Elementary Turkish

Lewis Thomas, Norman Itzkowitz

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Turkish

Dover
01 April 1986

Language self-study texts; Languages & ESL; Texts; Turkish - Texts; Turkish - Languages

Series: Dover Language Guides

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Turkish is the primary language of some thirty million people. Anyone concerned with current social, political, and cultural developments in Turkey knows that a practical understanding of the basic patterns of modern Turkish is an invaluable skill that until now has been difficult to attain without extensive training.

This superb grammar and exercise text, used successfully for years in Princeton University, enables English-speaking students - in and out of the classroom - to gain a quick and thorough understanding of modern Turkish. In a carefully arranged sequence of 23 lessons, Lewis V. Thomas, late Professor of Oriental Studies at Princeton, presents thorough coverage that allows the student to begin to use the basic patterns of modern Turkish without time-consuming and expensive private instruction.

The method of instruction was devised after an extensive analysis of results in Princeton classrooms, and relies on exercises at the end of each lesson to test the student's grasp of the material. Beginning with the alphabet and numbers, Professor Thomas offers clear, concise coverage of articles, adjectives and nouns, common infinitives, personal pronouns, and elementary verbs. As the student's comprehension of basic elements develops, further lessons deal with more complicated subjects such as the possessive construction, past general verbs, postpositions, the partitive, progressive verb forms, and abbreviating verb forms. A complete Turkish-English glossary translates new vocabulary occurring in the exercises.

Norman Itzkowitz, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, has skillfully made the necessary revisions and additions to complete Professor Thomas' work. For anyone who needs to communicate in this important and influential language, Professor Thomas' proven course, now in an inexpensive paperback edition, is the most effective method available.

By: Lewis Thomas
Revised by: Norman Itzkowitz
Imprint: Dover
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition of Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 10mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 215mm
Weight: 225g
ISBN: 9780486250649
ISBN 10: 0486250644
Series: Dover Language Guides
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 April 1986
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active