I love that idea about learning languages without any expectations other than finding out about the culture, the feeling of the language, communicating a bit in it and just being relaxed with it. Definitely a great mindset!

As a Turkish person, this is great news for me I am so happy to hear that. Good luck with that, it seems difficult for English speakers but since you know a lot of languages I am certain you can learn it very easily. Hope you the best!

Happy to hear that you've started learning Turkish Lindie! You'll inspire many people to learn our beautiful language :) Kolay gelsin!

@LindieBotes

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Oh my goodness thank you! I love your channel so much and it has been so so useful to me!

Good luck with learning Turkish! You'll be pleasantly surprised to notice some similarities between Turkish and Korean grammar, so I hope it will make Turkish grammar less intimidating for you 😊 All in all this is a very fun language and it has a lot of colourful turns of phrases - I don't know any other language where there are expressions you use to specifically greet someone that you see working or wish somebody joy in using something they have just bought or received.

I'm learning Turkish and Japanese right now and as someone else mentioned, you might notice some similarities in the grammar! I used to get frustrated with Turkish because I knew a lot of vocabulary and some basic grammar, but I couldn't make up sentences on my own. It didn't start to click for me until I discovered just how important verbal nouns are in Turkish. I recommend looking into this, even if you don't plan to study Turkish in depth, because it took me from "????" to being able to form a proper sentence. Başarılar!

@kaze953

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The process of learning Turkish made me understand Japanese grammar better again🤩

@creedsacrifice1

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I know Turkish and I'm trying to learn Japanese. All my Japanese books are English to Japanese and I think that's making it difficult. 😢

@ravenmiller1477

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i am a native turkish speaker and a japanese major and i totally agree with you

@kaze953

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@@creedsacrifice1 I've used books in different languages to learn Turkish. Based on my personal experience, I suggest you use Turkish directly to learn Japanese or Korean, because the grammatical concepts of these three SOV languages are similar.

Yay! So excited to see how you do this. I have Turkish as next on my language list. Was so happy to hear you explain your definition of "language projects". A great reminder to me, to just have fun, be curious and explore the languages that I want to, when I want to, without fluency as the goal.❤❤❤

@LindieBotes

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Thank you for sharing!

Turkish isn’t difficult per se but just very different. Fortunately Turkish people love to chat with yabancılar so whether you like it or not you’ll be getting practice.

that's awesome. Turkish will probably be my third language since, it seems to be the second language after English that I am taking seriously to learn. I have found it to be a really beautiful language.. hope, you feel the same way. Turkish music is on another level.

as a Turkish, I am glad you are trying to learn our language even if its basic. hope you make it and love Turkiye :)

Such an amazing concept of "language projects" constantly when we are learning a language, our mind is bombarded with questions like "How will I get to a certain level" "How will I speak it and about certain topics" and just like questions your whole motive of learning the language but having a particular language as a project can really help us stay calm, explore, learn without vast expectations of becoming fluent in it and in terms of traveling just learning till the upper beginner/intermediate level can get through the journey! Good luck on your turkish, lindie! Love you lots ❤

IM SO GLAD YOURE LEARNING TURKISH i love it when language youtubers pick up on this language it gives way to so many resources and just boosts my overall motivation to continue learning it actively

First of all, I'm excited for you lol because I've been following you for so long and I myself have been learning Turkish for years now. Although the language itself is not that easy, for some reason, learning new vocabulary and stuff in Turkish is the easiest and most fun for me out of all languages I'm learning. I definitely recommend speaking it with Turkish people as much as you can, so far everyone was so surprised and happy when I talked to them in Turkish. As for resources, there are good KZread channels like 'Turkishle' and 'Easy Turkish'. I also kept watching this one video called '5 reasons why I love being Turkish' by 'Sadie and P' with subtitles in the beginning. Other than that I mostly learned a lot from just watching Netflix movies and shows. İyi şanslar, Lindie! Sen yaparsın✨

Merhaba, çok sevindim Türkçeye başlamanıza❤❤❤

As a Turk, I highly appreciate your interest in Turkish! Keep going

Hi Im Turkish. ❤ 🇹🇷 This is great u learning Turkish.

I love the idea of language projects! I have been thinking about learning korean before but never did because I know I don‘t have any ambition to become fluent. Maybe I’ll try out learning the basics just for fun ☺️

Love the idea of language projects. One of my favourite pieces of advice is that you’re not obliged to be good at your hobbies, you just have to enjoy them.

As a Turkish , i heard many Turkish learners find suffixes a bit tricky. However once you get used the suffixes you have learnt, you start to notice them in words easily

@watermelon3679

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Yes lots of suffixes and vowel harmony is really tricky

I started learning Turkish about 2-3 months ago after a year of learning Korean. Turkish grammar has not been too bad, Korean has been a really helpful reference point while learning Turkish. I started with Duolingo and LingQ mini-stories and a few weeks ago I started taking lessons on iTalki. My teacher has been wonderful and I would recommend her lessons if you are looking for a tutor.

@PimsleurTurkishLessons

11 ай бұрын

You can speak daily basic Turkish in a month by listening 1 lesson per day from my first list 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 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 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

Yea Turkish is really a hard language the words are endless lol😂 I’m Persian but my mom and her whole side of the family turkish speak fluently cause they have some turkish roots so I grew up hearing the language I wish i learnt how to speak it in my childhood☹️

So happy to see that you're learning Turkish! I found Language Transfer's free Turkish course very insightful when I was first starting out. Have you heard of it? Language Transfer does a great job of teaching you how to think about the language from the very beginning.

@joaninha3484

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I listened to the whole Turkish course by Language Transfer. Fantastic resource!

So excited to watch your progress with Turkish and I hope you have a great time in Turkiye! I love that outlook on language projects too! It's so important to learn languages the way we want to and not how others feel we should

That's super cool 🥰 I went to Turkiye once and it's such a beautiful country and people there are really kind and helpful. I hope you have a nice time learning Turkish and traveling 💙

Bonjour Lindie, Je t'aime beaucoup et j'adore tes videos. Je t'encourage de tout coeur pour le turc. C'est une belle langue et je serais heureuse de suivre tes progrès en turc. Merci tu es inspirante et si forte. Tu es un modèle pour moi. Je te comprends: chaque nouvelle langue est un nouveau "voyage" pour toi. Un nouveau defi. Bravooooooo ! Désolée pour mon anglais qui est mauvais donc je t'ecris en français. Merci ❤

Hey! As a long-time subscriber and follower, and truly a fan of you and your content I'm thrilled that you've decided to revisit Turkish. Honestly, I'd expect you to be more worried about tackling the unfamiliar vocabulary than the grammar, since I believe your past experience studying agglutinative, head-final languages such as Hungarian, Korean and Japanese would help you immensely in making sense of Turkish grammar much quicker than most other learners that are native Indo-European speakers. I hope you enjoy your project, good luck!

I feel like this is the most relatable channel I've found, because I'm South African too, and I am trying to learn as many languages as I can, at this stage I'm most fluent in Turkish (one of the most helpful ways of learning it for me, was through TV series) I'm also learning Arabic, Korean, Japanese and Indonesian purely for fun. I love your videos :)

it's fun to learn languages just for the sake of learning! i recently dabbled a bit in Turkish and it's fun! Glad to hear you're having fun taking on these language projects! 💕

Lindsie, just wanted to say that thanks to you I found out that I don't need to "focus" on only one language a time, but if I want to try new ones just for discovering new languages and cultures it is also possible to do so!

Don't worry about grammar that much Turkish people will understand cause most of the time foreigner especially Russian tourists speak like ben gitmek taksim. Basically i go Taksim. Not i wanna go to taksim. So people still understand it. And also they're not shy and helpful even though they can't speak English. So focusing on vocabulary is more important in your situation also in daily conversation there are a lot of loanwords from French and Farsi. So that means if you know those languages then you know so many daily words.

I loved that point you and Richard share, because I do as well. I'm learning Igbo for June, but I'm not aiming for perfection. It's just a past time. I appreciate your work, Lindie. You rock! Good luck with Türkçe! :)

Hi Lindie! Omg Turkish is such a fun language! I've been watching Turkish dramas (dubbed of course) and that's what got me interested (some of the shows I've watched were Muhtesem yüzyil, Anne, Ask yeniden). I've also been learning Turkish on Italki and the teacher I'm learning with is amazing, I highly recommend her 😊 I had a 14 hour layover in Istanbul airport and it was awesome, probably one of the best layovers I've had. Got to practice Turkish with a couple people 😊 Wishing you the very best in your Turkish journey! It's definitely not an easy language to learn (loads of suffixes) but it is 1000% worth it!

I love these language projects - it's so fun and exciting to see what you're able to learn in a short time and then being able to use it - especially where you're going to the country. I had 3ish months where I consistently learned Brazilian Portuguese before going to Brazil (I started studying 7ish months before I left, but most of the studying was in the last 3-4 months), and it was crazy how much I was able to understand and communicate. It's so fun to challenge yourself in this way! So excited to see how Turkish goes!!

I’m also learning Turkish. I took lessons until level B1. Currently, I know the basis I improve myself by reading story books, listening to the news, and watching cartoons.

@watermelon3679

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It is difficult how re u learning

@rosesteel4317

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As a Turkish person, congratulations for you effort!

@shanarkhanlou

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@@rosesteel4317 teşekkür ederim 🥰

@rosesteel4317

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@@shanarkhanlou rica ederim 🍄

@PimsleurTurkishLessons

11 ай бұрын

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 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 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

I'm completely new on your channel. I decided to comment only because I have been learning Turkish for years. To start from the beginning I'm a Bulgarian and my love for Turkish began like 10-12 years ago but I spent only a year or 2 years learning it. Then I stopped and started learning Greek BUT a year and a half ago I decided to start learning Turkish again because I LOVE Turkish music and series. I can confirm it's a confusing and difficult language when it comes to grammar rules. I have been using learning phone apps, Duolingo (even tho it's too basic), I listen to a lot of Turkish music and translate song lyrics, I watch Turkish travel vlogs (by the singer Buray) or Turkish asmr videos. Also I have been following 2 very useful KZread channels called Turkishle and Easy Turkish which are exactly for beginners and in general foreigners who want to learn Turkish. I do recommend them because they explain everything very carefully and there are always subtitles and in Turkish and English. Also a few months ago I ordered a textbook called Turkish Grammar in practice, A self-study reference and practice book by Yusuf Buz. It's really useful, detailed and full of information! Anyways so these are some of my tips. I guess I'm just glad to meet somebody who is learning Turkish like me? Iyi șanslar! 😅

So good to see you doing well and making more content again. I truly hope you're happy and finding a good work/life balance.

I personnally stopped learning turkish after maybe 1 month, I found it really difficult, grammarly speaking as you said, but also because I felt overwhelmed with german and Chinese and I had to prepare for my Cambridge B2. But I hope to get back to it because it's a really beautiful langage.

Great project! The Assimil course is really amazing for Turkish (in my personal opinion) I thought some grammatical aspects are similar to Japanese/Korean - you'll see what I mean lol

It makes me so happy to see some of my favorite polyglot youtubers to explore my mother tongue and culture. This whole "language project" thing is genius. I myself tried to learn a lot of languages and didn't really tried to be fluent in them. Being fluent in Sahidic Coptic would be so cool tho... Başarılar Lindie abla! 😊

knowing what languages you have studied, I feel like Turkish won't be as challenging as you might expect. the word order is mostly the same as Korean/Japanese and the rules for attaching suffixes are not as complicated as those in Hungarian

Wooow my eyes instantly started to glow on reading the notification. Turkish, at last!! I think for you it would be easy to get the word order and such since it is the same idea with Japanese and Korean, verb at the end. I recommend here on youtbe Turkishle, Teacher Ali Yılmaz, Yunus Emre Enstitüsü has a Learn Turkish playlist sorted by level, plus90 and Euronews Turkish have a lot of videos on varioua topics with Turkish subs to follow along. Sesli Sözlük is a nice dictionary app. A Student Grammar of Turkish (Cambridge University Press) will untangle all your grammar issues. I'm around A2 altho I've attended a few B1 classes. I'm excited to know you are going to Turkey and wonder what city/cities you will visit.

ı m gonna support you soo happy to hear you want to learn turkish

I’m learning Turkish for fun, because I’ve heard it randomly on TV and considered it the most beautiful language I’ve encountered. Every time I hear it, it makes me smile 😃 I’d say Turkish grammar isn’t that bad because it’s very logical

@PimsleurTurkishLessons

11 ай бұрын

You can speak daily basic Turkish in a month by listening 1 lesson per day from my first 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 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 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

Finally, you are learning Turkish. All my favourite polyglot youtuber are learning turkish too. Welcome to the harmonitation & conjunctions of Turkish. This language is so challenging.... Wish u luck!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍

I can't believe it! I just started studying turkish last week! Every single time i get interested in a new language, you make a video about it... 🤣

Learning languages is really interesting and entertaining, Your videos keeps me motivated to continue my korean language learning. I remember when I first watch your videos seeing your short hair back then.

Phrasebook greetings and pronunciation is all you need in order to order any food you need in any country. The script and alphabet phonemes are verything!

wow, ı have been following you for ı dont know maybe 3 or 4 years, and as turkish perosn ım so happy that you got interested in my lnaguage. good luck with youor new journey

Kolay gelsin 🙂

congrats on your new project and I am sure you will enjoy your stay in Turkiye. it's a beautiful country with hospitable people especially when they hear a foreigner speaking their language. I actually started learning to speak Turkish from series and so I decided to learn reading and writing as well. the most challenging thing for me was having the verb at the end of the sentence especially when it gets so long, I still can not quickly build long sentences that way and sometimes when i am listening to something in Turkish and they speak in long sentences, by the time they get to the verb, I forget what they said in the beginning 😅😅 but I guess that won't be an issue for you since you learned Korean and other languages with similar sentence structure.

Merhaba Lindie!! I have studied Turkish in middle school. I'm going to say focus on grammar but not drain yourself with it, make it fun if thats makes sense. Resources there is a blue medium sized book called Elementary Turkish, I feel like that might help, Duolimgo was actually not half bad for Turkish either but use it as a suppliment. Otherwise I'd say iTalki or apps like Tandeem and HelloTalk. Love your videos and good luck learning Turkish and have safe travels in Turkiye!!

As a Turkish viewer i dont know why but this is made me so happy :). ıf you are going to travel İstanbul i would love to meet you.

@dewittkaterose

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ı can help about places to visit in istanbul if you want

Love the idea of having a language project! Best of luck and I look forward to seeing how you get on

as a Türk majoring in Korean Language and literature, i would highly recommend for you to learn Turkish with/from Korean. They came from the same language family and someone whose native speaker of either of the languages can learn and speak the other one easily as the research shows. hope you have a great time both learning and traveling turkey❤

@LindieBotes

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I can see a few connections already. This is a great suggestion thank you!’n

@LaurenAngela_aufDeutsch

11 ай бұрын

Of neither or of either? Considering this languages but as a native speaker of neither 😅

@dailysori

11 ай бұрын

@laurenangela6749 oh i am sorry i just had a mistake but thank you for making me realize

So excited for you! Ali Yilmaz channel is great for learning Turkish on KZread 😇

I've never been a dabbler in languages myself, but I can understand how someone might want to do a deep dive into a language for a little while and learn as much as they can while not committing to wanting to get to fluency one day. Best of luck with this language project!

İYİ ŞANSLAR!

Yay! So cool! Good luck with it!

You are my all-time inspiration for learning languages 😇😇😇😇 감사합니다, merci, ধন্যবাদ and thanks for continuously making videos for us 💜💜

I’ve recently started Swedish with that very idea. Feels more relaxing and fun like that, although still challenging sometimes :) Good luck with Turkish!

I'm so glad to hear that. 😊😊

I love the idea of learning a language purely for fun with no major expectations. Good luck with Turkish!!

I am so happy to hear that. I hope you can reach your goals in Turkish. Good luck 😊😊😊

@watermelon3679

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I see you even language video I m also a language enthusiastic person what is your native language

Your energy💕💗💗>>>>>

Good luck Lindie. As an aside, I intend to start learning Spanish in July as my third language. I will dedicate at least 12-18 months on it, as I plan to travel to South America at the end of next year. All the best with Turkish.

Good luck with your new language project Lindie! ☺☺

Sooo happy to see this ❤❤❤ hope you have fun learning it, i'm sure you will do your best!

wishing u a fun journey with this new project!!!❤❤ also!! id love a look into your notebooks/planners ! ive watched your previous videos about them and thoroughly enjoyed them, yet havent been able to come across anything similar since :((( itd be lovely if u could update us on your planning systems and such 😂❤

I aspire to learn languages like you 😭 you inspire me so much

I love learning Turkish! I know you can do it!

Good luck Lindie!

Hi Lindie! İt's pleased 😊 to see you again. "You inspired me a lot ❤" I'm really happy that you're learning my first foreign language (Türkçe) , To be honest , I wanna help you , you can download the free pdf book that's "Turkish in three months" this one helped me a lot about 4 years ago...Happy learnings 😊 Dear Lindie ❤

Hi, Lindie! At my German university when I took their Turkish courses as a guest hearer in the Middle Eastern department, we used the primer by Margarethe Ersen-Rasch. The editors, Harassowitz, have brought out several books on Turkish, also more specific works about particles and supplementary grammar exercises. There's even one on advanced Turkish that includes lots of cultural knowledge, explaining codified phrases of politeness in their context. But there is also an English resource I used: the Turkish Grammar by Lewis in English(Oxford University Edition). Here in Germany it is relatively easy to get hold of books in and about Turkish, as there is a really strong Turkish community. As a really easy start into reading there is a book by Compact edition called "Son Durak İstanbul"(Last station İstanbul) with crime stories and lots of German vocabulary explanations. As my listening comprehension I have the Short Stories in Turkish for Beginners by Olly Richards on Audible, as a download when I am not online. I like that the stories are both interesting and the speed is moderate, while the context always helps a lot. Online, however, there is a fantastic teacher on KZread called Ali Yılmaz: He sticks to Turkish in his lessons, even the earliest ones(level A1). Very skilled man. I hope this could help and I wish you lots of fun with your language project.

I studied turkish a lot during the first year of the pandemic and it was really interesting. I recommend the Easy Turkish channel, the FC Langmedia turkish lessons are pretty thorough, and Ali Yılmaz channel. I also found Anki to be really useful to learn tons of vocab in a short period.

@PimsleurTurkishLessons

11 ай бұрын

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 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 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

I found language transfer (an app) helped me to start

@Alicia-zf3nq

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I forgot there was a Language Transfer course for Turkish! I've listened to the Greek one and am currently using it for German and I would definitely recommend it as well

You’re going to love it ❤❤❤❤ I learned last year

soo happy to hear youre learning my language

I love a good language project! good luck!

I am so excited for you! Can't wait for more Turkish videos from you! Good luck 😊

Good luck with learning Turkish, Lindie! I've stopped learning languages for a while but I'd like to get back into German and Icelandic. 😊

Turkish is a good sounding language! I've listened to some Turkish music (Yusuf Güney) and it sounds very good 😊 Enjoy your learning!!

@mars-jr5uu

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hii

@PimsleurTurkishLessons

11 ай бұрын

You can learn daily basic Turkish in a month by listening 1 lesson per day from my first list 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 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 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

Wow! You are the first polyglot that influence me about languages, and as a Turkish, i really love when language lovers learn my language. Also when you're learning Hungarian, i just said "Oh Turkish and Hungarian both agglutinating languages, maybe she start learning Turkish after Hungarian. Kolay gelsin! 🤍 (We use "Kolay gelsin" when someone is doing or trying something to say "i hope this will be easy for you")

Congratulations! i'm so happy that you are learning my native language! i love your channel! you should know that i'm here for any kind of support :)

YAYYYYY!! happy studying :3

Çok güzel haber 🎉 happy to heard that 🎉

I’m also learning Turkish. It’s exciting that both you and Language Simp are learning it at the same time! ❤

Turkish sounds really cool! I speak Greek and maybe I’m biased but I find it one of those beautiful languages.

that is so great ❤

This is really good to here, I am Turkish and am trying to be a polyglot. If you need any help at all with anything, we'll be here to support you on your journey to learn Turkish. and by the way which city will you be traveling to? Umarım güzel vakit geçirirsin!

Remélem, megmutatod majd a füzetedet/füzeteidet, mindig az a legjobb rész. :)

Turkish grammar is very similar to Korean/Japanese which are languages you've had experiences with learning so you'll probably pick the grammar up pretty quickly

Merhaba Lindie 😊 as a Turkish, I am happy to hear you want to learn turkish. I think best way is speaking someone and watching serials. When you begin to study the grammar without practice, you feel like drowning 😄I can help you anytime👍🏻

I am learning turkish for the last 6 months.. Im not that fluent or strict with this language but I try to have a daily thing for it... For example i listen to some musics with lyrics... Watching some KZread channels in native turkish or any thing realated to turkish when I'm opening the KZread. Or some times i listen to turkish podcasts wich is from English to turkish.

Good luck, Lindie! I visited Turkiye last year, loved melody of the language (delicious food was a yummy bonus). Maybe you can share your favourite turkish music (bands or solo artist) with us?

Hey i am turkish and i live in istanbul and if u need someone to practice your Turkish dont hesitate to contact me.Good luck on your journey!

Thank you for this, Lindie. I want to improve my Spanish (that was my major in college l, after all), and start learning Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean from scratch. Lofty goals, I know. I just want a feel of the latter three (plus, I love how they sound), and I want to become fluent in Spanish (at least partially because I live in North America). Good luck with Turkish!

Merhaba nasıl gidiyor? That's all I know in Turkish. Thanks for the tip from Richard Simcott. That's actually a really good point - you can explore a bit of a language without necessarily aiming to stick with it in the long term. Been itching to learn some Greek and Persian, but I abandoned that idea for some time because I probably won't have time to stick with them in the long term. By the way have you seen Locked On You (Hedefim Sensin)? Really enjoyed that movie.

The only conception I have about you learning languages is that you have a certain goal in mind for which you want to learn a language. And as long as this brings you joy and doesn't harm you I'm fully supporting you!

wow that's really amazing, it's really great language to learn, and you will be just great, try to watch series and listen to music it will help you so much ( I learnt it from only doing that). Good luck in it 💛💛

Yayy Turkish. I know a bit of it but the sentence structure really gets me (even though I understand it) 😭😭

as a dutchie who's living in turkiye i am excited to see your language journey :D