Turkish is not an easy language to learn, but it’s worth picking a few words and phrases to amuse and amaze and delight Turks! Despite oddities such as the silent ‘g’ (?) And without dotting i (?), Is to pronounce the Turkish phonetic and simple. In few minutes you can depend on the sounds, and then you’re ready to begin speaking. Most letters are written as they are but here is a list of the tricky ones:
A, a short, as in ‘ant’. E, e short as in the “bell”. I, who as “ee” in “bee”. I, i ‘uh’ like the ‘e’ in ‘Open’. Ö, ö as German ‘ö “or” fur “. U, u short as ‘oo’ in “moon”. U, u the same as German “ü” or “Pew”. C c is a ‘j’, as jam. C, C ‘ch’ in ‘chin’. G, g always hard as in ‘get’. G, g: not pronounced extended preceding vowel, ignore it! H, h always pronounced, as in ‘hat’. J, j as in French ‘j’ or ‘Rouge’. S, s always ’ss’ never ‘z’. S, S ’sh’ as in ’ship’. are not X, X uses, Turks use ‘ks’ instead.
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