Publisher's Synopsis
This is a bilingual book because not everyone who wants to learn Turkish is lucky enough to go a language course, sit in a classroom and learn with a teacher. Each lesson in this book opens with a situational conversation or a short talk. It aims to teach vocabulary through the context; the key vocabulary was spread out over the lessons instead of providing a glossary at the end of the book. It is Time to Study Turkish now engages the learners with plenty of real life contexts in conversations, reading passages, exercises, puzzles etc. in order to facilitate learning. Unlike many other foreign language learning programs, It is Time to Study Turkish now also uses visuals and facts about the people and places other than Turkey as well as Turkish people due to the fact that the Turkish language is being widely taught in over 170 countries in the world. It is Time to Study Turkish now was designed to promote communication using the conversations. Most texts in the book and Sights and Sounds depict cultural aspects of Turkey and the Turkish people. Grammar notes, puzzles and exercises help you make comparisons between English and Turkish language, which also enables you to make connections. The lessons also provide you with some key words about the subject taught in the lessons or about a cultural concept for you to search online, which also helps you make communities and learn more by discovering and getting in touch with the native speakers of the target language or reaching authentic materials. The conversations, texts and some of the exercises were recorded to provide plenty of audio to facilitate mastering the phonetics of the target language. It also helps to retain the new vocabulary that is introduced in each unit. It should be noted that no one book alone is sufficient to learn a new language. However, we are sure that you can master a certain level studying the lessons in this book consistently and persistently.
