Learn Turkish

Start at the alphabet

The Turkish on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 195 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Turkish voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.

• 29letters
• 10digits
• 16pronunciation rules
• 100core words
• 20everyday phrases
• 20sentences

Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:

• okul — one letter, one sound — a word is said exactly as it is written and spelled exactly as it is said. There is no silent e, no doubled letter standing for one sound, no “ough”. The single exception is ğ, which is never a sound of its own but stretches the vowel in front of ittelefon — telephone
• kitap — stress normally falls on the LAST syllable — ki-TAP, not KI-tap. Add a suffix and the stress moves to the end againekmek — bread
• İstanbul — place names are the big exception: their stress sits inside the word, not at the endAnkara — Ankara, the capital of Turkey

Then material that does not run out

Once you are reading, the level is the point. Make a text writes Turkish at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. Lexi talks back. The Translator fixes your mistakes as it translates and can give a simpler version at your level, and Writing marks what you wrote and says why.

Above the on-ramp sits the Course — a map of practice steps from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and a level test at the top of each level — and My words, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in eight quiz styles.

What Turkish actually costs a beginner

The one letter that is not a sound is ğ, which stretches the vowel in front of it and is never pronounced on its own. The dotted and dotless i are two different letters — İ/i and I/ı — and swapping them changes the word rather than the accent. Stress normally sits on the last syllable and moves to the end again each time a suffix is added, with place names as the standing exception: their stress sits inside the word. Beyond the sounds, Turkish builds meaning by stacking suffixes onto a stem, and the course meets that in phrases and whole sentences rather than as a chart.