Conversational Turkish: Learn to Speak and Understand Turkish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)
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List Price: $49.95
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Manufacturer: Pimsleur
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 494
EAN: 9780743551465
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 074355146X
Label: Pimsleur
Number Of Items: 8
Publication Date: 2006-12-12
Publisher: Pimsleur
Studio: Pimsleur
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Customer Rating:
Summary: SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE.
Comment: I am completely satisfied with the Pimsleur teaching method. It is simple, easy to understand, and I've learned more than I could have thought without being immersed in the language. I highly recomend a product like this, for those who are interested in diversifying their culture experiences. Chris
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best source so far
Comment: I am planning a trip to Turkey in a few months and wanted to learn turkish ASAP. This is an 8 CD set. There are two lessons on each. They are tagged so no need to name tracks when importing to iTunes etc.
If you have 2-3 weeks this 8 CD set is the way to go. If you have longer ...go for the next set which is 16 CD's. There is no written material and this is "spoken" turkish only.
Bottomline....this set is for those who can listen to 30 minutes of material daily.If you commute daily...dont think twice and just buy it. I would recommend listening to each lesson 2-3 times before proceeding to the next ( hence the 2-3 weeks). Also , I found it very helpful to supplement the learning process by spending a little time on learning the alphabet and phontics ( it is straight forward and I used youtube videos!) along with using a phrase book
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent method of learning a language
Comment: This is the best method of learning a language I have ever experienced. I have studied many languages and would be surprised to hear of a method I have not tried. This is CD-only learning, nothing written, nothing read. You learn like a baby does -- a very big, smart, old baby. Here are some tips for making the best of a great method:
1. Do each lesson three or four times before going on to the next.
2. Do a lesson a day, five or six days a week.
3. Repeat everything the CD asks you to repeat. "Repeat" means say out loud.
4. Answer every question it asks of you.
5. Repeat every answer or example you are given.
6. Do your lessons without headphones and with sufficient volume on the CD player.
7. Don't be bothered by the speakers' fluency (speed) or the short time given for you to respond. Let these gently pressure you into your own fluency. If you need to, do a lesson more than the usual number of times until your fluency is passable.
Note: To see what I think about the larger 16CD Pimsleurs, search Amazon's So You'd Like To guides for "learn a language for no good reason". I talk there about when the big ones are good and when other cheaper options are better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The most successful way I've found to learn Turkish
Comment: I've wanted to learn Turkish for a long time now. My wife is Turkish, and I can't communicate with her family (yes, I know, to some that would be a problem not worth fixing).
This is an excellent audio course, and it has no fluff in it whatsoever. You start playing the CD, and GO! I use it during my 1 hour commute each way in the car. As others have said, I sometimes need to rewind because I can't always think as fast as they want me to, but I transferred it to my mp3 player, and it's easy to go back a few seconds and try it again.
I've tried Rosetta stone, but basically it just sat there because I had to dedicate the time to sit in front of a computer and do it. For me, this is much better.
Be forewarned, however, that you need to repeat things out loud constantly, and if you are not in a private place, it's not going to work out.
In the very first lesson, they start by saying, "Listen to this conversation in Turkish." Only 30 minutes later, you listen to the exact same conversation and you understand it!
5 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow!
Comment: I admit that I was skeptical about whether or not I would truly be able to absorb and learn to speak and understand Turkish with 30 minutes a day for 16 days but -- Wow! I have had this product for 4 days and I'm not only impressing myself but the native Turks that I work with. At the beginning of the first 2 lessons, I was a little overwhelmed because I didn't think I was retaining any of it and I was struggling to recall the words. I'm not sure how but, at some point, it became almost second nature and I relaxed and the words came out. It helps that I have native Turks to converse with and I get extra practice.
I don't really see any negatives in this program except the price of the full set. I'm not sure why it is so much more but, since I'm hooked and want to know more, I'm considering buying it anyway. I guess that explains the price! I've tried to learn Spanish and French before with traditional methods and I can't speak either of them. I think the biggest thing that I noticed is my ability to understand the native speakers. They certainly do not speak it as perfectly as the people on the CDs and there are some slight variations in pronunciation but I still understand it.
I'm amazed that something actually was exactly as advertized.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE.
Comment: I am completely satisfied with the Pimsleur teaching method. It is simple, easy to understand, and I've learned more than I could have thought without being immersed in the language. I highly recomend a product like this, for those who are interested in diversifying their culture experiences. Chris
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best source so far
Comment: I am planning a trip to Turkey in a few months and wanted to learn turkish ASAP. This is an 8 CD set. There are two lessons on each. They are tagged so no need to name tracks when importing to iTunes etc.
If you have 2-3 weeks this 8 CD set is the way to go. If you have longer ...go for the next set which is 16 CD's. There is no written material and this is "spoken" turkish only.
Bottomline....this set is for those who can listen to 30 minutes of material daily.If you commute daily...dont think twice and just buy it. I would recommend listening to each lesson 2-3 times before proceeding to the next ( hence the 2-3 weeks). Also , I found it very helpful to supplement the learning process by spending a little time on learning the alphabet and phontics ( it is straight forward and I used youtube videos!) along with using a phrase book
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent method of learning a language
Comment: This is the best method of learning a language I have ever experienced. I have studied many languages and would be surprised to hear of a method I have not tried. This is CD-only learning, nothing written, nothing read. You learn like a baby does -- a very big, smart, old baby. Here are some tips for making the best of a great method:
1. Do each lesson three or four times before going on to the next.
2. Do a lesson a day, five or six days a week.
3. Repeat everything the CD asks you to repeat. "Repeat" means say out loud.
4. Answer every question it asks of you.
5. Repeat every answer or example you are given.
6. Do your lessons without headphones and with sufficient volume on the CD player.
7. Don't be bothered by the speakers' fluency (speed) or the short time given for you to respond. Let these gently pressure you into your own fluency. If you need to, do a lesson more than the usual number of times until your fluency is passable.
Note: To see what I think about the larger 16CD Pimsleurs, search Amazon's So You'd Like To guides for "learn a language for no good reason". I talk there about when the big ones are good and when other cheaper options are better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The most successful way I've found to learn Turkish
Comment: I've wanted to learn Turkish for a long time now. My wife is Turkish, and I can't communicate with her family (yes, I know, to some that would be a problem not worth fixing).
This is an excellent audio course, and it has no fluff in it whatsoever. You start playing the CD, and GO! I use it during my 1 hour commute each way in the car. As others have said, I sometimes need to rewind because I can't always think as fast as they want me to, but I transferred it to my mp3 player, and it's easy to go back a few seconds and try it again.
I've tried Rosetta stone, but basically it just sat there because I had to dedicate the time to sit in front of a computer and do it. For me, this is much better.
Be forewarned, however, that you need to repeat things out loud constantly, and if you are not in a private place, it's not going to work out.
In the very first lesson, they start by saying, "Listen to this conversation in Turkish." Only 30 minutes later, you listen to the exact same conversation and you understand it!
5 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow!
Comment: I admit that I was skeptical about whether or not I would truly be able to absorb and learn to speak and understand Turkish with 30 minutes a day for 16 days but -- Wow! I have had this product for 4 days and I'm not only impressing myself but the native Turks that I work with. At the beginning of the first 2 lessons, I was a little overwhelmed because I didn't think I was retaining any of it and I was struggling to recall the words. I'm not sure how but, at some point, it became almost second nature and I relaxed and the words came out. It helps that I have native Turks to converse with and I get extra practice.
I don't really see any negatives in this program except the price of the full set. I'm not sure why it is so much more but, since I'm hooked and want to know more, I'm considering buying it anyway. I guess that explains the price! I've tried to learn Spanish and French before with traditional methods and I can't speak either of them. I think the biggest thing that I noticed is my ability to understand the native speakers. They certainly do not speak it as perfectly as the people on the CDs and there are some slight variations in pronunciation but I still understand it.
I'm amazed that something actually was exactly as advertized.
This Conversational program contains 8 hours of interactive audio-only instruction, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT®What is the Pimsleur® difference? The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Turkish structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Turkish can actually be enjoyable and rewarding. The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only these pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts. When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed. With Pimsleur you get: - Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,
- Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,
- The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,
- 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.
Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills. Conversational Turkish includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic Turkish plus an additional 6 lessons. The 16 lessons in Conversational Turkish are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Turkish Level 1.
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