Online Turkish Lessons - Lesson # 4

Hello!

The next video is on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbsdYxHX7Eo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

The previous video can be found on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlAAXOZ32Os

This lessons only covers THE most important part of Turkish:

*** The Vowel Harmony ***

I told you on the video, I'm telling it here as well:

The words that you'll see in this video won't make any sense to you, it doesn't matter! I didn't prepare this video to teach you new words.

The only thing you should do is understand how the vowel harmony works, and DON'T say "Oh screw this, I can learn this later!", you have to learn it now ;p

Because you can't learn anything else if you don't master the vowel harmony!

Now, grab yourself some beer and hit the Play button!

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[Darijaaaaaaaaaa]

Selam! I understood how to use the suffies,but can u please explain to me,when do you use ''e type suffixes'' and when ''i type suffixes'' i really want to learn it,and this lesson are great :D

[OnlineTurkishLessons]

@Darijaaaaaaaaaa There is no such a rule. Some suffixes have the vowel -e, thus they are -e type; the other have -i, thus -i type.

The plural suffix is -ler. It has an -e in it, so I call it -e type. So whenever you want to make a noun plural, you'll need this -ler, which is an -e type. From now you will know that since it is an -e type, you can change it to -lar.

The objective case f.ex. is -i. It's an -i type. So you know that it can also be -ı/-u or -ü

[uriela88]

I thinked that i understood, but in the examples part, i didn't why you say televizyon + um :) or maybe you can give me complete sentences..

please help me

[OnlineTurkishLessons]

@uriela88 Televizyon + im.

"im" has 4 forms: im ım um üm

So you have 4 options:

Televizyonim

Televizyonım

Televizyonum

Televizyonüm

How to decide? You look at the final vowel of the word. If it is "o" or "u", you use "u" in the suffix. TelevizyOn's last vowel is 'o', therefore the suffix will have 'u'. Televizyonum.

[FAIZSAIF1]

I didn't this lesson at all

[OnlineTurkishLessons]

@FAIZSAIF1 You didn't understand? Which part didn't you understand? :-) Maybe I can help you here. Or you can try watching the 5th video and then re-watch this one, maybe it will make more sense.

[mardementes]

Everything's making sense now! I always wondered where they got those suffixes from!

[farhanadonmez]

this is really difficult lesson. How to learn theses suffixies as they are very difficult to understand.

[MrKubel1]

@princessbella64 how is it going then??? when i watched this lesson first time i have lost allll my confidence (you losing it, but still have it :). i want to tell you how i've gone through it. well ,first thing you gonna need is DRYWIPE WHITE OFFICE BOARD AND FEW MARKER PENS:)

then simply copy the tables with suffixes and..... hang it in your room. after about two weeks you will get your confidence BACK!!! :) AND DON'T FORGET TO SPEND WITH IT ABOUT 20 MIN EVERY DAY. . EEAASSY!

[MrZah]

My satisfaction - finally understanding this lesson by watching it again. I literally jumped out of my chair with excitement! I worked on the first word of the "homework", checked my answer, and got it right! Thanks for these lessons man; they're so helpful!

[Marijuana645]

hey sucka i learned something orouspu

[maward12]

that's a very difficult one.

Is there a difference in pronunciation -lar and -ler or it's the same?

[princessbella64]

omg am losing my confidence :( Turkish? n0t easy :(((((((((

[OnlineTurkishLessons]

@dandon4ever23 I suggest that you move on with the lessons. In order to understand vowel harmony, you need to firstly understand what it is used for. :) If you still have problems, contact me by PM, and I'll explain it further :)