about FSI turkish
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:17am
Topic: about FSI turkish
Posted By: pro1212
Subject: about FSI turkish
Date Posted: 25 September 2007 at 4:31am
hi i am mohammad from egypt i downloaded 20 mp3 files of turkish but there are some comments about how the courses are old and that would make the courses unuseful
i have only one question can i start learning with FSI turkish??
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Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 25 September 2007 at 8:30am
Ahlan wa sahlan ya Muhammad!
I think you can use the FSI Turkish course with confidence. There's an earlier thread in this forum that goes into some of the changes in Turkish vocabulary since the FSI course was produced:
http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=401
Essentially, a number of Persian or Arabic words have been replaced by Turkish words, especially in the speech of younger people. But the older Persian/Arabic words are still in use in most cases, and are still understood by most educated adults.
Some of these words might strike some Turks, especially younger people, as a bit odd, but so what? I think it might be like someone speaking Egyptian colloquial Arabic and using words from classical Arabic, or using words from colloquial while speaking in standard Arabic. Most Arabs would understand, and would not have any problem, especially if these "errors" were made by a non-Arab. So I think you can use the FSI Turkish course with confidence to study Turkish, and that most Turks will be very appreciative of whatever Turkish you learn from it.
Good luck!
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