Learn Turkish
Turkish is spelled exactly as it is said. One letter, one sound, nothing silent, no pair of letters standing for a third thing — the alphabet is a day's work, and after it you can read any Turkish word aloud correctly the first time you meet it. iLexiBox uses the on-ramp to fix the alphabet and the stress and then gets on with words, because the reading barrier here is genuinely small.
Start at the alphabet
The Turkish on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 195 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Turkish voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random. This is the shorter, starter size of on-ramp; most languages here have about 480 cards.
- 29letters
- 10digits
- 16pronunciation rules
- 100core words
- 20everyday phrases
- 20sentences
Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the on-ramp teaches them:
- okul — one letter, one sound — a word is said exactly as it is written and spelled exactly as it is said. There is no silent e, no doubled letter standing for one sound, no “ough”. The single exception is ğ, which is never a sound of its own but stretches the vowel in front of ittelefon — telephone
- kitap — stress normally falls on the LAST syllable — ki-TAP, not KI-tap. Add a suffix and the stress moves to the end againekmek — bread
- İstanbul — place names are the big exception: their stress sits inside the word, not at the endAnkara — Ankara, the capital of Turkey
Your first Turkish phrases
The first phrase and sentence cards of the on-ramp, each spoken in a recorded voice:
- Nasılsınız? NA-suhl-suh-nuhz — how are you? (polite)
- İyiyim, teşekkürler. ee-YEE-yeem, te-shek-kewr-LER — I’m fine, thank you
- Adınız ne? a-duh-NUHZ NE — what is your name?
- Ben öğrenciyim. BEN ur-ren-JEE-yeem — I am a student.
- Benim adım Ayşe. be-NEEM a-DUHM EYE-she — My name is Ayşe.
Then material that does not run out
Above the on-ramp sit the practice path (A1 to C2), Make a text at your level and the album: more than 2,700 photographs, each captioned and spoken in Turkish. Turkish has practice and tools, not lessons — the only course on iLexiBox is the full English course (how each part works).
What Turkish actually costs a beginner
The one letter that is not a sound is ğ, which stretches the vowel in front of it and is never pronounced on its own. The dotted and dotless i are two different letters — İ/i and I/ı — and swapping them changes the word rather than the accent. Stress normally sits on the last syllable and moves to the end again each time a suffix is added, with place names as the standing exception: their stress sits inside the word. Beyond the sounds, Turkish builds meaning by stacking suffixes onto a stem, and iLexiBox meets that in phrases and whole sentences rather than as a chart.
The full English course, A1–C1 →