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Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar!

A Turkish Language Curriculum that Moves Intermediate Learners to the Advanced Level

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The Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar! textbook, YouTube channel and WordPress/H5P site comprise an openly licensed curriculum focused on developing Intercultural Communicative Competence. The four units invite learners to engage with culturally rich print, audio and video texts and use the target language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between contemporary Turks’ socio-cultural practices, products, and perspectives. Each unit addresses a different aspect of society: family, love and marriage, the environment, and art and politics, and contains the following components:

  • contextualized grammar lessons
  • videos of Turks speaking about their lives and their country
  • activities that hone language skills while raising awareness about contemporary Turkish society
  • interactive, auto-correct exercises that facilitate learners’ acquisition of vocabulary and syntax structures

The Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar! textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. It is now downloadable for free in PDF or adaptable Google Docs format and is also available for purchase as a print-on-demand book from Lulu.com.

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Google Docs versions of all units and lessons can be accessed via the Table of Contents’ page links.

Table of Contents

Teacher’s guide

Student’s guide

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Links to Interactive Exercises

A father holding his young toddler on his arm looking at the toddler and both waving to the camera
A Turkish bride and a groom are taking professional pictures with the photographer in a park in front of a fence
Three girls are playing at sunset in the shallow places of a lake/river on a mountain right before a drop off behind which more of the lake and a forest landscape are stretching to the horizon.
Street art painting on a wall of a woman's upper body and head. Her eyes are looking to the right and her arms are stretching out to the left as well.