Boby18

Hey!

The Turkish language seems absolutely amazing to me - quite beautiful, useful and very interesting from a cultural and linguistic point of view.

But I have a couple of questions : how long did it take you to be able to read a newspaper in Turkish? I know that this depend on the time and the efforts of each, etc. But I want a strictly personal answer.

I really hope that there are people on this forum who actually studied and "learned" Turkish (everywhere people seems to want to learn Turkish, but nobody actually does it, or they just let it go after a couple of months, weird isn´t it? I starting to think that nobody actually possess the language...)

Second question: We do often talk about the inter-comprehensibility of Turkic languages (Turkish-Azeri, etc). I would like to now, independently from the actual comprehension, which of the Turkic languages is the easiest (by that, I mean the language who has the simplest grammar, straightforward verb tenses, less exceptions, etc.). I know, for example, that the standard Uzbek dialect doesn´t have vocal harmony, which makes it certainly simpler. I am curious to hear from Turkish speakers: did the Atatürk´s reforms make Anatolian simpler? How does it compares with Azeri, not in terms of comprehension, but of difficulty?

Thank you all !