Finally decided on a third language... Turkish

[prodigitalson]

any advice or resources would be appreciated.

English is my L1 and Spanish L2.

I tutor English learners on line and many are Turkish. I work with students from all around the world and they are all great. But the Turks convinced me to step outside of my Germanic/Latin comfort zone..

[eppur_se_muova]

1. That's pretty far out -- Turkic languages are non-Indo-European, very differently structured.

I only briefly looked at Turkish, and don't consider myself a fluent speaker of anything, except English on a good day -- but if you haven't tackled other non-IE languages before it will be very disorienting at first. To teach EFL to Turkophones, it might be sufficient to gain a "linguist's knowledge" rather than seek any degree of fluency, that is, learn what you can about how the language works, without all the drills and vocabulary. Then, you'll be able to spot the idiosyncracies that they bring to their use of English, because you'll know "that makes sense in Turkish, but it's not how English works". Be sure to scan a written intro to Turkish before deciding how far you really want to go.

Free advice, and I guarantee it's worth every penny.

[prodigitalson]

2. I'm starting with an app called Language Transfer

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it is a pretty interesting approach that only focuses on listening and speaking. A basic conversational level is probably all that I could realistically achieve.

Edited to say: Turkish grammar seems to be all suffixes.

[Igel]

3. Enjoy the vowel harmony.

And causatives.

[BuddhaGirl]

4. Cok guzel! (DU prevents the accent marks in the title line LOL)

Iyi şanslar!

My ex was from Istanbul (Armenian) and I learned a fair amount of Turkish while we were together. It was fun to learn...I hope to pick it up again someday. I found pronunciation pretty easy.

Enjoy!