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Summary: Republished with the same errors!
Review: A great product to start with, don't get me wrong ... but the publishers really lose all credibility when the same typos appear in the new edition, even though it's been thoroughly rebranded and redesigned.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I bought this book to study when I moved to Turkey. The cassete was absent, but I learned much from this book. I studies just an hour a day, and with the help of Turkish friends, was conversational in the language much faster than I would have without the book. Highly recommend, even without the tape.
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Summary: Few exercises!
Review: I got this book from a friend in Istanbul because I wanted to start studying Turkish but I hadn't managed to find anything good in my city. The book came with no tape so learning was at first hard (luckily I can count on Turkish friends).
I think it is good in the first lessons when stuff is really easy but then it becomes rather sketchy. Some grammar points are barely mentioned such as the "must" and "need" usage, I think more explanations would have been useful. There are few exercises.
Anyway, it is good to learn the very basics of the language but when you get the 10th lesson, you realise this book isn't enough. For this reason I ordered a new book from Amazon.
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Summary: Easy, logical, useful, everyday Turkish
Review: I lived in Turkey for seven months and used this book more than several others I had at my disposal simply because it gives useful and logical explanations of Turkish grammar (which is very different to anything you have seen in English or other European languages). It is a step by step book with conversational examples that both extend your vocabulary and your use of grammar in everyday situations, making it easy to apply what you have learned as you talk to shop owners, waiters, fellow commuters and others interested in learning where the yabanci (foreigner/stranger) comes from! I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a basic understanding and wants to teach themselves. It would also work well with a tutor but you dont need anything else, except perhaps some assistance with pronunciation, as vowel harmony takes some getting used to.
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Summary: On content and presentation...
Review: I was looking for a book that had in depth information about how the language works, as well as one with good examples. With the exception that the first edition does not have the tapes the book refers to (or the phonetic description of how to pronounce the Turkish words) the book is very applicable to one that expects to travel to Turkey or to another Turkish speaking state in a time frame of 3-6 months.
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Summary: very cheepy edition
Review: It seems that they tried to make a course book spending as little money as possible. It is full of typos, sometimes they just forget the translation of the introduced vocabularly (e.g. chapter 3 dialogue 2) and you have to look about it at the dictionary. In every chapter, they introduce new vocabulary in exercises as isolated words (e.g. even root verbs!!) instead doing so inside the main text and then they expect that you remember it. The terminology they use when they explaining grammar is a jargon that makes anybody that has finished Middle school very annoyed. Not being unfair, I am at chapter 4 and I've enjoyed it till now, but I will continue with another course book.
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Summary: Would have been a five with tapes
Review: Listen to what your fellow reviewers are saying about this book! Despite what the title says, without tapes, this is in no way complete!Make sure you ONLY get it if the tapes are available! As far as I can tell, the tapes are no longer available (checking with book distributors such as Baker and Taylor). If you have other good books with tapes, you may find this one helpful, but it isn't top on my list. I've been teaching myself Turkish (slowly, painfully but I'm old!) for months and was excited to see this one, 7th of the books I purchased on this topic. Wish I'd skipped this one in favor of the last one I bought(which was the best!). This book is good if you want to be able to take lessons and quizzes (which I do) but is extremely frustrating without the tapes as many of the exercises refer to the missing tapes. Still glad I have it, but it isn't the best around.
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Summary: Be Careful!
Review: Since it appeared Amazon was selling this product with the cassette, I paid the full price from them instead of buying used, The order arrived and there was no cassette included. The description states:
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books; Book and Cassette edition (April 11, 1998) Amazon never answered my email regarding this issue, so I will be returning for a refund. The book itself looks great.
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Summary: It's no good without the cassette tapes
Review: The authors state that the book is designed to be used with their cassette tapes which correspond to each lesson, or with the assistance of a Turkish speaking teacher. IT DOESN'T COME FROM AMAZON WITH THE TAPES! If you had a Turkish speaking teacher, you could use any of a dozen other texts. So, until Amazon starts sending the tapes with the book, don't waste your money on this book.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This was a great book. I used it during my three month stay in Istanbul. I learned some basic Turkish quickly. Now, some readers may complain that the books did not come with the tapes, mine did. I never used them since I had real Turks to practice with.
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