Şahsiyet: A Must-See Turkish Cult Classic in the Making

If you watch Turkish TV to learn Turkish, you may feel that you've sacrificed part of your life for this language. The episodes usually...

A Surprising Way to Improve Your Turkish: Bureaucracy

If you want to know how to improve your Turkish, I have one word for you: Bureaucracy. Forget expensive courses and fancy textbooks. Just...

Turkish 101: Four Idioms You Need to Know

If you have been living in Turkey long enough, surely you speak enough survival Turkish to get by in everyday life. However, every now...

Five Tips for Learning Turkish as a Native English Speaker

I've found myself having the same conversation with various people over the past few months. It generally goes like this: "It's just different for native...

Learn Turkish in Your Comfort Zone with Turkish Academy

If you are an expat living in Türkiye, a language enthusiast watching every single Turkish drama, or a university student researching about Turkish history,...

Survival Taxi Turkish

Many foreigners realize that Turkey is not the best place when it comes to communicating with locals. A lot of people here speak limited English,...

Introducing Turkish4 Children: Fun, Interactive Language Lessons for Kids

The experience of learning Turkish differs greatly from person to person, and there is perhaps no greater distinction than between children and adults. While...

Your Most Important Vocab Lesson: The Haircut

Sick of leaving Turkish hair salons looking like a 50-year-old, overly done-up newscaster? No matter how much you try to tell hairdressers that you’re...

Diaries of a Couch Potato: How to Learn Turkish via Kiralık...

I have received a mixed bag of reactions from Turkish people when I explain that Kiralık Aşk is “my dizi.” It’s a barely-realistic technicolor drama...

Mostly Free Resources for Teaching Yourself Turkish

It can be easy to get by in Turkey without speaking the language, especially in big cities like Istanbul and Izmir. Learning a few...

Introducing Asya Tömer: Comprehensive, Affordable Turkish Courses for All Levels

Undoubtedly one of the most surprising qualities of Turkey's international community is how few foreigners have taken the time to learn Turkish despite choosing...

Turkish 101: Lullabies of Anatolia

Turks have always admired and emphasized oral traditions in poems, sagas and rhymes throughout their history. Babies grow up with lullabies, children play alongside...

Turkish 101: Four More Turkish Idioms You Need to Know

Turkish idioms are easy to learn and fun to use in daily conversation to impress locals. If you loved our first part of the...

Learning Turkish: 10 Idioms That Are Sure to Impress (II)

My adventure as a student in Istanbul is coming to an end soon and one thing which makes me experience the ‘tube light' effect...

5 Turkish Words I Can’t Live Without

Learning Turkish while living in Istanbul can be an experience both painstaking and profoundly exciting. There is an undefinable moment in this adventure -...

A Surprising Way to Improve Your Turkish: Bureaucracy (Part II)

Read the first part of ''A Surprising Way to Improve Your Turkish: Bureaucracy'' here. Buoyed by your success on the phone to the bank you walk for...

Yabangeese: The Lexicon of the Yabangees

I guess it comes with the territory of being an English teacher abroad, but it is always fascinating to me to watch how language...

Notting Hill College Turkey: Learn Turkish & English to Find Valuable...

Start the new year by learning and practicing the Turkish language with Notting Hill College Turkey, while easily becoming integrated in the Turkish community...

23 Turkish Phrases I Wish Someone Had Taught Me

There are a number of phrases that Turks use in daily life that you may not find properly explained in your Intro to Turkish...

Six Tips For Foreigners To Blend Into Turkish Society

I cried. I cried for weeks and it went on around two months. I even questioned my decision of moving to Istanbul and contemplated...

Notting Hill Turkey: Learn Turkish to Explore a Fascinating Culture and...

Learn Turkish, to explore a very interesting culture while living in Turkey and get integrated easily in the Turkish community. Notting Hill Turkey is providing...

Fairy Tales of Turkish Names: Common Names & Their Meanings

Many believe that the choice of a child's name has an impact on the child's personality and perceptions of attitudes towards them in the...

Learning Turkish: 10 Idioms That Are Sure to Impress

After several years of learning Turkish, I can still find myself stumped in the midst of fast-paced conversations. This confusion occurs especially when an idiom...

Colors of Turkey: Kırmızı

As a color, red is associated with a wealth of feelings - both positive and negative - from love, passion, courage, and determination to...