how to pronounce turkish R

Leon · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject:

I don't think any other language has an 'r' like the English one. Go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/turkish.shtml. Click on 'hayιr'. The 'r' is definately how I said it.

magikthrill · Mukhtar/is Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 630 Location: NYC

i heard somewhere the human brain is unable to distinguish different sounds of letters after the age of 12 so its almost impossibel to become phonetically fluent in a foreign language if you didnt start learning it before that age. however, that doesnt mean we shoudl give up Smile

Bullika · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:05 am Post subject:

Aparently when the great Ataturk wanted to replace the Ottoman Turkish spoken by the elite, he wanted to replace it with Istanbul Turkish and for people to speak it well they had to "imitate the way the ladies of Istanbul spoke". Consult Georffrey Lewis book called the Turkish Language Reform, Oxford University Press.

Cypriot Turkish on the other hand I feel always sounds like Spanish, since it is pronounced using vibrations in the glottis (voice box) much like Cypriot Greek.

Dhavlos · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:47 am Post subject:

you know what ..... since learning spanish, it has an uncanny resemblance to greek in pronouciation, and the way words sound. It has helped me alot to sound like a real Spaniard Wink

Bullika · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject:

pronounce "r" as you would in english, its not a guttural a "r"