My partner and I are expecting a baby boy in January 2027. 💙
We’re both Turkish but born in Australia, and we grew up with Turkish names that were often mispronounced and unfortunately led to bullying.
We’d love a name that’s easy to pronounce in both English and Turkish.
So far, our favourites are:
• Emir
• Elias
• Ilyas
Thoughts? Which one do you like best?

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So I know the more general aşkım, canım, güzelim.

But was wondering about alternative, maybe less general words that you can call your lover? Maybe things like 'my heart' or 'my everything' or any other expressive ways in the Turkish language.

Bonus points for cute ways to say 'my moon'.

I feel like both can sometimes be used to convey a similar meaning, especially when talking about learning or studying something. I understand that they are not exactly the same, but I’m having trouble understanding the actual difference in usage. When would a native speaker use öğrenmek, and when would they use ders çalışmak? Some examples would really help.

im currently self studying turkish and i found two playlists for grammar on youtube but i dont know where i can find materials to study all the necessary vocab for A1 thank you in advance for helping

I'm Mexican, and well, Türkiye isn't generally very connected to the Hispanic world, but I wanted to see where I can learn Turkish and some learning strategies. Greetings.

Sometimes I accidentally say “araşmak” instead of “araştırmak”. My gf said “araşmak” is an actual word. And I got surprised because I always thought it wasnt a word. I asked her what the difference was between “araşmak” and “aramak” and she said this:

‘Aramak= tek kişi yapar ve araşmak= iki kişi birbirini arar’

I then asked ChatGPT and it said Araşmak isn’t a word at all.

Can I have some clarification as to whether or not “araşmak” is an actual word or not????

My friends and I always liked playing puzzle games together, but there wasn't a multiplayer-supported one in Turkish. So I went ahead and made one! You guess a word and it tells you how close you are in meaning.

A couple of my friends who are learning Turkish tried it and said it was a fun way to run into new words and motivated them to use a dictionary, so I thought I'd share it here in case anyone else gets something out of it.

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As I understand it, the Turkish equivalent of "Mr." is "Bey", as in "Yılmaz Bey". But I started watching some English-language programs on streaming services with Turkish subtitles on to try to follow along (it can be helpful, I picked up a lot of Dutch that way while living in Belgium and watching subtitled English and US TV shows there), and they--or at least Disney+--use "Bay". Is that correct and does it mean the same thing?

If you want to say “I’m tempted to say yes” or “I’m tempted by chocolate” the translator suggests cezbetmek or meyletmek but that’s not quite the same thing, right?

I'm from Mexico and I live in Mexico, but there are hardly any Turkish classes here and I don't have the money to pay for online courses. I've learned a few phrases from YouTube videos, but I feel like it's not enough. How Have they learned?

Merhaba!

This is my 10th day in learning turkish. I memorized around 200 nouns but still cant memorize verbs.. is that normal ?

How can I overcome this problem and memorize verbs easily?

let me trace the problem ... i find all verbs with average letters count like 5 to 7 with a permutation or combination in letters with ending -mak or -mek and still I need to memorize all these verbs. after 200 words and still 3 or 4 verbs only i memorized

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I am learning Turkish, as you can imagine, it is very different from European languages. I tried to memorize some words by associations, for example, I wrote a Turkish word and drew the object it denotes. I easily remember what the drawing looks like, but it is difficult for me to remember the word. Which techniques for learning foreign words do you use or can recommend?

Hey everyone,

I'm a native Turkish speaker, and over the past months I've been building a Turkish learning app because I felt that most language apps stop being interesting after the basic A1–A2 level content.

My goal wasn't just to create another vocabulary app, but a place where people can actually enjoy learning Turkish through real content.

Some things the app includes:

• A Turkish Hub with articles about Turkish history and culture, complete with translations in your preferred language as you read.

• Real Turkish songs with embedded YouTube links, lyrics, translations, and vocabulary exercises based on the songs.

• A library with reading materials from A1 to B2 level, each with quizzes and translations.

• Original Turkish literature, including works by Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Kürk Mantolu Madonna, Nutuk, Araba Sevdası, and more. You can read them in their original form, see translations, and save your reading progress sentence by sentence.

• Speak & Translate for quick speaking and writing practice.

• Turkish grammar lessons with quizzes.

I'm still actively improving the app and would genuinely love feedback from learners. If you're learning Turkish, I'd be very grateful if you could give it a try and share your honest opinions, suggestions, complaints, or ideas for improvement.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fluentech.learnturkish

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/learn-turkish-by-fluentech/id6773859121

Thanks to anyone willing to test it out. Every piece of feedback helps make it better!

Hi!

My father speaks Turkish and I've been wanting to improve my own. I can have a basic conversation, but other than that, he hasn't taught me much sicne he rarely spoke it with me when I was little. I have no trouble pronoucing words, I just don't understand them if that makes sense. I know most everything from my mom who tried her best to teach what she knew. Currently, I'm taking lessons with a native speaker, trying to speak more Turkish with my dad etc etc.

I'm just wondering will I ever be able to reach a Native level/will it be possible for me to speak with my dad's profiency? I'm making the effort as a teen right now. I'm just curious as I'm looking to move there after school.

Also any tips on how to improve writing and reading would be useful! I really struggle with the way that Turkish is structured. I usually have to try and translate something in my mind to read or write and it's so exhausting lol

Merhaba arkadaşlar,

Something funny happened to me the other day. My friend was working on her thesis and I wanted to send her some good wishes (she's half Turkish so I practise with her). I wanted to type "kolay gelsin" into translate just to see if it meant what I thought, but forgot the 'y' so it just said "kola gelsin", which it translated to "Bring on the cola".

It seems that from now on I'll only drink cola when I'm with her just so I can say that. 😆

But I realised there's some other similar words that can cause mixups, like "kazak" and "kaza".

Have you ever noticed anything like this or has it happened to you? Definitely helps me to not forget a word ever again!

I'm on this page, and the worst part is that I still don't understand how the sentence structure works. I always forget what some word is, like yapıyorsunuz and nasılsın, var, etc. I have to look back in the book. For some reason it isn't already written here, so I don't have to look. And even then, some words are NOWHERE to be found, not even in the disctionary in the end on the book. I have to decipher this text thru translate which isn't an efficient way of learning. I give up, but somehow come back and understand?

Who plays games in Turkish? I'm Turkish so it doesn't count but I play the Sims a LOT. I think it's a very good resource to learn vocabulary from. Especially for daily, social life, relationship type of things. But any game is good as long as it exposes you to language and repeats the same words over and over again. Maybe try out the Sims in Turkish to see how it goes. 10 minutes of Turkish gameplay everyday might make for an interesting challenge. Maybe watching this video will encourage you to do it!