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The entertaining way of coming to grips with the ancient and modern Turkish language...
Prepare for your Turkish holidays or
study abroad in Turkey -- with the following revolving selection of Turkish language learning topics...
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Update to: Turkish Idioms Dictionary -- Komşunun tavuğu komşuya kaz, karısı kız görünür.
Update to: Turkish Newsreaders Dictionary -- Ahlâk Masası
Movies Catalog -- Brief History of
Turkish Transsexual
Film/Movie Actors
Movies Catalog -- Emel Aydan's first film, My Fast Learner
New Endearment Voice Recordings No Winter Lasts Forever (10) -- Let us know if you'd like more...
Movies Catalog -- Emel Aydan, sensual transsexual
Update to: Turkish Slang and Off-color Dictionary -- salak, salaklık
Movies Catalog -- Nalan Çöl, Caught straddling the fence...
Movies Catalog -- Ceyda Karahan, White-Hot Real Blonde
New Personal Names in Plain-English -- Index/Intro New Female Names -- Melek
Movies Catalog -- Melek Görgün, Erotik Angel?
Movies Catalog -- Gülden Gül, Erotik 'Second Banana'
Update to: Movies Catalog -- Seyyal Taner, an enticing video-clip from Benimle Sevişir Misin?
Movies Catalog -- Shamefaced Dilber Ay
Update to: Turkish Newspaper Readers Dictionary -- Yeşilçam
Remastered Voice Recordings The Spoken Turkish Alphabet (20)
Movies Catalog -- Dilber Ay, in her own (faint-hearted) words
Movies Catalog update -- Movie Director Muhsin Ertuğrul
Movies Catalog -- Fantastic Dilber Ay
Movies Catalog -- Provocative Dilber Ay
Update to: Turkish Slang and Off-color Dictionary -- cinsellik, cinsiyet
Movies Catalog -- Daring Dilber Ay
Movies Catalog -- Earthy Dilber Ay
Movies Catalog -- Dilber Ay, An Introduction
Update to: 700 Club of Essential Turkish -- bekçi
Movies Catalog -- Seher Şeniz, An introduction
Update to: 700 Club of Essential Turkish -- çanta köylü kızı
Movies Catalog -- Figen Han #2, Making Hay
Movies Catalog -- Figen Han #1, Fire down below
Movies Catalog -- Figen Han, An introduction
Update to: Turkish Slang and Off-color Dictionary -- anut, anutçu, anutçuluk
Movies Catalog -- Arzu Okay #4, Arzu, in her own words...
Movies Catalog -- Arzu Okay #3, Arzu Takes Off
Movies Catalog -- Arzu Okay #2, Arzu On Top
Movies Catalog -- Arzu Okay #1, Brainy 'erotik' movie-star
Movies Catalog -- Arzu Okay, An introduction
Update to: Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
-- mescid/mescit
Update to: Acronyms and Abbreviations Page -- A. S. İZ.
Updates to: 700 Club of Essential Turkish -- çamaşır and kapıcı
Movies Catalog -- Feri Cansel's hard road to success, in her own words
Movies Catalog Update -- Feri Cansel, Shades of Juanita Dale Slusher (Candy Barr) - now with movie-clip -
Movies Catalog -- Feri Cansel, An Introduction
Movies Catalog Update -- Benimle Sevişir Misin? - now with 2 movie-clips -
Our 'Route 66' CD and Broadband Editions -- Build 72 (37 new voice recordings for CD/Broadband Edition owners -- (4 for site vistors)
Movies Catalog -- Zerrin Egeliler #10, A Summing Up...
Turkish Movies Catalog -- Zerrin Egeliler, the 'Queen of
Erotik Turkish Movies' #1 of 9 pages
Movies Catalog -- Zerrin Egeliler, An Introduction
Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
-- Bursa
Update to: 700 Club of Essential Turkish -- yenge
Turkish Movies Catalog -- The Old Codger, Kamer Baba
Turkish Newsreaders Dictionary -- about all things LAZ
Turkish Movies Catalog -- The Woman with Seven Husbands (1979)
Turkish Movies Catalog -- The 'Fantastik' Süpermen Dönüyor!
Turkish Movies Catalog -- The growing popular interest in 'Dandik' Turkish Films
Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
-- Serdar-ı Ekrem
Turkish Movies Catalog -- Christine Haydar... Was she really of Turkish descent?
Updated Comments: 'My First Time' Personal Turkish Experience...
Turkish Movies Catalog -- Ata Saka, 'erotik' male film star of the 70's and 80's
Turkish Movies Catalog -- Ajda Pekkan's career spanning 5 decades
Turkish Movies Catalog -- Sarışın Tehlike (Danger in Blonde)
Turkish Movies Catalog -- "Desire" is Banu Alkan's name and claim to fame (1985)
Update to: The so-called Turkish verb 'to be'...
Turkish Movies Catalog addition -- Hülya Avşar is "The Secretary" (1985) - with film clips -
Turkish Movies Catalog addition -- "Black Murat vs. The Black Pirate" (1977) - with film clip -
Baby-faced actor Yağmur Atacan -- A new entry in the "Turkish Who's Who"
Actor Aytaç Arman -- Updated in the "Turkish Who's Who"
Tarkan, Turkey's King of Pop -- A Christmas Day Album Release (with our English translation of its hit single)
Tuğba Özay, Turkish Supermodel and 'Mafia Moll'
The Turkish Kinsey Report, Part 5
Turkish Movies Catalog -- Kemal Sunal in one of the Şaban comedy film-series.
Still The Best Little Game Show In Turkey
What makes Turks Laugh? Learning Turkish with the help of Turkish humor
"The Confusing Turkish Language" -- starring Maganda (The Lout)
What Wily Turkish Widowers Want, 2/2
What Wily Turkish Widowers Want, 1/2
Yağmur Atacan, 'Incurable Romantic'...Not!
Mature Foreign Bride... this time from Sweden
Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog -- Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım; The Girl with the Red Scarf
Updates to: Our 'Troubles in Turkish Paradise' pages
Updates to: Our 'Honda Power Generator' page
Updates to: The 'Internet Survival Kit' pages
Updates to: The 'Turkish Camping' page
The Top 10 Turkish Movies of All Time
What Merry Turkish Widows Want 2/2
What Merry Turkish Widows Want 1/2
A Real People 'Frikik'...now back online
Turkish Verb Conjugation Pages -- with examples
The Turkish Verb 'to be' -- 3 ways to fake 'to be' in Turkish
Turkish Kinsey Report - Pages 1, 2, 3, and 4
Circumcision Monologues -- A Boy's Worst Nightmare
Sharpen Your Translation Skills -- on these politically incorrect cartoons
'Erotik' Movie History... Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Plot, Illustrated
Teetotaling THY Flight Attendants
want a passenger alcohol-ban
5 things you should do in Turkey
Turkish Movie Star Wars -- in which idioms fly like A-10 Tank Killers!
'Erotik' Movie History: The Players -- Mine Mutlu 4/4
Romance, Love, and Sex Matters in Turkey --
Lovers in the Spotlight
Romance, Love, and Sex Matters in Turkey --
The 'Lying Eyes Club' of Turkey
Bikini Beauty Poll with a surprise result (pictorial)
Personal-names, baby-names, and surnames -- The 'Most Popular' Ones
Still the prettiest woman in Turkish show-biz
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Plain English Meaning of Turkish Personal Names
Sevil -- for females
Gülçin -- for females
Ceyda -- for females
Derya -- for males
Derya -- for females
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An extraordinary Turkish Idiom
Al takke ver külah -- to be on very intimate terms
at Idioms Letter-A
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Beginner's Bonanza 'Frequently Asked Questions' about how to learn the Turkish language... |
Others may disagree, but we think that learning Turkish is difficult if
you come from an English-speaking background -- as we do. Consider the following points about the Turkish language...
Then...how can we make it "entertaining" to learn, you ask?
Well for one thing...
at the Learning Practical Turkish Web site,
we'll give you the chance to hear the
Sounds of Turkish --
not just read, what some might call, our dry text.

Still... if for some reason you don't have sound available, then use
our excellent
Turkish Pronunciation Guide
and visit our
Text-intensive, Turkish learning
pages.
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And we're not into theoretical dissertations and jargon-filled lecturing here. We're accustomed to enjoying our Turkish Language Learning to the fullest. Which means... that you'll find us featuring many of the lighter sides of the Turkish language as we lead along the way.
So... if you're interested in the Turkish language and finding out about how it works, please check out the Learning Practical Turkish Web site, and if you have time, let us know what you think of it.
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