--- product_id: 8486171 title: "The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish" price: "Rp1377467" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/8486171-the-delights-of-learning-turkish-a-self-study-course-book store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish **Price:** Rp1377467 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish - **How much does it cost?** Rp1377467 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/8486171-the-delights-of-learning-turkish-a-self-study-course-book) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish [Kuzucu, Yasar Esendal] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish Review: unless the book is REALLY good! Well this is one of those times - I don't usually take the time to write book reviews on desertcart, unless the book is REALLY good! Well this is one of those times! I have been trying to get my head around the Turkish Language for the past few years. You would think that a language that is completely phonetic and written in the Latin Alphabet would give an English Speaker an advantage when learning it. It does not! Turkish is an agglutinative language. Basically this means that it pretty much makes a whole sentence and expresses in two or three words. And many time in just one word! Why so few words - because they cram all the words of a sentence together in a series of suffixes to make nice long words. Words that take the english speaking mind minutes to pick apart! You literally have to learn to think a little differently. It is not impossible - it just takes a little training. I am making progress - but not as fast as I usually do with other languages (Portuguese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic and several others). I have purchased over 35 books on learning Turkish in my journey. Some of them old and out of print, several published in Turkey for school children or Immigrants, and just about all the other newer "usual suspects" for learning a language. I only wish that I could have found this book first! It is absolutely the best book available to learn Turkish. Where do I start - it is logically set up with great vocabulary. The Grammar is really explained well - so that anyone could understand it. The exercises all make sense and they all have an answer key. Even the type face in the book seems to help with reading the lessons! The only thing lacking is an audio component. But Turkish is a totally phonetic language (like Spanish!) and you can easily get pronunciation practice from many other sources and courses available on desertcart. In short, buy this book! You will not be sorry and you will even learn Turkish! Review: Excellent pedagogical book - The book is smartly organized into real-life subjects -- shopping, going to a restaurant, travel, family, etc -- with grammar and vocab interwoven in such a way as to maximize one's ability to communicate in those circumstances. There is also an entire section dedicated to folk sayings in the language, something extremely important to any culture, but often overlooked in most texts. This is one of the better introductory language books I have read, and the only one of this pedagogical quality for studying Turkish. All the other introductory Turkish material I have been exposed too (including apps like Duolingo) teach the grammar of the object definite (aka definite accusative) first or close to it. Kuzucu's Delights of Learning Turkish does not take this approach, relegating the object definite to much later in the text -- and I wholly support this. Yes, without the ability to properly specify "the apple" vs "an apple" one does sound like a child, but in my opinion, sounding like a child is the point of learning any new language, since it means that one can actually communicate. The finer nuances of the language can get ironed out later, once communication actually happens. There are other positive's to this book as well, but they are too numerous to list. Iyi kitap ^.^b ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #77,136 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #40 in Grammar Reference (Books) #100 in Foreign Language Instruction (Books) #260 in Language Study & Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (515) | | Dimensions | 7.44 x 0.84 x 9.69 inches | | ISBN-10 | 1499389434 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1499389432 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 372 pages | | Publication date | May 29, 2014 | | Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | ## Images ![The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FV95tNUkL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ unless the book is REALLY good! Well this is one of those times *by B***N on February 25, 2015* I don't usually take the time to write book reviews on Amazon, unless the book is REALLY good! Well this is one of those times! I have been trying to get my head around the Turkish Language for the past few years. You would think that a language that is completely phonetic and written in the Latin Alphabet would give an English Speaker an advantage when learning it. It does not! Turkish is an agglutinative language. Basically this means that it pretty much makes a whole sentence and expresses in two or three words. And many time in just one word! Why so few words - because they cram all the words of a sentence together in a series of suffixes to make nice long words. Words that take the english speaking mind minutes to pick apart! You literally have to learn to think a little differently. It is not impossible - it just takes a little training. I am making progress - but not as fast as I usually do with other languages (Portuguese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic and several others). I have purchased over 35 books on learning Turkish in my journey. Some of them old and out of print, several published in Turkey for school children or Immigrants, and just about all the other newer "usual suspects" for learning a language. I only wish that I could have found this book first! It is absolutely the best book available to learn Turkish. Where do I start - it is logically set up with great vocabulary. The Grammar is really explained well - so that anyone could understand it. The exercises all make sense and they all have an answer key. Even the type face in the book seems to help with reading the lessons! The only thing lacking is an audio component. But Turkish is a totally phonetic language (like Spanish!) and you can easily get pronunciation practice from many other sources and courses available on Amazon. In short, buy this book! You will not be sorry and you will even learn Turkish! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent pedagogical book *by P***O on April 28, 2022* The book is smartly organized into real-life subjects -- shopping, going to a restaurant, travel, family, etc -- with grammar and vocab interwoven in such a way as to maximize one's ability to communicate in those circumstances. There is also an entire section dedicated to folk sayings in the language, something extremely important to any culture, but often overlooked in most texts. This is one of the better introductory language books I have read, and the only one of this pedagogical quality for studying Turkish. All the other introductory Turkish material I have been exposed too (including apps like Duolingo) teach the grammar of the object definite (aka definite accusative) first or close to it. Kuzucu's Delights of Learning Turkish does not take this approach, relegating the object definite to much later in the text -- and I wholly support this. Yes, without the ability to properly specify "the apple" vs "an apple" one does sound like a child, but in my opinion, sounding like a child is the point of learning any new language, since it means that one can actually communicate. The finer nuances of the language can get ironed out later, once communication actually happens. There are other positive's to this book as well, but they are too numerous to list. Iyi kitap ^.^b ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great source of info (the main source for me) if starting like an absolute beginner like I had *by 3***M on July 5, 2017* I do not regret buying this book. I was slightly nervous starting with teaching myself Turkish because it is more different than what I'm used to, even though I'm a self-taught learner of Italian and German and have managed to reach a B2-C1 level well within a year to a year and a half with each. This book is very well organized and similar to the books I used for Italian and German in terms of its layout: seperated in "Units", introducing grammar concepts, weaved in with a few culture concepts, gradually in a logical, easy-harder way. I've noticed the vocabulary provided with the grammar can tend to be a bit more advanced than what I find fits my learning level (for example, not even knowing how to use the verb "to have" yet introducing words beforehand like conversational phrases and words relating to more advanced topics---"suffering", "to expire", "forgiveness", etc--- though I understand learners don't have to go page-by-page in order like I tend to do as part of my learning style). It is just something I noticed that has stood out to me a bit more. However, other than this the book is very comprehensive with helpful charts, excercises, and a dictionary in the back of it. It seems I am on the right track to reaching a solid intermediate level by the time I will have seen all the concepts provided by the book. Definitely the top source that I have used since beginning my journey with Turkish 3 months ago. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Delights of Learning Turkish: A self-study course book for learners of Turkish - The Delights of Learning Turkish: Companion Workbook: Practice Book for Learners of Turkish - Turkish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Turkish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! 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