Turkish · A1 → C2
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From your first merhaba to reading the press: short lessons with instant feedback, a grammar guide and a culture interlude in every unit, and a deck of the 1,000 most useful words on spaced repetition. No account needed: your progress stays in this browser, or create a free profile to keep it online and use it on any device.
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Turkish · A1 → C2
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Turkish · A1 → C2
About Daily Turkish
A personal project by Grégoire Maillard.
The course
Turkish follows the spelling of the Türk Dil Kurumu; speech uses your device's own Turkish voice.
The method
Anki and spaced repetition. Anki is the free flashcard app that made spaced repetition popular. After each card you grade how well you remembered it (Again, Hard, Good or Easy), and it comes back just before you would forget it: tomorrow, then in a few days, then weeks and months later. A few minutes a day are enough to keep thousands of words. The flashcards here use Anki's own algorithm (SM-2) with its default settings, the same four grades with the next interval shown on each button, and Anki's statistics (a card is “mature” after 21 days).
Fluent Forever. In his book Fluent Forever (2014), Gabriel Wyner argues for learning pronunciation first, the most frequent words before the rare ones, words in real sentences rather than lists, recalling actively instead of just recognising, and letting spaced repetition do the remembering. Daily Turkish follows this: the course opens with the letters and their sounds and every Turkish word can be played aloud; the deck is the 1,000 most frequent words, in order; every card has an example sentence; and words are practised in both directions, English → Turkish once you recognise the Turkish. Where it differs: Wyner recommends making your own cards with pictures instead of translations, while these cards come ready-made with English meanings, to save you the time.
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Daily Turkish is free to use and has no ads. If it helps you learn, you can buy me a Turkish coffee: it pays for the domain and the time spent writing new units.
Sources
The deck follows a frequency list of Turkish film and TV subtitles: the order is adapted from FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC BY-SA 4.0), built from the OpenSubtitles2018 corpus. Meanings, examples and notes are our own.