Lewis V.T. Elementary Turkish

Dover Publications, 1986. - 192p.
ISBN-10: 0486250644Revised and edited by Norman Itzkowitz. Proven from years of success at Princeton University, this comprehensive grammar and exercise book yields maximum results in 23 lessons covering all essentials of grammar from alphabet to progressive verb forms. Enables students to quickly understand and use basic patterns of modern Turkish.The purpose of this book is to enable English-speaking students to recognize, understand, and begin to use the basic patterns of modern standard Turkish. These basic patterns are, insofar as possible, presented one by one in a sequence that experience has shown to yield maximum results for English speakers.
The exercises are intended to present the student with the elements of Turkish in a form which he can begin to use. New vocabulary occurring in the exercises can be located in the Glossary.
An effort has been made to limit the material presented to those forms and patterns that in fact make up elementary standard modern Turkish. My thanks are due to the generations of Princeton University students who have uncomplainingly used the book in its successive mimeographed editions and in so doing have helped me learn what elementary Turkish is. Thanks are also due to my colleagues Professor Norman Itzkowitz and Mr. Cevat Erder and to a valiant typist, Mrs. Elsa Washington.
Lewis V. Thomas