3rd edition of the Turkish-language contact kit: registration opens in September!

9 July 2025

  • Europe and Eurasia

  • Distance learning

  • Menu Education

Are you a language enthusiast? A professional preparing for a trip to Turkey? A curious tourist? A language student? This MOOC will help you acquire the basics of Turkish, a language that is both Asian and European, like the country itself. Open to all and free of charge, it will run from October 6 to December 2, 2025. Registration will open at the beginning of September.
Bosphorus Strait and Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
Bosphorus Strait and Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 © elizavetalarionova / Freepik‎

Launched in 2017, Inalco's MOOCs are accessible worldwide on the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform. These "contact kits" offer beginners a oral and written initiation and cultural cues centered around several tasks enabling initial contact in the language: introducing oneself, getting around, lodging, eating, making a purchase...

The "contact kit in oriental languages": Turkish language

First oriental language taught in France at the time of the Sun King in 1669!

Short filmed dialogues will help you acquire the words and automatisms you need for your daily exchanges. The dialogues will be accompanied by grammar points and a lexicon. Written exercises will enable you to check your knowledge and progress.

Bref, you'll be ready to stop feeling like a stranger in Turkey and start making friends. In this famously hospitable country, you're about to be made even more welcome!

Mooc teaser

Mooc presentation by Sybel Berk, senior lecturer in Turkish didactics and linguistics

Training schedule

What you will learn

At the end of the course, you will know:

  • introduce yourself,
  • book a hotel room,
  • buy transport tickets and get around,
  • place orders at restaurants,
  • shop for gifts, clothes and food.

Format

The MOOC lasts 6 weeks with an introductory week. The work program is organized into five parts with:

  • dialogues,
  • instructional grammar videos,
  • written, dot-free and graded exercises,
  • a lexicon,
  • a forum

Accompanying resources provide information and explanations on the language system, as well as a lexicon containing common terms and expressions.

Assessment and certification

Self-corrected daily exercises and weekly tests will enable you to check and consolidate your learning.

In order to obtain a badge of follow-up, you will need to validate at least 60% of the exercises.

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