Turkish Language Course

Learn Turkish in live-online classes from native-speaker teachers

Yunanca kursu

Course Schedule

Start Date: 8 September 2023
Day: Every Friday
Time: From 6pm to 9pm UTC
Frequency: Once a week, 3 hours
Level: Beginner level
Course Price: $180 per month (4 weeks)
Payments: To be made monthly
Class Capacity: Max 15 students

Please carefully review all the information on this page. If you decide to attend the course, please go to Pre-registration Form at this link For further questions, contact us at: contact@geoaktif.com

Basic Course Information


Total Course Length

Based on 3 hours/week schedule, the total course length is 108 hours in 36 weeks in 9 months. There is no obligation to take all 9 months; the payments are made on a monthly basis and students can quit at the end of any billing month. But of course it requires at least several months to get a certain grasp of any language. This first program corresponds roughly to an A1 level. As longer as there are enough students in the class, the program can continue towards next levels, extending to a few years.

Course Flow

The course is held once a week for three hours. To be exact, each session is 50 minutes + 10 minutes pause. The course is done live-online (via Zoom, Skype, GoogleMeet or Teams). Students receive a link before each class to attend online.

Method and Content

The main course content consists of basic language education activities such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, comprehension, learning new vocabulary and grammar elements, sentence structure and sentence analysis. In addition to the standard curriculum, language elements such as pronunciation, idioms, songs, poems, and literary analysis will also be studied in a certain order.

Course Material

Throughout the course, we follow the standard curriculum currently used in basic Turkish education. We will provide the main curriculum textbook in digital format free of charge. Apart from that, our teachers will always feed the students with various free supportive materials.

Teachers

All teachers are native speakers of the language. They have been teaching successfully for several years, and they all speak a degree of English as an intermediary language. Teachers also have a substantial knowledge of the historical, social and cultural aspects of their society, a knowledge which they will happily convey to their students.

Goals and Expectations

Our Turkish course aims to make the student proficient in reading, writing, listening, understanding and speaking Turkish. Although the level that can be reached at the end of the course varies according to the individual effort of each student, a student who will complete 108 hours of education with an average performance; will have learned the alphabet, spelling, basic literacy, and the basic grammatical structure of the language to a great extent, will have a serious vocabulary, will be able to gain a certain amount of expression in daily-social language, will be able to follow the Turkish visual and audial media, albeit with a limited understanding. In addition, the student will gain a certain knowledge about Turkish history, culture and social structure.

Certification

We grant our institutional certificate to all those students who have completed a program. To be clear and honest, our certificate does not have any national or international official recognition. Nevertheless, if the previous practices are any indication, it still does have a validity and helps to open certain doors.

Terms and Conditions


Requirements

-A stable internet connection. -Download Zoom and Skype applications to your computer or laptop. -During the class, your voice/microphone must be open; you may turn off the camera if you wish so. -You should have a very basic knowledge of English to be able to communicate with teacher.

Pre-registration

Pre-registration means that you are reserving a seat for the class. You input your name and contact details to our pre-registration form and that's all. No payment is required at this point.

Registration

Usually a few days before the class start date, we finalize the actual registration. You will be required to make the payment for the first month. After the payment, you are registered and ready to start the class.

Payments

You will make payments on a monthly basis, at the beginning of a new billing month. Each 4 week is considered a billing month. We offer a variety of payment options including bank transfer, credit card and crypto payments. We will provide payment info during the registration.

Attendance to Classes

It is your own responsibility to attend all the classes you have paid for. There will be no refund for unattended classes. Similarly, unattended classes don't roll over to next month. On the other hand, our teachers will do their best to make a quick recap of a missed class with the student, depending on their availability.

Class Cancellations

If the number of students in a class decreases below 3 participants, we may cancel the class at the end of a billing month. Those students who wish to continue the course, will be integrated to another same-level class, if we have one.

General Information


About Turkish Language

According to the monumental Orkhon inscriptions discovered in Mongolia, the earliest records of Turkish date back to 7th century AD. Spreading throughout the Central Asia in the following centuries, it made it way to Anatolian peninsula around 11th century and in time evolved to what is now known as modern Turkish. A member of the west branch of Oghuz group of the historical Turkic language family, Turkish is the largest and most vastly spoken language of that group. It is estimated to be spoken by a population of about 90 million people. An official language in Turkey and Northern Cyprus, Turkish also has a substantial amount of speakers in Iraq, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Syria, Greece in various countries in Europe, Southern Caucasus, and Central Asia. Modern Turkish blossomed from the Ottoman Turkish, which was the language of the Ottoman Empire for several centuries. It was widely written with Ottoman-Arabic alphabet, until the 1920s, when the newly founded Republic of Turkey switched to the Latin alphabet.

Warnings and Suggestions

We would like to give some reminders and advice about the nature of language education to our prospective students who are considering joining our language courses. A language course should not be confused with hobby-style activities aimed at dissipating individual frustrations. We would especially like to remind you that the language education is a tough work that requires intense self-study. In this sense, we should not forget that the 9-month period in question is an introductory language education, and we need to set aside a period of at least 2-3 years in order to have a better command of the language and to speak it comfortably and effectively. So, if we don't have strong reasons to learn a language, it's quite possible that we get bored in the second month of the course...

On the other hand, the student's own personal performance will be a significant determinant in his development. The competence of the teacher is of course important, but it should not be forgotten that the teacher is only a guide after all, it is the student who will do the main work. Therefore, in addition to the training period, which is once a week and for 3 hours, the student will also work for at least three hours on his own, fully implement the recommended study methods, and feed himself with individual readings other than the course material, will provide a rapid and qualified development. When all these factors affecting language education are well planned, with a patient and careful study, from the first months of the course, the student will enter a cultural universe that he is not accustomed to and will become a completely different person as his adventure in this new language progresses...