Turkish Language Program Objective

The Boston Language Institute, New England’s leading language school, offers Turkish language courses to individuals and companies. The quality of instruction provided in our Turkish language classes are on a par with the best native Turkish language school.

We consider it to be the major goal of our program to have you use Turkish in as large a variety of real-life situations as possible. To that end, our Turkish courses have been designed to build fluency in both the spoken and the written language. Communication in a warm and relaxed environment is an important feature of our programs, as is homework, which includes exercises for review and practice of the material taught in class. Moreover, by keeping the class size limited to twelve students, we ensure that each student will be able to actively participate.

Turkish Level 1
Introduces spoken Turkish and aims to provide students with a practical command of the language, beginning with proper pronunciation and the development of conversational proficiency. Among the topics introduced are the principles of agglutination (whish is peculiar to Turkish along with a few other languages), simple sentence structure, interrogatives, and telling time. Upon completion of this course, you can expect to be able to speak in at least a past and a present tense, to have enough vocabulary (500 to 1,000 words) to participate in basic everyday conversation, and to be able to read and write a simple letter.
(Teacher-selected resources)

Turkish Level 2
Upon completion of this course, students can expect to be able to discuss a broader range of topics with greater precision and confidence. Building upon the basic foundation provided in Level One, more advanced topics are introduced including the use of comparatives and the future tense. Students can expect to improve dramatically their vocabulary through participation in structured oral activities.
(Teacher-selected resources)

Private Programs

Immersion Program

Text and Supplementary Materials

Since communication in a foreign language requires an understanding of the cultural context, our aim is to teach you the living language through carefully selected textbooks, newspaper and magazine articles and other relevant materials, rather than have you repeat and memorize tourist phrases.

Our teachers usually provide suggestions for texts and supplementary materials before the beginning of a program, both group and private.  Also, our on-line bookstore specializing in foreign language textbooks, study guides and audiocassettes, is a good source for browsing and choosing study materials.

Tuition and Course Organization

Tuition for the Turkish group program at both levels is $699. There is a non-refundable $35 registration fee for first-time students only.

The Boston Language Institute Guarantee

Because of the individualized nature of our programs and the high quality of our instruction, we guarantee your satisfaction. If you are not satisfied with the quality of instruction within the first two weeks of a main session, we will refund your tuition in full.
Refund requests must be made no later than the business day after the second meeting of a once-a-week or the fourth meeting of a twice-a-week class of an eight-week ession.

Class Schedules

We encourage students to register before the deadline above, especially since classes are limited to 12 students. A Program Coordinator will be happy to take registration information by phone (617-262-3500 x241), fax or e-mail.