Turkish Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Turkish & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Turkish Stories)

Great book to practice reading comprehension. Stories are 2-3 pages with summaries and comprehension questions at the end. Vocabulary list is very comprehensive.

Once again Lingo Mastery has come to the rescue, allowing us to make Turkish more accessible to a wider population. In the Introductory Note the goal is stated well: ‘Whether you’re learning Turkish for work, studies or fun, the knowledge of the language will broaden your mind, let you meet new people, and will become a new page in the thrilling book of your life…Our goal with this book will be to supply you with useful, entertaining, helpful and challenging material that will not only allow you to learn the language but also pass the time and make the experience lass formal and more fun…We will not bore you with grammatical notes, spelling or structure...we’ll teach you writing and reading Turkish with stories.’ After their success teaching Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, now they turn to teaching Turkish! And it works. To make the Turkish alphabet accessible, transcriptions are provided in the form of transliteration and conventional signs used for transcription. In addition to the English translation below each story, the summaries follow a synopsis in Turkish and in English, along with questions (and answers) about the text, ably assisting knowledge of what was just read. Taking it slowly, step by step with practice, Turkish words and the accompanying excellent short stories become accessible! The technique is solid and the lessons well taught. This is a very fine introduction to Turkish vocabulary that may arise when you visit Turkey or simply conversing and understand the Turkish population here at home. This book is appropriate for all age levels, and a book much needed at this time in our national status! Grady Harp, August 20

I really love these stories! I am a beginner in learning Turkish and these stories are great in learning the language!

For extensive reading with 90-95% comprehension you will need to know Turkish grammar at a late A2, early B1 level, have a vocabulary of around 4000 words, and have spent some time previously reading at an A1/A2 level. That should be enough to read with ease while also picking up 5-10 new words with each story. If you’re earlier on in your language learning journey, the book will still be useful but it will require a lot more word lookups and your progress through each story will likely be slower.

The sentence structure is good for beginners and novice readers. The mini quiz and the minis dictionary behind each story is very handy during studying. My only issue is some of the stories are sad and can be a bit depressing. A teaching material should be uplifting and encouraging not a tear jerker in my opinion.

Not for beginners 😅

It’s been very hard to find any reasonable reading material for learning Turkish. This book is my best find so far! I’ve been learning Turkish for about 3-4 hours per week (plus homework) for the past 6 months and this book is perfect for my level as it’s both reasonably challenging and yet not overwhelmingly difficult. I hope to be able to find more materials like that once I’m through with this book.

The presentation of the material: story first, followed by vocabulary next and then comprehension questions.

The book is fun and motivating to read. The stories are short enough to be motivated to read one more whenever you have some free time, the summary and vocabulary parts really support learning something new with every story and the quiz in the end of each is fun and reassuring. If another edition with more stories will be published I'll buy it!

Livre bien écrit, plusieurs courtes histoires en turc avec explications en anglais, vocabulaire à la fin de chaque histoire et exercices. Seul bémol, il n'est pas pour des débutants A1. Il faut avoir quelques bases pour comprendre les histoires et avoir étudié au moins les gerondifs et les différents formes verbales.

Mi è piaciuta la varietà dei racconti e l’utile glossario-vocabolario al termine di ogni storia sebbene ovviamente risulti un po’ ’ più scomodo consultarlo nel formato e-book. Inoltre sono presenti anche un riassunto in lingua turca e inglese di ciascuna storia. Il livello è medio e presume una conoscenza grammaticale di base. Io lo consiglio vivamente a chi si sta cimentando nello studio di questa bellissima lingua

A good book for beginners

This isa great book for those who are getting started in the study of the Turkish language. The stories are written in a simple way and are easy to understand, and after each one there is a vocab list and asome comprehension questions. Please bear in mind you should complement it with some textbook, as there are no grammar explanations included.