscious (without conscious)
      -------------------------------
      once you know root word's meaning and suffixes meanings you can guess new word's meaning. to make a new word suffixes are used (not prefixes). for example
      bil=know
      bilgi=knowledge
      bilgili=informed
      bilgisiz=ignorant
      bilgisizce=ignorantly
      bilgisizlik=ignorance
      bilim=science
      bilge=wise
      bilgelik=wisdom
      bilgece=wisely
      bilimci=sciencist
      bilgilen=get informed
      bilgilendir=inform
      bilgilendirme=informing
      bildir=notify
      bildirim=notification
      bildirge=proclamation
      bilinç=the conscious/consciousness
      bilinçli=conscious
      bilinçsiz=unconscious
      bilinçsizlik=unconsciousness
      bilinçsizce=unconsciously
      bilmece=brainteaser
      bilgin=scholar
      biliş=cognition
      there are more words that has bil root, but i did not write all.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +5

      2 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (A,E) (keeping toung back or front)
      when you add suffix with open vowel (a , e ) , (such as plural suffix= -lar,-ler)
      if last letter of word is back vowel (a ı o u) then suffix with open vowel will have " a "
      if last letter of word is front vowel (e i ö ü ) then suffix with open vowel will have " e "
      example: ler / lar = plural suffix
      Türkler= Turks
      Doktorlar =Doctors
      4 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (I, İ, U, Ü) (pronouncing closed version of last vowel)
      when you add suffix with closed vowel (ı i u ü) (such as subject suffixes) then, suffix will be closed version of last vowel, you do not have to think about which vowel to add because without changing your mouth shape (back-front and rounded-unrounded shapes) just closing your mouth a little will make sound of last vowel's closed version. for example if you close your mouth a little as you are pronouncing
      "a" it will sound " ı ",
      " o " will be " u "
      " ö " will be " ü "
      " e " will be " i "
      so if last vowel of the word is
      " a " or " ı " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ı "
      " e " or " i " then suffix with closed vowel will have " i "
      " o " or " u " then suffix with closed vowel will have " u "
      " ö " or " ü " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ü "
      example: sen=you, suffix form of sen is with closed vowels “ sın, sin, sun, sün
      Nasıl = how
      Nasılsın? = how are you?
      Türksün= You are Turk
      Doktorsun= You are doctor
      İyi=good
      İyisin= You are good
      To pronounce "A,a" letter, chin must be open, tongue must be at back, lips must be unrounded
      To pronounce "E,e" letter, chin must be open, tongue must be at front, lips must be unrounded
      To pronounce "I,ı" letter, chin must be closed, tongue must be at back, lips must be unrounded
      To pronounce "İ,i" letter, chin must be closed, tongue must be at front, lips must be unrounded
      To pronounce "O,o" letter, chin must be open, tongue must be at back, lips must be rounded
      To pronounce "Ö,ö" letter, chin must be open, tongue must be at front, lips must be rounded
      To pronounce "U,u" letter, chin must be closed, tongue must be at back, lips must be rounded
      To pronounce "Ü,ü" letter, chin must be closed, tongue must be at front, lips must be rounded

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +11

      @@Zeyede_Seyum Turkish sounds splendid as thunder to me. and harmonious as river sound.

    • @Zeyede_Seyum
      @Zeyede_Seyum Рік тому +4

      @@PimsleurTurkishLessons yes, it sounds sweet and unique. Btw I found the series translated to Amharic
      ua-cam.com/video/rtR-SIPzMpc/v-deo.html episode ፩

  • @kwangjinchai2859
    @kwangjinchai2859 Рік тому +8734

    As a Korean I want to say Turkish people have the most perfect Korean pronunciation when they learn Korean. Strangely even better than our neighbors Chinese and Japanese.

    • @chatnoir2788
      @chatnoir2788 Рік тому +482

      Thank you for your compliment💞

    • @Raidon8537
      @Raidon8537 Рік тому +325

      @Doruk Tikence you are talking about Japanese, not Korean.
      But yes you heard true that Korean and Japanese is easiest to learn for Turks.

    • @Raidon8537
      @Raidon8537 Рік тому +538

      @Doruk Tikence Turks are not religious society. Turkey is officially secular/doesn't have official religion. Turkish population is not even %70 Muslim.

    • @bamsbeyrek4939
      @bamsbeyrek4939 Рік тому +128

      Evet,Türkler Koreceyi hem kolay ögreniyorlar hem de iyi bir telaffuza sahipler Japonca da öyle ögrenmesi ve telaffuz etmesi daha kolay..

    • @manyakkedi6972
      @manyakkedi6972 Рік тому +36

      Heyyy buddy, i m now trying to learn Korean, this is amazing!

  • @EnesAslan
    @EnesAslan Рік тому +6377

    Türkçeyi öğrenmeye çalışan insanları görmek aşırı mutlu hissettiriyor

    • @trev247
      @trev247 Рік тому +84

      Aynen

    • @bocekreyiz76747
      @bocekreyiz76747 Рік тому +109

      Kesinlikle öyle artık Amerika'da arkadaş bulabiliriz :)

    • @Mehmet_Eren
      @Mehmet_Eren Рік тому +197

      Türkçe öğrenmeyi çalışan insanları görünce kendimi zeki hissediyorum
      (Çünkü onlar öğreniyor ben biliyorum)

    • @toxicbackstabber
      @toxicbackstabber Рік тому +113

      @@Mehmet_Eren İngilizceyi de onlar biliyor biz öğreniyoruz

    • @tfkoac
      @tfkoac Рік тому +28

      aynen öyle. insanın içini bir gurur kaplıyor. bu çok güzel bir his

  • @HuaweiY-nt5gb
    @HuaweiY-nt5gb Рік тому +1832

    Videoyu seyrederken ana dilimin Türkçe oluşundan ötürü kendimi samimi şekilde şanslı hissettim ve refleks olarak zaten soluksuz şekilde telaffuz edebildiğim dilimi sonradan öğrenmenin hakikaten meşakkatli olabileceğini fark ettim.

    • @aabbcc66ty91
      @aabbcc66ty91 Рік тому

      knk senln dedeşpnp ben bşke tam anllamadum amk

    • @ANKAISIMURG
      @ANKAISIMURG Рік тому +60

      Nokta atışı olmuş, fakat bence kolay bir dil yok..

    • @Saylon.
      @Saylon. Рік тому +28

      Ne güzel bir dilimiz var ama. ❤

    • @codex7305
      @codex7305 Рік тому +20

      Benim de ana dilim Türkçe ve üç dil öğrendim ama garanti ederim hiçbirinin dil bilgisi Türkçe kadar başımı ağrıtmıyor kesinlikle 😅😅😅

    • @ekremguler6796
      @ekremguler6796 Рік тому +12

      Türkçeyi bilince öbür dilleri çok hızlı öğreniyorsun sırf duyarak ingilizce felan öğreniyorsun

  • @mdhadi4896
    @mdhadi4896 Рік тому +780

    Ben hala Türkiye gitmedim... belki kısmet olmadı bilmiyorum... ama canımdan, içimden, Türkçeyi seviyorum...özellikle türk halk müziği çok dinliyorum ve zevk aliyorum.. Ben kendi kendime türkçeyi öğrendim. Kusuruma bakmayın lütfen ❤
    Herkese iyi gün/geceler😊

    • @yasinboz5234
      @yasinboz5234 Рік тому +23

      önemli değil kardeşim

    • @enescan1552
      @enescan1552 Рік тому +20

      Seviliyorsun

    • @reelwashere
      @reelwashere Рік тому +45

      gitme. verebiliceğim en iyi tavsiye

    • @Jeff.Hardy.
      @Jeff.Hardy. Рік тому +57

      Hiç gitmediğin bir ülkenin dilini öğrenmek senin için epey zor olmuştur. Seni sarf ettiğin çaba için tebrik ediyorum.

    • @rhinstoneyes
      @rhinstoneyes Рік тому +12

      çok güzel konuşuyorsun

  • @ipekayaz4597
    @ipekayaz4597 Рік тому +3514

    Bir Türk olarak insanların Türkçeyi öğrenmeye çalışmalarını okumak/izlemek çok keyif veriyor bana kalırsa Türkçe gibi zor bir dili öğrenmek gerçekten emek istiyor
    Edit: Ben sadece kendi fikrimi söylemek istemiştim tutacağını da düşünmedim herkes istediğini düşünebilir benim kastettiğim Türkçede ğ,ç gibi harfleri telaffuz etmede insanlar zorlanabilir ya da bir kelimenin birden çok anlamı oluyor genelde ya da Arapçadan Farsçadan geçmiş çok kelime var

  • @ays7779
    @ays7779 Рік тому +365

    Turkey is beautiful, Turkish language and Turkish people are fascinating. What a bridge between east and the west! Love from London.

    • @AysinDevaAgar
      @AysinDevaAgar Рік тому +3

      Hello, I am Turkish, I am trying to learn English, can we speak English and Turkish together?

    • @Squish_that_cat
      @Squish_that_cat 11 місяців тому +1

      Turks fought against europeans for centuries as Mongols, Seljhuks and Ottomans
      How were they even allowed in NATO

    • @Obe_omer
      @Obe_omer 11 місяців тому

      ​@@AysinDevaAgarI want to talk to you I want to learn a bit of turkish and I'm good at English

    • @AysinDevaAgar
      @AysinDevaAgar 11 місяців тому

      @@Obe_omer ohh okey how old are you

    • @Obe_omer
      @Obe_omer 11 місяців тому

      @@AysinDevaAgar 24

  • @jenniferodonnell4394
    @jenniferodonnell4394 Рік тому +2085

    I've lived in Turkey for 13 years and I'm married to a turk. I have learned Turkish through immersion and a little bit of studying. I still have more to learn but the suffixes and vowel harmony eventually become automatic. I still struggle with the different vowels! My daughter, who is a native turkish speaker, unlike me, says my pronunciation is like nails on a chalkboard to her, but I usually get compliments from strangers. Not many foreigners learn Turkish as a second language, so they are always very delighted and flattered that you made the effort.

    • @zikoraifenneli
      @zikoraifenneli Рік тому +77

      Well done dear.I am going through the same thing.My Turkish Mother always says that my Turkish sounds a bit strange to her because she is a native speaker and I am an Italian but I still continue to study it irrespective of the difficulties involved.But all the same, Congratulations!

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +73

      @@zikoraifenneli Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @zikoraifenneli
      @zikoraifenneli Рік тому +13

      @@PimsleurTurkishLessons Yes, Turkish is agglutinative just like Japanese but even so,it is still a fun language to learn

    • @yildiraykomurcu
      @yildiraykomurcu Рік тому +25

      ​@@zikoraifenneli To an Italian, I think learning Turkish is easier than to a French or German or English. If an Italian speaks and says a sentence in his/her language slowly, a Turkish person can repeat it, irrespective of the meaning of the sentence. However, if a French or German speaks, he/she will not probably repeat it. To a Turkish ear, Italian sounds like they speak "syllable by syllable". That's also the case in Turkish. Even prepositions, words without a self-meaning, are treated/emphasized equally in Turkish language. Turkish ear wants to hear all the words syllable by syllable. However, these are all generalizations and in colloquial speech, people often murmur unintelligible.

    • @zikoraifenneli
      @zikoraifenneli Рік тому +10

      @@yildiraykomurcu You are unbelievably accurate and it's quite true.When spoken slowly and clearly, Turkish and Italian bring out the best in every syllable

  • @beslinoztekin1360
    @beslinoztekin1360 Рік тому +235

    I think the most unique feature of Turkish is the "inferential part tense (-mişli geçmiş zaman)".
    There is a regular past tense but the inferential one has a completely different meaning.
    He called--> "O aradı" is the regular past tense,
    but if you say 'o aramış', you still mean that he called, but you either heard this from someone else, or you have some clues and you conclude it, but you haven't actually seen that he called.

    • @enesaykut408
      @enesaykut408 Рік тому +34

      Or sometimes we use it for satire as well based on context. "Güya beni aramış!" "He said that he called me(supposedly)!"

    • @luminewi
      @luminewi Рік тому +16

      some kind of reported speech i suppose

    • @sinansezgin6475
      @sinansezgin6475 Рік тому +6

      Sadece -mış eki ile past perfect anlamı çıkarılmaz. -mış ve -dı yı beraber kullanmak gerekir. Bu özelliği Almancaya benziyor.

    • @Berillleee
      @Berillleee Рік тому +2

      İt is present perfect tense,, as a turk i can say that these two tenses (mış/miş/muş/müş and ppt) are same things but with time it became past tense for native turk speakers. But in english it is still useful. This is still another tense for them but for us it is became same as past tense.

    • @1anne3kalp23
      @1anne3kalp23 Рік тому +1

      -miş li geçmiş zamanı çok güzel ifade etmişsiniz.

  • @DoraEmon-xf8br
    @DoraEmon-xf8br Рік тому +2399

    I started learning Turkish a few months ago as a Native French Speaker who knows kinda fluent Japanese (lived in Japan for 10 years).
    I expected it to be more challenging. Not that I’m especially good at Turkish but I ‘‘quickly’’ managed to understand basic song lyrics.
    I think it’s thank to my prior knowledge of Japanese, in the way that word order, agglutination and suffixes aren’t that ’’exotic/strange‘‘ to me anymore.
    Most of the time, if I learn a suffix or morpheme, I can use it straight away.
    My biggest concern is actually learning the vocabulary and retaining the amount of nuances these suffixes bring.
    Learning Turkish opened to me the world of Turkic languages like Azerbaijani or Turkmen. It’s like I opened a Pandora box with infinite marvels.
    Turkic languages are awesome.

    • @MrEmretti
      @MrEmretti Рік тому +56

      Because Turkish and other Turkic languages strangely are close to Japanese language. Japanese is closer to us than Mongolian/Korean language. The most closest language to Turkish and Turkics is Hungarian language.

    • @Raidon8537
      @Raidon8537 Рік тому +45

      @@MrEmretti not really. Mongolian, Korean and Japanese are closer to Turkish than Hungarian close to Turkish. Turkish is considered as relative of Japanese, Korean and especially Mongolian language. However, as the idea that Turkic languages ​​have no relatives became widespread over time, these languages ​​are accepted as "Altaic Sprachbund" today. This does not include Hungarian, but includes Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tungusic and Turkic languages.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +51

      Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +29

      Short way to learn Kazakh Turkic is; (these rules are only for Turkish/Turkic orginal words. These rules are Not for foreign words such as Arabic, Persian loan words.
      1.rule=
      First Y letter of Turkish words turn into J in Kazakh.
      Such as
      Yol = Jol
      Yok =jok
      Yaz=jaz
      Yat =jat
      Yürek=jürek
      ---
      2. Rule=
      Turkish Ç letter turns into Ş letter (in Kazakh)
      İç =iş
      Aç =aş
      Uç=uş
      --
      3.Rule=
      Turkish Ş letter turns into S (in Kazakh)
      Aş=As
      İş =İs
      Baş=Bas
      Başka= Baska
      --
      4. Rule=
      First G letter (if its vowel is front vowel e i ö ü) of Turkish words turns into K in Kazakh.
      Gel =Kel
      Gerek= Kerek
      Güç =Küş (ç also turns into ş as i told above)
      --
      5.Rule=
      First D letter of Turkish words turns into T in Kazakh
      Deniz =Teniz
      Döşek =Tösek (ş turns into s as i told above)
      Diş =Tis
      --
      6.Rule=
      First V letter of Turkish words turns into B letter in Kazakh.
      Var =Bar
      Ver =Ber
      Varlık = Barlıq
      (K=Q they have same sounds but Kazakh alphabet shows it with Q letter).
      --
      7.Rule
      This rule is for foreign loan words from Arabic.
      First Ve, Va syllables turn into Ö,O in Kazakh.
      Vatan =Otan
      Vasiyet=Ösiyet
      Vekil =Ökil

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +16

      I came=English translation of the example sentence
      An example of sound changes among some Turkic dialects.
      Turkish =Geldim
      Kyrgyz= Keldim
      Azerbayjan=Geldim
      Kazakh=Keldim
      Uzbek =Keldim
      Uyghur=Keldim
      Türkmenistan=Geldim
      Tatar =Kildem
      -
      Q=K q=k same sound
      y=ı, i same sound just alphabet difference
      Long girl came=English translation of example sentence
      Uzun kız geldi=Türkiye
      uzun qız gəldi= Azerbayjan
      uzın qız keldi= Kazakh
      uzın qız keldi= Kyrgyz
      uzun qiz keldi =Uzbek
      uzyn gyz geldi=Türkmenistan
      Uzun kiz geldi = Uyghur
      ozyn kyz kilde = Tatar (Kypchak)

  • @TravelsWithTony
    @TravelsWithTony Рік тому +2404

    My son learned Turkish some years ago while on an NSLI-Y state department scholarship. He was fluent in less than six months. He loved how structured and strict it was. And since he is musical he found the vowel harmonies really nice. The language really sounds great !

    • @venomouspassion5744
      @venomouspassion5744 Рік тому +59

      @jhj All languages are mathematical as long as they're not your first language. They all use up the left hemisphere of your brain. You utilize different formules/rules for each foreign language you learn like a new code.

    • @celestialcolosseum
      @celestialcolosseum Рік тому +50

      6 months ? That's really impressive! I like that it has no articles (there's no "the") and also it's genderless so no he/she/it as well. Plus the rules apply 99% of the time so no need to learn special cases or irregular stuff to keep in mind makes it easier as well!

    • @TravelsWithTony
      @TravelsWithTony Рік тому +60

      @@celestialcolosseum he lives languages and works hard. He liked how systematic Turkish was. It was his fourth language. He was raised with English and Farsi and German. Then came Turkish. Now he lives in Spain and has learned Spanish.

    • @elvinmarvel7643
      @elvinmarvel7643 Рік тому +20

      your son must be a genius. Its very hard

    • @NerdGlassGamingPA
      @NerdGlassGamingPA Рік тому +3

      Well DONE ! 6 months is a great time to be fluent in ANY language !

  • @zhandauletduisen
    @zhandauletduisen Рік тому +1521

    Turkish is indeed a beautiful language! And for me, a Kazakh guy, it's a bit easier to learn, cuz our language follows most of these rules. I'm planning to learn Turkish soon

    • @kaankahraman1341
      @kaankahraman1341 Рік тому +102

      Мен түрікпін, Қазақстанда тұрамын. Қазақ тілін тез үйрендім, сен де түрік тілін тез үйренесің. Сәттілік бауырым!

    • @zhandauletduisen
      @zhandauletduisen Рік тому +116

      @@kaankahraman1341 Teşekkürler kardeşim! Umarım ben de sizin dilinizi öğrenmeyi başarırım!

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +76

      @@kaankahraman1341 Short way to learn Kazakh Turkic is; (these rules are only for Turkish/Turkic orginal words. These rules are Not for foreign words such as Arabic, Persian loan words.
      1.rule=
      First Y letter of Turkish words turn into J in Kazakh.
      Such as
      Yol = Jol
      Yok =jok
      Yaz=jaz
      Yat =jat
      Yürek=jürek
      ---
      2. Rule=
      Turkish Ç letter turns into Ş letter (in Kazakh)
      İç =iş
      Aç =aş
      Uç=uş
      --
      3.Rule=
      Turkish Ş letter turns into S (in Kazakh)
      Aş=As
      İş =İs
      Baş=Bas
      Başka= Baska
      --
      4. Rule=
      First G letter (if its vowel is front vowel e i ö ü) of Turkish words turns into K in Kazakh.
      Gel =Kel
      Gerek= Kerek
      Güç =Küş (ç also turns into ş as i told above)
      --
      5.Rule=
      First D letter of Turkish words turns into T in Kazakh
      Deniz =Teniz
      Döşek =Tösek (ş turns into s as i told above)
      Diş =Tis
      --
      6.Rule=
      First V letter of Turkish words turns into B letter in Kazakh.
      Var =Bar
      Ver =Ber
      Varlık = Barlıq
      (K=Q they have same sounds but Kazakh alphabet shows it with Q letter).
      --
      7.Rule
      This rule is for foreign loan words from Arabic.
      First Ve, Va syllables turn into Ö,O in Kazakh.
      Vatan =Otan
      Vasiyet=Ösiyet
      Vekil =Ökil

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +27

      @@zhandauletduisen Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому

      @@kaankahraman1341
      KAŞGARLI MAHMUD'UN TÜRKLER VE TÜRKÇE İLE İLGİLİ SÖZLERİ: Tanrının devlet güneşini Türk burçlarında doğdurmuş olduğunu ve onların mülkleri üzerinde göklerin bütün teğre-lerini döndürmüş bulunduğunu gördüm.. Tanrı onlara Türk adını verdi ve onları yeryüzüne ilbeyi kıldı. Zamanımızın hakanlarını onlardan çıkardı. Dünya uluslarını yönetim yularını onların ellerine verdi. Onları herkese üstün eyledi. Kendilerini hak üzere güçlendirdi. Onlarla birlikte çalışanı, onlardan yana olanı aziz kıldı ye Türkler yüzünden onları her dilediklerine eriştirdi. Bu kimseleri kötülerin, Ayaktakımının şerrinden korudu. Okları dokunmaktan korunabilmek için, aklı olana düşen şey, bu adamların tuttuğu yolu tutmak oldu. Derdini dinletebilmek ve Türklerin gönlünü almak için onların dilleriyle konuşmaktan başka yol yoktur… And içerek söylüyorum: Ben Buhara’nın sözüne güvenilir, imamlarının birinden ve başkaca Nişabur’lu bir imamdan işittim. İkisi de senetleriyle bildiriyorlar ki, Peygamberimiz kıyamet alâmetlerini, ahir zaman karışıklıklarını ve Oğuz Türkleri’nin ortaya çıkacaklarını söylediği sırada : "Türk dilini öğreniniz, çünkü onlar için uzun sürecek egemenlik vardır. Buyurmuştur. …
      Biz ad olarak Türk adını ulu Tanrı vermiştir, dedik. Çünkü bize, Kaşgarlı Halef oğlu İmam Şeyh Hüseyin, ona da İbnül Garkî denilen kişi, İbnü Ebüddünya olarak ünlü Eş Şeyh Ebu Bekir El Müfidül Cerceraî’nin dünyanın sonu üzerine yazdığı kitabında ulu Peygambere tanıkla varan bir HADİS yazmış. Hadis şöyledir : «Yüce Tanrı «BENİM BİR ORDUM VARDIR, ONA TÜRK ADINI VERDİM. Onları Doğuda birleştirdim. Bir ulusa kızarsam TÜRKLERİ O ULUSUN ÜZERİNE GÖNDERİRİM» diyor.» İşte bu, Türkler için bütün insanlara karşı bir üstünlüktür. Onları yeryüzünün en yüksek yerinde, havası en temiz ülkelerinde yerleştirmiş, onlara «KENDİ ORDUM» demiştir. Bununla beraber Türkler’de güzellik, sevimlilik, tatlılık, edep, büyükleri ağırlamak, sözünü yerine getirmek, sadelik, öğünmemek, yiğitlik, mertlik gibi öğülmeye değer sayısız iyilikler görülmektedir

  • @krslnenes
    @krslnenes Рік тому +26

    As a person who speaks Turkish, you may not believe it in Turkish, but words in Turkish can go on forever by adding suffixes, if you don't believe it, you can search.

  • @tayron5136
    @tayron5136 Рік тому +423

    As a Turk, it makes us very happy that you spread our language to the world with videos like this 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

    • @AytenKaraman-k9s
      @AytenKaraman-k9s Рік тому +1

      yeah.(Bende türküm =D)

    • @Mafia_2-Definitive-Edition
      @Mafia_2-Definitive-Edition Рік тому +1

      Wp copy and paste

    • @just_sooya
      @just_sooya Рік тому

      Evett

    • @antoniovivaldi941
      @antoniovivaldi941 Рік тому +4

      Dünya da 300 milyondan fazla Türk var ve çok fazla dil ve lehçe var.Videoda ki dil Çağdaş Türkiye türkçesi.Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devletinde kullanılan dil. Türkçe bir çınar ve Türkiye türkçesi bir dalı sadece...

    • @UnnamedFolder
      @UnnamedFolder Рік тому +3

      ​@@antoniovivaldi941Adam Türkçe derken Türkiye Türkçesi demek istemiş zaten bunu yazmaya gerek mi var yine de genel kültürdür bilgi için teşekkürler

  • @socialservice576
    @socialservice576 Рік тому +567

    Turkish is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. Phonetics and grammar are similar to Japanese and Korean.

    • @msdos4410
      @msdos4410 Рік тому +67

      Japanese, Korean and Turkic languages belong to the Altaic language family. It's all penultimate additional.

    • @w00tz4ibanez
      @w00tz4ibanez Рік тому +13

      @@msdos4410 the Altaic language family idea is controversial, so not proven to be true. But there are definitely similarities. Japanese makes a ton of sense to me naturally (well apart from needing to learn vocab and a few other details of course) the backbone logic is similar if not the same. I’ve heard that Japanese have an easy time learning Turkish for the same reasons & each can learn each others language very fast compared to other language groups.

    • @umi1903
      @umi1903 Рік тому +9

      @@w00tz4ibanez how can there be so called proven Indo European language family but no Altaic language family? So absurd

    • @aixle3590
      @aixle3590 Рік тому +4

      @@w00tz4ibanez It is proven again by a study of 20 years published last year. It has almost undeniable proof of commonality of root words when the later interaction was proven to be not the case for it. Ural-Altai is still debated. Altaic however exists for sure.

    • @bythemoonlight
      @bythemoonlight Рік тому

      @@umi1903 tüm eklemeli diller turanic dillerdir. asimilasyon dil ailesi olan hint-avrupa dil ailesi dünyaya yayılmadan önce dünyadaki tüm kadim uluslar eklemeli büyük ünlü uyumlu dil konuşuyorlardı. dünya haritasını açıp keşif öncesi kıtalara bakın, afrikadaki bantu dillerine, hindistandaki tamil diline bakın hepsi turanic tir. bu mantıukla diğer tüm dil grupları bu gruptan çıkmıştır, yani yapay bir şekilde oluşturulmuşlardır. ve eklemeli diller asimile edemez. hint avrupa dil grubu asimile özelliği ile ünlüdür. kökeni belirsizdir. batılı bilim adamları çok zorlasa da yapay bir dil grubu olduğu için kökenini bulamamaktadırlar. yani yukarıda altaik dil grubu yok diyenin dediğinin tam tersi geçerli. hatta ural altaik(turanic) diye bir dil grubu ve ulusu vardır(çünkü asimile edemez) hint avrupa ulusu diye bir ulus yoktur çünkü bu dil grubu "asimile ediyor," yayılıyor ve kökeni belirsiz,(yüksek ihtimal hint tibet arası bir bölgede insanlar tarafından "yaratıldı") denizaşırı(hatta çıktığı iddia edilen yer asya ve hatta avrupa) hiçbir antik medeniyet bu dili konuşmuyor. antik derken en eski yerleşimcilerden bahsediyorum. eklemeli dil konuşan ve herşeyden önemlisi dilleri çözeceğimiz alfabeyi bulan mezopotamya ya çok sonraları geliyorlar ve öyle haberimiz oluyor onlardan. nazi kafalı batılı bilim adamları hiyerogliften dil çözdük saçmalığı ile tarih yaratmaya çalışıyorlar. şu iran kayıtlarında geçen bir iki isim ile tüm iskitleri irani yaptıkları gibi. halbuki iskitler in bir alfabesi ve yazılı geleneği yoktur. hiçbir zaman olmamıştır. dil grupları alfabe ile çözülür ve sümerlerin alfabeyi bulduğu(tıpkı kadim mezopotamya uygarlıkları gibi turani bir dil konuşurlar. videodaki anlatılan türkçe kuralları bilen bir insan sadece kelime ezberleyerek rahatça sümerce yi öğrenebilir) tarih bellidir. bunun öncesi hakkında "teori" adı altında algı yönetimiyle tarih yaratmaya çalışmak saçmalıktır.

  • @marian8910
    @marian8910 Рік тому +957

    İngilizce anadilimdir. İyi derecede Urduca konuşuyorum ve orta düzeyde Fransızca biliyorum. Fonetik olması, nadir istisnalar dışında tutarlı gramer kuralları olması ve Fransızca, Urduca ve bazı İngilizce'ye benzer pek çok kelime içermesi nedeniyle Türkçe'yi öğrenmeyi oldukça kolay buldum. Türkçeyi resmi olarak öğrenmeye çalışmadan önce birkaç yıl Türk dizileri izlediğim ve Türk müziği dinlediğim için sesli harf uyumunu bile kolay buldum. O noktada içgüdüsel olarak biliyordum.Türkçenin zor yanı bazen ekler nedeniyle kelimelerin çok uzun olabilmesidir.

    • @allienmecaca
      @allienmecaca Рік тому +243

      Yazdığınız yorum neredeyse anadil seviyesinde, tebrik ederim. Hiç dil bilgisi/gramer hatası yok gibi görünüyor. Ufak nüanslar dışında mükemmel diyebiliriz. Dilimizi öğrenmeye harcadığınız emek ve zaman için teşekkür ederim.

    • @allienmecaca
      @allienmecaca Рік тому +3

      @@AtHirsiziTimoti Öyle görünüyor.

    • @hknssi
      @hknssi Рік тому +91

      En az bir Türk kadar iyi yazmışsın, tebrik ederim.

    • @SYlmaz-wb1wb
      @SYlmaz-wb1wb Рік тому +6

      Sen gel birde, benim karşımda konuş bakalım Türk-çeyi, bakalım yazdığın kadar iyi konuşabiliyormusun. Çok Pakistanlı gördüm, Türk-çeyi öğrenmek isteyipte doğru düzgün konuşamayan.

    • @hknssi
      @hknssi Рік тому +117

      @@SYlmaz-wb1wb Dayı Türkçeyi yanlış yazmışsın:d, keske millete laf etmeden önce kendimize baksak

  • @merakli2022
    @merakli2022 Рік тому +77

    The best part of Turkish it has rules and almost no exceptions to the rules. For example , once you know the root of a verb word you can produce all forms of it consistently, be it present, continuous, past, future anything. So you do not have to memorize all the irregular forms like in English, French, German and especially Spanish. Spanish verbs are really notorious to form, at least for me. That being said, I love all languages, including Spanish.

  • @o.429
    @o.429 Рік тому +143

    Best thing about Turkish is it is a very rule based language. When you learn a rule you can generalise it and understand a new word even when you hear it the first time.

    • @levitanno
      @levitanno Рік тому +7

      That is correct!🙌

  • @sophiaisabelle027
    @sophiaisabelle027 Рік тому +712

    The Turkish language is certainly fascinating. We all love to see more content like this.

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  Рік тому +66

      That’s great :)

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +46

      Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @zemx2rw
      @zemx2rw Рік тому +8

      Hi
      I'm Turkish
      You can ask somethings about Turkish

    • @williamafton2962
      @williamafton2962 Рік тому +6

      Ne diyonuz olm

    • @turgangs2979
      @turgangs2979 Рік тому

      @@williamafton2962 ne bileyim aq

  • @elalyedek
    @elalyedek Рік тому +85

    YAŞASIN YA TÜRKÇE ÖĞRENMEYE ÇALIŞAN İNSANLAR

    • @ozencgencmert
      @ozencgencmert 6 місяців тому

      Türkçeyi ekseriyetle çöl bedevileri ve sınırdan terlikle geçmeye çalışan afgan pakistan banglades gibi dandik ülke vatandaşları ogrenmeye çalışıyor m nesi yaşasın aw

    • @deepblue188
      @deepblue188 5 місяців тому +2

      I am one of them. Şimdi Türkçe öğreniyorum.❤

    • @yasirkarabulut3076
      @yasirkarabulut3076 5 днів тому +1

      @@deepblue188 how is it going? umarım iyi gidiyordur. :) when you keep practice your brain would perfectly itself. this language is really automatic.

  • @Bright_sunshine143
    @Bright_sunshine143 Рік тому +616

    Vay canına bizim ülkemizde genellikle ingilizce almanca ve fransızca öğrenmeye ilgi vardır ama bu insanlarında bizim güzel dilimizi öğrenmeye çalıştığını görmek çok güzel

    • @XxweirdosxX
      @XxweirdosxX Рік тому +3

      Almancada var bende mesela

    • @Bright_sunshine143
      @Bright_sunshine143 Рік тому +3

      Bendede var .Ich sprahe deutsch und türkishc und englishc ( mesela)

    • @Wony_foreveryoung
      @Wony_foreveryoung Рік тому +3

      Katılıyorum

    • @chuchu24.
      @chuchu24. Рік тому +45

      Bide ülkenin ekonomisi iyi olsa tadından yenmezdi

    • @g.a.2473
      @g.a.2473 Рік тому +1

      ​​​@@Bright_sunshine143
      "Ich spreche deutsch "! E ve yaninda C var Und Englisch ! Und Türkisch ! C S nin yaninda 😊

  • @joaninha3484
    @joaninha3484 Рік тому +848

    Türkçeyi öğreniyorum ve çok ilginç bir dil. It is so logical and fun to add on lots of suffixes, each with its own vowel harmony rule. Every sentence is like an algebraic equation! I love ❤️ it, and was influenced to learn it by you and Elysse Speaks.

    • @kaankahraman1341
      @kaankahraman1341 Рік тому +25

      Beginners tend to make mistakes in the "algebra" part but it will come naturally over time with immersion. The most important thing is to keep expanding your vocabulary! I am so grateful to see you learning my language. Başarılar dilerim!!

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +12

      Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @ULYS5ES
      @ULYS5ES Рік тому +2

      As a native Turkish and also an English and German language teacher as profession for almost a decade now, I can help anyone those who would like to take online Turkish, English or German private lessons.

    • @blossom4479
      @blossom4479 Рік тому +5

      Kolay gelsin ✨️🌿

    • @oguzliebert
      @oguzliebert Рік тому +1

      @Ayı Yiyen Armut PUAHAHSHAHJAHS

  • @cicikus437
    @cicikus437 Рік тому +565

    I have a friend who learned many languages to the point where he can compare them. I guess he learned, 14 languages but he forgot them mostly as he switched his focus on Turkish only. He says It's the best sounding language he tried, most logical one and best for maths and science. "Let's switch to Turkish from English as global language. Like, why do we use it still?" he says. He's from Britain also. I guess I should be proud of my language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't say a thing as I am a native Turkish speaker but I know English from childhood thanks to games, learning German now and going to learn Russian next, but none of them has that appeal to me. I feel discomfort using them as Turkish is far simpler to speak when you get the hang of it. Cheers!

    • @noobpreve
      @noobpreve Рік тому +4

      Cickus 😂

    • @nazanfidan9417
      @nazanfidan9417 Рік тому +4

      nice to see that idea:)

    • @ozlemozcangaz9286
      @ozlemozcangaz9286 Рік тому +4

      Cici kuş türkce yazsaydin

    • @yaren_ypc
      @yaren_ypc Рік тому +20

      ​@@ozlemozcangaz9286 bu video yabancı biri tarafından yabancılar için yapıldığı için o da doğal olarak yabancı yazmış, yani İngilizce

    • @barxx100
      @barxx100 Рік тому +2

      As a Turkish I think english is still simpler 😂.

  • @lixionadonis1575
    @lixionadonis1575 10 місяців тому +14

    1 yaşımdan beri almanyada yaşıyorum ve alman olmayıp almancamın kötü olduğunu her zaman hissettim. Almanlar bu salak saçma 'artikel'leri yanlış dediğinde arkandan gülüyor söyleniyor ediyorlar. İlk okula giden çocuk halimle bu tür şeyleri yaşamama almanca konuşmakta psikolojik travmalar yaşamamdan sonra bu tür bir videoya denk gelip türkçenin aslında güzel bir dil olduğu ve diğer dillerden özel olması beni kısmende olsa mutlu edip özel hissettirdi

  • @m.c.m6279
    @m.c.m6279 Рік тому +80

    I am Swahili, from Kenya,,,I started learning Turkish and I swear to God it's the most beautiful thing I chose to do...one thing I noticed there are some swahili words we share with Turkish people just that the pronunciation and spellings may differ a little bit.
    For instance
    We call a pen Kalamu ,they call it Kelam
    We call a book Kitabu they call it Kitap
    We call pineapples Manasi they call them Ananasi
    We call a notebook daftari, they call it deftar
    We call tea Chai, they call it Çay
    We call the world dunia, they call it dünya
    We call a miracle Miujiza they call it Mucize
    We call an angel Malaika, they call it Melek
    The list is endless,,it's the reason I developed a deeper interest in Turkish, It's indeed a beautiful language,,I hope to one day travel to Turkey and meet the natives as well😊💯

    • @jmwild22
      @jmwild22 Рік тому +3

      Interesting!

    • @cankervan7219
      @cankervan7219 Рік тому +7

      It really is interesting, also we are happy to know that you like our language.
      Apart from that, I would like to make a few kind corrections.
      Kelam is another word, the correct correspondence of pen is "kalem"
      We call pineapple as "ananas" without an i at the end of it.
      the corresponding word for notebook is "defter".
      the rest of them are true. Thanks for pointing the similarity

    • @emregoktas2019
      @emregoktas2019 Рік тому +15

      Merhaba dostum. Söylediğin kelimelerin neredeyse hepsi Arapça kökenli kelimelerdir. Bu kelimeler sizin de bizim de dilimize geçmiştir :)

    • @esserhendi
      @esserhendi Рік тому +7

      This words origin is arabic bro :)

    • @-CBA-7
      @-CBA-7 Рік тому +1

      Its kalem not kelam❤

  • @gokhanozgen3325
    @gokhanozgen3325 Рік тому +332

    Here is a Turkish tongue twister from back when I was a kid: "Çekoslovakyalılaştırabildiklerimizden misin?" English translation is something like this: "Are you amongst those whom we were able to naturalize as Czechoslovakians?". Truly a fascinating language. By the way, thank you for bringing attention to our native language.

    • @sedasoysal4086
      @sedasoysal4086 Рік тому +57

      Better, "çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız" which is the negative form, and thus longer because of the negative suffixes !

    • @saidtekin3812
      @saidtekin3812 Рік тому +13

      ​@@alperenk.5760 Acaba bunu yazan kişi bunu Türkçeye de çevirebilir mi? Anladığımı söylesem yalan söylemiş olurum. Ve neden orda "ever" yazıyor. Tüm Türkçe ek bilgimi gözden geçirdim.

    • @furkangozdag8796
      @furkangozdag8796 Рік тому

      @@alperenk.5760 iki defa leştiri yazmışsın

    • @furkangozdag8796
      @furkangozdag8796 Рік тому

      @@alperenk.5760 as if you are one of those we may not be able to fail

    • @CptFabio
      @CptFabio Рік тому +5

      @@saidtekin3812 It's also pretty hard to understand for me as a native turkish speaker don't worry

  • @jb0502
    @jb0502 Рік тому +64

    There are millions of people learning Turkish just from Turkish tv series and movies in a few months. It is one of the most logical languages esp after modernisation in 20th century. Also its fundamental structure makes it easier to adapt to any new terminology or language.

  • @MarriLoo
    @MarriLoo Рік тому +104

    I've learned Turkish from TV-shows only and then got hired for a job that required speaking Turkish. After 2 months of torture and misunderstandings, I just turned out to be speaking Turkish very well 😅 Şimdi hala doğru yazmayı öğrenmeye çalışıyorum 😂

  • @gamyeong6217
    @gamyeong6217 Рік тому +816

    I think Turkish language is so logical. It's like mathematics. Almost all rules make sense. If you get the logic, you do it well. Also I love that it sounds so kind. I think it sounds like Korean + Japanese. Most people near me do not understand why I find them similar but sometimes I notice the sentences I make and say "Wow, this really sounded like Japanese." For example: "O çayı sen taze san." Even "çay" in Japanese is "oça" and Korean is "ça"

    • @mehmetertan2019
      @mehmetertan2019 Рік тому +83

      Its because they're in the same language family 🙂

    • @tharkas3077
      @tharkas3077 Рік тому +25

      Both chai and tea are chinese words btw. xD For all the branding let's say people around the world got to know it from chinese.

    • @gamyeong6217
      @gamyeong6217 Рік тому +8

      @@tharkas3077 Yea, but the languages or sounds are nothing alike .

    • @lordshitpost31
      @lordshitpost31 Рік тому +10

      Really, I've always wondered how it sounded to foreigners, cheers :)

    • @gamyeong6217
      @gamyeong6217 Рік тому +15

      @hurryup mate It doesn’t. Turkish sounds kind, Arabic doesn’t.

  • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
    @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +364

    Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
    SOURCE:
    in recent 2nd video of my channel, Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle is telling his opinions on Turkish. also you can find source book there (The Science of Language by Max Müller)
    page 257 (261 onpdf ) and page 260 (264 onpdf).
    Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
    Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
    Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
    Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
    johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
    Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
    Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
    Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
    French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
    Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
    Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
    page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
    It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
    But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
    page 260 (264 in pdf).
    there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
    Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
    to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
    respect equal to a new root.
    To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
    I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
    II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @zaboybagoi8636
      @zaboybagoi8636 Рік тому +41

      31

    • @biyiklialperen1923
      @biyiklialperen1923 Рік тому +35

      @@zaboybagoi8636 "you can express a big deal by a few words."

    • @vante7875
      @vante7875 Рік тому +10

      Thanks a lot for the comment my friend! I feel very proud of being a Turkish speaker thanks to this video and this comment. I have confidence in my linguistic skills and I think I'm more intelligent, more talented thanks to you. 😅😅😅

    • @anilkarakaya9343
      @anilkarakaya9343 Рік тому +6

      Turkish weak spot is vocabulary. Its a great system but due to history, you simply cant do philosophy or be as expressive as using a language with better written history.

    • @vante7875
      @vante7875 Рік тому +6

      @@anilkarakaya9343 that's true. We didn't say oo the Turkish are great or the Community is improved unfortunately 😔
      We have a great language only but if we could use the way we think effectively we might have done better philosophy or something instead of being ashamed of values we have or the language we speak by saying "Sunny Side Up" (😑😑)

  • @bilgisaray123
    @bilgisaray123 Рік тому +82

    dilim Türkçe ye aşığım.
    eklendikçe anlam yitirmeyen aksine anlamla zenginleşen mükemmel bir dildir Türkçe.

  • @xiaoluima8327
    @xiaoluima8327 Рік тому +41

    I'm Turkish and im just here to see if people are being respectful and wanting to learn Turkish, or there are some people that came to Türkiye before and they explain their short memories they made in Türkiye. It makes me so happy that people are willing to learn our language and ACTUALLY giving effort in learning it. Thank you for all the people that is supporting our language and country. Good luck to learners! And I also thank Olly for giving information about our language!

  • @keremylmaz8423
    @keremylmaz8423 Рік тому +404

    In Turkish, idioms are insanely important. We have over ten thousand of them and they are commonly used. You should definitely mention them if you make another video about learning Turkish.

    • @altugcetin8967
      @altugcetin8967 Рік тому

      Deyimler kullanılmıyor ki :D

    • @cankervan7219
      @cankervan7219 Рік тому +100

      @@altugcetin8967 "ödüm koptu" sık kullanılan bir deyim mesela. O kadar sık kullanıyoruz ki deyim olup olmadığı çok umurumuzda olmuyor.

    • @ssoo8215
      @ssoo8215 Рік тому +60

      @@altugcetin8967 Nasıl kullanılmıyor

    • @galardem19
      @galardem19 Рік тому +22

      Canı yanmak da oluyor değil mi

    • @cankervan7219
      @cankervan7219 Рік тому +52

      @@galardem19 evet, gözden düşmek, göze girmek, canı yanmak, ödü kopmak, canı çekmek, tadı kaçmak vs vs vs

  • @chesslaux1529
    @chesslaux1529 Рік тому +172

    Binlerce yıllık tarihiyle, kültürüyle ve zenginlikleriyle Türkçe çok kıymetli bir dildir. Araştıran ve öğrenmek için adım atan herkes görecektir ki bu dil; matematiksel yapısıyla, kurallarıyla ve terim türetme yeteneğiyle mükemmeldir. Bilim, sanat, edebiyat ve teknolojik alanda (bilgisayar dilleri) yapısı itibariyle de en uygun dildir.

    • @chuchu24.
      @chuchu24. Рік тому +1

      Birde ülkenin kendi sorunlarını çözse mükemmel olurdu

    • @Autohunter06
      @Autohunter06 Рік тому +3

      @@chuchu24.zamana birak, hersey guzel olacak kanko

    • @TheHus0_
      @TheHus0_ Рік тому

      @@chuchu24. ne alaka amk her türkiye ile alakalı bişey görünce kendi ülkenizi yermeyin adam türkçeden bahsediyor gelmişsin ekonomiden bahsediyorsun

  • @bantorio6525
    @bantorio6525 Рік тому +228

    ... I had the tremendous privilege of visiting Turkey (Istanbul, Ephesus ... ) last month and I just fell in love with it; the language, the food, the landscape, the architecture, the people ... and I decided to study Turkish ... I hope that when I go to Turkey next time I'll be able to say a few things ... ... Greetings from Miami ...

    • @Funfactt99
      @Funfactt99 Рік тому

      hey if you are looking for someone to practice Turkish, you can send me a message on instagram.

    • @Funfactt99
      @Funfactt99 Рік тому

      _thefurkii

    • @inanmaz
      @inanmaz Рік тому +10

      Merhaba Banto! As a Turk, I am honored by your words and I really glad that you want to learn Turkish. I hope you have fun in Türkiye.

    • @bantorio6525
      @bantorio6525 Рік тому +1

      @@inanmaz 💙💙💙 ... !!!

    • @ilbilgehatun278
      @ilbilgehatun278 Рік тому

      ☺️❤️

  • @Turkishle
    @Turkishle Рік тому +27

    Great video👏Thanks for featuring us Olly!

  • @Runo1923
    @Runo1923 Рік тому +33

    Also you can communicate in Caucasus and the Central Asian countries with just speaking Turkish. They will understand almost every words you spend.

  • @muratcoskun4498
    @muratcoskun4498 Рік тому +174

    Türk insanı grammerine takılmaz, seni her türlü anlar ve ilgiyle dinler kendi içimizde de birçok şive vardır. Gelmek de desen gelmak de desen anlaşılırsın. Ancak ingilizce de grammer hatası yapınca karşındaki seni anlamakta gerçekten güçlük çekiyor.

    • @feaster4545
      @feaster4545 Рік тому

      çk hkalı bri omluş yorum

    • @w00tz4ibanez
      @w00tz4ibanez Рік тому +20

      Evet. Ingilizce pek mantikli bir dil olmadigndan oyle oluyor. Turkcede bir kelimenin icinde cok “context” (turkcesini bilmiyorum kelimenin) ve mantik var. Ingilizcede kurallar karmasik oldugu icin, uymayinca kelime hic anlasilmiyor

    • @emiripek1247
      @emiripek1247 Рік тому +11

      @@w00tz4ibanez context yerine galiba bağlam kelimesini kullanabilirsin

    • @w00tz4ibanez
      @w00tz4ibanez Рік тому

      @@emiripek1247 tesekkurler 😊

    • @n0longerhum4nx
      @n0longerhum4nx Рік тому +10

      kesinlikle katiliyorum ingilizce karisik ve anlam bozukluklari olasi ama ogrenmesi sahsen kolay bir dil

  • @myleshenehan8112
    @myleshenehan8112 Рік тому +299

    I started learning Turkish back during the first lockdown as a way to keep myself busy and ended up spending 9 months in Istanbul after that. When people ask me if it's difficult to learn, I always say it's not difficult, just very different. As a native English speaker it's nice to learn another language without gender, and since the language was standardised not so long ago there are very few exceptions to the grammatical rules. However, once you get to a more advanced stage it becomes more tricky as the sentences get longer and it can be hard to pick the sentence apart to keep up a fuĺl conversation.

    • @ULYS5ES
      @ULYS5ES Рік тому +5

      As a native Turkish and also an English and German language teacher as profession for almost a decade now, I can help anyone those who would like to take online Turkish, English or German private lessons.

    • @Mustafassos_Vaslos
      @Mustafassos_Vaslos Рік тому +3

      Dude, give up its not that easy to learn im a Turkish and i barely know my own language its kinda weird thought but it's real

    • @gulsahciner9808
      @gulsahciner9808 Рік тому +8

      @@Mustafassos_Vaslos Mate, don't scare him. If he wants to learn, then let it be.

    • @kfj_7191
      @kfj_7191 Рік тому +2

      🇬🇧He she it fan vs 🇹🇷O O O enjoyer

    • @ozlemklc6202
      @ozlemklc6202 Рік тому

      I have been learning english for 6 month. ıf you want to pactice with a native turkish speaker like me :d let me know 🥰

  • @NHRR.5
    @NHRR.5 Рік тому +2

    Its so nice to see people learning my language. Im currently trying to learn russian, love from turkey❤❤

  • @Gmz9191
    @Gmz9191 Рік тому +403

    Birkaç sene yabancılara Türkçe öğrettim. En çok zorlandığı konulardan birisi kaynaştırma harfleriydi. Mantığını kavramakta çok zorlandılar fakat öğretmekten faydalı bir şeyler yapmaktan haz aldığım yıllardı cidden keyifli yabancılarla çalışmak. Dil öğrenmek bir seyin dilbilgisi ve kelime boyutuyla sınırlı kalmıyor aynı zamanda hem öğreten hem öğrenen kişiye farklı bir vizyon kültür bakış açısı katıyor.
    Ekleme: ben öğrencilerim için Yunus Emre Enstitüsü Türkçe Öğretim Seti Ders Kitabı'nı kullanmıştım fakat üzerinden uzun zaman geçti hâlâ yeterli mi bilemiyorum tavsiye ederim benim kullandığım sene en iyi ders materyallerinden birisiydi Hitit serisi çok ağır gelmişti öğrencilerime.

    • @elvnrae
      @elvnrae Рік тому +3

      kaynastirma harflerine ornek verebilirmisin bilmiyorum da

    • @metmela204
      @metmela204 Рік тому +25

      @@elvnrae araba
      yönelme hal eki alınca “araba+a”
      ama yabancı sözcükler haricinde iki sesli harf bir araya gelmediğinden dolayı “arabaya” oluyor
      y kaynaştırma harfi

    • @Sekulerevelynn
      @Sekulerevelynn Рік тому

      @@m.g.4043 Hayır kaynaştırma harfleri Y,S,N,Ş harfleridir. I dediğiniz ise yardımcı ünlüdür ve kelimenin okunmasına yardım eder. Bu ses olayına "ünlü türemesi" denir. İnsanlara yanlış bilgi vermeyin lütfen
      İki-ş-er
      Kapı-n-ın
      Su-y-u
      Küpe-s-i

    • @spiderh
      @spiderh Рік тому +18

      Onların abuk ve bir ton yardımcı fiil ve edatlarından daha zor olamaz. Bir girdin mi başlarsın düşünmeye at, to, for, of, onto, into, which, what vs. vs. Hangisini nerede kullanacağın belli olmaz, çünkü her biri 50 yerde farklı amaçla kullanılır, ortaya gelse başka manası olur başa gelse başka manası olur, şöyle olsa böyle olur, böyle olsa şöyle olur derken adama kafayı yedirtir. Bizde ise misal "-lar" ya da "-dan" ya da "-da" amacı bellidir, kullanılacağı yer bellidir, 70 milyon manaya gelmez, cümledeki konumuna göre anlamı değişmez, konuştuğumuz gibi anlarız, anladığımız gibi yazarız. Pratik bir milletiz vesselam ve dilimiz de pratik haliyle.

    • @m.g.4043
      @m.g.4043 Рік тому +1

      @@Sekulerevelynn Amacım insanlara yanlış bilgi vermek değildi. Bildiğimin doğru olduğunu düşünüyordum. Yorumumu sildim. Beni düzelttiğiniz için çok teşekkür ederim.

  • @zikoraifenneli
    @zikoraifenneli Рік тому +76

    Turkish is delightful.It may sound a bit hard but constant practice and studying and also, guidance from native speakers will point you to the right direction.Besides,if you already speak any Turkic language like Uzbek, Kazakh or Azerbaijani Turkish, the road is already easier.

  • @polyglotsjourney
    @polyglotsjourney Рік тому +52

    Great video Olly! I am trying to acquire Turkish and just as you said it is one of the most amazing languages in the world. 😊

  • @Songbird12
    @Songbird12 Рік тому +2

    Thank you so much for this video. I’m currently learning Turkish for nostalgic reasons and it’s a very unique and beautiful language.

  • @robbiejay
    @robbiejay Рік тому +171

    I know everyone would say the same thing for their mother language, but as a person who knows 3 languages, I see the beauty in Turkish, which is its flexibility in meanings. I am not a linguist so I dont know the terms. In German every word is precisely refered to a thing. For example there are different verbs for apply to a job or apply for a visa and there are thousands of examples like that, however in Turkish you can use the same verb for lots of things and herein lies the sense of humor based on words. That's why I love Turkish

    • @Nothing.T
      @Nothing.T Рік тому +1

      İnteresting

    • @Mustafa-om9gm
      @Mustafa-om9gm Рік тому +13

      Absolutely I agree. Turkish is a very deep language with little details. For example, when we say on the plate in English, we understand that the plate is flat when we say in the plate that the plate is not flat. There is no such a distinction in Turkish, there is only the concept of "plate" and "stand on"

    • @oguzylmaz_
      @oguzylmaz_ Рік тому +7

      true, most Turkish words gain meaning according to the sentence, a word can have a different meaning in each sentence

    • @robbiejay
      @robbiejay Рік тому +23

      I want to give a few examples: yemek "to eat", birsey yemek (to eat something), dayak yemek (to get beat up), para yemek (to have money to burn or spend money freely), yumruk yemek (to get a punch), götü yemek (to dare), kafayı yemek (to go crazy)... This is fun.

    • @ULYS5ES
      @ULYS5ES Рік тому +6

      @@robbiejay As a linguist and lecturer in the SLA field in two languages aside being a native Turkish, I'd like to point out that there is nothing odd or unusual in the examples you just mentioned above. We call'em "phrasal verbs" just to be more specific. And there are plenary similar chunks or phrases within every language. It is definetely not unique to Turkish by any means. The reason of your take on this specific issue might be due to your focusing or studying a language, of which is being the Turkish in your specific case here, a little bit too much than you actually need. Since the phrases people use in their native seem quite normal to them, they usually tend not to examine the root of these phrases or words. But if you examine them with a little focus and effort I'm positive you are going to find countless examples.

  • @iwanjones7334
    @iwanjones7334 Рік тому +36

    Nice concise summary of what's important to know in Turkish. Thank you, Olly.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +3

      Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

  • @j.burgess4459
    @j.burgess4459 Рік тому +112

    Turkish is a _delight_ to learn! 🤓

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +5

      Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.

    • @ULYS5ES
      @ULYS5ES Рік тому +1

      As a native Turkish and also an English and German language teacher as profession for almost a decade now, I can help anyone those who would like to take online Turkish, English or German private lessons.

    • @lordshitpost31
      @lordshitpost31 Рік тому

      @@PimsleurTurkishLessons Dude stop spamming already, we wanna read foreigners' thoughts and ideas not see your stupid shit, you're pestering.

    • @lordshitpost31
      @lordshitpost31 Рік тому

      How come, I really am curious.

  • @Sondikik
    @Sondikik Рік тому +8

    Â is used to indicate the consonant before "a" is palatalized, as in "kâr" (profit). It is also used to indicate /aː/ in words for which the long vowel changes the meaning, as in "adet" (pieces) and "âdet" (tradition) / "hala" (aunt) and "hâlâ" (still).

  • @hamdamrasulov8861
    @hamdamrasulov8861 Рік тому +71

    I speak Uzbek natively which is closely related to Turkish. It takes only several months for us to be fluent in Turkish. Even with so much exposure, most people don't even hit the books to learn it.

    • @enesozdemir4085
      @enesozdemir4085 Рік тому +3

      Bir söz duymuştum. Özbekistan, Türkiye ve Azerbaycan vatandaşı birisi diğer iki ülkeden birinde bir hafta geçirirse direkt o dili anlamaya ve konuşmaya başlıyormuş.

    • @optimus522
      @optimus522 Рік тому +1

      ​@Ne Bakıyon katılmıyorum. İstanbul Türkçesi ile anadolu ağızlarını karıştırmayın. Ben Erzurumluyum ve istanbulludan çok daha fazla anlıyorum diğer Türk lehçelerini. Anadolu ağızlarındaki kelimeler diğer Türk Lehçelerindede birebir var. Dedelerimizin kullandığı sözcükler hep aynı.

    • @optimus522
      @optimus522 Рік тому +1

      @Ne Bakıyon Türkiye Türkçesi bilen biri özbekçe yi çok rahat öğrenemez demişsiniz ya. Sözcükler çok farklı yazmışsınız. Aksine İstanbul ağzı dışındaki anadolu ağızlarındaki sözcükler orta Asya'daki sözcüklerle aynı. İstanbul Türkçesinde o kelimeler yok. Eski nesil, kırsalda, anadoluda yaşayanlar orta asyadakilerle aynı sözcükleri kullanıyor. Yani anadolu ağzı bilen birisi İstanbul Türkçesi bilenden daha rahat öğrenir.

    • @optimus522
      @optimus522 Рік тому

      @Ne Bakıyon anadolu ağzı bir tane değil bir sürü var. Anadolu ağızları. Örneğin Kayseri ağzı, Erzurum ağzı, Adana ağzı, Edirne ağzı, karaman ağzı vs. İstanbul ağzı biraz daha kozmopolit. Daha fazla yabancı kökenli sözcük barındırıyor. Anadolu ağızları çok az yabancı sözcük barındırır. Anadolu ağızlarındaki sözcükler eski Türkçe, öz Türkçedir bu yüzden diğer Türk lehçeleriyle aynı sözcükler var.

    • @buztuz6206
      @buztuz6206 Рік тому +1

      Dilimizde tüy bitti . Özbekçe ile Türkçe ayrı iki dil değil. Türkmence ile de öyle. Özleti aynı . Di rus etkisinde biz arap , batı etkisinde kalmışız. Ama aynı ırktan aynı dili konuşan insanlarız. Türkmenler özbekler vs biz siz diye ayırınca bi acaip oluyor

  • @PA-ss5cq
    @PA-ss5cq Рік тому +182

    Easy bit is that once you have learned the alphabet, you can pronounce ANY word. The hard bit is then learning its meaning, since there aren't similarities between Turkish and English words, no clues like you have with French or German. The fun bit is that if you're Scottish, you have a big advantage in pronouncing Turkish, because the hard "r" sound is really important, as is the harsh "ch" sound. Knew there had to be SOME advantage to a Scots accent!

    • @rimenahi
      @rimenahi Рік тому +17

      T sound is also very harsh compared to English. My American friends would call my "t"s explosive when conversing in English.

    • @yorgunsamuray
      @yorgunsamuray Рік тому +19

      Turkish has many loanwords from French. In fact, it's the biggest loanword source among European languages (the biggest benefactor among Indo-European languages is Persian though). The hard thing about our French loanwords is the spelling. "Autobus" becoming "otobüs" etc. And sometimes we add a vowel before the start where there are two consonants. "Station" becomes "istasyon". In the old times "stadium" was called "istadyum", but it's "stadyum" nowadays.

    • @PA-ss5cq
      @PA-ss5cq Рік тому +21

      @@yorgunsamuray True. I puzzled over "ekler" on a pack on a supermarket cake shelf, till I realised it was as near as Turkish can get to "eclair". I can also vouch for your added vowel, being an Iskocyali from Iskocya (Scotland)

    • @yorgunsamuray
      @yorgunsamuray Рік тому +11

      @@PA-ss5cq Yeah, definitely. But I think we took Scotland's name from Italian. The French word for Scotland is Ecosse. Which Turkish also took, but we use it to describe plaid. Yes, in Turkish plaid is ekose, from the word Scotland in French.

    • @PA-ss5cq
      @PA-ss5cq Рік тому +5

      @@yorgunsamuray That IS interesting, I had never come across the word for plaid. Thanks!

  • @hasanimam3102
    @hasanimam3102 Рік тому +233

    I learned Turkish within 9 months. We started out with 150 ish people from 41 different countries who knew zero Turkish and now all of us are doing university (bachelor's, masters and PhD) in Turkish except for only one guy who couldn't learn. After three months, interacting with the locals become so easy and natural. After six months, you start getting the feeling that you finally know the language. After that point onwards, it's just about improving your language skills.
    Learning a language along with people from all over the world in a language institution is the most fun academic thing I've ever done In my life. You don't just take language lessons, you sing songs, watch movies, read poems, write poems(!), They teach you to even write love letters, take you to tours, you attend cultural programs. Things like your going to Bazar with your classmate and doing a successful conversation with the shopkeeper, or playing football with local Turkish kids and interacting with them in their language, first time getting a Turkish joke with Turkish humor are unforgettable memories. I remember learning a new Grammer rule in the class and trying out that with a local guy that day. If it worked, I'd speak that way the whole day XD. Turkish is really an easy language to learn given the right conditions. Specially when you're in Turkey.

    • @cagataytezcan1998
      @cagataytezcan1998 Рік тому +10

      Güzel. Aslında söylenenlere bakma dostum. TÜRKÇE yapı itibari ile kolay bil dildir. Ancak Türkçenin bir çeşidi yok. Çok çeşidi var. Bugün Türkçe sözlüğünü açıp okuduğumda, ne kadar fazla sözcüğü kullanmadığımızı görüp ürperiyorum. Haha

    • @ercancul8840
      @ercancul8840 Рік тому +12

      Siz çok iyi konuştuğunuzu sanıyor olabilirsiniz ama emin olun siz anlatabildiğiniz için değil biz anlayabildiğimiz için iletişim kurabiliyoruz. Bu bir çok lisan için geçerli sanırım. Bir lisanı sonradan öğrenmek gerçekten zor ve sıkıntılı bir süreç olabiliyor.

    • @saidtekin3812
      @saidtekin3812 Рік тому +7

      ​@@ercancul8840Burda adamı gömüyormuşsun hissi aldım ama neyse.

    • @huseyinsozkesen7770
      @huseyinsozkesen7770 Рік тому

      tebrikler

    • @aliaking23
      @aliaking23 Рік тому +1

      @@saidtekin3812 9 ayda ne dili öğreniyor ya xd

  • @BmwM8competition1905
    @BmwM8competition1905 Рік тому +2

    How happy is the one who says I am Turkish 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

  • @magnumnoc62
    @magnumnoc62 Рік тому +210

    Is it hard? Depends on your mother language. If you're a native English speaker, it'll be very different for you and this difference could bring learning difficulties with it. But for example, if your mother language is Japanese, learning Turkish will be easier for you since you can relate the logic of the sentences with your mother language. These similarities are not only limited by logic but expressions too. For example, English has a "huh" expression in it. Turkish has "ha" and "a" expressions like many Asian languages. Turkish is the simplest of the Turkic languages (but native speakers in Turkey could use different sounds like "ŋ" while talking, keep that in mind). A native or native-level Turkish speaker can communicate with other Turkic speakers to some certain degree such as Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, and Uyghur.
    Important: If you're willing to learn Turkish, you should know that you will be encountered by 3 hours long Turkish TV dramas with extremely degenerate characters and tragic events.

  • @archienoyce2453
    @archienoyce2453 Рік тому +25

    ive just started turkish so this is a very lucky coincidence! you explained this so clearly thank you so much for making this!

    • @joaninha3484
      @joaninha3484 Рік тому +1

      Have you also seen Elysse Speaks? She learns it too. Which resources are you using? There are tonnes of dizis on Netflix

    • @archienoyce2453
      @archienoyce2453 Рік тому +1

      @@joaninha3484 i havent seen them no but ill definitely look into them thank you for sharing this! like i said ive only just started so im still looking into whether its the right language for me if that makes sense?

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +1

      @@joaninha3484 you can learn Turkish from my first videolist in a month at basic level. you will be able to speak everything that was taught in the lesson after each 30 minutes lesson. listen 1 lesson per day.

    • @mikhaiiil
      @mikhaiiil Рік тому +1

      İyi Şanslar!
      After that maybe you could try Azerbaijani Turkish 🇦🇿

    • @archienoyce2453
      @archienoyce2453 Рік тому +1

      @@mikhaiiil thank you lol, i am going to need the luck! but yeah i may look into that i appreciate the suggestion 💛

  • @savasturkoglu7569
    @savasturkoglu7569 Рік тому +34

    As a programmer and a native Turkish spearker, Turkish seems like a flexible computer language to me. The Turkish language structure can convey the emotion you want to convey very well, which ensures that the bond between people is strong in a positive or negative way

    • @Ogtrc333
      @Ogtrc333 Рік тому

      Evet program diline çok uygun

    • @htraindogs
      @htraindogs 10 місяців тому +2

      I hope you are right! I programmed in many languages for many years and was very good and quick to learn; but now in my old age, I am embarking on this adventure to learn Turkish and it is daunting! Wish me to not give up!

  • @jokeral.8152
    @jokeral.8152 Рік тому +21

    As a Turkish speaker, I started to learn Japanese a few weeks ago and I must say that based on pronunciation, Japanese is more similar than I thought it would be. I feel privileged to be a Turkish speaker now :D

    • @Native_Creation
      @Native_Creation 9 місяців тому

      Interestingly Spanish has words of Turkish origins (similar to some Arabic and Persian loanwords), I find the pronunciation of Spanish similar to Japanese as well.

  • @aysecelik1659
    @aysecelik1659 Рік тому +328

    Turkish, Korean, Mongolian and Manchu-Tunguz (and Japanese could be included but not clear yet) originate from a specific language called Main Altaic. And studies showed us that there are hundreds of words and suffixes in common especially between Korean and Turkish. If you ever learn one of these language, just try the other one it won't be that hard but your language range may will a bit narrow hahaha

    • @8kmkid568
      @8kmkid568 Рік тому +25

      Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian can be included in this group to a lesser extent as well.

    • @Raidon8537
      @Raidon8537 Рік тому +9

      @@8kmkid568 these languages are Uralic. They are not included.

    • @8kmkid568
      @8kmkid568 Рік тому +18

      @@Raidon8537 Altaic languages and Uralic languages are very connected.

    • @orkunyucel3095
      @orkunyucel3095 Рік тому +6

      The Turkish language has evolved to speak practically according to the fast living conditions of nomadic shepherd warriors in ancient times. They were tried to be spoken with as few words as possible.
      1. The most used words have been removed from the language. For example
      The words "the" and "a/an", which are perhaps the most used in English, are not used in Turkish.
      2. The words in English are in the form of suffixes in Turkish. So a single word can actually be a long sentence.
      3. Suffixes and words can have more than one meaning even though they are spelled the same.
      Despite everything, Turkish is easily learned by living with Turks. In addition, since a sentence can have more than one meaning, it is a deep language in the literary sense. Moreover, the Turkish Alphabet is a kind of Latin alphabet. It is pronounced almost as it is written. It is easy to learn.

    • @eraysezgin1332
      @eraysezgin1332 Рік тому +11

      This is wrong. Turkic languages and the other language families you listed are not related. It's a common misconception in turkey, it's not scientific.

  • @ilghiz
    @ilghiz Рік тому +113

    Turkish is very mathematical. It has little to no exceptions.

    • @BalaPodcast.07
      @BalaPodcast.07 Рік тому +6

      It is normal that Turkish is one of the oldest languages ​​in the world, but this is not the actual Turkish that is taught now.
      This is Turkish; 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 𐰓𐱅𐰀𐱁𐰰 𐰰𐱁𐰅 𐰸𐰅 Turkish has changed a lot compared to today

    • @ilghiz
      @ilghiz Рік тому +5

      @@BalaPodcast.07 , how do you measure the age of a language to claim that one language is older than another? How do you define a language? Which language is older: Turkish or Azerbaijani, or Kazakh? Russian, Polish or Bulgarian? Turkmen or English, or Arabic?
      Bir dilin başka dilden yaşlı olması nasıl anlaşılır? Dil nedir? Hangisi daha eski: Türkçe mi, Azerice mi, Kazakça mı? Rusça, Lehçe, Bulgarca mı? Türkçe, İngilizce, Arapça mı?

    • @BalaPodcast.07
      @BalaPodcast.07 Рік тому

      @@ilghiz First of all, Turkish languages ​​such as Turkish, Azerbaijani Kazakh come from the same ancestor, Göktürk (𐰍𐰇𐰚𐱃𐰰𐰚) Languages ​​like Russian are older than Turkish to understand this, you have to look at when the first ancestors of Nations were born.
      It is thought that the first ancestor of the Turks was Yafes, son of Prophet Noah.
      When the Turks accept Islam, the Turkish Divan period begins (the most difficult Turkish is in this period)1923 With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish is adapted to the western language and becomes the easiest.

    • @wergerrt.8944
      @wergerrt.8944 Рік тому

      @@BalaPodcast.07 omg! 😂 is yafes (japheth) the ancestor of turks! maybe the god also is a turk. 😂 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japheth

    • @ulkuasasoglu2896
      @ulkuasasoglu2896 Рік тому +3

      @@BalaPodcast.07 sil.

  • @Idontusethischannelsogoodbye
    @Idontusethischannelsogoodbye Рік тому +5

    as a turkish student you explained in 10 minutes what teachers couldn't explain in a year good job

  • @Tyrann03
    @Tyrann03 11 місяців тому +1

    I am from Turkey and while I watching that, I thought the language is not easy at all. If you learn the language, that means you really did something. I really appreciate your success.

  • @VILLAGERPIG
    @VILLAGERPIG Рік тому +1025

    Turkey is not arab country.Dont use arabic musics.

  • @zsoltkosa1610
    @zsoltkosa1610 Рік тому +84

    99,99% of this video also applies to Hungarian, so basically you could copy/paste the whole video to make the Hungarian version, you'll almost only have to change the examples.

    • @robbiejay
      @robbiejay Рік тому +9

      I loved Hungarian as a Turk. It felt amazing to learn without having a difficulty building a sentence. Jebenbe alma van like cebimde elma var. Just amazing. I wish I could learn more.

    • @blackwizard34
      @blackwizard34 Рік тому +27

      because we have the same heritage and origin. our languages are similar and our backgrounds that's why we meet in Turkic Council ;)

    • @Zurenarrh
      @Zurenarrh Рік тому +3

      No just no. Hungarians are Uralic, turks are altaic. QUITE CLOSE I KNOW. but guess what there are different ethnic groups in siberia. Hungarian is close to Mansi language than Turkic languages. Turks are more eastern, we are from siberia and you are from urals

    • @MrEmretti
      @MrEmretti Рік тому +4

      @@Zurenarrh I wish I could have met your geo. teacher...

    • @Zurenarrh
      @Zurenarrh Рік тому +1

      @@MrEmretti aga öyle bişeyler işte macarca türkçe ile sandığınız kadar yakın değil. Farklı

  • @egekucukala5188
    @egekucukala5188 Рік тому +10

    As a Turk I want to inform you about something. Background music at the 1:18 doesn’t belong to Turkish culture. I don’t know where it belongs but I’m sure that it isn’t belong to us, it’s more like Arabic and we’re not Arab.

  • @Tomioka_giyuu14
    @Tomioka_giyuu14 Рік тому +1

    It makes me happy to see you learn Turkish because I am Turkish.😊

  • @imspartacusss
    @imspartacusss Рік тому +10

    There's no sexual discrimination in Turkish. We always say "o" . Everybody is equal as should be. 😊

  • @EM-tc6tp
    @EM-tc6tp Рік тому +22

    In your list ou forgot to mention the biggest brotherhood country to Turkey, Bosnia. Bosnia with its culture and language (over 8000 Turkish words) it’s a close to Turkey as it gets.

  • @ottomanslapx7157
    @ottomanslapx7157 Рік тому +28

    Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mongolian, Korean and Japanese could be under the same category as these languages towards each other are in the Category I. They're distant relatives and the grammars are similar if not same. Also the languages such as Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Uzbek are practically different accents of Turkish so they can be added to my above list.

    • @ahmadkholmakhmatov5479
      @ahmadkholmakhmatov5479 Рік тому +4

      The grammatic structure of sentences of korean and uzbek languages are almost same.

    • @johnqut92
      @johnqut92 Рік тому +3

      Not accents but dialects.

  • @BRUH_AND_RONALDO
    @BRUH_AND_RONALDO Рік тому +1

    Çok mutlu oldum
    Dilimize değer verilmesinden onur duyuyorum
    Bu arada video için teşekürler iyiki varsınız UA-cam kanalınızın başarılarının devamını dilerim

  • @ccaywatson6105
    @ccaywatson6105 Рік тому +39

    Like always Olly has delivered.I must say thanks to this video I will consider taking on Turkish next year. It's quite amazing how this language shares a lot of characteristics with the Swahili language.

  • @karacaddy
    @karacaddy Рік тому +16

    Turkish language is like a computer language, like the order of 1s and 0s; Here, the most important structure is the word syllables. A vowel is always accompanied by one or two consonants. If you understand this logic, you have started to learn Turkish :)

  • @lyciandream122
    @lyciandream122 Рік тому +17

    As a Turkish Language Teacher + linguist, I can see that the video captures the essential aspects of the language. This is great depth.

    • @AvazBahromov
      @AvazBahromov Рік тому +2

      As an Uzbek, I can understand about 4% - 5% of spoken Turkish without formally studying the language, if it's spoken very slowly. The Uzbek language also includes the Ğ letter, which is represented as Gʻ in the Uzbek alphabet.

  • @levent8311
    @levent8311 Рік тому +15

    Turkish is designed to be understood quickly while fighting on horseback. It is a language full of intelligence.

  • @peacefulman5474
    @peacefulman5474 Рік тому +87

    Turkish is my second mother tongue. Because i'm from Azerbaijan:Dd. In my opinion Turkish and Azerbaijani languages are hard to learn.
    Salamlar və sevgilər 🇦🇿🇹🇷🙋‍♂️

    • @bamsbeyrek4939
      @bamsbeyrek4939 Рік тому +6

      Sevgiler Can Azerbaycan'a 🙏

    • @Sarpamus
      @Sarpamus Рік тому +6

      sevgiler bizden.

    • @anonymously3731
      @anonymously3731 Рік тому +3

      Aynısı olum

    • @asoiaftr
      @asoiaftr Рік тому +7

      Aleykümselam. Kardeş aynı dilin farklı lehçesiyiz, farklı dil değil ki Türkiye Türkçesi ve Azerbaycan Türkçesi. :)

    • @testnameplsignore6916
      @testnameplsignore6916 Рік тому +6

      Men de Türkiye Türküyem ve Azerbaycan lehcesini gayet yaxşı danışıb başa düşebilerem. Qardaş ölkenizden çox sevgiler 🇹🇷🇦🇿💕

  • @deerfoxcat
    @deerfoxcat Рік тому +29

    Native Brit fluent by immersion here, and yes the grammar is unusual for a native English speaker at first, but it's so systematic that once you've got it using it is fairly easy.
    The much more difficult part is pronunciation, as some letters, while appearing simple at first, in actuality consist of sounds that are so different from English that replicating them correctly each time is challenging and can lead to one frequently being misunderstood. Additionally, we don't think of Turkish as a language that is as stressed or as intonated as English, but in actuality, these exist and can exacerbate the previous problem. The 'ya's and the 'be's may also be a little different for those of us coming from English :)

  • @Realmariah510
    @Realmariah510 Рік тому +24

    I’m learning Turkish, and it’s surprising easy for me. Learning Spanish and Hindi really helped

    • @emregoktas2019
      @emregoktas2019 Рік тому +5

      İspanyolca ve Hintçe bizim dilimize hiç benzemiyor😂

    • @suleymanoktar4108
      @suleymanoktar4108 4 місяці тому

      İspanyol yazısının telaffuzu ile Türkçe'nin telaffuzu birbirine çok yakındır. Örneğin "yo vivo en una casa" derken sadece c harfini k diye okursun. Gerisi Türkçe okunuşla aynı.

  • @farizamirzayorova
    @farizamirzayorova 5 місяців тому +4

    As an uzbek, turkish is not difficult to me, because our languages are turkic languages and they are very close.
    🇺🇿❤️🇹🇷
    Love from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿

  • @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist
    @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist Рік тому +37

    The most beautiful language!
    I'm in love with it.
    Very different from my native language.
    Took me some time to reengineer my brain to start from the end (the verb) and then immidiately come back to the beginning of the sentence though.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +1

      What is your level at Turkish?
      Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/WlZQRkq8fFg/v-deo.html Introduction to Turkish (General Features and Grammar)

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/play/PLvu_avFk-4myywjc16S7Be7tM30wGHKon.html here are 30 lessons. 1 lesson per day. each lesson is 30 minutes. after each lesson you can speak everything that was taught in the lesson. you will be able to speak daily basic Turkish in a month.

    • @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist
      @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist Рік тому +3

      @@PimsleurTurkishLessons
      thanks for this comprehensive info!
      You do have a true passion for the Turkish language.
      Turkish is indeed very logical, let alone in comparison to my native language, which has many irregularities.
      And I haven't taken a level exam yet, but I started to learn half a year ago and it goes quite well so far.

    • @seymaozdemir3270
      @seymaozdemir3270 Рік тому

      @@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist where are you from

  • @ayurdal
    @ayurdal Рік тому +128

    You don't ignore soft g. It is always pronounced too (once again, Turkish is a phonetic language. If any of the letters were not to be pronounced, it wouldn't be written). As with the example in the video, the word "ağlamak" is not pronounced by lengthening letter "a" twice the duration. It is pronounced by making a soft glottal g where the epiglottitis gets closer to the top of the throat but does not touch (g is obviously pronounced if epiglottitis touches upper throat, so this is a softer version of that, hence soft g ;-) ).

    • @Deniztgn
      @Deniztgn Рік тому

      Yabancılara Türkçe öğretilirken yapılan en büyük hata bu
      Dedikleri gibi sesi olmayan bir harf ise, örneğin "bağırsak" sözcüğünü hecelere böldüklerinde "ba-ğır-sak" şeklinde, ikinci heceyi nasıl telaffuz edeceklerini düşünüyorlar acaba
      Bir ses çıkardığımız apaçık

    • @cankervan7219
      @cankervan7219 Рік тому +12

      Yes, it's right.
      Further example would be "Yağız", which is not pronounced as "yaaız". Another example can be "Ağ" which translate to English as "web". We do not (yes we don't) pronounce it as "aa".

    • @cnnky
      @cnnky Рік тому +2

      No, it is not right. When speking in elocution, "ğ" is not pronunciated clearly. Instead, the vowel before "ğ" is pronunciated a little bit longer than usual.

    • @cankervan7219
      @cankervan7219 Рік тому +4

      @@cnnky of course I am not a authority but as I know we don't pronounce vowels together, as in the example "yaaız". What you've told about happens when "ğ" is between a vowel and consonant as in the example "ağda".

    • @Cynthiatargaryen
      @Cynthiatargaryen Рік тому +3

      ​@@cnnkySözcüğüne göre dediğiniz şey değişir mesela ağaç, doğa, göğüs derken "ğ" harfini söyleriz ama ağlamak derken aalamak deriz yani sözcüğüne göre değişkenlik gösterir

  • @abdulqadir6577
    @abdulqadir6577 Рік тому +192

    As an Indian who's doing bachelor's in Turkish. Even though, Turkish and Hindi both follow same sentence structure still Turkish is way too hard to learn. İt's indeed a well structured and beautiful language but immensely complicated. İt works like maths. İt's made with suffixes. if you mess up with one suffix the whole meaning drastically changes the way you write one digit wrong in the maths and you get the whole answer wrong. The language is not at all flexible. I'd still say, it's an unique language and it'll get eventually famous like other langs like Spanish, French etc.

    • @blossom4479
      @blossom4479 Рік тому +4

      Learning language is always difficult

    • @d-2025s7
      @d-2025s7 Рік тому +23

      Ama iyi yanı ana dili Türkçe olan insanlar bu hataları yaptığınızda sizin aslında ne demek istediğinizi anlarlar mesela" olmak "ve "ölmek" tamamen zıt anlamlara gelen iki kelimedir ama ana dili Türkçe olan biri sizin rahatlıkla Ankar ve bunu sevimli bulur aynı şey diğer diller için geçerli değil maalesef bir harf hatasında veya telaffuz hatasında aslında ne demek istediginizi anlamakta zorluk çekiyorlar

    • @sertankacar8594
      @sertankacar8594 Рік тому +18

      There are lots of rules, but Turkish is really flexible. Many can understand mixed words and conjugations easily.

    • @w00tz4ibanez
      @w00tz4ibanez Рік тому +10

      Great observation but I do disagree with the flexibility part! While that’s probably true for classes & grading, in communication Turkish is very flexible. Because it has many descriptors attached to a word & making the word, clues help with the context and so people can still derive the meaning if there’s an error. While I’m sure the academic Turkish world would shake their heads at those errors, people understand the mixups without too much effort.
      Another example is Azerbaijani- it is a Turkic language, but many word usages etc are significantly different. Despite that, fluent speakers can still somewhat easily communicate with each other, even without formal training or experience.

    • @MuratYLDZ974
      @MuratYLDZ974 Рік тому +5

      Good point 🙂 But I disagree about flexibility. In fact, Turkish is perhaps the most flexible language in the world. In fact, it is so flexible that you can take it anywhere. Seriously 😅 That's why it's a really fun language.

  • @rosebrown6128
    @rosebrown6128 Місяць тому +1

    4 way vowel harmony has 4 ways to spell those question words mısınız; musunuz; misiniz ; müsünüz. A& I -> I;
    O& U->U; Ü & Ö-> Ü; E & i -> i .Please correct your video at 8:30

  • @Saylon.
    @Saylon. Рік тому +94

    İnsanların dilimizi öğrenmeye çalışması ne güzel birşey. ❤

    • @littlegirl1383
      @littlegirl1383 Рік тому +2

      Öyle değilmi ya

    • @DNKYDora
      @DNKYDora Рік тому +1

      Benimde yorumları okurken çok hoşuma gitti cidden sjdjsjs

    • @Chiamoo_
      @Chiamoo_ 10 місяців тому

      @@littlegirl1383 mi ayrı amk

    • @Chiamoo_
      @Chiamoo_ 10 місяців тому

      @@DNKYDora de ayrı amk

    • @Chiamoo_
      @Chiamoo_ 10 місяців тому

      şey ayrı amk

  • @johnbosko6190
    @johnbosko6190 Рік тому +27

    Çok teşekkur ederim.
    I have been learning Turkish for eight months. Your remarks are invaluable and insightful.

    • @jasicabold9593
      @jasicabold9593 Рік тому

      Nie ogrenion zaman kaybi bence git japonca cince öören daha ii olr al sna turkce sal knk deymez time wasting bro.

    • @peacefulman5474
      @peacefulman5474 Рік тому +13

      @@jasicabold9593 Sen Türkçede hangi seviyedesin dostum? Native speaker olduğuna emin misin? Ben Azerbaycanlıyım senden daha iyi yazıyorum Türkçeyi.

    • @johnbosko6190
      @johnbosko6190 Рік тому +4

      @@jasicabold9593
      Why do you say this about your own language? you should be proud of it. I am currently living in Turkey, therefore, leaning Turkish is not a fun or luxury for, but a matter of survival. I enjoy this rich language which extends to other countries such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
      I already speak Arabic, English, Spanish, German and a bit of French. My plan is to learn Japanese in the future. Cheers.

    • @jasicabold9593
      @jasicabold9593 Рік тому

      ​@@peacefulman5474 Azerbaycana selamlar knk ve evet ana dilim türkçe native speakerim yani ve dediklerimin arkasındayım zaman kaybı

    • @jasicabold9593
      @jasicabold9593 Рік тому +1

      @@johnbosko6190 why are you living in Turkey? reis gezgin falan mısın ne kadar çok dil biliyorsun?

  • @w00tz4ibanez
    @w00tz4ibanez Рік тому +137

    Thanks for this intro! Turkish is a beautiful language once learned, and depending on the dialect can sound very melodic as well. The poetry especially can be very clever and interesting due to vowel harmony and the logic of the language. There are also a lot of words from other languages interspersed too (like French, Persian, Arabic, Greek) due to the history, which is interesting to see, since those are completely different language groups. & when you learn Turkish, you can also start learning other Turkic languages that are spoken in Central Asia, which are the roots to the language & again interesting historically. It’s a very underrated language!

    • @ULYS5ES
      @ULYS5ES Рік тому +1

      As a native Turkish and also an English and German language teacher as profession for almost a decade now, I can help anyone those who would like to take online Turkish, English or German private lessons.

    • @volkanyilmazturk724
      @volkanyilmazturk724 Рік тому +4

      In Turkish grammar rules are strict. And if a word doest not suit the rules or vowel harmony it means it is a loan word from Arabic, Persion or European languages. So our rules are like a filter to find the nonturkic words ))))
      It's fun to learn Turkish because there are words coming from same root like a subject oriented group. Forexample:
      göz - eye
      gözlem - observation
      gözleme - turkish pancake
      gözcü - observer
      gözetmen- invigilator
      gözde - favorite
      gözlük - eye glasses
      gözlükçü - optician
      gözetim - custody
      gözükmek - appear
      .....

    • @Melih_R_Calikoglu
      @Melih_R_Calikoglu Рік тому +3

      Turkish interestingly absorbs foreign words very easily. We just add the suffix according to the vowel harmony. Or just add Turkish verb to a noun.
      For example:
      After the emergence of social media there is that LIKE button, which means TO LIKE. So although we have a corresponding verb for it which is BEĞEN(MEK) people also Turkified the LIKE verb turning it into LIKE-LA-MAK. Why we use so many A vowels here because English pronounce LIKE as LAYK and all the suffixes are created with A inline with vowel harmony rule. And now when you say LIKELAMAK everybody knows that you are talking about clicking the LIKE button in a social media account, diverting from the general BEĞEN(MEK) (To Like) verb.
      Similarly we some time put a verb at the end of foreign noun. Like a POST in a social media account. The word comes as it is to Turkish as a noun POST but to use it Turks add regular verbs like AT(MAK) after it. Then to say SEND A POST now a Turk will say POST AT(MAK).

  • @burcaksanda
    @burcaksanda Рік тому +6

    just wow. seeing people trying to learn Turkish makes me remember that even tho I'm Turkish I still struggle in Turkish lesson about suffixes cause they are REALLY hard to learn and thank you Olly for making it easier for people who wants to learn it. Also I studied English for 4 years and now I'm level B1 so what I am trying to say is that if you work hard and fight for that thing there is only a little bit of things that you can't do...

  • @ozanbayrak562
    @ozanbayrak562 Рік тому +22

    1) Some loan words don’t fit to vowel harmony. You have to memorize them.
    2) Some words make vowel elision when a suffix come at the end. You have to memorize them.
    3)Some verb roots have different vowel harmony while conjugated for simple present tense. kal-ır, sal-ar, al-ır, dal-ar ( some verb roots are irregular)
    I’m writing these notes because I want to emphasize that turkish is not a pure regular language. But still quite regular according to other languages.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому +5

      1) you do not have to memorize them, it is about your tongue's last position, so you will pronounce the easiest way, (without changing its position) for example when you pronounce saat, tongue position is at front so, you will use front vowel with it. saatler, saati etc. also here a's pronounce is softer than normal a. so it is front vowel. that is why. example; sat atı. here a is not soft.
      3) these are only 13 verbs with 1 syllable but they have rule as if multi-syllables. they are not something of English that; go, went, etc. but these are with rules. for this tense;
      if verb is 1 syllable then suffix must have open vowel , but 13 verbs have closed vowels,
      bil, bul, ol, öl, al, gel, gör, kal, ver, var, vur, dur, san
      if verb is multi syllable then suffix must have closed vowel.

    • @biltr.3076
      @biltr.3076 Рік тому +1

      Türkçe bir kök kelimeden bir çok kelime türeten bir dil. Video da zaten bundan bahsedildi.
      Türkçe tek kökten hem olumlu hem olumsuz kelime turetebiliyor.
      ver-ebilir :olumlu
      ver-meyebilir: olumsuz
      ol-abilir: olumlu
      ol-mayabilir: olumsuz
      bil-ir: olumlu
      bil-mez: olumsuz
      getir: olumlu
      getir-me: olumsuz
      (bu olumlu olumsuz örnekler daha da çok fakat tek bir örnek verdim)
      gibi bir çok kelime-tümceleri vardır.
      Getir
      Getirdim
      Getirdin
      Getirdi
      Getirdik
      Getirdiniz
      Getirdiler
      Getirecek
      Getirecekler
      Getiriyor
      Getiriyorlar
      Getirsin
      Getirsinler
      Getireyim
      Getirmesin
      Getirmeyin
      Getirmezsiniz
      Getirmesinler
      Getirmeyecekler
      Getiremiyormuş
      Getirmiyorlarmış
      Getirmeyeceklermiş

  • @mceyran
    @mceyran Рік тому +102

    Congratulations for the cool video!
    As a native speaker of both German and Turkish, I would like to add a few things.
    One thing I am missing is how numbers are built. We don't have irregular numbers like thirteen, fifteen, and the tens' digit orders are also not changed while from 20 they become regular (twenty-one, etc.). We always say "ten-three" (on üç), "twenty-three" (yirmi üç), etc.
    The example of "rahatsızlıklarındanmış" is right on point. The thing, though, is that we rather keep "rahatsızlık" as a word for "discomfort" in our mind instead of building it from the base adjective "rahat". It is kind of like "illness" / "sickness" which I assume a native English speaker would keep as a shortcut rather than building it from "ill" or "sick". Especially in English adding prefixes or suffixes does not always work. While comfort discomfort is pretty straightforward, this does not work with stress distress. Yet, I must add that in Turkish, you cannot add "sız" to every adjective. It must be something that can exist or not. Then, "sız" is the non-existing form. So for the adjective "büyük" (big), this does not work. Although "büyüksüz" would be a legal word, there is no meaning to it, except for another meaning of büyük, namely as a substantive meaning "older", like an older relative. Your mother or father would be one of your "büyük"s :). Then, "büyüksüz" would mean "without an older".
    What surprised me is the category IV rating here, especially with German rated as category II :). I assume this comes rather from the extra work needed coming from English since the language families are different. On the other hand, you don't have to learn a completely new alphabet and become fluid in reading it like with Greek, Georgian, Armenian or Urdu, and you won't need any extra courses about gender, irregular verbs, numbers, etc. where the general rules don't hold everywhere. Even Germans sometimes mix up the gender of some words and discuss with each other which one must be correct, and sometimes, both are right: For bell pepper, "der Paprika" (masc.) and "die Paprika" (fem.) are both correct. But some words even have two genders with two meanings. For example: "Der Leiter" (masc.) means "the leader", while "die Leiter" (fem.) means "the ladder".
    Anyways, I am always happy when I see accurate descriptions about my father tongue :). Keep up the good work!

    • @gokhanakay8446
      @gokhanakay8446 Рік тому +9

      İngilizceniz de çok düzgün, maşallah.

    • @notimetobesad9347
      @notimetobesad9347 Рік тому +1

      mother a nolmuş ki?

    • @savasayaz8224
      @savasayaz8224 Рік тому +5

      @@notimetobesad9347 baba tarafı türktür belki ondan öyle demiştir

    • @notimetobesad9347
      @notimetobesad9347 Рік тому

      @@savasayaz8224 işte bu noktada hatalı oluyor, baban eger Türk ise anadilin Türkçe olur.

    • @mceyran
      @mceyran Рік тому +1

      @@savasayaz8224 Aynen öyle.

  • @michellebates528
    @michellebates528 Рік тому +7

    Turkishle is great! I use their course and your Uncovered course. What a great combination!

    • @Turkishle
      @Turkishle Рік тому +3

      Teşekkürler Michelle! Harikasın :)

    • @chatnoir2788
      @chatnoir2788 Рік тому

      one day you will learn Turkish just as like a native person

  • @Blinkworld_BP
    @Blinkworld_BP Рік тому +1

    OMG I am turkish and sooo happy you did this vid let me speak turkish merhaba ben Nil ve sana aboneyim seni çok seviyorum bu videoyu yaptığın için teşekürler

  • @Nicat_Qrbnv
    @Nicat_Qrbnv Рік тому +42

    Also, I would like to do some additions to those country list, because if you know Turkish you are going to be understood in:
    1. Azerbaijan by 90%
    2. Northern part Iran by 50%
    3. Central Asia except Tajikistan by 30%-40%.

    • @mehmetfadlbaranhoca3617
      @mehmetfadlbaranhoca3617 Рік тому +5

      And Kazahkistan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tuksh

    • @turkcukayi
      @turkcukayi Рік тому +1

      In fact, the languages ​​of the Turks living in Iran are closer to us than the languages ​​of the Turks living in Azerbaijan. Because most of the Turks there went to that geography from Anatolia.

    • @ogunkovan
      @ogunkovan Рік тому

      @@turkcukayi gerzek yavuz ve süleyman'ın iran'daki sünni kürtlere karşılık olarak sürdüğü doğu anadolu'daki şii türkler mi iran'dakilerden kastettiklerin?

    • @turkcukayi
      @turkcukayi Рік тому

      @@ogunkovan İran Türklerinin önemli bölümü Anadolu Türkleri zaten evet. O yüzden Türkçeleri Azerbaycan'da yaşayan Türklerden daha yakın bize. Aslında sürme falan yok çoğu Safevi'den taraf oldukları için kendileri göç ettiler. Hatta Yavuz göç etmemeleri için çok çabalamıştır. Çünkü insan ve vergi kaybı oluyor sonuçta.

    • @muradabasov2870
      @muradabasov2870 Рік тому

      @@turkcukayi İran Türklerinin(Cənubi Azərbaycan)yüzdə 90 nı Azərbaycan dilində danışır ,sadəcə olaraq ləhçələri və vurğuları biraz fərqlənir

  • @FreezingHot
    @FreezingHot Рік тому +26

    Turkish is relatively easy but I believe the main problem is people confuse the letters and try to pronounce them in their own language. also there are some letters in Turkish which if you wanted to pronounce them you would have to use 2 English letters. for example : ö= eo, ü=eu, ç=ch, ş=sh. and if you are a person whose native language is English and trying to learn Turkish good luck trying to figure out what's different between ı and i :D I can't describe it even if I wanted to :D when you learn the alphabet its pretty easy to speak because as you said its a phonetic language. just don't try to pronounce the letters in English. happy learning everyone :)

    • @muratciftci5688
      @muratciftci5688 Рік тому

      ı and i... 🙂😂🤣

    • @FreezingHot
      @FreezingHot Рік тому

      @@muratciftci5688 onları Türkçe okuman gerekiyo kardeşim.

    • @muratciftci5688
      @muratciftci5688 Рік тому

      @@FreezingHot çok özür dilerim düşünemedim efendim. Şükürler olsun ki senin gibi yüce insanlar var da bizler yoldan çıkınca bir tümce ile doğru yola çekiyor hemen. 😉😉

    • @onurcan8434
      @onurcan8434 Рік тому

      Actually, do you know where the problem is? Although the language called English is thought to be the language of the Indo-European language group, this language actually came into being as a result of the mixture of 3 language families. that is, the language known as the Indo-European language family is actually a dialect, not a language family! They took the alphabet and complement structure from Turkish. Unless they write two words together, the complement order is the reverse of Turkish. If they do not write the two words together in order to use the complement structure feature in Turkish, they cannot reveal the meaning they want! The Semitic language group does not have the letter A, but instead has ayn and is not spelled that way. that's why the letter I is used instead of the letter A in English, but they pronounce the two sounds together. therefore, the letter Y - sound is both reduced and provides the opportunity to pronounce 2 letters in different ways. I=AY . they have taken this feature and at least 80% of the words they use in their language from the Semitic language group. The alphabet known as the Latin alphabet is actually a Turk alphabet. The alphabet of the family known as the Indo-European language family is actually the alphabet of the language known as Sanskrit! They literally massacred the letters in the Turk alphabet in order to be able to write their language and adjust it to speech. English is nothing but a very bullshit language..!

    • @noellerumsey7176
      @noellerumsey7176 Рік тому

      I just started learning Turkish, but I actually am grateful that the "difficult" vowels (compared to English) are ö and ü, because those do exist in other languages that are more common for English speakers to hear on a regular basis (French, German, etc.). Being a classical singer myself, I've had to learn how to pronounce those while singing, so it's not that hard of an adjustment. :)

  • @turkvatandasi01
    @turkvatandasi01 Рік тому +21

    Here I am sharing one of the most beautiful poems in Turkish. This poem gives hope to the Turkish people, instills joy in life, is a poem that warms us ♥️
    VERY BEAUTIFUL THING
    It's good to be alive
    And if the weather is nice
    Especially if you have the strength
    If your hand is holding bread
    Especially if your heart is pure
    Especially if it's like snow
    So if you're not afraid of yourself
    If you are not afraid of anyone in the world
    If you trust your friend
    If you're waiting for a good day
    If you believe in good times
    And if the weather is nice
    good thing to live
    It's a beautiful thing indeed.
    Melih Cevdet Anday
    ÇOK GÜZEL ŞEY
    Yaşamak güzel şey doğrusu
    Üstelik hava da güzelse
    Hele gücün kuvvetin yerindeyse
    Elin ekmek tutmuşsa bir de
    Hele tertemizse gönlün
    Hele kar gibiyse alnın
    Yani kendinden korkmuyorsan
    Kimseden korkmuyorsan dünyada
    Dostuna güveniyorsan
    İyi günler bekliyorsan hele
    İyi günlere inanıyorsan
    Üstelik hava da güzelse
    Yaşamak güzel şey
    Çok güzel şey doğrusu.
    Melih Cevdet Anday

    • @blossom4479
      @blossom4479 Рік тому

      🧡

    • @v3xt0n
      @v3xt0n Рік тому +9

      I think "If your hand is holding bread" means more like if you have a profession/if you earn money

    • @ramsoy55
      @ramsoy55 Рік тому +6

      Şiirlerin katilleri tercümanlardır diye bir söz okumuştum. Şiirler çevrildiğinde ruhlarını kaybederler. Güzel şiir

    • @muhammedbirgin4750
      @muhammedbirgin4750 Рік тому +1

      @@ramsoy55 Dediğiniz malesefki doğru ama yapabileceğimiz bir şey yok. Yukarıdaki arkadaşın, elin ekmek tutuyorsayı " If your hand is holding bread" şeklinde çevirmesi doğru, eğer ana dili ingilizce olan birisi bu cümlenin altındaki anlamı anlayabiliyorsa, ki genelde anlaşılmıyor. O yüzden anlamı verecek şekilde çevirmek daha iyi oluyor. Ya da cümleyi baştan düzenleyip içine anlamı yükleyecek şekilde saklayabiliyoruz. Bunu yapınca da cümle fazla uzun olabiliyor ve şiirden daha çok hikaye okuyor gibi bir algı oluşuyor. O yüzden bir şiirin en etkili olduğu dil yazıldığı dildir. Yoksa dediğiniz gibi şiir ruhunu kaybeder.

    • @calcifern
      @calcifern Рік тому

      @@muhammedbirgin4750 if you are earning a living falan daha anlamlı olurmuş bence böyle biraz tuhaf duruyor

  • @Serapp13
    @Serapp13 Рік тому +1

    Turkish is very comfortable language when you try to explain something, we just dont know much word to use

  • @coolbrotherf127
    @coolbrotherf127 Рік тому +108

    For me, a language is hard to learn not based on how complex it is, but how accessible the learning materials are. Things like story books and news stories for learners, local native speakers, podcasts, and UA-cam videos all help learners a lot when getting started. Some less spoken languages though are difficult to find learning materials for. It means that there's a lot more time spent trying to read and listen to native level communications instead of building up little by little.

    • @Charlotte-ti2yk
      @Charlotte-ti2yk Рік тому +8

      Yes! I’m learning Turkish now and in some ways am finding it easier than when I learned Swedish, despite Swedish being the most similar language to English (my native). And it’s exactly for the reason you say… there’s just so much content, at the right level, and in the right subjects (to hold my interest through the difficulty).

    • @ieditvideosforfun894
      @ieditvideosforfun894 Рік тому

      EXACTLYY

    • @DoctorHorse
      @DoctorHorse Рік тому +4

      The hard part about it is that there are so many rules at first but if you learn them you can understand everything if you know the root. And it's so nice that there are almost no exceptions.

    • @PimsleurTurkishLessons
      @PimsleurTurkishLessons Рік тому

      @@Charlotte-ti2yk Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
      Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
      Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
      Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages ​​. After learning languages ​​with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
      johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages ​​belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
      Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
      Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
      Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
      French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
      Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
      Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
      page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
      It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
      But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
      page 260 (264 in pdf).
      there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
      Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
      to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
      respect equal to a new root.
      To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
      I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
      II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice

    • @ULYS5ES
      @ULYS5ES Рік тому +1

      As a native Turkish and also an English and German language teacher as profession for almost a decade now, I can help anyone those who would like to take online Turkish, English or German private lessons.

  • @dondondini3661
    @dondondini3661 Рік тому +4

    Everything about Turkey is beautiful

  • @dexrothbeg
    @dexrothbeg Рік тому +51

    As someone who was born and grew up in Azerbaijan and lives in Turkey today, I learned Turkish very easily. Because Azerbaijani and Turkish are a very compatible language. Almost everything is similar. Today I speak full Turkish and I have no difficulties! Also, I'm 13 years old. Regards...

    • @janjacrusso
      @janjacrusso Рік тому +1

      Kardesim senin gibi olmak isterdim hem ingilizce hem turkce bende biliyorum ingilizce yani yazdiklarini anliyorum ama senin gibi yaz deseler yazamqm

    • @dexrothbeg
      @dexrothbeg Рік тому +1

      @@janjacrusso sıkıntı o işte bunu da yazarken 10dk gitti

    • @aloistrancy3515
      @aloistrancy3515 Рік тому +3

      Azerice diye bir dil yok Azerbaycan Türkçesi Türkiye Türkçesi Türkmen türkçesi vs var knk

    • @ThatObjectionGuy
      @ThatObjectionGuy Рік тому

      @@janjacrusso ingilizce kolay. Matematik zor

    • @w00tz4ibanez
      @w00tz4ibanez Рік тому +1

      @@aloistrancy3515 Azeri farkli bir dil olarak geciyor aslinda, ama cok yakin Turkceye tabiiki. Hepsi ayni branch dan geliyor ama farkli.

  • @evranirnek
    @evranirnek Рік тому +1

    the fact that i had learned turkish while i was a toddler makes it really really easy

  • @ChadKakashi
    @ChadKakashi Рік тому +4

    4:57 this guy’s clearly a native Turkish speaker and his English is perfect (to me anyway, I’m not a native English speaker). He also has the best Turkish pronunciation when he’s giving examples. He sounds like he’s just regularly talking like he would in everyday life, just a tad slower and clearer for the benefit of the listeners.
    Good job sir!

  • @ThinkAboutVic
    @ThinkAboutVic Рік тому +30

    Just wanna add a few things as a Turkish person:
    Suffixes aren't necesarrily harder than the English way, it's just different. I had so much difficulty trying to learn proper English grammar because I was confused about the amount of words that English uses compared to Turkish and the fact that you can't rearrange the words to stress a specific word.
    (Turkish translation of the above text to prove my point about how few words Turkish uses:)
    Ekler İngilizce'den zor değil, sadece farklı. Ben İngilizce öğrenmeye çalışırken kelime sayısının fazlalığı ve devrik cümlelerin olmamasıyla çok zorlanmıştım.

    • @justsourdough
      @justsourdough Рік тому

      Süper tespit! 🙌👏👏 yes exactly! Great point!

  • @ocalimirosubso
    @ocalimirosubso Рік тому +56

    As a native turkish speaker who's also learning latin at school, the suffixes are the same as latin! So learning it has been super easy for me, the declination of words are exactly the same. You add it to the end of the word, so prepositions become postpositions. What a beauty learning languages is!❤️

    • @Xiara555
      @Xiara555 Рік тому +1

      Agreed. I’m also turkish and I’m learning 3 languages at the moment(german russian and latin) I wish we also had latin in my school :’) I’m also having a good time learning latin it’s easier than I expected it to be. Learning languages really is fascinating and beautiful :D

  • @EkremKurtcu
    @EkremKurtcu Рік тому +1

    Wow, you are a perfect explainer and a teacher, well done!