Turkish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Turkish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Turkish Stories) Paperback – August 15, 2020

Once again Lingo Mastery has come to the rescue, allowing us to make Turkish more accessible to a wider population. In the Introductory Note the goal is stated well: ‘Whether you’re learning Turkish for work, studies or fun, the knowledge of the language will broaden your mind, let you meet new people, and will become a new page in the thrilling book of your life…Our goal with this book will be to supply you with useful, entertaining, helpful and challenging material that will not only allow you to learn the language but also pass the time and make the experience lass formal and more fun…We will not bore you with grammatical notes, spelling or structure...we’ll teach you writing and reading Turkish with stories.’After their success teaching Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, now they turn to teaching Turkish! And it works. To make the Turkish alphabet accessible, transcriptions are provided in the form of transliteration and conventional signs used for transcription. In addition to the English translation below each story, the summaries follow a synopsis in Turkish and in English, along with questions (and answers) about the text, ably assisting knowledge of what was just read. Taking it slowly, step by step with practice, Turkish words and the accompanying excellent short stories become accessible!The technique is solid and the lessons well taught. This is a very fine introduction to Turkish vocabulary that may arise when you visit Turkey or simply conversing and understand the Turkish population here at home. This book is appropriate for all age levels, and a book much needed at this time in our national status! Grady Harp, August 20

The sentence structure is good for beginners and novice readers. The mini quiz and the minis dictionary behind each story is very handy during studying. My only issue is some of the stories are sad and can be a bit depressing. A teaching material should be uplifting and encouraging not a tear jerker in my opinion.

It’s been very hard to find any reasonable reading material for learning Turkish. This book is my best find so far! I’ve been learning Turkish for about 3-4 hours per week (plus homework) for the past 6 months and this book is perfect for my level as it’s both reasonably challenging and yet not overwhelmingly difficult. I hope to be able to find more materials like that once I’m through with this book.

For extensive reading with 90-95% comprehension you will need to know Turkish grammar at a late A2, early B1 level, have a vocabulary of around 4000 words, and have spent some time previously reading at an A1/A2 level. That should be enough to read with ease while also picking up 5-10 new words with each story.If you’re earlier on in your language learning journey, the book will still be useful but it will require a lot more word lookups and your progress through each story will likely be slower.

The presentation of the material: story first, followed by vocabulary next and then comprehension questions.

Not for beginners 😅

I'm so glad I could get my hands on this. This is the kind of resource that's often lacking when learning a new language: having the opportunity to read it in context, at a level of understanding accessible to the beginner, while being challenged just enough to learn new words and grammatical concepts through reading alone. There's also a convenient system of vocabulary lists following the texts, so as not to spend time poring through a dictionary with the ever-so-present risk of getting lost in it, and questions to test your understanding of the story.Overall a very very good book. Kudos to the authors for the great work!

good difficulty level, kind of hard for beginner but not too hard. would recommend