Turkey is home to over 85 million people and is a key trading and tourism partner for Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus — reason enough to learn the language not only as something exotic, but also as a practical tool. Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family, which makes it structurally different from most European languages: instead of separate prepositions and auxiliary words, it forms words through a sequence of suffixes added one after the other to the root, and the pronunciation of the whole word follows clear, predictable rules. Once learnt, these rules apply almost without exception, unlike the irregular verbs and inconsistent spelling found in many European languages.

The Turkish alphabet is based on the Latin script with a few additional letters — ç, ş, ğ, ı, ö, ü — each of which consistently corresponds to a single sound. Pronunciation is phonetic: words are read exactly as they are written, without the various exceptions characteristic of English or French spelling. The difficulty lies not in reading, but in pronouncing certain sounds unfamiliar to most Western languages, and in the sentence structure, where the verb comes at the very end — the opposite of the word order to which most learners are accustomed.

Regular Turkish course — levels A1–C2

The regular course follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), the international standard for assessing proficiency in foreign languages. The programme covers levels A1 to C2, with each level building on the previous one in terms of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading and writing. Our teaching system is structured specifically to introduce the language's distinctive grammar and vowel harmony gradually, without overwhelming the learners at the beginner levels.

Level A1 is divided into two parts — A1.1 and A1.2, each comprising 36 lessons of 50 minutes, totalling 72 hours. The course is delivered online, in small groups, with two sessions per week, to ensure ample speaking practice and close attention to each participant’s progress. The course begins with the alphabet and pronunciation, basic personal pronouns and the present tense ending, basic vowel harmony, and vocabulary for everyday situations — introductions, directions, shopping and food. Subsequent levels build on this sequentially, covering past tenses, the case system expressed through suffixes, complex sentences with participle and gerund constructions, and written and professional registers at the higher levels.

Course duration: 36 lessons × 50 mins (A1.1, A1.2, B1.1, B1.2, C1.1, C1.2)

Format: 2 sessions per week × 100 mins / 2 months

Timetable: Evening classes or weekends

Delivery: Online, small groups

Included: All course materials, lesson recordings, conversation workshops

Single course (A1.1 or A1.2): €320

One-to-one lessons: €25 per lesson

Turkish for Travellers

Turkey is a country with at least two sides. One is represented by its well-organised tourist infrastructure — hotels, airports, restaurants in the resorts — where English is spoken without any problems. The other is almost everything outside this area: the local restaurant, the city market, a conversation with a taxi driver or a neighbour in your block of flats. In these places, Turkish is practically the only language you can use. This course is designed for this second aspect, and its aim is not a general command of Turkish, but the ability to cope with situations that actually arise whilst travelling or during a short stay.

Unlike the standard course, which follows a structured grammatical framework based on the CEFR, the method used here is task-based learning — learning organised around a specific task rather than a grammatical topic. Each lesson is built around something the participant needs to learn to do — ordering food, checking into a hotel, explaining where they are in pain. Grammar is introduced only to the extent necessary to complete the task. In this course, progress is measured not by the number of rules learnt, but by the ability to carry out realistic conversations.

The programme covers twelve topics in sequence: basic phrases and introductions; the airport and aeroplanes; hotels and accommodation; restaurants and cafés; transport — cars, taxis, ferries; the beach and the sea; shopping and food; social interaction with strangers, taxi drivers, bar staff and shop assistants; meetings and conversations — sharing plans, making acquaintances, extending invitations; health, ailments and emergencies; and a recap lesson with dialogues that brings together what has been learnt in a coherent conversation. Every word and phrase comes with a clear phonetic transcription, so that participants can pronounce them correctly from the very first lesson, without having to learn the rules of reading as a preliminary step. Each lesson ends with a dialogue demonstrating how the words sound in a real conversation — the course focuses more on the phrases participants will use whilst travelling than on grammar in the abstract.

Course duration: 12 teaching hours × 50 mins.

Format: 3 sessions per week × 100 mins. / 2 weeks

Timetable: Evenings or weekends

Delivery: Online, small groups

Included: All teaching materials, lesson recordings, conversation workshops

Single course: €200

Private lessons: €25 per lesson