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Teach Yourself Turkish Complete Course Audiopackage

Title: Teach Yourself Turkish Complete Course Audiopackage

Author: Asuman Celen-Pollard
Format: Paperback
List Price: $27.95
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Teach Yourself Turkish Complete Course Audiopackage


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Product Description:

Idling in Istanbul? Teach yourself Turkish!

With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow any of the Teach Yourself Language Courses Audiopackages at your own pace or use them as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Audiopackages include an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

  • Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
  • Regular and irregular verb tables
  • Plenty of practice exercises and answers
  • Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary
  • Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
  • An exploration of the culture
  • And much more

Product Details
  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3 edition (March 1, 2004)
  • ISBN: 0071434232
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces.
  • Average Customer Review: based on 22 reviews.



Spotlight Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

Tapes do not come with the book, October 23, 2000

Reviewer: D. P. Birkett (Suffern, NY USA)

The text makes reference to an accompanying cassette but all that comes from Amazon is the book. I have sent a fax to the American distributor at 847-679 2494 and an e-mail to the British distributor orders@bookpoint.co.uk but so far no way to get the tape. The British publisher is Hodder and Stoughton Educational 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH The book seems pretty good to me but I haven't been to Turkey yet. It's a tough language.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Would have been higher if the tapes had been there., May 16, 2002

Reviewer: Friendly Spirit (Yellow Springs, Ohio USA)

Listen to what your fellow reviewers are saying about this book! Despite what the title says, without tapes, this is in no way complete!

Make sure you ONLY get it if the tapes are available! As far as I can tell, the tapes are no longer available (checking with book distributors such as Baker and Taylor). If you have other good books with tapes, you may find this one helpful, but it isn't top on my list.

I've been teaching myself Turkish (slowly, painfully but I'm old!) for months and was excited to see this one, 7th of the books I purchased on this topic. Wish I'd skipped this one in favor of the last one I bought(which was the best!).

This book is good if you want to be able to take lessons and quizzes (which I do) but is extremely frustrating without the tapes as many of the exercises refer to the missing tapes.


Customer Reviews
Avg. Customer Review:

very cheepy edition, January 11, 2005
Reviewer: E. C. (Los Angeles, CA USA)

It seems that they tried to make a course book spending as little money as possible. It is full of typos, sometimes they just forget the translation of the introduced vocabularly (e.g. chapter 3 dialogue 2) and you have to look about it at the dictionary. In every chapter, they introduce new vocabulary in exercises as isolated words (e.g. even root verbs!!) instead doing so inside the main text and then they expect that you remember it. The terminology they use when they explaining grammar is a jargon that makes anybody that has finished Middle school very annoyed. Not being unfair, I am at chapter 4 and I've enjoyed it till now, but I will continue with another course book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Republished with the same errors!, May 4, 2004

Reviewer: Renny Hart (Atlanta, GA United States)

A great product to start with, don't get me wrong ... but the publishers really lose all credibility when the same typos appear in the new edition, even though it's been thoroughly rebranded and redesigned.

Great Book, March 18, 2004
Reviewer: A. Snow "Tony67ss" (Mons, Belgium)

I bought this book to study when I moved to Turkey. The cassete was absent, but I learned much from this book. I studies just an hour a day, and with the help of Turkish friends, was conversational in the language much faster than I would have without the book. Highly recommend, even without the tape.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Be Careful!, February 17, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
The book description says that the new edition has "2 CD recordings." Alas, the book arrived with no CDs. Apparently this refers to a different edition. I'm returning it--I specifically wanted something with an audio recording, as I understand that the pronunciation is crucial when attempting to speak Turkish.

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