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Lesson 1
merhaba
mer-ha-bá
hello

Why learn Turkish with Langula?

A familiar alphabet from day one

Turkish has used the Latin alphabet since 1928. Learning the seven extra letters takes an afternoon, and you spend the rest of your time on the language rather than on decoding a script.

Spelling that never lies

Turkish is written phonetically: one letter, one sound, no silent letters. Once you know the 29 letters you can read any word aloud correctly, including words you have never seen before.

No gender, no articles

There is no grammatical gender and no definite article, and the pronoun o covers he, she and it. Two categories that consume months of French or German study simply do not exist here.

Regular verbs, few exceptions

Turkish verbs follow their patterns with very few irregularities. Instead of memorising exception lists you learn a handful of suffixes and apply them across the whole vocabulary.

Suffixes built up in order

Langula introduces the suffix chain one link at a time — evler, evlerim, evlerimde — so you construct forms yourself rather than storing whole words. That is the skill that makes long Turkish sentences readable.

Free, in your browser

Langula is ad-supported and free to use from A1 to B2, with no download. An account is optional and only exists so your progress follows you between phone and desktop.

How it works

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Pick your language

Turkish is preselected — add your source language and go.

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Short daily lessons

5–20 minutes a day: new words plus due reviews.

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Pronunciation & progress

Repeat aloud, watch your streak and unlock badges.

Your first Turkish words

After the very first lesson you can greet people and say thank you.

merhaba
mer-ha-bá
hello
hoşça kalın
hoş-ça ka-lıń
goodbye
günaydın
gü-náy-dın
good morning
iyi akşamlar
i-yí ak-şam-lár
good evening

From A1 to B2 — your structured learning path

Here is how your journey is built: four CEFR levels, 80 lessons. Each lesson teaches 20 new words and 6 example sentences — flashcards and pronunciation practice lock them in before the next level unlocks.

4CEFR levels · A1–B2
80lessons · 20 per level
26words & sentences per lesson
A1
Alphabet and first exchanges · Beginner
Lessons 1–20
Work through the 29 letters, including ç, ğ, ş and the ı / i distinction, then vowel harmony, the plural in -lar/-ler, personal endings, var and yok for 'there is' and 'there is not', numbers, greetings and the present tense in -iyor. Leave A1 able to introduce yourself, order food and ask for directions.
After this you can
✓ greet people and introduce yourself
✓ ask about numbers, time and prices
✓ order something in a café
✓ ask and answer simple questions
A2
Cases and everyday life · Elementary
Lessons 21–40
Add the accusative, dative, locative and ablative endings (-i, -e, -de, -den), possessive suffixes, the genitive link (Türkiye'nin başkenti) and the past tense in -di. Talk about routines, shopping, food, housing and travel, and use the future in -ecek.
After this you can
✓ talk about family, work and hobbies
✓ go shopping and ask for directions
✓ tell stories in the past
✓ make appointments and arrange to meet
B1
Connected narrative · Intermediate
Lessons 41–60
Handle the reported past in -miş, the ability form -ebil, the conditional, and the participles in -en and -dik that Turkish uses instead of relative clauses. Discuss work, health and plans, and follow standard spoken Turkish without needing everything repeated.
After this you can
✓ express and justify your opinion
✓ travel alone and solve problems
✓ report on experiences and plans
✓ roughly follow films and podcasts
B2
Nuance and written register · Advanced
Lessons 61–80
Link actions with converbs such as -erek, -ince and -ip, use the passive, causative and reflexive voices, and switch into the formal register. Recognise the Arabic, Persian and French loanword layers, read news writing, and produce structured Turkish of your own.
After this you can
✓ follow long discussions effortlessly
✓ express yourself spontaneously and fluently
✓ use Turkish at work
✓ understand complex texts and news
Your goal: fluent in everyday life
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Learn Turkish — free and at your own pace

Turkish has around 85 to 90 million speakers. It is the official language of Turkey and, alongside Greek, of Cyprus, and a recognised minority language in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Romania and elsewhere in the Balkans. Large communities live abroad too: roughly three million people in Germany, plus Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the UK, where Turkish is a familiar sound in London and the north-west. For an English speaker it is the most widely spoken language of its family, and one of the very few major languages that is genuinely built on a different plan from the ones taught at school.

You will not need a new script. Turkey switched to the Latin alphabet in the 1928 reform, and the modern alphabet has 29 letters: it adds ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş and ü, and drops q, w and x. The dotless ı and dotted i are separate letters with separate capitals, I and İ, and they distinguish words. Best of all, spelling is phonetic. A word is read exactly as it is written, with no silent letters and no competing pronunciations for the same string, so reading aloud works from the first week rather than the first year.

The grammar is where the real work sits. Turkish is agglutinative: meaning is built by chaining suffixes onto a stem, each one carrying a single job. ev is 'house', evler 'houses', evlerim 'my houses', evlerimde 'in my houses' — one word doing what English spreads across a clause. Vowel harmony decides which vowel each suffix takes, so the endings stay predictable once you know the rule. There is no grammatical gender, no definite article, and verbs are strikingly regular. Word order is subject-object-verb, which means the verb arrives last and you learn to listen to the end of a sentence.

The Foreign Service Institute puts Turkish in category IV, about 1,100 class hours for an English speaker, but the difficulty is structural rather than phonetic or orthographic. Nothing about the sounds or the alphabet will slow you down; rethinking how a sentence is assembled will. Langula's 80 lessons run from A1 to B2 in that order — vowel harmony and case endings first, participles and converbs later — so each new suffix lands on ground you already hold. Everything runs in the browser, ad-supported and free, on phone and desktop alike.

Frequently asked questions

How hard is Turkish for an English speaker?
The Foreign Service Institute rates it category IV, about 1,100 class hours — harder than Spanish or French, easier than Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or Korean. The difficulty is structural, not phonetic or orthographic: the alphabet is Latin, spelling is phonetic, and the sounds hold few surprises, so pronunciation and reading come quickly. What takes time is rebuilding the sentence in your head, because Turkish puts the verb last, replaces prepositions with suffixes and expresses relative clauses as participles. The compensation is real regularity — no gender, no articles, almost no irregular verbs.
What alphabet does Turkish use?
The Latin alphabet, adopted in the 1928 reform, with 29 letters. There is no q, w or x; there are seven letters English lacks: ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş and ü. The pair to watch is dotless ı and dotted i, which are separate letters with separate capital forms — I is the capital of ı, and İ is the capital of i. The letter ğ usually lengthens the vowel before it rather than sounding on its own. Because spelling is phonetic, once you know the letter values you can pronounce any written word.
What does agglutinative actually mean?
It means meaning is assembled by attaching suffixes to a stem, one after another, with each suffix keeping its own shape and its own job. ev is 'house', evler 'houses', evlerim 'my houses', evlerimde 'in my houses'. English needs a whole phrase for that last one. The suffixes never fuse into unpredictable forms, so a long Turkish word can be read left to right like a small sentence. The skill to build is segmentation: seeing the pieces inside the word rather than treating the word as a single unit.
What is vowel harmony, and do I have to memorise it?
Vowel harmony governs which vowel appears in a suffix, based on the last vowel of the stem. That is why 'in the house' is evde but 'at school' is okulda and 'in the village' is köyde — one suffix, several surface forms, all predictable. It is a rule rather than a list, and it applies right across the language, so learning it once pays back in every case ending, every tense and every possessive. Most learners stop thinking about it consciously within a couple of months of steady practice.
Where is Turkish useful outside Turkey?
Cyprus, where it is official alongside Greek, and the Balkans, where it is a recognised minority language in Kosovo, North Macedonia and Romania. Beyond that, the diaspora is large and settled: roughly three million people in Germany, with substantial communities in Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the UK. Turkish also opens a family. Azerbaijani is close enough that speakers manage a great deal with each other, and Turkmen, Uzbek and Kazakh share the same stem-plus-suffix architecture, so the second Turkic language costs a fraction of the first.
How long does it take to reach B1?
For a motivated learner starting from scratch, roughly 350 to 600 hours of focused study is realistic — one to two years at twenty or thirty minutes a day. The curve has an unusual shape. Reading aloud and pronunciation arrive almost immediately thanks to phonetic spelling, and basic sentences come fast because the verb forms are regular. Listening comprehension lags, because the verb lands at the end and you have to hold the sentence open until it does. Short daily sessions build that habit far better than long weekend blocks.

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