Listening trainer: understand Turkish
Ten short tasks per round: recognise a word, hear the gap in a sentence, find the stressed syllable, tell two similar sounds apart, follow a dialogue. You decide when something plays — and whether slowly or at normal speed.
Listening closely helps you speak.
Listening trainer
Read along shows the text with every task straight away. Good for tuning in; answers then do not count, because it is no longer a listening test.
Or practise one thing
Why in small steps
Listening to a new language means recognising sounds first, then where words begin and end, then the meaning. The trainer practises these steps one by one — and together in the mixed round. Feedback comes at once, so your ear learns what made the difference.
Slow is not a step back
At the start, a slower speed demonstrably helps understanding. Feel free to hear a task twice, slowly first and then at normal speed: the goal is normal speed, but the way there can be slow.
Why different voices
If you hear words from many speakers, you later recognise them from strangers too. So the trainer switches between the voices your browser has for the language. They are speech-output voices, not recordings, and nothing plays unless you press a button.
Without sound or with hearing loss
Every task has a “Show text” button, and the “Read along” switch always shows the text. Everything works from the keyboard: Tab to the buttons, digits for the answers, Enter to go on.
Example sentences
A1 Bu koltuk çok rahat.This armchair is very comfortable.
A1 Çok üşüyorum, pencereyi kapatır mısın?I am very cold, could you close the window?
A1 Çocuklar meyve suyu içiyor.The children are drinking juice.
A1 Şemsiyeni yanına al.Take your umbrella with you.
A2 Bu parfüm çok güzel kokuyor.This perfume smells lovely.
A2 Hafta sonu eski şehri gezdik.At the weekend we looked around the old town.
A2 Yanlışlıkla bütün mesajları sildim.I deleted all the messages by mistake.
A2 Bu krem cildi güneşten korur.This cream protects the skin from the sun.
B1 Bu konuda bir yorumum yok.I have no comment on this.
B1 Temmuzda iki hafta izne çıkıyorum.In July I am going on leave for two weeks.
B1 Otele saat ikiden sonra giriş yapabilirsiniz.You can check in at the hotel after two o’clock.
B1 Pilav için pirinci önce yıkıyoruz.For pilaf we wash the rice first.