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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't get tricked into thinking you need this book ..., August 21, 2002
The 201 (or 501 or whatever) verbs books have been around for a long time and can be very useful, particularly for languages with a lot of irregular conjugations. If you are a beginner and won't be able to study the language and need to be able to pull a verb out of a hat without knowing much about the language (including how to make a sentence with the verb you've chosen), this book is for you. If, on the other hand, you are a beginning student of Turkish stocking up on all the books you might need to learn the language, there is one very important thing you should know. All Turkish verbs are regular. In other words, this book could be about 15 pages long - one page showing how to conjugate one verb and about 14 pages listing 200 other verbs that you can conjugate in exactly the same way. If you understand vowel harmony (an important concept you should learn in the first week or so of studying Turkish) and you have a dictionary, you really don't need this book. Go to the library and find this book. Pick any verb - copy the page and you've got the whole book. I happily completed two years of college Turkish without ever referencing this book. The existence of this book was actually one of the running jokes of my Turkish class! Put your money toward a high quality Turkish dictionary instead.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not great, January 26, 2000
By A Customer
I should maybe say I bought this book cause it has 201 of the most frequently used verbs in English/Turkish. I am trying to commit to memory as many Turkish words as possible.Problems/quibbles with the book 1. Doesn't have all the tenses! However, Turkish is very regular with it's grammatical rules so this isn't too bad. 2. American bias with some of the translations. If you've been exposed to American media this wont be a problem. 3. Could do with some more details in the translations, e.g. it has 'to weigh' for 'ölçek' and 'tartmak'. However, 'tartmak' is used for humans and animals and 'ölçek' is not. This would have been useful here. Other than that the book is just as the title says.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
If you have learned the rules you don't need this book!, July 14, 2005
The 201/501 Verb Books are great for languages like Russian, Portuguese, French, German, etc., but not for Turkish.I have perused this book several times in stores but have never been foolish enough to buy it. Considering the regularity of Turkish verbs and the simple rules of vowel harmony (which you will have to master anyway, even to speak in the simplest language) anyone who has learned the rules for forming a tense could fill out these tables by him/herself. If you want to increase your vocabulary of verbs you can buy a dictionary (Redhouse and Langenscheidt both have good ones). Let's face it, you're not going to have time to look in this book while conversing with someone in Turkey, so learning the rule for forming the tense and exercising it, is time much better spent.
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