Customer Reviews
Excellent for study and reference - By: K. Harvey, 10 Nov 2007 
The content of this small book is ideal for students & the keen tourist or new settler alike. It is neater & more compact than the 501 Verbs series. If you really need to know how to make the language "work" for you there is no better way to back up your lessons than with a verb table to learn from. I found the author's introduction helpful & enlightening as well. (Talat Sait Halman was Turkey's Ambassador for Cultural Affairs & former Minister of Culture & formerly of New York, Princetown & Columbia Universities).
So why only four stars? Well,in a word, presentation! In spite of it having a good cover & excellent paper quality,in line with all the other Barron's publications, the interior wasin a truly awful reporter's font with huge commas dominating the page (like an old-fashioned typewriter!) & the margins were skimpy & encroached upon so much thatin one or two places the last letter was snipped off. It has been suggested to me that it may have been due to a problem of finding a printerin China who could deal with the Turkish alphabetin 1981 when the book was first published but I doubt it! Mine is an American edition though so whether this is true of any UK one I don't know.
So whilst I can heartily recommend this for its brilliant content & its neat size, don't expect it to be the same as the equally amazing, but larger & better presented, 501 German Verbs (indispensiblein Germany, Austria & Switzerland!).
Just what anyone learning Turkish needs! - By: , 15 Dec 1999 After hunting around for a book to help with verb conjugations I found this & it really does the job. It explains simply the basic rules of grammar. presents the verbsin all conjugations & provides a full list of verbs. The presentation of the book does not reflect its usefulness since it is allin simple text & appears quite understated. If anyone is trying to learn this confusing language I would recommend this wholeheartedly.
