UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses Syllabus
Turkish Beginners
Turkish Level 1
Prerequisite for entry
For complete beginners or those who have only had very little contact with the
language.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to function in everyday spoken and written
Turkish at a basic level. The course aims to develop all four language skills (reading,
writing, listening, and speaking) through various texts, tasks and dialogues.
Functions
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Greetings, introducing yourself and others.
Buying food.
Ordering food and drink in a restaurant.
Simple descriptions of yourself, family, friends and places.
Asking the way and giving simple directions.
Finding accommodation.
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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First contacts.
Occupation and centres of interest.
Talking about family, friends and daily activities and future plans.
Working on dialogues and writing simple dialogues.
Time, colours, food, measurements, numbers, days of the week, months.
Poems, songs and advertisements.
Locations, directions.
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Phonetics
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Vowel harmony
Consonant change: Hardening and Softening
Narrowing
Grammar
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Consonant changes
Noun suffixes
Personal suffixes having the function of verb to be
Non verbal negative and interrogative structures
Cases: Dative, Locative, Ablative, Accusative.
Basic postpositions and linking words
Past tense, introducing present tense.
Compound verbs.
Introducing genetive case.
Learning Resources
Books
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Course book: Rona,Bengisu Turkish in Three months,(Hugo)(1998) in PDF.
chapters 1-5
Dilmer 1 (available at SOAS book shop)
Bayraktaroglu Sinan, Bayraktaroglu Arin, Ad Bachis, and Jeroen Aarssen (2000)
Colloquial Turkish, Routledge
Pollard, Asuman Celen and Pollard, David (2004), Beginner’s Teach Yourself
Turkish and Audio books (In the Self Access Centre)
References
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Sebuktekin, I. Hikmet (1971) Turkish-English Contrastive Analysis, Turkish
Morphology and corresponding English Structures (Janua linguarum. Series
Practica) Mouton: The Hauge
Lewis, Geoffrey (2000) Turkish Grammar, Oxford University Press.
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Rona, Bengisu (1989) Get by in Turkish, BBC Publications, London
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Dictionaries
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Langenscheidt New Standard Dictionary
The Redhouse Turkish-English Dictionary
Tureng on line dictionary.
Useful websites:
www.turkishlanguage.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
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www.digitaldialects.com
www.turkcegazeteler.com
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