Interactive & Tailored Turkish Lessons with Certified Native Expert

From 36 C$ /h

Hello! I am a certified native Turkish language instructor with a strong background in Turkish Language & Literature and Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language (YÖT).My lessons are designed to make you speak Turkish naturally and confidently from day one! Whether you are a absolute beginner (A1) or looking to refine your fluency (B1-B2), I provide customized learning paths tailored to your specific needs, goals, and interests.What you can expect in my classes:• Action-Oriented & Natural Approach: Learn grammar through real-life context without memorizing tedious rules.• All 4 Core Skills Covered: Integrated practice in Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing in every session[cite: 5, 12].• Rich & Custom Materials: Interactive worksheets, visual cards, short stories, and authentic cultural dialogues. • Comfortable & Encouraging Environment: Step-by-step guidance to build your confidence and speaking speed.Book a trial lesson today to assess your level and build your personalized Turkish learning journey together!

Extra information

Please bring a notebook and a pen for taking quick notes. No external textbooks are required before the first lesson; all necessary digital materials and visual study cards will be provided by me[cite: 3, 5].

Location

Online from Turkey

About Me

I am a certified, native Turkish instructor with over a decade of professional editorial background in text editing, redacting, and content creation. Having worked extensively with the nuances of the Turkish language, I approach language teaching not through rigid, boring grammar rules, but as an active, communicative tool for real-life interaction.

My lessons strictly follow the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) guidelines, incorporating an action-oriented, 100% immersive approach without relying on translation. Whether you are an absolute beginner starting from scratch or an advanced student seeking fluency, I design fully customized, interactive lesson plans tailored to your specific pace and goals.

By integrating all four core language skills—Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing—in every single lesson, I ensure a natural and meaningful learning process. We will utilize authentic materials, interactive digital tools, and real-world scenarios to build your speaking confidence from Day 1. Book a trial session, and let’s start your Turkish journey together!

Education

Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Lisans
Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Öğretmenliği Yüksek Lisans
İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçe Öğretimi Programı

Experience / Qualifications

I am a native Turkish instructor certified in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language (YTÖ), with over a decade of professional background in editing, copywriting, and text analysis. Having worked extensively with the Turkish language at an institutional level, I approach language instruction not merely through rigid grammar rules, but as an immersive, practical tool for communication and cultural connection. My lessons are strictly aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) standards and adopt an action-oriented, communicative approach. Whether you are a total beginner (A1) aiming to master daily survival Turkish or an advanced learner (B2–C1) striving for professional or academic fluency, I design dynamic, customized lesson plans tailored to your specific goals and learning pace.

Age

Preschool children (4-6 years old)

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes

The class is taught in

English

Turkish

Skills

Turkish

Language arts

Availability of a typical week

(GMT -05:00)

New York

Online via webcam

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

00-04

04-08

08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

Aylin

5.0

(24)

Let's make learning a new language fun together!

I am an enthusiastic teacher with a university degree and 25 years of experience in the Netherlands. I offer Dutch and Turkish lessons for beginners and advanced students. I was born and raised in Turkey. I have gained extensive experience at various language schools and companies as:
- Teacher NT2 (Dutch as a second language) for foreigners 🇳🇱
- Turkish teacher for adults and children 🇹🇷
- Teacher of integration courses and training for the integration exam

Lessons are also offered in English. 🇬🇧

The teaching material is sent digitally and is included in the lesson fee.

Hopefully see you soon! Yakında görüşürüz! Hope to see you soon!

Hatice

5.0

(24)

Hi, I am Hatice from Istanbul.

I HAVE BEEN TEACHİNG ONLINE AND FACE TO FACE FOR 25 YEARS.
I am a native speaker of Turkish and was born in Istanbul.

I have been teaching Turkish to foreigners and I have taught hundreds of students from all ages and professions for more than 20 years. I am a professional English teacher but I like teaching Turkish more as it is my mother tongue and it is a great pleasure for me to share its secrets and beauty.

While teaching I also love giving some useful information about the culture, people, cuisine, films and literature in Turkey to help you get connected to Turkish culture. I prepare written and verbal dialogues in the areas the student is interested in.

I am from Istanbul but I traveled almost all cities, mountains, rivers, lakes in Turkey. I am a person who likes less traveled roads and back streets. Traveling around the world and reading on the areas of spirituality, philosophy, psychology, and literature are my number one hobbies. I lived and worked in London, Toronto, and S. Korea. Living as an expat and learning several languages have helped me having sympathy with my students. Motivation, feeling relaxed and setting realistic targets, in the beginning, are usually the first thing to go.

As for my formal education, I studied Economics, International Relations, Western Philosophy, and American language and literature at the university (MA and BA). And after my 40 years old, I learned classical Arabic and Persian and started to study Islamic spirituality at the doctorate level. I taught English at Prep. school at Istanbul Technical University and Yeditepe University and am retired. Ever since I could remember I have been a teacher. Now I only teach Turkish privately and translate classical novels from English to Turkish. I translated 12 books from English to Turkish.

I teach Turkish that is tailored for each student. Each student is unique for me and I know that every student has her/his own way of learning.
If you are a beginner I give a short lecture about the history of Turkish and its characteristics and help you find your way in this very logical, consistent and elegant language. You understand that Turkish is different but that does not necessarily mean difficulty.
From the first lesson, you start speaking Turkish and find yourself in a dialogue.

I can teach at my place and your place (all around Istanbul).

I use several books using a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methods to boost the development of all language skills. But we always focus on TALK, TALK, TALK. As a language learner for many years, I know one can learn, improve and take pleasure in a foreign language only by talking and communicating. It is essential to get direct pleasure from what you have learned. My aim is to motivate and inspire you to speak Turkish ignoring minor mistakes and without thinking grammar.

I try to keep in contact with my students almost every day through whatsapp and email. And start some short dialogues.

Sara

5.0

(24)

Specialized in language training, French, English, Turkish and Arabic, I teach courses for companies and individuals.

You have shortcomings in writing or speaking, or you just want to learn new languages, so you're in the right place!

I offer training tailored to your level and your needs, in groups or individually at attractive prices.

Feel free to contact me for more information.

Guven

5.0

(24)

Each lesson will be organized depending on your level. I will verify your level in order to understand how to proceed with my lesson. After that according to your level, My lessons consist of 4 sections. Mostly speaking, pronunciation, reading, and grammar. The priority of my lesson will be concerning your speaking skill. Even we can study for your academic articles ıf you have. I'm gonna focus on what you need. Especially I will teach you Turkish culture. You are supposed to learn the culture of the language that you want to learn.

Cami

5.0

(24)

Improve your skills during oral interventions in public, better manage your personal/professional communication, the associated emotions & the resulting conflicts, master negotiation techniques (...): your objectives in terms of communication can be diverse and the objective of these sessions is precisely to support you in better achieving them. So, how can we send a clear message, be impactful, create a difference and make an impact?

➤ Whether your objective is personal or professional, speaking is a predominantly physical activity, relying on a body, a voice, a breath, a rhythm (diction), an emotion and above all techniques, tools, a method, a know-how, reflecting the speaker's involvement in his speech.

➤ On the telephone, in a meeting, in front of a client, his family (...), relevant and successful speaking must always be effective and efficient, with clear, simple and impactful messages, creating a balance between the message received and message sent. Coherence between form and content.

➤ So, how to listen and be listened to, convince and be impactful, challenge and make an impression, enhance your content, address your audience effectively and optimize the quality & clarity of the exchange / message? It is precisely a question of going through, applying and deploying practical and effective techniques of oral presentation, of simple intervention or of 'one to one` exchange, aiming to challenge your audience or interlocutor, by taking care of the substance as well as the form. , all in a professional or personal context. For this, there are verbal and non-verbal communication techniques.

➤ Thus, mastered, the practical method allows, through a set of simulations and scenarios based on your daily experience supporting pragmatic & concrete techniques, to improve self-confidence, self-assurance, ease by overcoming discomfort and controlling his emotion in public. But also to work on your leadership & charisma, in a context where empathy and emotional intelligence are at the service of communication.

➤ So, in this context, after having precisely defined your objective & gone through the blockages encountered, here are some examples of themes covered through concrete techniques & a targeted methodology:
✓Practical tools to perfect your rhetoric/repartee
✓Decode and use the practical communication tools of great leaders
✓Fundamentals (practices) of eloquence but also of public speaking (intonation, gaze, gestures, elocution, range, emotions, pronunciation, development of one's own style of charisma) to ensure consistency between substance & form
✓Fundamentals of Body Language to support and not interfere with the speech while being convinced & convincing.
✓ Highlighting their speech & promoting their speaking to arouse interest, by building on their strengths.
✓Creation of a coherence between the message emitted & the message received in order to improve its speech and in fact, its professional/personal relations.
✓Management of Q&A sessions & external reactions during an intervention or an oral exchange.
✓Practical tools to put your interlocutor at ease and appear friendly/interested.
✓To succeed in a negotiation/mediation.
✓On the one hand, learning to say 'no' simply in three steps AND on the other hand, getting people to say 'yes'.
✓To turn sentences into positive AND constructive.
✓To manage conflicts (eg 'assertive' communication techniques, eg CNV techniques - Non Violent Communication).
✓To put NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) at the service of communication.
✓To adopt effective, simple, fair and engaging language.
✓To use sentences, turns of phrase & expressions allowing to be precise, simple, effective & challenging.
✓To manage your personal & professional relationships with, for example, the preparation of your ratings.
✓Make your hypersensitivity a strength to tame your abilities.
✓Listening proactively and expressing / conveying ideas / message clearly.
✓ Avoid letting your emotions show through and propose a constructive solution to problems, while drawing on your own relational skills.
✓Be better equipped to recognize and immediately remedy situations that weaken their authority and affect their ability to communicate effectively.
✓Enhance their potential for expression and creativity (often underestimated until now) and 'apparent' sociability
✓Develop not necessarily self-confidence, but the 'appearance' of self-confidence, refine one's listening to respond adequately, open up to the resources of the imagination, free oneself from the rational to then structure one's speech.
✓Relate their communication objectives (project, institution, values, ideas, demands, etc.) to the form of their expression.
✓Learn and put into practice persuasive communication techniques and better understand the perception that others have of oneself. In order to improve his skills of 'self-presentation' and conveyed image.
✓Practical techniques to foster the engagement of the other party.
✓Strengthen the structure of its communication and develop a convincing argument in order to sell its ideas and projects.
(...)

➤ To master the keys to successful public communication, it is necessary to strengthen the impact of your speeches: by structuring your interventions and taking into account the circumstances and the expectations of the public; by making an impact through storytelling; integrating the psychological and emotional factors of effective oral communication; by integrating emotions into the preparation of the message and arguments; anticipating objections and delicate situations; by preparing and structuring an attractive and convincing presentation framework; by experimenting with the rules of improvisation; by adequately managing difficult situations (...).

➤ In short, each session combines techniques & practical exercises adapted to your daily situations (filmed with your agreement in order to be reviewed, commented on, decoded together live), so that you can apply them immediately, and from the 1st session.

THE TRAINER
➤ With training from Grande Ecole post-preparatory classes & Ivy League university in the United States, our teacher trainer has specialized and has worked for more than 15 years in the field, in Europe and North America, in renowned international public and private establishments, regularly speaking in forums and conferences, and also offering personalized INDIVIDUAL support, with pedagogy and careful methodology as the watchwords.

➤ PLACE, TIMETABLE, PRICES
✓ Locations: Geneva-Lausanne-Fribourg-Zurich-Neuchâtel-Lugano-Basel-Neuchâtel-Berne-Lucerne-Brussels-Luxembourg-Paris-Lyon. But currently, these sessions continue to be offered by videoconference in the current context and in accordance with general demand which is almost unanimous on this subject.

✓ Indeed, apart from the classic advantages of videoconferencing (time saving related to travel & their unforeseen events, eco-responsibility, increased schedule flexibility, etc.), the quality of the session & the interaction remain identical. In addition, the entire exchange, notes and recommendations are immediately transcribed on the dedicated chat.

✓ To support us among ourselves & to be pleasant to you in this sustainable / particular period and in a spirit of solidarity, the fees are temporarily reduced and will not increase after the start of our sessions.

✓ Languages: French/English.

✓ The progress following these private sessions is perceptible from 1 to 2 sessions (*2024 study).

✓ As other people do regularly, you can also please your loved ones by offering gift vouchers available all year round.

Lara

5.0

(24)

My classes will mostly be fun and also be educatitive. I will be helping you with your grammar, your reading and we will be having conversations. Homework will be a thing for sure. I will be available for your questions at all times. If there is a certain subject you'd like to talk/learn about let me know. I am looking forward.

Arno

5.0

(24)

Since the Gymnasium I give tutoring Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Latin and language courses Latin languages Portuguese Spanish French and Italian from basic or beginner level to Gymnasium level. For primary school students also arithmetic for example with fractions and percentages and all other modules. Also Dutch grammar and spelling.

Meryem

5.0

(24)

If you want to learn Turkish to live in Turkey, for work, for school or just as a hobby, I can help you as a professional. I have been actively working in the field of Teaching Turkish to Foreigners for 5 years. It doesn't matter what your level is as I teach at all levels (A1-C+). I help you learn this language in a more fun way by focusing on Turkish reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. I provide good language training for all skills, not just one skill. Thus, you will be able to master all skills equally. While doing these, I use both some field books and different materials. In class, I keep the student as active as possible and expose him to the target language. Thus, he starts to learn Turkish by thinking in Turkish. If you want to learn Turkish with fun and in a regular way, you can take Turkish lessons from me.

Muhammet

5.0

(24)

🖐🏻 HI, SALUT, MERHABA! 🖐🏻
How are you doing? Comment allez-vous? Nasılsınız?
Thanks for having a look at my profile!
Here is the pathway we will follow in our lessons!
We will start our lessons by learning the most basic skills such as correct pronunciation and simple grammar rules.
We will continue to improve our speaking, listening and grammar levels by learning new informations step by step.
Based on my 13 years of experience, I think that A1 level is a very important period in language learning. When learning any language, beginner level students should learn it in the correct order and important details should be explained well by practising previous ones. Students at more advanced levels, such as A2, B1 or above, also need to practice their skills at the previous level thoroughly to improve their language skills. I try to provide good teaching by paying attention to these important points in my lessons. I keep our lessons' notes in a word file. After our lessons, I send you back all the additional notes and exercises that we covered in our lesson as a Word file.

Royce

5.0

(24)

Do you want to discover a new language full of rhythm, culture, and history?
Join me in learning Sranantongo, the vibrant lingua franca of Suriname!
I keep lessons interactive, practical, and fun. You’ll practice speaking from day one, with exercises, mini‐quizzes, and cultural insights

Kayra

5.0

(24)

As an erasmus student with Turkish as native language and advanced English knowledge, I can teach both languages professionally. I used to give private lessons to primary school students back in my hometown and they were content with my classes, so you can be assured that I'm experienced with private lessons and can get along with younger learners.

Como estudiante Erasmus con Turco como lengua materna y un nivel avanzado de Inglés, puedo impartir clases de ambos idiomas de forma profesional. Solía dar clases particulares a alumnos de primaria en mi ciudad natal y estaban muy satisfechos con mis clases, así que puede estar seguro de que tengo experiencia en clases particulares y me llevo bien con los alumnos más jóvenes.

Qweku

5.0

(24)

Akwaaba! Woezɔ!

Are you Ghanaian abroad, married to an Ewe, or traveling to Ghana/Togo/Benin? I will help you speak real, everyday Ewe — not textbook Ewe.

I am Prince, native Ewe speaker from Accra, Ghana. I am fluent in Ewe (Eʋegbe), English and conversational Twi.

What you will learn:
- Greetings: Ndi / Ŋdi / Woezɔ / Aleke?
- Market & daily conversation
- How to introduce yourself and your family
- Common Ewe proverbs and cultural meaning
- Correct pronunciation

My lessons are:
- 100% practical and conversational
- On phone via video call (WhatsApp/Zoom)
- For beginners, diaspora kids, and travelers
- Flexible time — I am available GMT (Ghana time)

First lesson: You will introduce yourself in Ewe!

Mawu na wò agbe dzi!

Note: Lessons are online.

Nirajan

5.0

(24)

Welcome! If you are looking to connect with Nepali speakers, prepare for a trip to Nepal, or explore a new language, this practical conversational course is designed specifically for you.

As an experienced educator and native speaker, I focus on real-world, spoken Nepali rather than heavy textbook grammar. In our lessons, you will learn essential everyday greetings, practical vocabulary, and natural conversational phrases used in daily life. Each session is tailored to your unique pace and learning goals, featuring interactive dialogue practice, pronunciation coaching, and cultural insights to help you speak with confidence from day one. Let's make learning Nepali fun and engaging!

Kul

5.0

(24)

We will learn to speak and write, whether you choose Arabic, Turkish, or English.

We will learn vocabulary and sentence formation, then speak and write in a smooth, simple and enjoyable way. We will finish the lessons having collected a lot of useful vocabulary and sentences.

5.0

(24)

Are you looking to unlock your career opportunities, pass an exam, or simply start speaking a new language with confidence? I am here to help you succeed!
I am a certified professional teacher and interpreter with a University Degree in Pedagogy and 19+ years of global experience teaching online and offline. Over the years, I have successfully guided 1.200+ students aged 7 to 60 to fluency.
Why choose classes with me?
• Three Languages, One Expert: Learn English, Turkish, or Russian (my native language) with a structured, professional approach.
• Proven Results: 90% of my students reach the B1- B2+ level. I have helped 30+ professionals ace job interviews and dozens of students pass school finals and international exams.
• Tailored Approach: No boring templates. I design custom materials based on your personal goals, whether you are starting from absolute scratch (A1) or moving to advanced fluency.
• Real-World Focus: Having worked as a corporate interpreter in fast-paced business environments, I teach how languages are actually spoken in professional and daily life.