All our Turkish Basic Course material comes directly from NTIS, notice their price is $330, our price is $19.95!

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a picture of our Turkish Basic Course Cassettes that we mastered using the Tascam Pro Audio equipment below. Double click the images to see a detailed image.

 

Learn Turkish Language

Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. We no longer sell our courses in Volume I and Volume II, so there's no up sell for the next level. You will receive the entire course material, on DVD, for the lowest price we can afford to produce, $19.95. Our shipping cost is $5.45 for domestic shipping and $16.45 for international shipping, which is the exact price we pay the U.S. Postal Service to ship priority mail. We do not make money off of shipping, and ship priority mail because it is the fastest and least expensive way to ship. The DVD will play in both a PC or MAC, and the audio can easily be saved to an IPOD or other MP3 device. You will need Adobe Reader to access the PDF textbook.

Our Value Proposition

The Turkish Basic Course Volume I and II, as you can see, sells for $330 from NTIS, the United States printing service for audio/visual materials; however, they only sell it on audio cassette as you can see from our screen capture of their shopping cart. We purchased the material from NTIS, as evidenced by the screenshot provided of the original Turkish Basic Course Audio Cassettes, and did the remastering work. We had the textbook professionally digitized into a PDF file. And then we spent countless hours remastering the cassette to a digital form, now we are providing this course to you for 6% of the cost of original material. Only $19.95!

Our Quality Proposition: It's all about the Remastering!

We used Tascam Pro Audio equipment to do the initial digital remastering from cassette to compact disc. Once completed, we converted the compact discs into an uncompressed WAV file. We copied what would have been on Side B of the Cassettes, to the end of Side A, creating one continous file, saving again as a WAV file. We used audio software, like Nero and Audacity, to clean up the audio even more. This multi step process includes converting the mono file to stereo, normalizing the volume across the entire WAV file, removing "clicks and pops", doing a low frequency filter, then a high frequency filter, truncating silences to 3 seconds to ensure the audio is quick to begin and end without dead space, normalized the volume again, and outputting the file as another WAV file. We used an MP3 encoder to convert the WAV file to an MP3 file, and we tagged all files with Subject, Title, Copyright, Volume I, Volume II data.

What does all this mean?

The remastering process and filter work means that silence sounds like silence. And in this case, silence truly is golden. Our product is of unparalleled quality, and we can honestly make the claim that no one has spent more time making these courses sound as good as our courses sound. We have provided significant improvements to the sound quality versus the original masters, and even the material we were selling just a year ago, thanks to current technology. All you have to do is open our files in a sound editor and see that silence is a straight line, not wavy, and this means clarity.

About The Turkish Basic Course

You are about to start the study of the Turkish language. Whatever your motivation for doing so, you will get greater enjoyment and satisfaction from your study if you will cooperate fully with the instructional systen, embodied in this course. This introduction is intended to acquaint you with the book and with the method advocated for its utilization.

Turkish Drills are recorded first for listening, then for familiarization through repetition, and finally for participation. During the participation step, when the student performs the required manipulation, his utterances are confirmed on the audio immediately following the space provided for his participation.

Turkish Drills are generally in two groups in any unit: a) variation drills on pattern sentences, which provide opportunities for the student to develop flexibility in the use of patterns already memorized, and b) grammar drills, which are intended to provide practice for the student in the operation of the patterns explained in the immediately preceding grammar notes.

The Turkish presented in this course is representative of the 'standard' speech of educated Turks in the cities and towns of Turkey. As in any country where communication has been poor until recently, in Turkey too there is considerable local variation in Turkish pronunciation and vocabulary. However, in schools all over Turkey the Turkish language you are about to learn is used and taught as the national standard and, if you learn it well, you will be speaking a tongue which has prestige throughout the country and which is understood everywhere. You may even have the experience of being told by Turks 'you speak better Turkish than I', a compliment which you should discount heavily.

The Intent and Structure of the Turkish Basic Course

Although you will learn to read and write Turkish as you progress in this course, you will not have any formal instruction in writing,and reading of longer texts will be introduced gradually. This is because the essential skills required are to speak and to understand spoken Turkish. The writing system of Turkish is quite easy to master and fairly closely represents Turkish speech.

Learn Turkish 1 - Good Morning

Learn Turkish 2 - Good Evening

Learn Turkish 3 - Goodbye, Goodnight

Learn Turkish 4 - Classroom expressions

Learn Turkish 5 - Where's the hotel?

Learn Turkish 6 - Is there a restaurant?

Learn Turkish 7 - Classroom expressions

Learn Turkish 8 - Where is the gas station?

Learn Turkish 9 - At the gas station

Learn Turkish 10 - Classroom expressions

Learn Turkish 11 - Can you help me

Learn Turkish 12 - Getting the Cab

Learn Turkish 13 - The Cab ride

Learn Turkish 14 - At the Consulate

Learn Turkish 15 - Classroom Expressions

Learn Turkish 16 - Greetings

Learn Turkish 17 - You must be Tired

Learn Turkish 18 - Meet my friend

Learn Turkish 19 - Nejat's father is ill

Learn Turkish 20 - Let's send our best wishes

Learn Turkish 21 - At the station

Learn Turkish 22 - At the station

Learn Turkish 23 - At the office

Learn Turkish 24 - At the office

Learn Turkish 25 - Taking leave

Learn Turkish 26 - An invitation

Learn Turkish 27 - At Bulent's house

Learn Turkish 28 - At Bulent's house

Learn Turkish 29 - Admiring the home

Learn Turkish 30 - Learning about the family

Learn Turkish 31 - Relatives

Learn Turkish 32 - At the Istanbul Customs

Learn Turkish 33 - At the Park Hotel

Learn Turkish 34 - Weather

Learn Turkish 35 - En Route to Taksim Square

Learn Turkish 36 - On the street

Learn Turkish 37 - At the post office window

Learn Turkish 38 - Airplane Trip

Learn Turkish 39 - Home management

Learn Turkish 40 - Banquet

Learn Turkish 41 - House hunting

Learn Turkish 42 - In the restaurant

Learn Turkish 43 - Preparation

Learn Turkish 44 - At the repair shop

Learn Turkish 45 - At the American Consulate

Learn Turkish 46 - At the Doctor's office

Learn Turkish 47 - Education

Learn Turkish 48 - Elections

Learn Turkish 49 - Agriculture

Learn Turkish 50 - Economy of Turkey

About the Turkish Language

Turkish is the principal language of the Republic of Turkey. It is a member, along with the related languages of Iranian and Soviet Azerbaijan and of various areas within the Soviet Union, mainly in Asia, of the Turkic group of the Altaic branch of the Uralic-Altaic language family. This Altaic branch also includes many other languages, mainly those grouped under the headings 'Mongol' and 'Manchu'.

The Turkish language is remarkably similar in structure and even in vocabulary, at least as closely related to one another as, say, the Romance group of Indo-European languages.

The population of the Republic of Turkey is about 72,000,000, of whom the great majority are native speakers of Turkish, making Turkish by a considerable margin the largest language of the Turkic family. Among the remainder of the population of Turkey - native speakers of Kurdish, Laz, Circassian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Syriac and other languages-the great majority, at least of the men, have some acquaintance with Turkish. Thus the Turkish language will serve the student for communication in all parts of Turkey save the most isolated Kurdish village. In addition, substantial numbers of Turkish speakers are to be found in parts of Syria, Lebanon, Greece and Cyprus. Turkish can serve the student also as an introduction to the Turkish language family and provide him with a basis for establishing communication with Asian Turkish speakers as far east as Sinkiang Province in China and as far west as the Tatar regions on the Volga.