Turkish Alphabet: Letters & Pronunciation (Turkish for beginners

Turkish Alphabet: Letters & Pronunciation (Turkish for beginners - 1)

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In this video, Can will be teaching you about the Turkish Alphabet. Knowing the alphabet is the first step toward learning any language. Which one of these letter pronunciations surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:12 - Differences between English and Turkish alphabet
01:34 - Letters, their sounds, and examples
07:29 - Outro
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YORUMLAR: 441

Turkishle 3 yıl önce

Which letter is the most difficult for you? Let me know!

Jubaedah, S.Pd. 3 yıl önce

Help me

Maria del Mar Cárdenas 2 yıl önce

It is very diffıcult pronounce ı !!!!

Sasha F. 2 yıl önce

Ü, ı, ö... These are so difficult to pronounce for me. 😕

itachi 2 yıl önce

I know Arabic so they are all easy thanks for asking

Akyaren Yıl önce

The easy thing about Turkish alphabet is once you learn the alphabet you can read anything even if you have no idea what it says because the letters never change their sounds.

arda kntr Yıl önce

Hayır, okunuşları az da olsa değişiyor mesela canan derken caanan diye a yı uzatiyoruz mesela hükûmet hükuumet diye okuyoruz tabii bunda şapka var ama canan da yok

Akyaren Yıl önce

@arda kntr İstisna. Canan Türkçe değil farsça. Canan olarak değil ca-nan olarak okunması gerekiyor. Kökeninde tire olmadığından çevrilince de konulmamış. Farslılar böyle okuduğu için bu şekilde kalmış.

Yusuf Açıkgöz 11 aylar önce

sana öyle geliyor, ince ve kalın harfleri ayıran bişi yok dilde (katip ve katildeki k aynı değil, şapka deme şapka her zaman konmuyor) aynı zamanda açık ve kapalı e'yi de ayırmıyoruz (ekmek ve ellideki e aynı değil, türk olduğun için sana öyle geliyor) ek olarak "ğ" de "e" harfinden sonra gelince "y" sesi veriyor: eğlence, eğreti... gibi gibi, türkçe büyük oranda fonetik bir dil olsa da harflerin sesi değişmiyor değil

Akyaren 11 aylar önce

@Yusuf Açıkgöz çünkü onun doğrusu katip değil kâtip. Doğrusunu yazarsan neden farklı okunduğunu da anlarsın. Ben eylence olarak okumuyorum eğlence olarak okuyorum, yanlış okuyanların sorunu.

Dinesh 11 aylar önce

Even easier if you speak french or german

Kaitlin Foley Yıl önce

My husband is Turkish. I am American. We are both learning in our own pace. Today I asked him to say the Turkish alphabet very slowly and record it. He forgot a letter at the end of the alphabet too. Then I came here to figure it out and it happened again. It makes me smile. I only need the vowels anyway and now I realize it haha.

Jia Queen 8 aylar önce

Mjy b koi turkish dhond do

Ilyas Raza Aylar önce

@Jia Queen Hamain Kia Hai

Ilyas Raza Aylar önce

@Jia Queen 😊😊

Kirin Nielsen Yıl önce

Very good video! One way to describe the "short" r is to say it is "flipped." This is a term used by singers and speakers who are learning diction. The three most familiar sounds for "r" in European and American English are retroflex (most familiar in American English), flipped (or a single tap r, for linguists) which you might hear in British English, and rolled (as you would hear in Italian and Spanish, and sometimes in French and German). (French and German also have the uvular r.) The most difficult sounds in Turkish for me are ü, ö, and i (without the dot). The ü and ö are not the same as those symbols are pronounced in German, French, or Italian. Instead, they are more "open." The i (without the dot) is tricky because even though we say the sound as in "girl" we have to be careful not to say an American r (as we do in "girl").

MARY TT 10 aylar önce

This reminds me when I learned International phonetics. Every languages is interesting esp when it comes how to pronounce the alphabets. Turkish is one of a kind. I learned alot from movies. Your teaching helps me even better🧡

Janet Leonard Yıl önce

Love this guy. . .very endearing & great instructor. Wonderful personality! Lovely way of teaching! Makes learning Turkish fun. I Must visit is Turkey . . .on my bucket list! Have been watching several Turkishle videos and have enjoyed every one. So easy to follow! I watch so many Turkish series/movies and these lessons really halp. Actually learning! Thank you, soooooooo much! Keep them coming. ♥️ from Canada 🇨🇦.

montse CB 6 aylar önce

a little tip my French teacher told us so we could correctly pronounce Ö and Ü was: Ö = mimic your mouth as if you were about to say O but instead, pronounce an E Ü = mimic your mouth as if you were about to say U but instead, pronounce İ It worked

Ali 6 aylar önce

vay be. Türk'üm ve dediklerini ilk defa duydum. Denedim ve Fransızca öğretmenin gerçekten haklıymış.

Da R 2 aylar önce

Excellent advice 😊 Are you speaking French already??

berk camli 19 gün önce

I speak Turkish as a first language and used this video to help explain a friend how the letters work. Thank you for it. I have a question to all native speakers who may read this comment. I now hear many people (younger than me) describe the soft g as Can did in this video. Is it only a convenient way to help a foreigner approximate to how you speak? Or does soft g indeed have no sound for you? For me, it is a subtle but still distinct consonant and the way I read 'aarı' and 'ağrı' are definitely different. I agree it is not a big difference; I am just curious whether we are in a natural linguistic process of losing the ğ distinction?

Türkiye'de Son Durum Haberleri 5 gün önce

Fatima Kashif Yıl önce

Actually I can understand 40 percent of turkish language, I can read it too and I have learned few songs in turkish. Turkish language is so easy very similar to my language Urdu.

Molla Bari r Bhoot Yıl önce

It is similar to Bangla too 🇧🇩

Mary Sawyer Yıl önce

I love these easy lessons. Everything is very clear. But the one thing that I can not seem to get in Turkish is the difference between the plain U and the dotted U. I can't really hear the difference a lot of times. Thanks!

yabassta Yıl önce

Dotted U is pronounced like the u in "Hugh" or "super".

Mary Sawyer Yıl önce

@yabassta ...and how is that different from the dotless U?

Ramsay Snow Yıl önce

@Mary Sawyer Go to Translate and type in "ürün uzun", you'll hear the difference in pronunciation.

Mary Sawyer Yıl önce

@Ramsay Snow Thanks for the response, it sounds like a good idea. Is that Google Translate you're talking about?

Ramsay Snow Yıl önce

@Mary Sawyer Yes Google Translate. You can let the voice pronounce the words. Try different words with u and ü. Üsküdar. Üzüm. Uzan. Uğra. Ümit. Düğün.

Kim McVitty Yıl önce

Very well explained. Thank you. The vowel sounds are really difficult for me. This helps.

Loncho Yıl önce

Great video! 👍Many Turkish letters are pronounced similar to Spanish, especially the vowels, and other letters are the same as English. Thanks for the video! Greetings and God bless you 🙏, from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A..👋😎

Reyk Hault Yıl önce

Thank you Can for teaching us, you are a really nice and likeable guy. I hope you keep doing this work. I just recommended your channel to my father who is going to learn Turkish.

KRISTINE MANCILLAS Yıl önce

I speak English and Spanish. Your simple approach makes me think I can learn Turkish!

KRISTINE MANCILLAS Yıl önce

Arleta Włodarczyk 1 You DO have superpowers!

Sardar Khan 4 aylar önce

My basic language is Urdu but in this I found similarities in Urdu in Turkish

Bens Deutschkurs Yıl önce

Nice one! I like it a lot! Even if I learned it by listening to music, I had doubts with the C. The video helped to quit the last doubt.

Nafisa Akter 2 yıl önce

Thank you. It's really helpful. Though it seems confusing because all Turkish letters look similar to English letters. Hope with time being will be easy.

joao gil Yıl önce

You are simply great. You explain the way it should me. Thanks for the video. Keep on the great work!

Lenovo Sea 2 yıl önce

very nice video but there is a "ç" pronounced "che" after the "c" letter that we do not want to miss since Turkish letters are 29, not 28.

Cü Kral Yıl önce

This comment deserves to be pinned. 👏

Islom Numanov - IT Yıl önce

right

Rukaiyah Ahmed 10 aylar önce

Right. I was waiting for that letter.

تتي فاطمة 5 aylar önce

I was looking for that

melody 10 aylar önce

Being born and raised turkish despite not being born in turkey and only being half turkish (moms side is turkish, my dad is a zazaki kurd(?)) I cannot read turkish text without struggling- I do speak turkish! It was my first language my entire family speaks it but the way its so complicated to me just reading turkish text confuses me to the max

Blanca Nieves 3 aylar önce

Excellent explanation with the the sounds, i love Turkish language..👍👍👍👍💯💯

Turkishle 3 aylar önce

Glad you liked it!🤗

Юрий Иванцив Yıl önce

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Renuka Art Galore 9 aylar önce

Thanks for this video, got to learn about the alphabets, found that it's very similar to Hindi also. Many words sound same as in our language.

Turkishle 9 aylar önce

You're welcome!

INDIAN STORM 6 aylar önce

@Turkishle Do you have any idea about Arabic alphabet of Turkish language before Ataturk alphabet reform.Ataturk was mercilessly criticize by the muslim world mainly the Arab for this radical reform.Comparing the previous Arabic alphabet what Turkish citizens feel that this radical reform is better than the previous one or not.Kindly reply how?

Aya Ali Yıl önce

Thank you very much, it was very useful By the way, I am an Arab. I wish you would make videos like this to learn English, because I understand English, but I have little difficulty with pronunciation

hill120 Yıl önce

I'm currently following Dolunay and Ada Masali. With your channel, i'll be enjoying more these series and appreciate more the Turkish culture. Thank you Can. So, c = English 'j' j = English/Mandarin 'zh'

Daldira Almeida Silva Yıl önce

Gosto muito do jeito que você ensina

Zwiedzamy. Yıl önce

Thanks for informations about pronunciation of ğ, ö (like: girl), r - short in turkish. It was very helpful 👍

alanguages Yıl önce

In other words Turkish is a phonetic language and using the Latinate alphabet are aspects, that makes Turkish easier to learn for English speakers.

I. C Yıl önce

Hei,as an romanian,everything is very eassy,in romanian language we also read all the letters,and we use almost same letters,i'm happy i found another fonetic language :D

Ayeesh's world🧕🌍 Yıl önce

Your way of teaching is quite good. I am learning turkey and you are helping a lot

Marina Alves 2 yıl önce

Legal,. estou começando a aprender turco, teus vídeos muito bons. Aqui Brasil, interior Rio de Janeiro.

Freeda Nergis 11 aylar önce

I have started to learn Turkish after falling in love with Sen anlat Karadeniz, thank you so much for these videos.

CändY Yıl önce

The songs are great help to learn the alphabets.....it's fun to learn with songs.😍 Thank u Can. ❤️

Mahzebin Pushpo 7 aylar önce

This is really helpful. I am following this video to learn the Turkish alphabet. However, I just noticed and realized you missed the letter Ç.

itachi 2 yıl önce

I learned them so fast thank you 👍🏻

Sam Yıl önce

As expected from the Uchiha clan

dua Yıl önce

this is really helpful for me. could u tell me how can i learn language step by step❤️

Alicia Ball 4 aylar önce

Merhaba Can..I am really enjoying your lessons and wonder when you will be taking enrolments for your next online course ?

Turkishle 4 aylar önce

We are actually! Can you e-mail us so that I can enroll you? 🥳️info@turkishle.com

Alicia Ball 4 aylar önce

@Turkishle thank you I have sent an email

Muhammad Arshad Shafiq 4 aylar önce

Your teaching method is amazing 💕i really like it

Turkishle 4 aylar önce

Glad you think so! 🙌

Curt Piazza Yıl önce

Excellent lesson!

Sharmila Yıl önce

Super good teaching bro. I started to learn this language after watching Early bird season 1 and I will learn till the end . I'm from India

Sangita Rani Yıl önce

This was a biggest question in mind about turkish language.letters n pronounciation.which u solved.👍

Coach U-Gene [aka Salih] 6 aylar önce

Wonderful video. You are a very nice teacher. You have helped me a lot.

Turkishle 6 aylar önce

Thank you! Happy to know it helped!

Shabana 2025 Yıl önce

Wow the way you explain makes it super easy💝👏✔

Sadia Khan Yıl önce

I've found some turkish words are similar to urdu.. it makes it more easier for me to learn... (btw I'm not Pakistani, I'm a bengali)

Tony Akkouche Yıl önce

Thanks Can you have an excellent teaching skills.👏👏

sabera sharif 2 yıl önce

Not that much difficult..... quite interesting to me 😍😋🤗

Zgramtc Yıl önce

Thank you!It's really helpful & i really like watching your video.

its hasmy 💞 Aylar önce

Im a pakistano learning Turkish and omggg i found that some Turkish words are similar to pakistani Words like color in pakistani Is "rang" and in Turkish "renk" or Blood in urdu Is "khoon" or candle Is "mom" I LOVE TURKISH SENI SEVYORUM💗💗🇹🇷🇵🇰

Maria Pluviophile Yıl önce

Hey Can! Currently I am in the turkey and want to learn a little bit. Just wondering how different the "r" is acutally pronounced. As example in the number 1 ( bir) sounds the r completely different to the "r" in the number 4 (dört). Is there a rule, that I could use to know, what is the case in several words? Like, Is the foregoing letter important for this or the following letter? Hope you can help me. Thank you! Greetings!:)

Neslihan Sonmez Yıl önce

no rules, just pronounce the every word that you see(except 'ğ' it is kinda silent), then watch a video includes that word and try to do best. About 'bir' that r word is last sound of that word and in Turkish we generally(not always coz we have french words ,arabic words etc.) we use the word stress on last syllable you might heart that stress.

Al Karısı Yıl önce

Roll the letter "r" when it comes to the end of the word. Bir, ver, ger, ser etc.

NUM DD Yıl önce

Kinda softly rolled at the end of the words and if it's between vowels you pronounce it like a regular r

Nur Yeudiana Yıl önce

Little bit difficult for me. But I like learn Turkish language. 😁🙏

MoMo Star Yıl önce

2nd video of yours I've watched now, thank you. I'm confused with r. On the r example it basically sounds like an English r, but then when you get to v, the r at the end of the example word sounds more like the English sh sound.

Wendy Blevins Yıl önce

When the word ends in an "r", the placement (tongue just hovering under the front palate) tends to kind of leave a whistle sound. :) Like a breathy r/th/sh. The strength of this can also vary a little depending on region or person, but your observation is correct, for final /r/ sounds.👂👍

Carlos Quesada 4 aylar önce

So your name is life... For us who speak spanish doesn't sound too difficult. I kinda like it, Teşekkür ederim

Tribute Yıl önce

can you also teach us writing turkish please?

Julie Paul Yıl önce

I have been watching turkish serials since Erkenci kus became one of the most widely known from there on I watch Turkish serials. You people are great. One day I wish to see Demet and Jan

Setiadi Widodo Yıl önce

Nice, almost like Indonesian. Some letter with additional symbol upper and under 😀👍🏿

Sue H Yıl önce

Your the best teacher. Thank you!

黃志超 2 yıl önce

Hi Can, çok teşekkürler. I'm still not clear about the difference between C and J, it sounds very similar. Is there any way to distinguish these two? The pronunciation of "R" at the end of the word also troubles me a lot, why it sounds like "sh" ? For example, "ver", to me it sounds like "vesh"

Eren Samet Karataş 2 yıl önce

The difference between C and J is quite simple. If you know how these two following English words are pronounced, you'll see the difference as well: John: This one starts with the Turkish C Genre: This one starts with the Turkish J More English examples with the Turkish C in them: John, Jerry, jazz, jam, Jack. As you can see, the Turkish C is pretty much the English J. Turkish J, however, appears in different forms in English. Here are some examples I'm hoping will help you understand the sound it makes(the letter in the parenthesis are the ones that make the sound of Turkish J) : Genre(g), pleasure(s), television(s), usually(s), version(s), luxury(s)

Sıdıka Çorbacıoğl 2 yıl önce

Don't worry about it. We dont use letter J, like at all. Just pijama I guess, or jaguar

Hidayet Sunali 2 yıl önce

@Sıdıka Çorbacıoğl ...also jargon , jilet , Jale , jambon , jeton , Jamaika , etc. ;)

Teresita Pagsolingan Yıl önce

Nice you have Turkish learning I appreciate your knowledge and share with other .

Sonetra Uon Yıl önce

Hi teacher I'm new here from Cambodia thanks for your teaching 🙏Love to learn other language🙏🇰🇭❤️🇹🇷

Rejepmuhammet Arbabov Yıl önce

you want speak the turkish

Sonetra Uon Yıl önce

@Rejepmuhammet Arbabov Yep I do🙏

Carmen Villalona 10 aylar önce

Hi Can! 👋 great video! Thanks 😊

Turkishle 10 aylar önce

Thanks for watching!

Ale Solano Yıl önce

I see you from Mexico, this is a really useful video!! Thank you so much! 💯

Dominiq Garcia Yıl önce

You teach very well , Please continue

am pinay i speak turkish 2 aylar önce

merhaba ben filipinli cuz, am learning turkish , i speak turkish, my problem is the spelling of the words that's my problem... i feel its hard but I never give up... am from philippines.

anita acharya 2 yıl önce

Loved the lesson

Mona Shah 2 yıl önce

Assalamu alaikum . interesting some of Turkish words r present in Pashto language .n sound of the alphabets r same with Pashto alphabets 😊

Dominiq Garcia 2 yıl önce

One day I fell in love with a lady , but I faced rejection , Then by accident I listened to Turkish love music ,it was the song of Ibrahim Tatlises , He was singing very very good , Since then I got interested to learn Turkish .

AudreyJensen Yıl önce

I wonder, which song was it?

Dominiq Garcia Yıl önce

@AudreyJensen Han Sarhoş Hancı Sarhoş Song by İbrahim Tatlıses

B. B. Yıl önce

@Dominiq Garcia well his pronunciation is not a good example for perfect Turkish, he is half Turkish half Kurdish guy an dhe has accent from eastern side of Turkey, this is beautiful song maybe his one and only good song for me, his other songs are absolutely not for me. I just want to advice you some songs from Turkish pop, rock.. please listen ŞEBNEM FERAH, her pronunciation is very good, clean Turkish without any accent-DELİ KIZIN TÜRKÜSÜ, SİGARA, MAYIN TARLASI and then you can continue with other singers and songs.

Peba You 3 aylar önce

Best explanation of the soft G so far

PHẬT TÂM TỪ BI 🙏🏻 7 aylar önce

Aslamu Alaikum handsome teacher thank you very much for your good lesson I like Turkish I’ll try to study and I’ll go there ❤

Odette Yazigi Yıl önce

Thank you. I'm learning a lot from you. Good luck

Milliardo Peacecraft Yıl önce

☪️Pronunciation Practice Section: 1:45

Ayesha Hafeez Yıl önce

Glad to have you...for this language😍

Faisal Yıl önce

Thank you brother, keep making videos!

Khanum Hafsa 2 yıl önce

It's very helpful... It's really great.. I know some Turkish but does not know how to pronounce it... But know.. ..👍

Zoya 2 yıl önce

Perfect ❤️❤️

Sara Mahmoud 2 yıl önce

Thank you so much! Thats so helpful.

munir ahmed Yıl önce

Your posts are EXCELLENT 👏🌟👏

Marah Al Sabbagh Yıl önce

thank you very much this was a great video

Muhammad Imam Ma'ruf Aylar önce

Merhaba. I have a question. Why sometimes in Turkish language, we spell "r" as r but sometimes as "s". For instance: bir (read: bis).

Энх-амгалан Замилан Yıl önce

woooow this is so nice lesson 👏🏻 im so hard learn

Walter Highwood Yıl önce

For the letter r in Turkish, sometimes I hear a rolled r like in Spanish (though not as strong), but sometimes I also hear a sound with is close to the French j sound or the Mandarin r sound (where the tip of tongue doesn't touch any part inside the mouth). Am I hearing it correctly?

Al Karısı Yıl önce

Yes you do.

Faiza Abbasi 2 yıl önce

Already subscribed. Cok sevdim cok tesekurlar. ☺️

mehdi tila 2 yıl önce

the best channel ever ....for learning türkçe...

Arabic Abqariyyah 2 yıl önce

Teşekkür ederim hoca 😄

sarblithe Yıl önce

Do you do online lessons? Or have any recommendations?

Dominiq Garcia Yıl önce

Long time ago ,I fell in love with one lady and she rejected me , I was feeling sad and then by accident ,listen to song and it matched with my feeling ,then I searched and found “it is Ibrahim Tatlises “ Oh man ,he sings very very well , Turkish is romantic language ,his song caused me to learn Turkish .

zen zen Yıl önce

Personally, I don't approve İbrahim individual behaviors which are arrogant, sexist and violent towards women. He is disgusting and dark in many ways. I wonder which song you liked.

hasnisha haidi Yıl önce

I like Turkish 😍, seni seviyorum from 🇲🇾❤️

OLIBIA KHARKONGOR Yıl önce

Instead of concentration in the teaching I'm far more concentrated on you..... You're too awesome and wonderful for me i can't stop myself from looking on you again and again