English Hello Welcome We came well (response to welcome) Goodbye (if you are leaving) Goodbye (if you are staying) Thank you Please I don’t speak Turkish Where is the washroom? Excuse me Can you help me? Yes No I don’t know Okay/alright

Turkish merhaba

Hoş Geldiniz Hoş Bulduk Hoşçakal Güle güle

Teşekkür ederim Lütfen

Türkçe bilmiyorum Afedersiniz, tuvalet nerede?

Excuse me Yardım edebilir misiniz?

Even Hayır

Bilmiyorum Tamam

pronounced MARE-HA-BA HOSH GEL-DIN-IZ HOSH BULL-DUK HOSH-CHA-KAL GUU-LEH GUU-LEH TE-SH-QU-ERR ED-ERR-IM LUT-FEN TURK-JEH BILL-MI-YOR-UM AFF-ED-DER-SIN-IZ TOO-WA-LET NER-REY-DE AFF-ED-DAR-SAN-IZ YARR-DIM ED-EBB-ILL-EAR MISS-IN-IZ EV-ET HI-EAR BILL-ME-YOR-UM TAM-AM

Turkish Sik Am Piç Hıyar and salatalı

sounds like sick um

peach or pitch

meaning rhymes with ‘duck’ instead of saying you feel sick use ‘ill’ rhymes with ‘runt’ don’t used 'um' as a filler word in Turkey bastard when you want the fruit ask for şeftali they both literally mean cucumber in English but in Turkish ‘hiyar’ is the same as calling someone a moron or idiot.

Words and Phrases

oops! don't say that

Don't travel to Turkey without these

basic words, phrases & the alphabet

Vowels a o u e ı İ ö ü

pronounced u o oo e er

ee or ea ir

ew

as in lucky

bottom boot set

water meet or sea

bird few

Consonants c ç g ğ h j r s ş 

pronounced j

ch hard g

silent lengthens the h never silent

j or su always strongly

is hissed sh

as in jam

church gate

vowel before it henry

jolie or pleasure rolled

"safe "never a ‘z’ sound sharp

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AlphabetThe Turkish Latin

alphabet goes from A-Z with these

differences