Making Out in Turkish: Turkish Phrasebook

By Ashley Carman

Making Out in Turkish is a fun, accessible and thorough Turkish phrase book and guide to the Turkish language as it's really spoken.

Sana hayranim! Seni tekrar ne zaman gorecegim?--(I adore you! When can I see you again?) Answer this correctly in Turkish, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you could be hurting someone's feelings or getting a slap! Turkish classes and textbooks tend to spend a lot of time rehearsing for the same fictitious scenarios, but chances are while in Turkey you will spend a lot more time trying to make new friends or start new romances--something you may not be prepared for.

If you are a student, businessman or tourist traveling to Turkey and would like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is being able to speak like a local. This friendly and easy-to-use Turkish phrasebook makes this possible. Making Out in Turkish has been carefully designed to act as a guide to modern colloquial Turkish for use in everyday informal interactions--giving access to the sort of catchy Turkish expressions that aren't covered in traditional language materials. Each expression is given in authentic Turkish (turkce) so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with. In addition, phonetic spellings are also included making speaking Turkish a breeze. For example "Okay"--Tamam, is also given as ta-MAHM.

This Turkish phrasebook includes:

• A guide to pronouncing Turkish words correctly.
• Explanations of basic Turkish grammar, such as double letters, vowel harmony, agglutination, questions, and negation.
• Complete Turkish translations including phonetic spellings.
• Useful and interesting notes on Turkish language and culture.
• Lots of colorful, fun and useful expressions not covered in other phrasebooks.

Titles in this unique series of bestselling phrase books include: Making Out in Chinese, Making Out in Indonesian, Making Out in Thai, Making Out in Korean, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Japanese, Making Out in Vietnamese, Making Out in Burmese, Making Out in Tagalog, Making Out in Hindi, Making Out in Arabic, Making Out in English, More Making Out in Korean, and More Making Out in Japanese.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Release date: Dec 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781462902705

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Introduction

Do you have an interest in learning Turkish, but are discouraged by the idea of memorizing your way through hard-to-follow lessons? Making Out in Turkish is for you. This book is your ticket to learning Turkish like you learned your mother tongue: naturally. With this engaging, fun and practical guide, you will be able to express yourself in everyday informal dialogue in no time.

Making Out in Turkish is modular in that every chapter is independent so you can read through chapters in whichever order fits your specific dialogue needs.

Whether you are trying to make friends, communicate with a lover or travel abroad, this is your passport to making out in Turkish.

TURKEY AT A GLANCE

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (the Republic of Turkey) is the official name of the country. It's also known as Türkiye.

Location

Turkey is situated at the intersection of two continents, Asia and Europe.

It is surrounded by the Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Marmara and the Black Sea. It has an area of approximately 800,000 square km and a total coastline of 8,333 km. It has borders with Georgia and Armenia to the northeast, Iran and Iraq to the southeast, Bulgaria and Greece to the northwest and Syria to the south.

Capital

Ankara is the capital of the Republic of Turkey.

Many people mistakenly think İstanbul is the capital city of Turkey. It's the largest city of Turkey, but not the capital. During a 2,000-year period, İstanbul (historically, Constantinople) was the capital city of four successive empires. It was the capital of the Roman Empire during 330-395, of the Byzantine Empire during 395-1204 and again during 1261-1453, of the Latin empire during 1204-1261 and of the Ottoman Empire during 1453-1922.

Flag

The Turkish flag depicts a centered white crescent-moon with a star inside, on a red field.

National Anthem

The İstiklâl Marşı (Independence March) is the national anthem of Turkey, adopted on March 12, 1921. When a nationwide competition was organized to select a suitable national anthem, 724 poems were submitted. The Turkish Grand National Assembly unanimously chose a 10-verse poem written by famous poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy.

Religion

Islam is the religion of the majority of Turkish people (99.8%). Minority religions include Christianity and Judaism. Turkey is not governed by Islamic law.

Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the name of the founder of the Republic of Turkey. Atatürk means the father of the Turks. Despite his limited resources, he worked towards transforming the Ottoman Empire into a modern country. Some of his important reforms are:

•  Change from the Arabic alphabet to Latin alphabet

•  Foundation of a secular state (religion and state were separated)

•  Introduction of monogamy

•  Change from the Islamic calendar to the Gregorian calendar

•  Women were given the right to vote and to be elected

•  Modern dress code

The Republic of Turkey

Reviews for Making Out in Turkish

[bruce_krafft_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Making Out in Turkish is a fun little phrase book that gives you some phrases that most books don’t cover (at least I certainly don’t recall books like Berlitz covering talk about avoiding pregnancy). It is more for getting to know people in less formal situations, and of course more intimate situations and as such probably isn’t the only phrase book that you want to have. However if you are looking to spend any time speaking Turkish outside of business situations I would say that this is a good book to have.Not to say that this book doesn’t cover the basics of the language any less then other ‘pocket’ sized books, it just has a different focus, it doesn’t cover things that say a person there on business would use, like getting a taxi or finding a bank. If you are going over to live for a time as an exchange student or something it would probably come in very handy. It has such phrases as – Don’t talk like an idiot, I’m kidding, Cool, My mouth is on fire, how do you eat this?