TURKISH LESSONS IN ENGLISH Well, yes this may look like an allegorical headline here but it’s almost a necessity for an expat looking for a Private Turkish Course to learn Turkish, especially in Istanbul. Please read on to understand why? As you may or may not be aware, there is a debate going on for years amongst second language teaching methodologies. A method called ‘Immersion’* is popularly implemented where not even a...
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Our subject is Türkçe, the Language of the Republic of Turkey. When we Turks want to distinguish it from the other members of its linguistic family whose borders extend from the Adriatic Sea and the Balkans to China, we informally call it İstanbul Türkçesi (Istanbul Turkish) and formally Turkiye Türkçesi (Turkey Turkish). However English speaking scholars tend to refer to the Language of Turkey as ‘Turkish’ and its linguistic family...
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