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Downloadable, Free Turkish Language Learning Aids Turkish Language Learning Software, Turkish Dictionaries, a Turkish Keyboard Switcher, a Turkish Spelling Checker, Turkish TrueType Fonts, a Turkish Typing Tutor -- Plus, plus, plus! Language-learning pages: How To Learn Basic Turkish -- A Practical Philosophy for beginners (Found in the 'Introduction to The Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies'.) Why Off-color language is important too... Translating Turkish, the basics Essential Turkish Vocabulary Pretty Good Pronoun Charts Turkish Verbs Essential Idioms, Index Essential Suffixes, Index Sentence Structure, Standard Turkish Pronunciation Turkish Accenting Turkish Numbers Revealed Turkish Adjective Heaven -- or hell? Other Turkish Language Difficulties Got anything in particular that you'd like us to add to this page? If so, just leave us your request here. We'll try to find it for you...  A new Turkish-English-Turkish Dictionary -- Pluses: Has an intuitive interface, provides example Turkish sentences in English mode, uses just 3 MB of disk space; Minuses: In Turkish Mode the English dictionary entries are a bit cryptic. (740 KB Zip file)  Translation Program for Beginners -- Turkish English-Turkish (for CD owners) - Pluses: Translates in both 'directions', provides reasonably good 'standard' phrase translations, contains an English-Turkish test, part of a stand-alone dictionary, a full-featured Windows program (with Help and Print Menus, etc.), uses just 3.5 MB of disk space; Minuses: provides 'Tarzanca' translations for 'non-standard' phrases, the Turkish language interface may be problematic for Beginners. (1.34 MB Zip file)  Mini Translation Program for Beginners -- English-Turkish (for CD owners) -- Pluses: Since it only translates English to Turkish, the interface is fairly intuitive; provides reasonably good 'standard' phrase translations, contains an English-Turkish test, part of a stand-alone dictionary, uses just 3 MB of disk space; Minuses: One direction translation only, provides 'Tarzanca' translations for 'non-standard' phrases, a very basic Windows program with F1 Help. (1.1 MB Zip file)  Microsoft's Turkish Proofing/Spell Checking Files-- for Office 2000 users (tr-office2000.zip, 2.3 MB) Indispensable !!  Turkish TrueType fonts (.ZIP, 700kb)-- easier than ever to install and use! This variety pack of Turkish fancy fonts are 'web safe' -- because your computer recognizes them as pictures. Just copy them into your Windows FONTS folder and awaaaay you go! For even fancier font-related downloads try the TrFonts website...  WinMekMak Turkish Verb Conjugator Program -- Freeware Prototype Version 0.9 (.ZIP, 444kb) Taner Nalbat's original MekMak verb conjugator, has been completely revised and updated in collaboration with Per Brännström to run under all versions of Microsoft Windows. Features a multi-lingual interface. Use in conjunction with the LPT Verb Charts... It's great!  Microsoft's Multi-language Support Package for Turkish (and other regional languages) (LANG.EXE, 1.3 MB) For Win 95/98/ME/XP...Enables keyboard switching between English and Turkish -- and provides a basic set of Turkish fonts!  More Freeware Turkish -- English TrueType Fonts (.ZIP, 326kb). A few additional, more 'fun', fonts for creating your own bilingual documents (includes installation instructions for Windows users). And here's a tip -- to make the Turkish characters display in your wordprocesser...  Mike Thomas' Freeware Turkish-English-Turkish Interactive Dictionary Version 1.0 (Executable ZIP file, 4.9MB) Runs under Windows. Comes pre-loaded with the author's own favorite dictionary entries. Use in conjunction with LPT's 700 Essential Turkish Headwords...  A bilingual Turkish-English Dictionary -- desk-top sized and easy to use. (EXEcutable ZIP file, 1.3MB) (Program menu's are all in easy-to-decipher Turkish.) Courtesy of Turkish friends at: www.chip.com.tr...  A slick new Turkish-English-Turkish off-line dictionary (.ZIP, 4MB)...from Babylon [Version 4.0.3 (r16)]. First, install the Babylon Pro software... Then, (2) place the two included Turkish 'bgl' files in the Babylon Pro 'data' folder, (3) install them both 'from disk' under the Glossary Options menu option, (4) choose how you want to activate Babylon Pro, under the Configuration/Find menu option, (5) make any other configuration choices you wish, and...Away you go!  10-Finger Typing Tutor (.ZIP, 1.2MB) -- use this together with the Turkish Keyboard Diagram and the LANG.EXE Turkish keyboard-switching 'download', and you'll be 10-finger typing in Turkish, in no time at all...(free from our friends at the Inndir.com website)  Turkish Keyboard Diagram (QWERTY-format), a ZIPped (3k) Excel 'picture' file -- with many thanks from our new Belgian arkadaş Willy P...  Turkish spelling-aid -- just start typing in Turkish to display a list of all 'candidate' words. (.ZIP, 2.9MB). (Program menu's are all in easy-to-decipher Turkish.) Courtesy of TDK (the Turkish Language Institute)...  A neat little 'talking' program that'll help you learn to pronounce Turkish words and phrases -- which you type in. Its computer accent ain't very refined, but it'll teach you all you need to know about Turkish syllables. In a self-installing program (.EXE, 312kb). (Program menu's are all in easy-to-decipher Turkish.) Courtesy of Turkish friends at: www.hkn.cjb.net and www.chip.com.tr...  Turgut Kalfaoğlu's Shareware Turkish Vocabulary Builder (.ZIP, 75kb) Runs under DOS. Features an all-English interface that re-tests your weak areas. The author has even included the original BASIC Source code...A must have item!  Taner Nalbat's Original Shareware Turkish Verb Conjugator Program -- Version 3.0 (.ZIP, 27kb) Runs under DOS. Features a multi-lingual interface. Use in conjunction with the LPT Verb Charts...It's great!  Turkish Travel Planner (.ZIP, 240kb) for Win 3.1 and Win 95. A clean interface lets you calculate each leg of your journey -- distance and time! Can AKIN Multimedia Productions - Pamukkale -- fond memories for those who've been there (CD/Broadband) Ankara Scenes -- 2005-2006 Sevgililer Günü (Valentine's Day) Izmir, Turkey (These need Microsoft PowerPoint Playback Program.) Download RealPlayer for frrreee... -- to hear all the voice recordings on our website. Contact us if you need help getting RealMedia/Audio recordings to play...  Download JetAudio for frrreee... to hear all the voice recordings on our website. Contact us if you need help getting RealMedia/Audio recordings to play...  Our weekly Cyprus Times newspaper articles -- for 'Beginners' May-June 2005 (11 articles) March-April 2005 (5 articles)

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