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You are confused because of the verb "sevmek/love/like". Either way you use present simple or continuous you intend the same thing. You can't say "I'm loving you" or "I'm liking apple" in English(because these are stative verbs) It's similar in Turkish. You would say "seni severim" instead of "seni seviyorum" but it won't be appropriate in spoken language or if you want to show your love to somebody. On the other hand you have to use the correct form for any other verb which are not stative verbs. For example; if you want to say I drink fruit juice you have to say "Ben meyve suyu içerim". But if you want to tell your continuous action you have to say "Ben meyve suyu içiyorum".

Here is the list of stative verbs in English. Most of them stative in Turkish too. https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/maralfo/stative-verbs-39672450

Since it's not a letter we have in Turkish, I would read it phonetically, which would be something like "Dabılyu".

I'm not sure if there's an official way to pronounce it in Turkish but on the busuu website, they gave it as "dabılyu /ˈdʌbəljuː/".

I found a Memrise list that looks great! https://www.memrise.com/course/108691/turkish-1000-most-common-words-frequency-sorted/

Personally, to learn Spanish, I found the 1000 most common words on Memrise, learned them, and started trying to read newspapers as much as possible. It helps to read the paper online with a mouse-hover translator.

When you feel comfortable recognizing the words (not even deciphering the grammar yet), it can help to start working on the most common 10,000 words. This sounds like a lot, but can be accomplished in a couple of months with only around 30 minutes per day. You would be able to recognize a ton of words in the newspaper after this, and with hover-translation, you can instantly check yourself.

Turkish I've found to be different, because the grammar isn't as intuitive as Spanish, so there's also a lot of time involved in picking apart endings. However, this is just my two cents in what's been helpful.

(Sidenote - I used to be conversational/nearly fluent in Turkish, e.g. could understand Turkish television, but I've lost it over time and feel like I'm starting from scratch)

Oh darn! I just realised it's not actually in the "Hacking Turkish" courses but in the "1000 most common words" (https://www.memrise.com/course/108691/turkish-1000-most-common-words-frequency-sorted/2/).

Thinking about it a bit more, it probably denotes the case the verb takes.

This is a tricky feature of Turkish grammar. I'm not an expert but maybe I can help :D You're technically not adding the noun endings to a verb - since the -dik suffix (and other participle suffixes) turn the word into a noun or adjective.

Also, your examples above have possesive endings after -dik, but are not case marked.

Here is a straightforward guide from Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/tr/-(i)dik/tips-and-notes

In short: Verb Root + (I)DIk + Possessive Endings + (the Appropriate Case, if needed)

I have found this which I believe needs internet connection. Though I myself haven't tried this app since I am Turkish :D

hi! no i've got a tolino (might be a german brand). it didn't have an integrated/downloadable turkish dictionary though, so i googled around for a bit and found a list of manually downloadable dictionaries that i was able to add to my e-book reader from my laptop via usb.

here's the website i got it from, they also have an EN-TR dictionary: https://github.com/rdoeffinger/Dictionary/releases/tag/v0.2-dictionaries

i have no idea if and how it works with a kindle, but i'm pretty sure if you google "kindle turkish dictionary" you'll find some results and instructions!

the annoying thing about this is that my e-book reader can display turkish letters like ş or ğ, but when i select a word containing those letters to look it up in the dictionary, it doesn't select those special characters and most of the time i have to manually type the word into the dictionary.. hope you won't have this problem :')

Here is a book we actually used in my turkish class (I took turkish as foreign language in school) -> It's a good book and the first book that came into my mind.

Here is another book that came into my mind. I think we used some pages in turkish class as well, but you said that you lacked in turkish vocabulary so use this book only if you are a little bit more experienced in turkish.

There are other books as well but I am not familiar with them. But for a good solid textbook I would really recommend you Kolay Gelsin (the first book).

Hope I could help you.

On top of u/vyhexe's suggestions, the FSI course includes grammar drills that are helpful for getting used to using the grammar while speaking.

Here are some children's books https://www.storytel.com/tr/tr/categories/1-COCUK You can listen to the samples and choose yourself. I recommend you to begin with the stories you are already familiar like Harry Potter, The Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland etc.

Really enjoy studying on Preply (learning English and German). Found them at the beginning of the lockdown and really happy about it. They also have Turkish language tutors and it doesn't matter if where you located.

You can find the episodes from the official channel here. And for the subtitles, I don't think all of the episodes are translated but you can download them from here. Than play it alongside the broadcast side by side via a subtitle player such as greenfish subtitle player or downlaod the stream using a program like internet download manager and adding the subtitle using vlc and the like.

I don't think you can learn Turkish as a foreigner without a good understanding of the grammar. One easy/cheap way to get a feel for this is "Elementary Turkish" by Lewis Thomas. You can download a pdf here:

https://3lib.net/book/960126/af79a7

but the book itself is very cheap and available on Amazon. It focus on a useful basic vocabulary and breaks up the grammar into small chunks, and has a lot of short translation exercises, with a key to the answers, so you can get a feel for phrase and sentence structure by doing the exercises in both directions.

Another free resource to assimilate the sentence structure orally is the FSI Basic Turkish course, which you can find for free and legal download here:

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-turkish.html

Working through this will enable you to learn the Turkish sentence patterns and thus understand Turkish "on the fly" when you here it spoken.

I’ve managed a good base of Turkish by using Duolingo and Babbel. My boyfriend is a Turkish-Cypriot, so he’s been useful as well for helping me clarify points that I don’t understand from the self-learning apps.

you know you create words with suffixes in Turkish. for example if you know whats sev(mek) you can guess what means sevgi. and if you know whats sevgi you can guess sevgili. or sevgisiz. also if you know whats sev you can guess whats sevin. or sevimli. https://www.memrise.com/course/193920/intermediate-turkish-vocabulary-by-subject/ tbh you can find better sources from our discord or just with some search. but there are people learns/knows french.

Hi!

As a language enthusiast myself, I can relate to your struggles. I was lucky to start with a really well-written book when I was studying Hebrew years ago. The foundation is everything when it comes to language learning.

I'm an author myself, preparing self-study books in Turkish. My approach is a result of over 20 years of teaching, and I've taught students coming from diverse backgrounds. In this regard, I think I can be of help to your Turkish learning journey.

My latest book, <strong>Complete Turkish: The Absolute Course for Beginners</strong> is out. You can safely start from scratch, it's designed to cover all the basic points a beginner level student needs. You've mentioned you are working on your conversational Turkish. Here is a plus point for the book; every unit has a couple of lengthy dialogues that familiarize the student with different social situations. Each dialogue is followed by the explanation of specific language skills and the grammar that is given in the dialogues. You will also see that you can practice what you've learned so far with countless exercises throughout the book.

I congratulate your ambition. I honestly hope that this book will be your companion in becoming comfortable in Turkish.

Good luck!

I already knew some of the things but I got this book and I've liked it a lot. https://www.amazon.com/Delights-Learning-Turkish-self-study-learners/dp/1499389434

I have two friends who are Turkish and they also said it was really good and mentioned the book explains concepts they didn't even know about.

Probably not exactly what you are looking for, but check out the Beelinguapp app. There are stories and news articles in there with side by side English to Turkish translations and you can filter by level.

At intermediate level it might be time to just start consuming more authentic content, whether it would be news articles, children's books, etc.

You might also want to consider a book like "The Delights of Learning Turkish" https://www.amazon.com/Delights-Learning-Turkish-self-study-learners/dp/1499389434

While it might not be all at intermediate level it could help to reinforce some concepts and you can probably move through it fairly quickly now that you have a foundation.

Hi, this is a free Android app for learning Turkish it contain 1200+ phrases and words with audio.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appstude.turkishtravelphrasebook

i hope it's a Useful resource for you