Beginning Turkish

Books:
Resuhi Akdikmen Standard Turkish Dictionary
Can Goknil Bilmecelerle ABC
Talat Sait Talman 201 Turkish Verbs
Orhan Veli Kanik Siirler
Erol Unal Karabiyik & Yilmaz Ozek Tonton Ali Okulda, Tonton Ali Yeni Yila Giriyor
Rasim Kaygusuz Cin Ali'nin Arabasi
Nurettin Koc Guzel Turkceyi Ogreniyorum -Ogrenci Kitabi
Nurettin Koc Guzel Turkceyi Ogreniyorum-Ogrenci Defteri

Grading:
There is written homework everyday,which is collected for correction and grading. The written work may involve doing exercises from the book, worksheets that I have prepared, writing dialogues, descriptions and summaries. You will also write an invitation, some poetry, and a short children's story. Sometimes, you will be asked to turn in a casette of your recording of oral exercises. There are 10 quizzes, a midterm and a final.

10% - attendance (attendance is mandatory)
30%- homework
20%-quizzes
20%-midterm
20%-final

Syllabus:

September 7-9
Chapter 1 : Getting Acquainted- Greetings. Talking about the class room environment. The Alphabet- Turkish sounds, vowel harmony Making Plural, Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns and Demonstrative Adjectives, Asking questions with kim, ne, nasil, Conjugating predicate verbs, Bilmecelerle ABC ,
Quiz

September 13-16
Chapter 1: Introducing and Describing Oneself and Others- Professions, Nationalities- li/siz suffix to generate nouns and adjectives from nouns, Nereli? Cities and countries, negative/question/negative questions of predicate verbs, da as conjunction-Ama/fakat/ve/veya conjunctions, numbers, saat kac? telling simple time, kac saat, kac tane? kac yasinda?
questions
Quiz

September 20-23
Chapter 2- Feeling Sick and Going to the Doctor Parts of the Body- Di'li gecmis of predicate verbs (affirmative/negative/question/negative question), Colors, the locative case, consonant harmony,nerede,ne zaman questions? (orada/icerde/sagda/kuzeyde),var/yok sentences with locatives
Quiz

September 27-30
Chapter 2- Friends/ School/Clothing Describing people and places/Rooms of the house Mis'li gecmis of predicate verbs(affirmative/negative/question/negative question)Nicin/neden questions,hakkinda/gibi/ile Exclamations; em/hem...ne/ne conjunctions Possessive Adjectives, Dative case, Telling time using the dative case; time expression -a kadar, var/yok sentences
Quiz

October 4-7
Chapter 3- Visiting Friends/Cooking Kac para? Ne kadar? questions Introduction of verbs with -mak infinitives Present continuous tense (affirmative, negative, question, negative question), Di'li gecmis and Mis'li gecmis for non-predicate verbs, the objective case, Telling time with the objective case, numbers, giving phone numbers and dates- Quiz

October 11-14
Chapter 3- Food/ Shopping in the Neighborhood, using time expressions with-tir/dir (iki saattir, uc gundur Possessive Adjectives, var/yok sentences with possessives, -ki as relative clause maker to indicate time and place (yarinki, masadaki)- Quiz

October 18-21
Chapter 3- Studying for Exams, Describing the Neighborhood, Var/Yok sentences with locatives and possessives, diye with sormak and cevap vermek, the future tense (affirmative, negative, question, negative question) the ablative case, "Ku vak vak" Song- Quiz

October 25-28
All cases of Nouns, time expressions -dan once/dan sonra/-dan beri ; herkes/kimse; Var/Yok Sentences; Verb conjugations in mis'li, di'li gecmis, future and present continuous tense, asking all kinds of questions- Tonton Ali Okulda - Midterm

November 1-4
Chapter 4- Wedding Invitations/ Relatives noun compounds and noun constructions, the abilitative in di'li/mis'li gecmis/ present continuous and future tenses- birbirleri/kendi
Reading and Writing Invitations "Yagmur Yagiyor" Song

November 8-11
Chapter 4- Leisure Activities/ Party/ Picnic Noun compounds/ constructions, negative of abilitative, yalniz-sadece, -dan baska Reading Orhan Veli, Cin Ali'nin Arabasi- Quiz

November 15-18
Chapter 5- Giving directions/ Reading Maps Command sentences, ordinal numbers, icin, Using noun compounds and constructions in giving addresses, iken/-ken- Quiz

November 22-24
Chapter 6- Work/Professions/ Work Places -ci and -lik suffixes The aorist (affirmative, negative, question, negative question), Reading Orhan Veli, writing poetry

November 29-Dec 2
Chapter 6- The Wedding Party/Moving the aorist with the abilitative, infinitives as subjects, nominalizations in subordinated clauses, Reading Orhan Veli- Quiz

December 6-9
Chapter 7- The Calendar, days of the week, Schedules, the necessitative Tonton Ali Yeni Yila Giriyor Review

December 13- The Final

Intermediate Turkish II

Spring- 1999
Guzel Turkceyi Ogreniyorum II by Nurettin Koc

January 19-21
Aziz Nesin "Evin Hangi Hali?"- reporting of direct quotations with "diye"- uses of time words "sabahlari/kislari/Pazartesi gunu/kisin" "Uses of hala, artik, haydi, keske" Review of Dilek Kipleri

January 25-28
Chapter 3: Traveling, Planning a Trip, A Vacation Review of Conjunctions: Generating of verbs from nouns and adjectives with "las/les" and "lan/len"

February 1-4
Buket Uzuner "Haydi Cervantes'e gidelim"
Indirect of declarative sentences;
Quiz

February 8-11
Chapter 4: Getting Engaged; Military Service Indirect of questions; "Madem","Meger" Mehmet Akif Ersoy "Istiklal Marsi"

February 16-18
Chapter 4: Renting a House, Signing a Contract, Indirect of declarative sentences and questions Reading ads for houses for rent

February 22-25
Chapter 4: Furnishing a House; Rooms and Furnitures; Various ways of indicating necessity
Indirect of the Necessitative Sentences;
Quiz

March 1-4
"Nasrettin Hoca" Tencere Dogurdu"; "Optative+ diye"- and "command+ diye" to indicate intention; Indirect of declarative, question and necessitative sentences

March 8-11
Indirect of command sentences, review of all reported speech; "-digi icin/-digindan/-digindan dolayi" to indicate intention

March 15-18
Chapter 5: Turkey and Turks; geography- Orhan Veli "Istanbulu Dinliyorum Gozlerim Kapali" "boyunca-suresinde-sirasinda/ -dan beri/-dir" Verbal Noun Constructions/Nominalizations
Film on geography and cities
Midterm

March 22-25
> Turkish Cities/Architecture
> Oktay Rifat "Anit Kabiri Gezdim"
> Films on Mimar Sinan and Topkapi
> Ragmen/halde; "-mis olmak"/-acak olmak/ maz olmak;
> Verbal Noun Constructions/Nominalizations

March 29- April 1
Chapter 6: Turkish Culture/ Music
"Katibim"
Listening to various kinds of Turkish Music
Review of Relative Clauses; double phrases of adjectives and adverbs -ali/-di...-ali/-di...mi Proverbs;
reading a short newspaper article

April 5-8
Chapter 6: Mythology
"Yunus Baliginin Ustundeki Cocuk"
The Passive/Causative/Passive+Causative
Gibi/-iyor gibi/-mis gibi/-ir gibi
Muhakkak/belki/ -dikca ;
reading a short newspaper article;
Quiz

April 12-15
Chapter 7: Turkish History
Mustafa Necati "Asil Ruhlar"
Review of various -mis;/ Review of Conditionals
Reading a short newspaper article
Chapter 7: Republic and Independence War

April 19-21

Ataturk "Cocuklugum"
Review of various -ki's/
Review of Reflexive verbs; short newspaper article April 26-29
Chapter 8: Turkish Crafts/Art
"Hacivat ve Karagoz"
Film on Turkish art and crafts
Review of Reciprocal Verbs
Reading a short newspaper article

May 3
Final and Celebration