The Turkish Basic Course is an introduction to spoken Turkish in that it includes the major patterns of simple sentences and vocabulary of about 475 high frequency items. It provides a basis for communicating with Asian Turks as far east as Sinkiang Province in China and as far west as the Tatar regions on the Volga. The course enables students to communicate in all but the most isolated Kurdish villages. Each unit begins with a dialogue between two or more speakers. Many of the units also include variation and lexical drills, questions for discussion, notes, grammar and vocabulary drills, and narratives.
