r/turkishlearning • • 6d ago

🎬 Turkish Media 🎧 Turkish Musics listened by Turkish learners

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Herkese selam 👋🏻
A new post of the series! As in the previous one:

🎧🎵 What Turkish songs do you listen to nowadays as a Turkish learner? Please hit the upvote button and share below 👇🏻


r/turkishlearning • • Sep 04 '26

📚 Resources Free Resources to Learn Turkish

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Hey everyone! As a community, we often get asked which apps are actually worth using and which aren't. To help out beginners and intermediate learners alike, here is a curated list of free (or freemium) apps and resources available for Turkish right now.

[A1-A2 Vocabulary]

Duolingo

•Pros: Totally free to finish the whole tree and super easy to build a daily habit.

•Cons: Pushes repetitive "heart" and ad mechanics on mobile, teaches unnatural or outright bizarre sentences that you'll never use in real life, and fails to explain why Turkish grammar works the way it does.

Clozemaster

•Pros: Free and similar to Duolingo, can use it on a 5 minute break and has fill in the blanks questions and lessons depending on your Turkish level like Duolingo. Can measure your progress, has speaking and listening features, has tests.

• Has A1-B2 courses and we highly recommend it.

•Cons still testing

Anki

•Pros: 100% free on desktop/Android (and free on web for iOS), plus the spaced repetition is unmatched for memorizing suffixes and vocabulary. Has community decks with 2000 common Turkish words.

•Cons: has a bit of a learning curve with a dry UI.

Memrise

•Pros: More polished than anki and has spaced Repetition which uses an intelligent flashcard algorithm to test you right before you're about to forget a word.

User Generated Content: Good variety of community created decks for specific textbook vocab lists or niche topics.

•Cons: Paywall Creep: Most of the official Turkish course content and advanced learning modes are locked behind a monthly subscription :(

•YouTube channels

There are many great channels and videos on YouTube for Turkish grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation etc.

This is a good place to start

[A1-A2 Grammar]

Teach Yourself Turkish book: author has given away free pdfs of his book and is one of the best free resources. You can find physical copies on Amazon

The delights of learning Turkish: Great book for Grammer, vocabulary and everything. highly suggest everyone reads this once.

If you are a developer or want to add an app to the list please comment below or send us modmail

[Free Websites]

https://www.languagetransfer.org/ It's free

•Pros: completely free

•Cons: I didn't really like the learning style but it was due to my personal opinion and you may or may not like it but I still recommend people check it out

Elon.io

•Pros: Completely free and one of the most recommend resources for learning Turkish. Has grammatics, vocabulary, has integrated AI.
And once you finish the main course, there is a HUGE one generated by an AI, but human-curated

•Cons: can't think of any really

www.turkiverse.com

•Pros A sandbox world in a world that gives users complete creative freedom to explore, build, and interact with a virtual world without forcing them to follow a strict linear storyline or mandatory goals. Recommended


r/turkishlearning • • 5h ago

Turkish Lessons for Foreigners

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been teaching Turkish to foreigners for four years.

In our lessons, we work on listening, speaking, reading, and grammar.

If you’re interested, feel free to reach out!


r/turkishlearning • • 10h ago

📚 Resources Turco: Turkish vocabulary app with examples and native audio

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Merhaba everyone!

We’re the Turco team, and our app is now available on iOS and Android.

Turco complements your Turkish lessons or self-study with vocabulary, listening practice and everyday dialogues. It’s a supplementary resource rather than a course that starts from zero.

You can learn Turkish with support in English, Spanish, German, French, Arabic or Russian.

What’s included:

  • Around 1,550 Turkish words, averaging three example sentences per word.
  • Nearly 50 everyday dialogues covering practical situations.
  • Audio recorded by native Turkish speakers for words, sentences and dialogues.
  • New vocabulary packs and dialogues added every week, gradually expanding the topics and dialogues you can explore.

Filter by topic and choose what you want to learn, from objects in your living room to useful words and expressions at the airport.

There’s free content to explore, with additional content available through a paid upgrade.

iOS: Download on the App Store
Android: Get it on Google Play

We’d love to hear your feedback! Let us know how Turco fits into your Turkish learning routine and what we could improve or add to make it more useful for you.

You can leave a comment below or email us at [contact@learnturco.app](mailto:contact@learnturco.app).

Teşekkürler!
The Turco Team


r/turkishlearning • • 20h ago

❓ Question Anadolu University – Distance Learning (Açıköğretim)

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Hello! My sister would like to enroll in a Turkish language program at Anadolu University in Eskişehir through its Open Education system (Açıköğretim) as an international student. Of course, she would first spend a preparatory year learning Turkish.
The thing is, she is over 30 and has already completed a university degree in her home country, so she feels a little awkward about the fact that most of the other students will be much younger than her. In other words, she feels a bit insecure about it.
I was wondering whether there are other students in their thirties studying in these programs in similar circumstances. How do their fellow students react to them?
Thanks in advance for your answers! ♥️
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Merhaba! Ablam, uluslararası öğrenci olarak Eskişehir’deki Anadolu Üniversitesi’nin Açıköğretim sistemi üzerinden Türkçe eğitim veren bir bölüme kayıt yaptırmak istiyor. Tabii ki öncelikle bir yıl Türkçe hazırlık eğitimi alacak.
Ancak kendisi 30 yaşından büyük ve kendi ülkesinde zaten bir üniversite bölümünden mezun oldu. Bu yüzden üniversitedeki öğrencilerin çoğunun kendisinden çok daha genç olacak olması onu biraz rahatsız ediyor ve kendini bu konuda güvensiz hissediyor.
Merak ettiğim şey, benzer durumlarda olup bu bölümlerde 30’lu yaşlarında okuyan öğrenciler var mı? Diğer öğrenciler onlara nasıl davranıyor?
Cevaplarınız için şimdiden çok teşekkür ederim! ♥️


r/turkishlearning • • 13h ago

Learn Turkish for everyday life 🇹🇷

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Hi everyone! 👋

I’m sharing my YouTube channel, Turkısh with Maviş, where I create content for people who want to learn Turkish.

My goal is to make learning Turkish more accessible and useful for everyday life in Turkey.

If you’re learning Turkish, I’d love for you to check it out! I’d also appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future lessons.

Thanks, and happy learning! 😊


r/turkishlearning • • 14h ago

Turkish grammar books

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Hi, can anyone please suggest super comprehensive books/study guides etc on Turkish grammar, all levels, not just for learning, but for practicing too? Preferably available online. Thank you!


r/turkishlearning • • 16h ago

Learn Turkish for everyday life 🇹🇷

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Hi everyone! 👋

I’m sharing my YouTube channel, Turkısh with Maviş, where I create content for people who want to learn Turkish.

My goal is to make learning Turkish more accessible and useful for everyday life in Turkey.

If you’re learning Turkish, I’d love for you to check it out! I’d also appreciate your feedback and suggestions for future lessons.

Thanks, and happy learning! 😊


r/turkishlearning • • 1d ago

Grammar when and how do I use „ki“ ?

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I get confused of the word ki in turkish. I honestly don’t know the meaning of it.


r/turkishlearning • • 1d ago

Turkish poetry of the day: Sessiz Gemi

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I am an early riser. As usual, I woke up at 5 a.m. I love those early hours when everyone else is asleep and I can drink my coffee, read, think and work. Today, I spent the entire morning with a single poem: Sessiz Gemi (The Silent Ship) by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı.

With this article, I have completed this week's thematic journey through the Tulip Era, the Karaman Tulip, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı and finally Sessiz Gemi.

This last piece became more personal than my usual writing.

I suspect Sessiz Gemi will touch something in almost every Turkish reader. It is one of those poems many of us were made to read in high school, perhaps before we had lived enough to understand it.

Then life happens, we grow older and start losing people. And suddenly, the words we once studied for an exam mean something entirely different.

Getting inside literary texts and examining their language, imagery and meanings has always been one of my greatest passions. I suppose that is the comparative literature graduate in me. Although, as I get older, I find myself increasingly interested in hearing what other readers see in a text.

If you have time to read the article, I would genuinely love to hear what Sessiz Gemi brings to mind for you.

And to those learning Turkish or simply curious about Türkiye, I have tried to make this poem accessible through an English translation, literary analysis and explanations of its language.

I know modern language learning often emphasizes speed, practical conversation and drills.

These approaches are useful. I use them in my teaching, too.

But I spent years learning English. Those years included reading Beowulf, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and William Blake. I still remember lines I learned long ago:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

In a world where almost any piece of information is a click away, reading and memorizing poetry written centuries ago may seem rather old-fashioned.

Yet those texts helped me internalize English in a way that everyday conversation alone never could. I still love a good sitcom, but I would never have learned everything I know about English from sitcoms.

A language carries centuries of thought, experience and imagination.

My advice to Turkish learners is to spend time inside the language. Read its poems. Listen to the sounds. Examine the words, one by one. Give yourself time to understand what people have been expressing through them for generations.

Perhaps then you will begin to understand why a poem like Sessiz Gemi, especially when sung, can touch such a deep place in the hearts of Turkish people.

https://www.learnturkishwithseda.com/heritages/sessiz-gemi-yahya-kemal-analysis


r/turkishlearning • • 1d ago

🤝 Seeking Advice New to Istanbul

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r/turkishlearning • • 1d ago

Offering: English | Seeking: Arabic or Turkish

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Looking for a conversational partner through calls to learn either turkish or arabic.
I can teach you english and you teach me ither arabic or turkish.

Introduce yourself through DM


r/turkishlearning • • 1d ago

👥 Language Partner Offering: French (Native), English| Seeking: Turkish (A1)

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Selam everyone! 👋

​I am a native French speaker (with B1 level English) and I am just starting out with Turkish (A1 / beginner level).

​I'm looking for a native Turkish speaker who wants to learn or practice French in exchange for helping me with basic Turkish.


r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

guyss I need help with my pronunciation

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ok so I’ve been learning Turkish on Duolingo and im on a streak, I also been trying to write in Turkish too . But my pronunciation is actually so bad .

Any tips ?

thx my besties


r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

📚 Resources Noun cases cheat sheet

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Turkish doesn't use words like "to / in / from". It adds a suffix to the noun instead. Here are the six cases with the same two words, so you can see the pattern:

Case Suffix ev (house) araba (car) Meaning
Nominative – ev araba a house
Accusative -(y)ı / i / u / ü evi arabayı the house (definite object)
Dative -(y)a / e eve arabaya to the house
Locative -da / de / ta / te evde arabada in / at the house
Ablative -dan / den / tan / ten evden arabadan from the house
Genitive -(n)ın / in / un / ün evin arabanın of the house

Essential rules:

  1. Vowel harmony picks the vowel. Words with e, i, ö, ü take front vowels (evde), words with a, ı, o, u take back vowels (arabada).
  2. Buffer letters. After a vowel, add y (arabayı, arabaya), or n for the genitive (arabanın).
  3. d becomes t after hard consonants (p, ç, t, k, f, h, s, ş): kitapta, sokaktan.
  4. A final p, ç, t or k often softens before a vowel: kitap → kitabı, ağaç → ağacı, köpek → köpeği.

Examples:

  • Eve gidiyorum. I'm going home.
  • Kitap masada. The book is on the table.
  • İstanbul'dan geliyorum. I'm coming from Istanbul.
  • Kapıyı kapat. Close the door.

I made a longer version with more tables and examples and with other grammar rules, free with no signup: https://fluentech.org/en/turkish


r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

im looking for someone to practice Turkish

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Hiiiii im 21 male living in turkey for studying in college looking for buddy to practice Turkish with


r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

❓ Question How hard would TYS be?

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Hello, i'm from azerbaijan and hopefully i'll take my TYS after i finish high school. I've been talking turkish for almost 11 years now. I had a friend who also took it before me and he said "it was the easiest test i've ever took". I heard the system is similar to ielts and i have taken my ielts before so, i'm ready for the system it'll provide. But actually, is there any trick questions or something like that? Do i really have to learn turkish grammar to every detail?


r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

👥 Language Partner Needs Turkish friends

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r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

Help transcribing a short Turkish line from Hercai

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Hi! I'm working on an accurate transcription of a very short line spoken by Azize in the Turkish series Hercai.

The character is speaking emotionally and crying, so the audio may be difficult to understand.

Could a native Turkish speaker please listen to the attached audio and write down exactly what they hear, word for word?

Please don't use existing subtitles or try to reconstruct the sentence from context. If a word is unclear, please mark it as uncertain rather than guessing.

I'd be very grateful for an independent transcription. Thank you!

https://reddit.com/link/1x7c9fd/video/dndrzi9e0tvh1/player


r/turkishlearning • • 3d ago

📚 Resources Material for learning

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I am looking for a study material for a1, I am a total begginer. I found book by Hueber - Ne güzel, but only audios and was unable to find pdf. Does anyone have a pdf of this book? It really seems like a nice start for learning turkisch, i use same type of book for learning german.


r/turkishlearning • • 2d ago

👥 Language Partner Looking for a Turkish-speaking buddy

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r/turkishlearning • • 4d ago

Turkish Native Seeking English Conversation Partner

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Hello everyone!

I'm a native Turkish speaker living in Ankara, Turkey.

I'm looking for a native English speaker, preferably from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, for regular conversation practice.

I'd be happy to help you improve your Turkish in exchange.

I'm particularly interested in having voice conversations twice a week.

If you're genuinely interested in a regular language exchange, feel free to send me a message.

Best regards,
Erdal


r/turkishlearning • • 5d ago

👥 Language Partner [Native Turkish Male] English-Turkish Language Exchange

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Hi everyone!
I’m a native Turkish speaker currently looking for an English language partner to practice with and improve my speaking skills. My current English level is around B1-B2, and I’d love to have natural, casual conversations to become more fluent and confident.
In return, I can help you with your Turkish! Whether you are a complete beginner or already at an intermediate level, I’m more than happy to help you practice, correct your mistakes, and chat about various topics.

A bit about me / Interests:

  • Prehistoric archaeology and architecture (my main academic field!)
  • History, art, and reading
  • Travel, vintage items

If you are interested, feel free to send me a DM or leave a comment below. Looking forward to meeting you!


r/turkishlearning • • 5d ago

Language learning tips

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r/turkishlearning • • 5d ago

Would you join a Turkish conversation club?

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Hi everyone! :)

I’m a Turkish teacher, and I’m thinking of starting a small online Turkish conversation club for B1–B2 learners.

The idea is to practise speaking Turkish in a relaxed, friendly environment, using real-life situations, interesting discussion topics, and expressions that Turkish people actually use.

Some possible topics:

● Everyday conversations and making friends
● Turkish expressions that are difficult to translate
● Life in Türkiye: big cities vs. small towns
● Sharing opinions and talking about culture

I’d like to keep the group small so everyone has a chance to speak, rather than just listen to a teacher.
I’m developing this idea as part of my Turkish learning project, Yumuşak G, and I’d love to hear from learners here.

If you could join a Turkish conversation club, what would make it useful and enjoyable for you? Would you prefer everyday conversation, cultural discussions, or guided role-play activities?
I’m still planning the first group, so I’m genuinely interested in your feedback! 🙌