We hope to resume the online TPH as Turkish Coffee Hour after the pandemic.

1. Subscribe to the TPH mailing list to receive related meeting details. You can subscribe by filling out the subscription form. Please make sure you provide your university e-mail address with the education (edu) domain (like XXX@ku.edu.tr). Note that TPH is available ONLY for KU affiliates and students from UNIC Partner Universities!
2. Follow this WhatsApp group link, join the group, and type “Merhaba!” (“Hello!” in Turkish) to your new friends in the group and introduce yourself. Our volunteers will welcome you. TPH is available ONLY for KU affiliates and students from UNIC Partner Universities!

Meetings:

Beginners: Every Friday, between 1-2 PM.

Intermediate/ Advanced: Every Wednesday, between 2-3 PM.

Spring ‘22 TPH Program

Certificate of Participation

One of the novelties in Spring ’22 TPH sessions is certification. ICO will provide a certificate of participation at the end of the semester for those who attend at least 5 sessions. The volunteers, therefore, will take the names of the attendees each session. 

More information…

• TPH is online and we meet twice a week: one session for beginners and one for intermediate/ advanced level participants each week. 
• Each session will have one volunteer leader and an assistant tutor. They will all be on the WhatsApp group and introduce themselves to you.
• The online meetings will be through Zoom and the related link will be provided via emails.
• Participants must have an “edu” domain e-mail address to be able to receive notifications.
• Meetings will last about 1-hour max.
• Your family members are welcome to join if they want to, with or without you provided that they prove their relation to you (only KU members).
• You are expected to communicate via the WhatsApp group prior to meetings to let everyone know how many people will be so our volunteers do not have to wait if no one will show up.
• Each meeting tutors will start conversations surrounding a specific topic or skill geared towards daily life/speech. There will be some sessions to play some language games and/or role-playing. During the meetings, please keep in mind that there will be participants with different levels of Turkish. Therefore, please show courtesy and stay open to different opinions/levels of speaking skills.
• For any questions, suggestions, or concerns, you can email ico@ku.edu.tr.

The program supervisor: Zikri Mert Demircan (zdemircan@ku.edu.tr.)

CSSH provides ten different levels of Turkish classes for international students ranging from BASIC TURKISH (TURK 201, 202, 203, 204); INTERMEDIATE TURKISH (TURK 301, 302, 303); and  UPPER INTERMEDIATE TURKISH (TURK 401)  to  ADVANCED TURKISH (TURK 402). These courses aim to develop students’ productive language skills by providing a supportive and stimulating learning environment.

In these communicative- based Turkish language classes, assessment is based on testing learners’ linguistic knowledge and accuracy, and their skills in reading and listening comprehension as well as in spoken communication and oral presentation skills.

These courses help students not only to adapt to life in Türkiye and get to know the culture better but also enable them to communicate in Turkish efficiently. They can be offered every semester (fall, spring, and summer) depending on student demand and faculty availability.

Human Resources Directorate offers paid Turkish classes every academic year for pay-rolled faculty members. The announcement of classes is made through KU Daily. Then the faculty members who signed up for the classes attend a test to check their level in the Turkish language.

The university pays a certain amount of the course fee. Therefore just a small amount must be paid by the faculty members. The spouses of faculty members can also benefit from the paid classes. The amount is deducted from the faculty members’ salaries.

More information is announced in KU Daily when it is that time of the year.

You can also contact the HR office for more information regarding sign-ups, regulations, and fees: gsalik@ku.edu.tr.

You can attend the Turkish courses for foreigners for free. Several İSMEK centers have the program to give the knowledge and skills of listening, reading, writing, speaking and communicating the daily expressions for simple needs.

It is a portal that allows individuals to learn Turkish in an interactive way with the help of smartphones, tablets or computers without limitation of time and space.

Ankara University TÖMER (Türkçe Öğretim Merkezi) was founded in 1984 with the aim of teaching Turkish to foreigners by patterning leading language and culture centers of the world. There are 2 TÖMER branches in Istanbul: one in Taksim and the other in Kadıköy.