Excellent Turkish-Learning Websites

[jade 94]

Excellent and Good Turkish Websites to learn Turkish

 

There are several excellent and very good websites to learn Turkish.  My favourites are as follows:

 

www.turkishteatime.com EXCELLENT WEBSITE

www.turkishbasics.comwww.turkishfree.webs.comwww.onlineturkish.comwww.princeton.edu/~turkish/reading1.htmlwww.turkishlanguage.co.uk   EXCELLENT WEBSITEwww.ielanguages.comwww.worldstories.org.uk  (click on TURKISH)www.turkishclass.comwww.totally-turkish.com 

[Sunny 779]

Thanks for those Jade. You'll have us all speaking Turkish on here before long!
 
I learnt this!
 
Tencere yuvarlanmış kapağını bulmuş!
It's nothing to do with finding lids of saucepans, it means, 'They're perfect for each other'. 
 
I can't get my head around some of the saying in Turkish, can you, JP or you Leyla explain?

[AndreaDarling 3]

Thanks!!!! I just took my first lesson (Sample lesson for newbies) from the first link! Think I'll struggle with thank you :-). Appreciate the post

[jacklepet71 195]

sunny are you askıng ( tencere yuvarlanmış kapağını bulmuş ) ? if it is so , yo are rıght . it is said for couples and it means they are

perfect match , couples complete each other like lid and saucepan

[sarafa 4]

hi

i suggest this sites too it is good

http://www.livemocha.com/learn/view

http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/index.htm

[Sunny 779]

But JP, that's not what the words say. What is the exact translation?

[jacklepet71 195]

exact translation ???? good question sunny the saucepan rolled away and found its lid .

[Sunny 779]

Thanks, I thought it was something like that. Strange! How on earth can that be translated into 'They're perfect for each other' I don't know.

[jacklepet71 195]

it was my translatıon but ı found out this ın englısh birds of a feather flock together maybe thıs one explaıns it better . it is an idiom as you know and idioms arent used in real meanıngs .

[Sunny 779]

Birds of a feather flock together means people who are similar come together, like I suppose English people meet up together in Turkey and Turkish people in other countries like to live in the same area.

[jacklepet71 195]

hımmmm then my poor translation is rıght

[saffron 87]

Hi folks! I hope you are doing well!

Sometimes I drop in and take a look around..

Let me add a note about this idiom: Turkish people use this idiom in particular in a criticizing way: Not when two nice features match, but when the features subject to criticism are concerned. If you say , let's say, to a newly married couple 'tencere yuvarlanmış, kapağını bulmuş' this will directly humiliate the couple!

[Vic801 630]

Hi Saffron, nice to hear from you again. As you say, I have always heard that in a negative sense. Not always necessarily about couples but keeping bad company. In the same way that "birds of a feather flock together" has a darker side to it. As in, if you hang out with people who drink and gamble and womanise you are probably like that yourself. Usually said with a loud disapproving sniff.

[Sunny 779]

Thanks Saffron. I'd never heard that expression before until I came across it on that first link that Jade put in. The point I was making was that there is no way that you can get the sense of what it means from the literal translation. The saucepan rolled away and found its lid.

 

 

Nice to 'see' you Saffron.

[Meral 491]

Welcome back Saffron -- I see you have called in for a glass of tea !

That's an interesting idiom, and useful to know it's only used in disdain, (otherwise we might have opened our mouth & put our foot in it ! (By the way, is there a Turkish idiom for that?)

[Quinn 93]

Thanks for these links! Super helpful and nice--

[Vic801 630]

Hello again, Quinn! How is life treating you these days?

[saffron 87]

Hi Meral, yes!

I cannot remember any Turkish idiom that would exactly mean the same..

But there is something similar, let me write it down on this occassion : 'Balıklama atlamak/ balıklama dalmak'

'Balıklama' is a diving term. Balıklama dalmak/atlamak is to dive headfirst. This idiomatic expression is used if somebody gets involved in a project, idea, action readily and without giving due care to the possible outcomes..

[Abi 666]

Lovely to hear from you again Saffron, glad things are going well for you

[Smrtaha 13]

This is very helpful, thanks

[canadianinturkey 4]

It sounds like the one my father-in-law said, you hang around thieves, you are going to be a thief. It was about my husband smoking and how all his friends smoke. Turkish expression are interesting to say the least, lol. I took two Turkish courses, my teacher taught some Turkish expressions. "I am so hungry, my stomach is ringing" (Çok açım karnım zil çalıyoror). There is another one, it is often used with someone you are upset with and ready to slap them, "Your five friends are coming." I can't remember the exact Turkish translation.

My husband was driving on the highway. He got mad at the guy in front of him, he said something like this in Turkish you are driving like you are in the fields. If you want to insult some driving you ask them did you get your driver licence from the butcher?!