I came across "Söylemek istemezdim, ağzımdan kaçtı." Shouldn't it be "istemedim", without the "z"? Or is it the difference between "I didn't mean to" and "I hadn't meant to"?

Merhaba!

I am a B1 student and during lessons and tutoring sessions my coursework have example sentences with words ending in -bilmek.

Like geçbilmek, yapbilmek, etc. I cant find much on the internet. Can anyone explain this to me please?

Sağ ol!

Hi! I am trying to improve my turkish (as a turkish person who grew up outside of Turkiye). As of right now I can understand turkish fully, and speak it quite comfortably in conversations. However, I want to get better in my pronunciation and accent, as at times I struggle with pronouncing difficult and long words, and you can definitely tell I'm a native English speaker from my accent. I am also thinking of living in Turkiye one day, so I want to learn how to speak Turkish beyond casual conversations, and in a more professional, elevated manner. I already watch a lot of Turkish dizis, and listen to Turkish music, and I want to start reading Turkish books that will help me speak it more professionally, if that makes sense? Any recommendations for books or any tips that will help me improve my turkish would be much appreciated!!

So ben and elma have different vowel realisations, but GPT just told me they are the same phoneme

Is that true?

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I am learning Turkish, as you can imagine, it is very different from European languages. I tried to memorize some words by associations, for example, I wrote a Turkish word and drew the object it denotes. I easily remember what the drawing looks like, but it is difficult for me to remember the word. Which techniques for learning foreign words do you use or can recommend?

Hello, hoping to hear from a native speaker or someone with fluency with common Turkish turns of phrase and customs. I often heard my family members say "bosver" (which means "nevermind" or "don't worry about it"). Is this something that people say alot in general, or was it just my family? As someone who grew up outside of Turkiye, I think there may have been some cultural misunderstandings between us, because I often found some of the speech offensive or harsh. To me, being told "bosver" feels a bit dismissive or controlling.

How do you translate "the apple I'm eating", "the apple I ate", and "the apple I was eating"? Are they all "yediğim elma"? Are any of them "yiyorduğum elma"? Is there some other way to translate any of the three?

Also, when is "yedik" used with none of the possessive suffixes?

Why is this not pronounced “ej-zah-ne”?

The C isn’t pronounced the way it is in every other context

Hi everyone!
I am an international student and will be starting my degree in Turkey in about 45 days. I have a lot of free time on my hands and was wondering what is the best platform (website/app) to use to learn Turkish?
For now I would prefer to stick to speaking and reading over practicing writing etc since I just want to know basic conversation and be able to read signs and all for the first few months at my degree.
Also, is there anything in particular you recommend I start with?

Edit: I don't watch Turkish dramas btw! I know a lot of people start learning from watching them but I never get the time to sit down and watch shows

İznik tile makers developed a specific coral red slip in the mid-sixteenth century, applied thick enough to sit slightly raised above the glaze. It shows up at its best in the Rüstem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul. By the early eighteenth century the workshops had closed and the technique was gone, not the colour idea itself, but the actual production method: firing temperatures, slip application, the rest of it.

It stayed lost for around three hundred years. In the 1990s, a foundation in İznik worked with Istanbul Technical University, MIT, and Princeton to reconstruct the process through trial and error. It took about two years. Tiles made there now use the same high-quartz fritware body as the originals and take roughly seventy days each to produce.

I wrote up the fuller history (Sinan's commissions, the 1613 imperial order tied to the Blue Mosque tiles, the economic and material pressures that led to the decline) on my site, linked above. Curious whether others here know of comparable cases where a historical ceramic or pigment technique was lost and later reconstructed through this kind of institutional collaboration rather than just rediscovered in archives.

Merhabalar!

The offers I found on Google are very scarce, and either expensive (why should I pay 30 USD / h for a TR group class when other major languages are widely taught at 7-15 USD /h rate) or basic (gated access to PDFs or pre-recorded videos).

Could you recommend any solid online school options or even an influencer who has a structured teaching skills tailored for the groups? I do not consider 1-to-1 lessons because of the price (Babel, Preply etc) and prefer the group studies overall.

I just learned "etekleri zil çalmak" = "to be overjoyed", literally "his/her skirts ringing bells"? Is this expression used for men or only women, given that the metaphor is based on skirts?

Hey! I’m a 25-year-old female from Pakistan, super curious about Turkish culture, language, food, and everyday life.

Would love to chat, maybe swap a little Urdu for Turkish, or just make a new friend.

I really need some to help me with learning Turkish.

Pleaseeee!!!

I have been living in Istanbul for roughly 3 years as a university student and recently signed up for an A2 level course starting this week.

Recently, I have been having doubts if I should start with the A2 level or just start from the beginning. I did take A1 and A2 in my university in my first year here and I do know enough basic turkish such as numbers, days of the week, and how to order at a cafe/resturant and discuss prices at a bazaar.

My main worry is grammar since this is something I really do struggle with and I do not remember basic grammar and some verbs that I learned from A1/A2 in my first year here.

Will I struggle with starting in A2 level or should it be okay?

Merhaba👋🏾

Sooo I came across 3 ladies speaking Turkish at Rosebank mall, in South Africa. I got really excited because I could right away pick up that they speak Turkish.

I went to greet them and they greeted back. Because of language barriers, I couldn't make long sentences nor could they understand what I was trying to say.

I wanted to chat more but my brain went blank. I ended up thanking them and bidding good byes.

Only when I left I thought of how I could have introduced myself and asked what their names are. 🙆‍♀️

One of the best ways of learning a language is practing it with speakers/natives. I don't study it, I only watch Turkish series. I would really love to improve and atleast be 40% fluent. I'll worry about knowing how to write it later.

Studying it would also be pointless if I am not practicing it with anyone.

How do you guys practice Turkish and who do you practice with.