How to read Turkish fast
Summary
You need only a pen or text editor. Write short words many times. You will read and write without subvocalization.
Turkish uses various suffixes. Compare them with English inflections and conjugation. Learn words with stems, roots, suffixes, and derived terms.
Read Turkish Wikipedia. Learn words and read news.
Writing training will improve your reading skills. Visualize structures and relationships. Write diagrams, captions, and descriptions. And write many sentences.
Contents
Typing and Speed Reading
You need only a text editor. Change the window size and the font size.
Or you can use a pen and paper.
Type short words like these images. Repeat form 2 letter word to 4 letter word. You don't have to type long words.
This is a training about subvocalization. You will get tired of typing. And you will type without internal speech.
Write a short sentence like this image. This is a training for reading multiple lines. You will read lines at once. Write other sentences with line breaks.
Reading Comprehension
You have to improve your reading comprehension. Read many books and websites. Write many sentences.
Turkish uses many suffixes. Guess the meaning and structure of sentences. Read many sentences and learn grammar.
Read Turkish Wikipedia. Increase your knowledge and vocabulary. Read the first sentence of pages. It is usually the definition of the head word. Read many definitions.
Ülkeler listesi - VikipediRead and watch news.
Writing training improves reading comprehension. Write many sentences. Write in various genres.
Listening
You can learn listening with speed reading.
Read news with text-to-speech tools. I use "Read Aloud" add-on with my browser.
TRT Haber - Türkiye’nin haber kaynağıWatch YouTube with automatic captions.
TRT Haber - YouTubeWatch other videos without captions.
Keyboard
Turkish has letters of ç, ğ, ö, ş, ü. You have to add a languages or input method for diacritical marks.
Pronunciation
Learn the relationship between the spelling and the pronunciation. It will help you learn words and suffixes.
Imagine the structure of syllable.
Learn vowels and consonants with IPA symbols. Combine alphabets and IPA symbols.
Google Translate shows sounds of words and sentences.
Writing Training
Writing training will improve your reading skills.
Write simple sentences. Write with your imagination.
Learn the structure of sentence, clause, and phrase.
The basic word order is SOV. Adjectives are placed before the nouns they modify. Turkish uses many suffixes.
Think about the topic and the focus of the sentence.
Imagine some situations and relationships.
Think about their relationships, positions, purposes, motives, etc.
Use various images. Write various sentences.
Grammar
Learn grammar with simple sentences. Write and speak simple sentences.
Suffixes are very important. Compare Turkish suffixes with English grammar.
Suffixes are added to nouns and verbs. Compare Turkish grammatical cases with English syntaxes. Compare Turkish verbs with English grammatical person, tense, voice, etc.
News
VOA and Euronews have Turkish news contents. You can read and watch Turkish news.
Learning Multiple Languages
Azerbaijani is very similar to Turkish. And it uses the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts.
Wiktionary includes these three scripts. Azerbaijani Wikipedia uses the Latin script. South Azerbaijani Wikipedia uses the Arabic script.