There are 64 shared Turkish decks on AnkiWeb, but how do you know which one to choose? AnkiWeb's own order might seem like a good starting point, but a popular deck isn't necessarily a good one.
That's why we developed a framework for choosing a good Anki deck and built an open-source AI tool to evaluate decks against it.
Of the first 61 decks AnkiWeb lists for Turkish, 26 aren't for English speakers learning it. Ten teach English to Turkish speakers, and most of the others are for speakers of Arabic, Russian, Persian or German. We ran the 30 that remained through our analyzer. None reached a grade of Good. The top two tie at 66, and 20 of the 30 scored below 50.
Three of the top five are built around a specific textbook, audio course or app. Check that before you download, because each report says whether a deck can stand on its own. Here are the results:
The 10 Turkish decks that scored highest
| # | Deck | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Delights of Learning Turkish (Vocabulary & Sentences)mixed | 66 | Mixed |
| 2 | Everyday Turkish A1 to B2, with Audio | Eideticvocabulary list | 66 | Mixed |
| 3 | Turkish Sentencessentence deck | 63 | Mixed |
| 4 | Pimsleur Turkishmixed | 62 | Mixed |
| 5 | Turkish Vocabulary Core 1k (from Ling) by Soivocabulary list | 61 | Mixed |
| 6 | Turkish 12000 sentences from easiest to hardestsentence deck | 60 | Mixed |
| 7 | Easy Turkish Grammar Pack 3mixed · part 3 of 3 | 57 | Mixed |
| 8 | The Ultimate Guide to Turkish – The Most Used 5000 Wordsvocabulary list | 56 | Mixed |
| 9 | Most Useful Turkish Phrasesphrase book | 56 | Mixed |
| 10 | Beginner Turkish with mediaphrase book | 54 | Weak |
A large, carefully made Turkish vocabulary-and-sentence deck with audio on nearly every note, worth studying if you follow the book it is built on, but weak as a standalone course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners using The Delights of Learning Turkish who want matching cards, keyed by the Unit field
- A1-B1 learners who already have a grammar course and need vocabulary with audio and example sentences
- People who want inflection tables on hand for nouns and verbs, such as the dans etmek table or the six-case table for doktor
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who want a guided path that teaches the grammar as it goes
- Learners who want the most frequent words first, since only 71% of the top 1,000 are covered
- Visual learners, since there are no images, including for concrete nouns like zürafa, tornavida and paspas
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Verdict
In the sample, the sentences are short, everyday and accurate, such as 'Evime hoş geldiniz.' and 'Camda bir sinek var.'. Every word has a literal gloss, so you can see word order and suffixes, and a conjugation table sits behind a button instead of cluttering the answer. Audio is present on 100% of notes, though I cannot judge its quality. The weak spot is sequencing. Notes run by book unit and then alphabetically, so Unit 1 goes from 'aferin' and 'merhaba' to 'kaz', 'porsiyon', 'profesör' and 'sinek' with no thematic grouping. Early sentences carry many unknown words: #1 has 5 of 5 words new, and #24 in Unit 2 has 7 of 9 new. Only 19% of sentences in the first tenth add at most one new word, versus 90% or more from part 6 on. The deck explains no grammar, yet past, future and imperative forms appear from the first cards. Vocabulary covers 71% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words. It misses 'tek', 'ancak' and 'özellikle', while rarer items like 'bamya', 'silgi' and 'kepenk' arrive early. The progression figures cover only part of the deck, because many notes had no readable target-language text.
Use this if you are working through The Delights of Learning Turkish, or if you already have a grammar source and want a big bank of words with audio, sentences and inflection tables for lookup. The Unit field maps each note back to the book. It is a poor fit if you want a deck that teaches Turkish grammar step by step or builds vocabulary in order of usefulness. With about 10,000 cards across five subdecks, it also suits you best if you can control your daily new-card load.
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A well-made, accurate vocabulary sample with full two-voice audio and good cultural notes, but its sentences are not graded and it is a teaser for a paid deck, so use it as a supplement.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- A1 to A2 learners who pair it with a grammar course or textbook
- Learners who want word and sentence audio in a male and a female voice on every word card
- Arabic or Persian speakers who will use the etymology notes
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need each sentence to add one new word and nothing else
- Learners who want a standalone course with grammar taught in order
- Anyone aiming for broad coverage of the 1,000 most common Turkish words
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We scored the free sample on AnkiWeb, 193 notes. The full paid deck isn't on AnkiWeb, and we didn't analyze it.
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Verdict
The word cards are careful work. In the sample, 168 headwords each carry a short, natural example sentence such as Bir bardak su lütfen and Hesabı ben ödedim. Each also has a word-by-word gloss, a morpheme breakdown (gel·iyor·um = root·present-continuous·1sg) and, on many cards, a cultural note or Arabic/Persian etymology. Every word card has word and sentence audio in two voices. I can't judge audio quality. The Turkish, glosses and notes I checked are overwhelmingly correct. The weak points are structural. Only 23% of sentences add at most one new word beyond the headword. The second card already shows Yardımına çok ihtiyacım var (dative possessive) and later cards reach future tense (Bugün ne giyeceğim, bilmiyorum) in the A1 tier, so you meet suffixes before anything has introduced them. Frequency coverage is thin: 22% of the top 1,000 words, with ile, daha, gibi, ama, değil and çünkü never used, while lira, kaymak and zeytin come early. Grammar is explained on every card, but there is no grammar sequence, and the six pattern drills sit after the word cards. The back of each card stacks up to seven fields with nothing collapsed.
This suits an A1 to A2 learner who already has, or is following, a grammar source and wants vocabulary with native audio, readable breakdowns and real cultural context. It is also useful if you know some Arabic or Persian, since the etymology notes are aimed at you, or if you want to test the author's format before buying the full deck. It does not work as a standalone course, and it is a poor first deck if you need a gentle one-new-word-per-sentence path or broad coverage of the commonest words. It also contains promotional wrapper cards and 20%-off links, and it is only a slice of a larger paid product.
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A free, well-ordered set of about 1,500 short Turkish conversation sentences, each shown in a Read and a Speak version, that is worth using as a drilling supplement to a grammar course but not as a way to learn Turkish on its own.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Beginners who already have a grammar book or course and want sentence-level repetition alongside it
- Learners who want a low-effort daily drill of short, common conversational phrases such as "Ne oldu?", "Özür dilerim" and "Su ister misin?"
- Learners who want recall practice in both directions, Turkish to English on the Read cards and English to Turkish on the Speak cards
Not for you if
- Anyone who wants to learn how Turkish suffixes and case endings work from the deck itself
- Learners who need native-speaker audio for pronunciation or listening practice
- Intermediate learners aiming for B2 reading, since the deck teaches only 448 words in this part
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Verdict
The sequencing is the strength. The deck opens with fragments such as "Bu ne?" and "Ne var?", and the measured new-word rate in sentences drops from 33% to under 5% by the third tenth, with 98% of sentences adding at most one new word. The Turkish in the sample is natural and correct, with glosses like "Teşekkür ederim" = "Thank you" and "Bunu bana nasıl yapabildin?" = "How could you do this to me?". Early words come from the most common ones: 88 of the top 100 appear, mostly in the first quarter. The weaknesses are about what is missing. There is no audio and no images, and no grammar explanation anywhere. Turkish suffixes arrive with only a short English translation, and one card gives "Ben mi? / Bana mı? / Beni mi?" a single gloss, "Me?", without saying how they differ. The sentences are isolated, with no dialogue or theme linking them. Only 448 distinct words are taught, 35% of the top 1,000, so the stated A1-B2 range overpromises. This is Part 1 of a larger set, so the vocabulary ceiling is partly a matter of where the split falls. Common connectives such as "ile", "veya", "ancak" and "eğer" never appear.
Use this if you are a beginner to low-intermediate learner who already has a grammar source, and you want many repetitions of short everyday sentences in both directions. It suits the early A1 to A2 stage best. About half the notes are short fragments, and the sentences average 3.5 words, so the deck builds recognition of patterns and speaking reflexes rather than reading skill. Skip it if you need explained grammar, listening practice, stories or dialogues, or vocabulary that gets you to upper-intermediate reading. Also skip it if you want a self-contained course, because it only gets you partway on its own.
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A 486-note companion to Pimsleur Turkish Level 1: useful as a review aid if you are doing the audio lessons, weak as a way to learn Turkish by itself.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners currently doing Pimsleur Turkish Level 1 who want lesson-by-lesson review
- Absolute beginners who need survival words, numbers, times and polite phrases with audio on every card
- People who want to drill pronunciation by hearing each item and recalling it in both directions
Not for you if
- Learners who want a standalone course with grammar explanations
- Anyone aiming for broad frequency-based vocabulary: 21% of the top 1,000 words are covered and common function words are missing
- Learners who want mostly full sentences and reading practice, since about 92% of notes are words or short phrases
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Verdict
The deck follows the lesson order and builds in small steps. It starts with Türkçe, Affedersiniz and Amerikalı, then adds contrasting forms (konuşuyorum / konuşuyorsunuz, yiyebilirim / yiyemem, dörtte / üçte). Every note carries a recording, so you can hear each item, though I can only confirm the files exist, not how good they are. The weaknesses are in what the cards teach. About 92% are single words or short phrases, and only about 8% are full sentences, mostly in the Bonus Packs. It covers only 21% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and never teaches very common words like ve, ile, gibi and her. The cards have no explanations or lesson context. The sample also shows errors: 'Yok kapalı' for 'The road is closed', 'Alıveriş' for Alışveriş, 'airan' for ayran, a bare suffix card ('you are' = sünüz), and kaç glossed as 'what?'. The Bonus Pack sentences also bring in several new words at once, for example 'Is there a shoe store in the mall?'.
Use this if you are working through Pimsleur Turkish Level 1 and want spaced repetition of what each lesson introduces. It suits an A1 learner who will keep going back to the audio course for the explanations the cards leave out. Do not use it as your only Turkish material. It will not give you a frequency-based core vocabulary, sentence-level reading practice, or grammar teaching, and you should check the Turkish on a card before trusting it.
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A 1,011-card Turkish vocabulary deck that follows the Ling app course, with an example sentence and audio on every note; it is worth studying as a companion to that course or as a topic-vocabulary supplement, but not as a standalone A1-B1 core.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners already working through the Ling Turkish course who want its vocabulary, ordered and tagged by lesson, with audio
- Beginners who want topic vocabulary (food, clothing, travel, the doctor, the post office) heard and seen in a short sentence
- Intermediate learners who read Turkish suffixes comfortably and can spot and ignore a mismatched example or a wrong label
Not for you if
- Beginners who need a grammar explanation, since the deck gives none and expects you to infer suffix patterns from isolated sentences
- Learners who want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary, since half the top 1,000 words never appear
- Anyone who wants to produce Turkish from English, as there is only a Turkish-to-English card
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its steady, usable structure. Every note has Turkish audio for both the word and an example sentence, and the new-word rate in sentences drops from 30.6% in the first tenth to about 20% by the fourth, with 75% of sentences adding at most one new word. Sentences are short and everyday ('Ben bir kadınım.', 'Burada fotoğraf çekebilirsiniz.'). Late in the deck they reach conditionals and wishes ('Zengin olsaydım büyük bir ev alırdım.'), which fits B1. The weaknesses are in the content. Vocabulary follows the app's lesson topics, not frequency: it teaches 88 of the top 100 Turkish words but only 50% of the top 1,000, and the unused common words include evet, hayır, teşekkür, çünkü, ancak and yani, while sosis, palto and kartpostal are taught. Some notes pair a headword with a sentence that doesn't use it. 'eğer' (if) carries 'Dün bana onu sevip sevmediğimi sordu', which has no eğer in it. 'Almanya' is drilled with 'O Alman.', and 'yer' with 'Nereyi ziyaret etmeliyim?'. There are also errors: 'Geçekten' for gerçekten, 've' labeled a noun, and 'gelecek' (future) labeled a verb with the sense 'third-person singular indicative future of gelmek'. The analysis notes 'teslim etmek' glossed 'to promote'. Nothing explains the grammar, so you have to work out Turkish suffixes from single sentences. The card is one headword-to-meaning recognition card, and the back is crowded with a Wiktionary block that is empty or noisy on many notes.
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A 5,007-sentence Turkish audio deck (not the 12,000 the title claims) with a gentle vocabulary ramp, but it has no grammar teaching and no context, so it is worth studying only as listening practice beside a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners with a grammar course already underway who want listening practice with short sentences
- A1-A2 learners who want the most frequent ~700 words repeated in context with audio
- People who like a simple audio-first card and will do the grammar work elsewhere
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners with no grammar source, since the deck never explains suffixes or word order
- Learners who expect 12,000 sentences or real B1-B2 coverage
- Anyone who wants dialogues, stories, or images to anchor vocabulary
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Verdict
The deck's best feature is its vocabulary pacing. In the file, 94% of sentences add at most one new word, and the new-word rate settles between 2.8% and 5.4% after the first half. All 100 of the most common Turkish words are taught, mostly early, and every card has its own audio file (I can't judge how the audio sounds). The weaknesses are structural. Sentences are short, everyday Tatoeba-style lines, and some are near-duplicates: #29 and #30 are both "Saat kaç?", and #5002 and #5003 are the same sentence with two words swapped. Some translations are loose or odd ("He's no spring chicken", "I as well as you am to blame"), and #3528 has broken punctuation ("buraya geliyorsun.dedi Tony"). Sentence length stays flat from start to finish, and the deck ends with "Hepsi bu." and "Sorun değil." There is no grammar progression or explanation. Coverage thins out past the top 500 words: only 59% of ranks 501-1,000 and 41% of ranks 1,001-2,000 are taught. Common words like yani, hayır, aslında and peki never appear, while the first notes teach specific items like çiçek and şapka.
Use this if you already know some Turkish grammar from a textbook or class and want a large pool of short, audio-backed sentences to listen to and read. It suits an A1-A2 learner who wants repetition of high-frequency words, and a ceiling around 1,800 words suits that range. Do not use it as your main course or to learn how Turkish suffixes work. Suffix-heavy sentences like "Onu yapmak için zamanım olup olmayacağını bilmiyorum" appear with no breakdown. It also doesn't suit anyone who needs the B1-B2 range the stated level promises, since the sentences stay short and the new vocabulary is thin.
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A 27-card A1 Turkish grammar pack with correct forms and sensible topic order, but it is too small and too thin to serve as more than a supplement.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Beginners who want quick drills on one grammar point at a time, with the vocabulary glossed in parentheses
- Learners already using a textbook or course who want extra practice on plurals, demonstratives and copula-less sentences
- Anyone who likes short grammar notes on the back of the card, such as the vowel-harmony remark on -ler/-lar
Not for you if
- Learners who need audio or pronunciation practice, since no card has a sound file
- Anyone hoping to build a working vocabulary, since the deck teaches only 30 words, mostly incidental to the grammar
- Learners who want sentences they could actually say, or any dialogue or story context
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Verdict
The Turkish is accurate in everything sampled: the number words, the -ler/-lar plurals, Bunlar/Şunlar/Onlar, copula-less sentences like "Marzena çok güzel" and "Kalem masada", and the locative. Short notes sit where they help, such as the bir = "one"/"a" note and the "Marzena güzel" vs "Güzel Marzena" contrast. The weak points are depth and polish. Cards open with number words ("2,327" → "iki bin üç yüz yirmi yedi"), and most sentences are bare drills like "Bu bir kitap" and "O bir kitap" that few speakers would say. The deck teaches 30 words in total, which is 2% of the top 1,000, and it has no audio, no images, and a plain Basic template with no cue for the mixed direction.
Use it if you already have a main A1 course and want extra drills on numbers, plurals, demonstratives, adjectives as predicates, the indefinite article and the locative -da. Skip it if you want a deck to build vocabulary, hear the language, or read connected text. It assumes you have met earlier packs in the series, and it is too short to carry you anywhere on its own.
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Part 3 of a 3-part deck. Each part is ranked on its own score: part 1 27, #31 · part 2 38, #18 · part 3 (this one) 57.
A frequency-ordered 5,000-word Turkish vocabulary deck with full audio and good word coverage, but its corpus-scraped sentences and thin grammar make it a supplement for learners who already have a base, not a first course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners with a grammar course elsewhere who want to widen reading vocabulary quickly
- Readers of news and academic Turkish, since the sentences are authentic and formal in register
- Learners who want audio on every headword and example sentence
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need short, graded sentences and a grammar sequence
- Anyone who wants everyday conversational phrases (greetings like günaydın and efendim never appear)
- Learners who need images or story context to remember words
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Verdict
The word choice is the strength. The measurements show 97% of the 1,000 most common words on the reference list and 94% of the top 2,000 are taught, with the commonest arriving first: all of the top 100 appear in the first quarter of the deck. Every vocabulary note has audio, and each word gets four card types (Turkish to English, English to Turkish, Listening, Speaking). The weakness is the sentences. They are lifted from real text and often much harder than the word they illustrate. Card 1, 'bir', uses 'Ekoloji, doğanın yapısını ve işlevini inceleyen bir bilim dalıdır' with 9 of 9 words new, and 'de' (to say) uses a political quote about SODEV and Ercan Karakaş. Only 28.8% of sentences in the first tenth add one new word or fewer, though that rises to 87% by the end. There is no grammar sequence beyond spelling-rule cards at the very end, almost no images, and the sample shows real errors. 'İtilaf devletleri' is translated as 'Axis countries' when it means the Entente or Allied powers. The 'del' card glosses 'to drill' but translates the sentence as 'digging up the road'. The 'mi' card's translation field shows escaped HTML (<i>). Common words such as tabi, günaydın, efendim and inşallah never appear.
This deck suits you if you already have basic Turkish grammar from a textbook or class and want a large, ordered recognition vocabulary for reading news or academic prose. It also works if you are comfortable with hard sentences and do not need every gloss to be perfect. It is a poor fit if you are a true beginner, because the first 500 notes ask you to parse long, formal sentences while meeting about 37% new words. It is also a poor fit if you want conversational Turkish, a grammar path, or pictures to anchor concrete words.
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A 27-note, A1 Turkish tourist phrase book with audio on every note, usable as a short survival-phrase starter only once you correct its spelling errors.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners preparing for a short trip to Turkey who need greetings, thanks, prices, directions and ordering
- Learners who want a small warm-up deck with native audio on every card to practice repeating phrases aloud
- People following the source video who want flashcards for its phrases
Not for you if
- Anyone who wants to learn Turkish grammar or build sentences of their own
- Learners aiming past tourist survival phrases, since the deck covers 3% of the top 1,000 words
- Anyone who will not check the spellings before memorizing them, given "Lütfen en", "Özür delirim" and "İndirm"
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Verdict
The deck picks the right first things for a visitor: "Merhaba", "Teşekkür ederim", "Ne kadar?", "Tuvalet nerede", "Hesap lütfen", "Su istiyorum". It has audio on all 27 notes, and a few Context notes explain slot patterns you can reuse, such as "... nerede?" with "Ayasofya" and "istiyorum" with "Çay" or "Türk kahvesi". Its weaknesses are size and accuracy. It teaches 41 distinct words, 31 of the top 1,000, and none of the common building blocks (ve, bir, bu, ben, iyi, değil, yok). There are no full sentences, no progression to speak of, and four notes carry errors on the side you memorize: "Lütfen en", "Özür delirim", "İndirm yapar mısınız?" and the incomplete "... nasıl gidebilirim". Some prompts are also hard to tell apart on the front, such as "Is there any discount" and "Can you offer a discount?", or "Bill, please" and "May I have the bill?". The audio was counted, not heard, so play a few cards yourself.
Use it if you are a complete beginner with a trip coming and want a couple dozen fixed phrases to say aloud, and you are willing to fix the four bad notes first. Do not use it as a course or as your main vocabulary deck. It will not build grammar or reading ability, and a learner who copies the misspellings will be memorizing wrong Turkish.
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A 73-note Turkish survival phrasebook with audio on every card and a useful toilet, thanks and greetings core, but a rough opening, uneven accuracy and a cluttered Notes field make it a supplement, not a first deck.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Travelers who want a short list of spoken phrases (toilets, thanks, greetings, ordering, "I don't understand") with native audio on every card
- Learners who already have a grammar source and want drilling material for the negative present continuous and the formal/informal question forms (-miyorum, biliyor musun / musunuz)
- Learners who like mnemonic hooks and will keep the ones that help them
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a gradual start, since the first cards pack 3 to 4 new words each into full sentences
- Anyone who wants an accurate reference without checking, given the missing diacritics, the empty Back field and the garbled glosses
- Learners aiming at general vocabulary: the deck teaches 78 of the top 2,000 words and skips very common words like ve, ama, iyi, yok and iki
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its content: most phrases are things a visitor would say, such as "Rica ederim.", "Kaç kişisiniz?", "Hiç sorun değil." and the "Bayanlar tuvaleti nerede acaba?" family. 73 of its 86 words fall in the top 1,000 on the frequency list, and every note has a recording. It is weak where a beginner needs it most. The first notes are full sentences with 3 to 4 new words each ("Sizinle tanıştığıma memnun oldum.", "Ne söylediğini anlamıyorum.") before "Merhaba" or "Teşekkür ederim" appear, and those come near the end. The sample also shows errors: "Hadi gece yarisi bulusalim." has lost its Turkish letters, #26 has no Back text, and some Notes glosses are wrong or garbled (#37 "Onlar: those that was cheap are made out of there all largest"). Near-duplicate cards, like five ways to say "repeat that, please" in a row, add repetition but little new learning.
Use it if you already have a basic Turkish course or textbook and want audio-backed travel phrases to drill alongside it, and you are willing to check each card for mistakes. Skip it if you want a first deck that builds gradually from zero, or one you can trust without checking. It covers only about 7% of the top 1,000 words, so it is a small phrase set and not a route to general reading or conversation.
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All 32 decks we analyzed, in AnkiWeb order
In the order AnkiWeb lists them when you search for “turkish”, leaving out the decks we skipped. Open any row for its full report.
1The Delights of Learning Turkish (Vocabulary & Sentences)100% positive of 22 AnkiWeb ratings 66 Mixedour #1
Number 1 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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2The Ultimate Guide to Turkish – The Most Used 5000 Words92% positive of 62 AnkiWeb ratings 56 Mixedour #8
Number 8 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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3Duolingo Turkish94% positive of 18 AnkiWeb ratings 36 Poorour #19
A 1,129-note Turkish word list taken from Duolingo, accurate but with no sentences, audio, images or useful order, so it works only as a supplement.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The glosses are the strong part. Every Turkish word and English meaning in the sample is correct, for example 'köy' = village, 'perşembe' = Thursday, and 'geçmiş olsun' = get well soon. The vocabulary is mostly everyday and mid-level, and about 93% or more of each tenth's new words fall within the 5,000 most common Turkish words. The weaknesses are structural. All 1,123 measured notes are single words or short phrases, so nothing is taught in context. The order does not build: card 6 is 'baykuş' (owl), 'sen' (you) only shows up at card 23, and the tags jump from business to gerunds to postpositions with no pattern. The deck covers only 53% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and omits very frequent items such as 'yok', 'mi', 'seni' and 'böyle'. Verbs appear only as infinitives, which the deck's own description admits, and no grammar is explained. Some glosses carry cryptic hints like '(i)', '(t)' and '(y)'. The tags are also unreliable, with 'köy', 'banka' and 'park' all tagged 'ablative'.
Worth it if
- Learners who already study Turkish elsewhere (Duolingo, a textbook, a tutor) and want a vocabulary drill list alongside it
- People who want a quick bank of everyday nouns, adjectives and verb infinitives, plus a small set of set phrases like 'kolay gelsin' and 'eline sağlık'
- Learners comfortable making their own additions, such as adding audio or example sentences to cards they keep
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who need a path from the most common words and simple sentences upward
- Anyone who wants to learn how Turkish grammar works, such as suffixes, vowel harmony or verb conjugation
- Learners who want to hear Turkish or learn pronunciation from the deck itself
- Learners whose goal is reading or comprehension, since the deck never shows a word in a sentence
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4Turkish Core 100 - Basic words (EN TR with audio)100% positive of 11 AnkiWeb ratings 43 Weakour #15
Turkish Core 100 is a 101-word beginner list with audio and an image on every card; it is fine as a pronunciation warm-up but too thin and unstructured to be a main deck.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's strengths are mechanical. Every note has a recording and a picture, and the sampled pairs are correct (Mide/stomach, Eylül/September, tavuk/chicken, kuzu eti/lamb). The vocabulary is concrete and beginner-friendly: numbers, weekdays, months, body parts, jobs, foods and a few greetings. It is weak as a course. There are no sentences (0 of 196 measured notes have four or more words), no grammar, and no order by difficulty or frequency; the opening runs January, İyi günler., Mide, cook, No., bacak, o'clock. It covers only 75 of the top 1,000 Turkish words and misses ve, bu, için, çok and ne. Each word is also a separate note per direction, with Turkish and English fronts mixed in one stream and no label saying which way a card goes. Some Front fields carry leftover web text such as "(View this word list online)" and "(This material is courtesy of turkishclass101.com)". Two English prompts, "do" and "make", lead to the same Turkish verb (Yapmak, yapmak).
Use it if you are a true beginner who wants a quick set of themed words with sound, or if you want a supplement to a textbook or course that teaches the grammar and sentences. Skip it if you want to learn to read or speak in sentences, if you want vocabulary ranked by usefulness, or if you need a deck that can carry you past the first few days of study. After these 101 words you will still lack the most common function words and any sense of how Turkish builds a sentence.
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners who want a short, concrete word set (numbers, weekdays, months, body parts) with a recording and picture on each card
- Learners adding listening and spelling practice for basic vocabulary alongside a textbook or class
- Anyone who wants a quick first pass at Turkish sounds and the alphabet through single words
Not for you if
- Learners who want sentences, example usage or any grammar explanation
- Anyone who wants high-frequency vocabulary taught first or wants coverage of the top 1,000 words
- Learners past the first few days of study, who will run out of material quickly
- People who want a deck with clear card direction and a clean, consistent layout
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5Anno's Turkish (Tatoeba Sentence) Deck91% positive of 11 AnkiWeb ratings 49 Weakour #12
A 134,091-card Tatoeba dump of Turkish-to-English sentences that covers common vocabulary well but has no grammar path, mixed quality, and almost no audio; usable as a sentence bank, weak as a course.
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What it does well: the vocabulary is broad and arrives early. The deck teaches 963 of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and 1,842 of the top 2,000, and nearly all of the top 500 appear in the first quarter. Almost every sentence adds at most one new word, and most sentences are short and everyday, like "Bana fotoğrafları göster lütfen" and "Annem beni parka götürdü." What it does badly: the order is not a learning order. The notes run in blocks that share the start of the English translation ("Let's…", "Look at…", "Mary…", "May I…", later "Her…" and "He was…"), so difficulty jumps around. There is no grammar explanation or progression. The material is unedited Tatoeba, and the sample shows translations that drift from the Turkish. "Bu CD'yi uzun bir zamandır istedim" is glossed "I've wanted this CD player for a long time", and "Sağlığı hakkında çok endişeli" becomes "She is very anxious about his health." Misspellings also appear ("Birşey", "proğram", "orjinal", "farketmesi"). About 23% of the notes repeat Turkish text that appeared earlier, and 1% of notes have audio.
Who should use it: a learner who already has a textbook or course and wants a large pool of short, mostly natural sentences to mine for reading practice, vocabulary reinforcement and examples of grammar they already know. You need to be able to spot a bad translation or typo yourself, because the deck will not warn you. Who should not: a true beginner expecting a guided path from A1 upward, anyone who wants grammar taught, and anyone who needs listening practice. The A1-B2 label describes the mix of sentences, not a sequence.
Worth it if
- Learners with a course or grammar book who want a big supply of short sentences for extra reading and vocabulary exposure
- Intermediate learners who can recognize a loose translation or a misspelling when they see one
- People who want broad coverage of the top 2,000 Turkish words in sentence form
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a graded path and explanations
- Learners who want grammar taught rather than hit by chance
- Anyone who needs audio for listening or pronunciation, since only 1% of notes have a sound file
- Learners who want a clean deck without checking translations for errors
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6Duolingo Turkish for English speakers100% positive of 5 AnkiWeb ratings 47 Weakour #13
A 1,136-word Turkish vocabulary list taken from Duolingo, with audio on every note, that works as a word-recognition drill beside a real course but is not worth studying on its own.
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Verdict
The deck does two things well: it covers a lot of everyday vocabulary, and every note has audio. The sample shows clean, mostly correct glosses, such as elma = apple, su = water and the family terms at the end. Both directions are drilled: the Read card shows the Turkish word and asks for the meaning, and the Speak card shows the English and asks for the Turkish. Where English has one word for two Turkish words, the Speak card adds a 'not adam' or 'not erkek' hint. Against that, every note is a bare word with no example sentence, no grammar information and no usage context. Order follows Duolingo's topic list, not frequency or difficulty, so the first 30 notes include dokunmak (to touch), a lesson-54 word, ahead of the basics. Coverage of the common core is patchy: 53% of the top 1,000 Turkish words are taught, and very common words such as yok, mi/mı/mu, böyle, tek, diye and ancak never appear. Meanwhile later topics such as postane, süpermarket, babaanne and bacanak take up space.
Use it if you already have a way to learn Turkish grammar and sentences and want a large, audio-backed list of nouns, verbs and topic vocabulary to review. Skip it if you want the deck to teach you the language or to sequence your first few hundred words by usefulness. Several glosses list four meanings in one line (for example 'to abandon, to leave, to quit, to give up'), which makes the English-to-Turkish card ambiguous. The deck is also a snapshot of Duolingo as of early 2018, so it carries that course's choices, including odd ones like the extended in-law vocabulary.
Worth it if
- Learners already working through a grammar course or tutor who want a word-by-word review deck with audio
- Duolingo Turkish users who want to drill that course's vocabulary in Anki, using the topic tags to match their lesson
- Learners who like to add their own sentences to a ready set of words and audio
- Anyone who wants both recognition (Turkish to English) and recall (English to Turkish) for each word
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners looking for a complete route into Turkish
- Learners who need to see how words work in sentences or how Turkish suffixes and cases attach
- Anyone who wants the most frequent words first and expects the core 1,000 to be covered
- Learners aiming at B2 on the strength of this deck alone, despite the A1-B2 label
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7Turkish Sentences71% positive of 21 AnkiWeb ratings 63 Mixedour #3
Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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8⚡Turkish (Türkçe) 1m+ multilingual sentences cloze/n+183% positive of 6 AnkiWeb ratings 33 Poorour #25
A 200-note Turkish/English subtitle-sentence deck whose translations are too often wrong or misaligned to trust as a course; mine it for sentences at most.
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Verdict
The deck's best feature is its raw material: five real subtitle lines per headword give you colloquial Turkish like "Karnı aç" and "Bunu kanıtlayacağım", and the two directions are split into separate subdecks. The problems are heavier. In the sample, translations frequently fail to match the sentence they sit beside. "Now [[the]] -" is paired with "Adamın burnunu kırmamalı", "It is a serious illness?" with "Sanırım karınız bu pozisyonda olmayı asla istemezdi", and "Evet, kendiniz alacaksınız" with "Cafeteria style around here, mister." The deck opens with English function words (you, the, I, to, a) whose Turkish lines are fragments like "Moğol..." and "Defol...", which teach nothing. Only 19% of sentences add at most one new word, so most cards throw several unknown words at you at once. Vocabulary is thin and arbitrary: 462 words, 301 of the top 1,000, with first names (Morgan, Herbert, Nicholas, Mickey, Madge, Judith, Nelly) and rare words (güverte, cephane, matmazel) given their own notes. The Turkish-headword half teaches bare inflected forms such as adamlarını, alacaksınız, konudan and kollarını with no explanation of the endings. There is no audio and no grammar sequencing.
This deck suits an intermediate learner who already reads Turkish, can tell when a line is mistranslated, and wants a pile of short, spoken-style sentences to skim. It does not suit a beginner. The opening looks beginner-level, but the examples are unglossed, the pairs can be wrong, and a learner cannot tell which. Anyone who needs reliable meanings, a grammar path or a core vocabulary should use something else.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners who can spot a bad subtitle translation and skip or correct it
- Readers who want exposure to colloquial, film-dialogue Turkish in short lines
- Learners who want to see inflected forms (karşında, kattaki, söyleyeceğini) in several contexts and will look up the endings elsewhere
- People who plan to prune the deck heavily and keep only the good notes
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need clear, correct meanings from the first card
- Anyone who needs a frequency-ordered core vocabulary: the sample teaches 301 of the top 1,000 words, with many names and odd words mixed in
- Learners who need audio or any pronunciation support
- Learners who want a grammar sequence for Turkish cases, tenses and suffixes
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9Turkish Vocabulary100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 30 Poorour #29
A 1,244-note Turkish word list with English glosses, reasonable raw coverage but no usable order, no audio and visible spelling errors, so it is a mine for words rather than a deck to study front to back.
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Verdict
The deck does one thing reasonably: it collects a lot of everyday and mid-level vocabulary, with 543 of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and many useful verbs such as "hatırlamak" (to remember) and "koşmak" (to run). Short headword-and-gloss cards are quick to review, and some notes add a usable collocation, for example "işiniz ne?" (What do you do for work?). The description promises an order from easy to advanced, but the sample does not show it. The opening is a run of k and m words including "sef", "kibrit" and "kilma", while "bir" (one) and "üç" (three) are the last cards in the deck. The new-word rate swings between 43% and 83% with no steady trend, and the top-1,000 share per tenth wanders between 21% and 56%. Basics such as "sadece", "şey", "mı", "veya" and "teşekkür" never appear. Accuracy is shaky: "sef" (probably şef), "kilma" (probably klima), "yerçekleştirmek" and "okumak başladım" are wrong or ungrammatical. A few cards are scraped Bible verses, such as the one with "Kutsal Yasa'dan öğrendiğimize göre Mesih sonsuza dek kalacaktır.", far above the level of the word beside them. There is no audio, no images, no grammar notes and no context beyond the occasional phrase.
Use this if you already read some Turkish, can spot a typo, and want a pool of vocabulary to cherry-pick from alongside a textbook or course, as the author himself suggests when he recommends keeping a personal deck. It is a supplement for an intermediate learner who will edit as they go. Do not use it as your main route into Turkish. A true beginner cannot tell which cards are wrong, gets no pronunciation help, gets no guidance on how words combine, and meets the vocabulary in an order that does not build.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners (A2-B2) who want a large bank of single words to pick from and can correct errors themselves
- Learners who already have a course or textbook and want extra vocabulary, including topic words like "patlıcan", "kalorifer" and "çaydanlık"
- People who read Turkish and want quick two-way recognition drills on short glosses
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a guided order and pronunciation help
- Learners who want to hear Turkish or learn grammar through example sentences
- Anyone who wants to trust every headword and gloss without checking, given errors like "sef", "kilma" and "yerçekleştirmek"
- Learners who want frequency-ordered vocabulary, since basics like "bir" and "üç" arrive at the end and "sadece", "şey" and "teşekkür" are missing
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10Law words: English Turkish100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 32 Poorour #27
A 28-card English-to-Turkish glossary of courtroom terms, made by a non-lawyer who says it contains errors, and the sample confirms that; use it only as a rough prompt list.
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Verdict
The deck's one strength is its topic. The cards run roughly from courtroom people (judge, lawyer, public prosecutor) to crime (steal, thief, crime) to police, and most entries are core words such as avukat, mahkeme, dava, suç and kanıt. It has real problems, though. Every card is a bare word pair, with no example sentence, no grammar note and no context, so you never see how a term is used. Accuracy is shaky. Card #3 gives "to plead not guilty" as "değil suçunu itiraf etmek", a word-for-word build that is not natural Turkish. Card #25 gives "a police station" as "emniyet", which means security or the police organization. Card #15 gives "civil law" as "medeni kanun", which is the Civil Code. Card #4 gives "to appeal" as the noun "itiraz", where a verb phrase is needed. Card #9 gives "a sentence" as "hüküm", which is closer to a ruling. Several fronts are cluttered with slashes, for example card #11, "a prison/jail/gaol/jailhouse/penitentiary(US)", so it is hard to tell what counts as a correct answer. There is no audio and no images. Because of the errors, you can't trust any single card without checking it.
This deck suits someone who already reads some Turkish and wants a quick checklist of the vocabulary around a court case, and who will check each entry against a reliable dictionary or a Turkish speaker. It does not suit anyone who wants to learn Turkish, or who needs legal terms for real use. The author's own warning not to rely on it is fair. The 28 cards cover about 1% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words, so the deck gives you neither general vocabulary nor usable legal vocabulary. The B1-B2 label does not describe the content, which is a short specialist glossary with no graded difficulty.
Worth it if
- Readers who already know basic Turkish and want a short list of courtroom and police terms to check against another source
- Learners who will verify and correct each card themselves before studying it
- Someone preparing a starter list of legal words to expand with their own sentences
Not for you if
- Beginners looking for general Turkish vocabulary, since the deck covers about 1% of the top 1,000 words
- Anyone who needs accurate legal translation, such as for study, work or documents
- Learners who want to see words in sentences or learn grammar
- Learners who want to hear the words, since there is no audio
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11AJ's Turkish Vocabulary100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 34 Poorour #23
A 1,244-note Turkish word list in near-alphabetical order with no audio, images, or grammar support; it works only as a supplementary vocabulary bank for someone who already has a course.
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Verdict
The deck's strength is breadth: it covers 54% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and 88 of the top 100, and the two-way cards are clean and easy to study. Its weakness is order. The opening runs through obscure or specialized items (kol, konak, Kursak, kurtuluş, nezle olmak) while anne, baba and büyük do not appear until around notes 625 to 644. Common words such as teşekkür, biraz, sadece, şey and mı are never taught. Only 8% of notes are sentences, and the sampled examples are short but sometimes add several unknown words. The sample also shows slips: 'definıtely' with a dotless ı, 'şıkâyet', 'kiralik', 'kasap' glossed as 'butchery', 'oğul' glossed 'son (English)', and one card, #943, with English on the front and Turkish on the back. There is no audio and no grammar, so Turkish case endings and verb forms arrive with no preparation.
Use it if you already study Turkish with a textbook or tutor and want a large list to mine for vocabulary, and you can tolerate proofreading and skipping cards as you go. Do not use it as a first deck or as your main course. It does not take a true beginner from nothing, despite the shared-deck description, and it will not teach you how Turkish sentences are built or how words sound.
Worth it if
- Learners at A2 or above who want extra vocabulary alongside a course
- Readers who want exposure to B1-B2 words such as nitekim, karşın and itiraf etmek, with brief English glosses
- Self-directed learners willing to edit, reorder and suspend cards as they go
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners expecting a guided path from zero
- Anyone who needs to hear Turkish or learn pronunciation from the deck
- Learners who want to understand grammar or see words used in sentences
- Anyone who wants the most common 1,000 words taught early and in a sensible order
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12Easy Turkish Grammar Pack 3100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 57 Mixedour #7
Number 7 in our ranking. Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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13Pimsleur Turkish100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 62 Mixedour #4
Number 4 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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14Turkish Frequency List100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 36 Poorour #20
A 500-card Turkish word list with one-line English glosses and no sentences or audio; a rough vocabulary checklist, not worth studying as a main resource.
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Verdict
The word choice is the deck's strength. 95 of the 100 most common Turkish words on the reference list are taught, and the opening cards (dünya, sen, onlar, yeni, su, ülke) are useful words. The weaknesses are bigger. Every card is a bare headword, so nothing shows how a word behaves in a sentence, and Turkish suffixes and word order are left to you. The order does not follow frequency: evet is card 258, while ev, iyi, kadın and göz are cards 492 to 499. The sample also has weak glosses. alan is glossed "recepient, susceptive", bile as "neither, even", işte as "voila!" and oysa as "where as". durum and hal both get "situation". sana appears at card 382 as a separate word, although sen was taught at card 6. Beyond the top 100, coverage thins quickly: 404 of the top 1,000 words, and 458 of the top 2,000. Common words like da, mi, mı, seni, teşekkür and lütfen are absent.
Use this only as a supplement if you already study Turkish from a course or graded reader and want a list of frequent words to check against or to pick up recognition vocabulary. Do not use it as your first or only deck. You would get no listening practice, no example sentences and no explanation of grammar, and you would have to verify the glosses yourself.
Worth it if
- Learners with a textbook or course who want a quick frequency-based checklist of common headwords
- Reading-recognition practice on short Turkish word to English gloss cards
- People willing to check and correct glosses against a dictionary as they go
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need sentences, pronunciation and grammar explained
- Learners who want to speak or understand spoken Turkish, since no card has audio
- Anyone who wants the most frequent words first, since the order does not follow frequency
- Anyone expecting full coverage of the top 1,000 words, since only 404 are taught
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15Travel Turkish100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 35 Poorour #22
A 127-note Turkish picture-and-audio word list, built by a traveler for personal use, that is only worth studying as a small supplement for tourist vocabulary.
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Verdict
The deck does well on media: 117 of 127 notes carry audio and 120 carry a picture, and most of the sampled entries are concrete nouns (kedi, köprü, elma, gemi) that a picture suits. Each note generates up to four cards (Turkish to meaning, picture to word, English to Turkish, and an optional spelling card), so you get recognition and recall from one entry. The weaknesses are in the material. Every sampled note is a single word or short phrase, and the Example Sentence field is empty, so you never see a word in use or any Turkish grammar. After the opening block of numbers and greetings, the order is alphabetical (ağaç, ağrımak, altın, anne, arzu, asker, at, ay), so nothing is sequenced by difficulty or frequency. The numbers are split, with doksan, yüz and kırk beş first and beş through seksen at the end. The deck teaches 77 of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and skips ve, bu, için, çok, ben and var. There are also visible errors: 'Sağ ol' is glossed as 'Hello (familiar)', sixty is spelled 'atmış', and 'lütfen' appears twice (#16 and #103). Some notes have the audio tag in the IPA field and the IPA text in the Recording field (#35, #103).
Worth it if
- A traveler who wants a few dozen picture-backed words and greetings (merhaba, teşekkür ederim, bilet, cadde, çay) to recognize on a short trip
- A complete beginner who wants to hear and see the Turkish numbers 1 to 100 alongside images
- A learner who already follows a textbook or course and wants a small supplementary set of concrete nouns that they will extend themselves
Not for you if
- Anyone who wants to learn to read or build Turkish sentences, because the deck contains no sentences and no grammar
- Learners aiming at a core vocabulary of the most frequent words, since common function words and pronouns are missing
- Anyone who needs reliable translations and pronunciations without checking them against another source
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16Everyday Turkish A1 to B2, with Audio | Eidetic100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 66 Mixedour #2
Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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17Turkish-English 2100075% positive of 4 AnkiWeb ratings 43 Weakour #16
A 21,515-sentence Turkish news-corpus dump (SETimes, Balkan politics) with no audio, images or grammar support; useful as a reading pile for advanced learners, but not a deck to learn Turkish from.
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Verdict
The deck's strength is that the sentences are real human-translated news Turkish, and the vocabulary repeats heavily. After the opening, 93% of sentences add at most one new word, and it covers 97% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words and 92% of the top 2,000. The cost is in what the sentences are: tokenized corpus text about Kosovo, privatisation and EU accession. The opening sentence is "Kosova' nın özelleştirme süreci büyüteç altında", and card 4 introduces 14 new words out of 15. Nothing teaches grammar; case-stacked names and long reported-speech constructions appear from the start. Word coverage looks good on paper, but the 40 most common missing words are all spoken register: lütfen, merhaba, hadi, çay, inşallah, abi, efendim. The Turkish also shows corpus noise: spaces before punctuation ("Kosova' da", "1. 700' den"), missing diacritics ("duzeyde", "mulkiyet", "Sirketi"), and a few pairs that do not match. In #1259 the English "She posted a jump of 203cm" is paired with a Turkish sentence that names Vlasiç. In #21503 the Turkish adds an attribution the English does not carry. There is no audio and no images. Each note makes one card, with the Turkish on the front and the English answer on the back.
Use it if you already read Turkish at roughly B2 and want a large pile of news sentences to harvest for politics, economy and diplomacy vocabulary, ideally alongside a grammar course. Skip it if you are a beginner, if you want to speak or understand everyday Turkish, or if you need clean, trustworthy spelling. Long, comma-heavy news sentences on the front of every card will wear down a learner who does not already read comfortably.
Worth it if
- Intermediate-to-advanced readers who want Turkish news and political vocabulary
- Learners preparing to read Turkish press coverage of the Balkans or the EU
- Anyone who wants a large, cheap sentence pile to filter, trim and rebuild into their own deck
Not for you if
- Beginners, since grammar-dense 15-word sentences start on card 1
- Learners who want conversational Turkish: greetings, requests and everyday words like lütfen, merhaba, çay and hadi never appear
- Anyone who needs audio for listening or pronunciation practice
- Learners who need correct spelling and diacritics on every card
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18Turkish Proverbs67% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 33 Poorour #24
A 102-proverb Turkish collection with literal and figurative English glosses: fun to browse as a supplement, but not a deck to build Turkish on.
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Verdict
The proverbs themselves are real, memorable Turkish, and each card gives a word-for-word rendering plus a meaning, so no word is stranded. Some entries are good: "Damlaya damlaya göl olur" and "Gözden uzak olan gönülden de uzak olur" are short, common sayings you can reuse. Against that, the deck teaches no vocabulary or grammar in any order. The measurements show about 45-70% of the words in each tenth are new right through to the end, and only 11% of sentences add one new word or fewer. Only 150 of the 1,000 most common Turkish words appear, and ve, için, da and daha never do. Rare, culture-bound words (pehlivan, dirhem, yatsı, zurna, minare, sivrisinek) show up early. The sample also has real errors. #59 is a tongue twister ("Çekoslovakyalılaştırdıklarımızdanmısınız...") glossed "Used to show off language skills", not a proverb. #5 glosses "Zaman sana uymazsa sen zamana uy" (adapt to the times) as "Create your own opportunities", which says the opposite. #35 answers a bird-with-one-wing proverb with "What is the sound of one hand clapping?". #93 spells "çignenmeden" for çiğnenmeden and leaves "Lokma" untranslated. #54 has "ağaçı" for ağacı. The English has typos such as "thieft", "whoe sleeps" and "shys". There are no audio files, no images and no grammar notes, so you get no pronunciation help and no help with Turkish suffixes.
This deck suits an intermediate learner (roughly B1-C1) who already reads Turkish and wants a cultural extra: recognizing proverbs, enjoying the imagery, and having something to say to Turkish speakers. It works best as a side deck of a few new cards a day, studied by someone who can catch and correct the errors. Do not use it as a first or main deck. Beginners will meet proverbs full of unfamiliar words and no explanation, and anyone who wants everyday vocabulary, a grammar sequence or listening practice would be better off with another deck. Learners who cannot check Turkish spelling and meaning for themselves also risk absorbing the wrong forms and glosses listed above.
Worth it if
- Intermediate or advanced learners who want proverbs as a cultural supplement to a main course
- Learners who enjoy imagery and idioms and can judge when a gloss looks wrong
- Readers preparing to recognize common sayings in conversation, such as "Damlaya damlaya göl olur" or "Gözden uzak olan gönülden de uzak olur"
- Learners who can check a Turkish spelling or meaning independently and correct cards as they go
Not for you if
- Beginners looking for a first deck, since early cards like #10 and #11 pile up unfamiliar words with no support
- Anyone who wants high-frequency everyday vocabulary, since only 15% of the top 1,000 words appear
- Learners who want a graded path from easy to hard sentences
- Learners who want audio or pronunciation practice
- Learners who cannot spot a misspelling or a bad gloss and would learn the mistakes
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19Easy Turkish Grammar Pack 167% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 27 Poorour #31
Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.
A 26-card Turkish letter-and-number starter sold as a grammar pack; it has no grammar, and three of its pronunciation answers are wrong, so skip it.
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Verdict
The deck does one small job: 14 cards on the Turkish letters that differ from English, plus 12 cards on the numbers 0 to 10 and 1/2 ("1" → "bir", "2" → "iki", "3" → "üç"). The dotted/undotted I pairs (İ/I) and the note that ğ "has no sound, but lengthens the preceding vowel" are useful beginner points. But the letter cards rely on English sound-alike words, and three answers mislead. Ee is keyed to "Eat, Feat" when option c, "Get, Let", is the closer match. Oo is keyed to "Pot, Box" and Uu to "Good, Put", while the closer matches are "Boat, Coat" and "Loot, Shoot". The Uu card also lists "Loot" as option a, and "Loot" appears again in the Üü answer, so the two cards blur together. There are no sentences, no audio, no images, and nothing that matches the shared-deck page's claim of teaching grammar. The word counts read only the Front field, so the number words on the Back (bir, iki, on) are not counted. Even so, the deck teaches about a dozen words and no sentences.
If you have never seen Turkish writing and want a few minutes of exposure to the special letters and a count to ten, you can get that here. Check the E, O and U answers against a reliable pronunciation source first. If you expected a grammar course, a sentence deck, or anything that builds toward reading, this is not it. Even as an alphabet deck it covers only 14 letters and gives you no way to hear them.
Worth it if
- A true beginner who wants a quick look at the letters that differ from English (Ç, Ğ, I/İ, Ö, Ş, Ü)
- Someone who will correct the three faulty letter answers and add their own audio
- Learning the numbers 0 to 10 as a short supplement to another course
Not for you if
- Anyone who downloaded it to learn Turkish grammar
- Learners who want sentences or any context for the words
- Anyone who needs to hear pronunciation, since there is no audio
- Learners who would trust the sound-alike answers without checking them
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20AJ's Intermediate Turkish Grammar (Follows the DLI course)67% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 52 Weakour #11
A 490-card Turkish grammar-pattern deck for learners who already read basic Turkish: worth studying as a drilled supplement, not as a course or a vocabulary builder.
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its organization. It takes one structure at a time and gives each 3 to 8 short sentences with a rule note, for example 'Çay alacağına kahve almışsın.' under '–eceğine: We have given up action (A) and chosen or performed action (B) instead.' Repetition inside a pattern is deliberate, and by the second half most sentences add at most one new word, rising to 83% in the last tenth. Its weaknesses are the opening, polish and coverage. Card 1 has 6 of 6 new words on the front and 37 of 37 on the back, and only about 13% of opening sentences add one new word or fewer. Errors show up in the sample: 'gitmis' without the ş, 'The have so much money!' for 'Onun o kadar çok parası var ki!', 'He said how he he heard', and a card that still carries the author's open question 'Is "Görmeyinceye kadar karara varamam" also correct?'. Vocabulary follows the grammar, not frequency: 265 of the top 1,000 Turkish words are taught, and ile, gibi, ama, nasıl and çünkü never appear. There is no audio and no images.
Use it if you have finished a beginner course, can read simple Turkish, and want to drill suffix patterns such as -dikçe, -ıncaya kadar, -meden and 'olan' clauses until they feel automatic. It also suits someone following the DLI course who wants matching review cards. Do not use it to learn Turkish from scratch, to build core vocabulary, or to train listening. Read the cards critically, since some have typos and a few contain unresolved asides.
Worth it if
- Post-beginner learners who want repeated drilling of Turkish suffix patterns (-dikçe, -eceğine, -ıncaya kadar, -medikçe, -miş olan)
- Learners already using the DLI course who want review cards that follow its order
- Readers comfortable with grammar notes in English who want the rule next to each example
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners, since the first cards assume you can already parse Turkish
- Anyone who wants frequency-ordered core vocabulary, since the deck never teaches ile, gibi, ama or nasıl
- Learners who need listening practice or pronunciation, since there are no sound files
- Learners who want a deck they can trust without checking, since typos and odd English appear in the sample
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21Turkish in 3 Months100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 36 Poorour #21
A 158-card Turkish word list from a beginner course, with audio on every card but no sentences, a scrambled order and several wrong cards, so it is not worth studying as it stands.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The one real strength is that every card has a recording, and most single-word cards are plain and correct: 'Süt', 'kapı', 'pencere', 'büyük' and 'küçük' are all fine. The weaknesses are bigger. The deck opens on the suffix '-li', then sugar, lemon, salt and pear, then plural and possessive forms of words it has barely taught, such as 'yurtlarından' for 'homelands'. The basics arrive last: 'Ben' and 'Sen' sit in the final third, '-de' is the very last card, and only a handful of 'to be' sentences appear, like 'Sen öğretmensin.' Several cards are wrong or confusing. 'benim armut' is given for 'my pear', 'fatura' is the answer for both 'bill' and 'bills', 'Kadın' and 'kadın' are separate cards for 'woman' and 'female', and 'tam' is glossed as 'full'. The sample shows no coverage of the commonest words: 've', 'bir', 'için', 'çok', 'var', 'yok' and 'değil' are all missing, and the 127 distinct words reach only 85 of the top 1,000.
This deck suits someone already working through the 'Turkish in Three Months' book who wants spoken versions of its word lists, and who will check each card against the book. It does not suit anyone starting Turkish from scratch or hoping to read and understand sentences. A true beginner would pick up wrong forms from the plural and possessive cards and would not see how the pieces fit together.
Worth it if
- Learners working through 'Turkish in Three Months' who want audio for its word lists and will check each card against the book
- Learners who already know basic Turkish and want to drill isolated nouns and adjectives such as 'kapı', 'pencere', 'yorgun' and 'tembel' by ear
- Anyone building their own deck who wants a recorded set of basic nouns to edit and extend
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a clear path from greetings to sentences
- Learners who want example sentences, dialogue or context for each word
- Anyone aiming at everyday Turkish reading or conversation, since the most common function words are absent
- Learners who cannot spot errors on their own, because the plural and possessive cards contain wrong forms
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22Bildetema – Turkish-English Visual Dictionary100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 46 Weakour #14
A picture-labeled Turkish noun dictionary with audio on every card, useful as a topic vocabulary supplement but not as a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck gives you 1,191 notes in 21 topic subdecks, each with an image and a recording, and each note is drilled five ways: pick or type the Turkish, pick or type the English, and type what you hear. That is a solid mechanism for concrete nouns such as 'kepçe / ladle', 'kartal / eagle' and 'klavye / keyboard'. The weaknesses are in the material. The measured counts show only 23% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words, and none of the top function words (bu, için, de, çok, ben). The sample opens with 'babaanne' and 'anneanne', then runs through kitchen tools, bones and insects, and never moves beyond single words. Only 19 notes are sentences, all clock times like 'saat üçü beş geçiyor', and there is no grammar teaching. Errors also turn up in the sample: 'kız kardes' glossed 'little sister', 'ekmek kızartma makinsi', 'mackarel', 'uykusuz' glossed 'tired / sleepy', and 'konut hava durumu' as the Turkish for 'dry weather'. The same Turkish word also appears with different glosses, such as 'dede' for grandfather, maternal grandfather and paternal grandfather, and 'çene' for both chin and jaw.
Use it if you already have a core course or tutor and want picture-anchored topic vocabulary, such as body parts, kitchen items, animals or clothes, with a native recording to copy. Do not use it as your main route into Turkish. Nothing in it teaches you to build or understand a sentence, and the words are ordered by Bildetema's topic index, not by how often you will meet them. Treat the English glosses with some caution and check unusual ones before you commit them to memory.
Worth it if
- A1 learners who already study from a course and want topic vocabulary with pictures and audio
- People who learn nouns best from images, such as kitchenware, body parts, clothes, animals and sports
- Learners in Norway or other multilingual settings who want vocabulary matching the Bildetema picture dictionary
- Anyone who wants to practice hearing a word and typing it, using the Listening card
Not for you if
- Beginners who want a path to speaking, since there are almost no sentences and no grammar
- Learners who want the most common 1,000 words first, since the deck covers 23% of them and no function words
- Anyone who wants example sentences, dialogues or usage notes
- Learners who cannot easily type Turkish letters (ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, ü) on their device, because four of the five cards are typed or rely on the choices
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23Beginner Turkish with media100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 54 Weakour #10
Number 10 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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24Turkish English / Türkçe İngilizce100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 24 Poorour #32
A 13-word personal Turkish-English vocabulary list with no sentences, audio or images; not worth studying as a course or as a deck for A2-B2 learners.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's glosses are mostly correct, and the card design is simple and clear: Turkish on the front, English on the back, with an optional reverse card. Beyond that it has little to offer. The 13 words look like one person's grab-bag: 'biberon' (feeding bottle), 'seksek' (hopscotch), 'ceylan' (gazelle), 'koruluk' (small wood) and a few tagged Business/Elementary items such as 'görev' and 'patron'. None of the 100 most common Turkish words appear, and only 3 of the top 1,000 do. Every card is a single word with no example sentence, so you never see how a word behaves in use. There are small errors: 'iligili' should be 'ilgili', 'appearence' is misspelled, and 'kılık' is glossed as 'appearence of s.o.'. The front template also prints the meaning-count field, which can show a bare '2' next to the word. The shared-deck page itself says the description may be extended once more notes are added, which suggests the deck is unfinished.
Only use this if you want a few extra Turkish nouns and verbs to merge into your own collection, and you can check them yourself. Do not use it as a primary deck, as a way to build a core vocabulary, or to learn grammar or listening. With 13 notes and no ordering principle, it will not carry you through A2-B2 or anywhere close.
Worth it if
- Borrowing a handful of individual words (such as 'isyan', 'geleneksel', 'gerçekleştirmek') for a collection you already maintain
- Seeing a minimal example of a bidirectional word-and-gloss note type with a conditional reverse card
Not for you if
- Beginners looking for a core Turkish vocabulary: none of the top-100 words are taught and only 3 of the top 1,000
- Learners who need sentences, grammar or listening practice: there are no sentences, no audio and no images
- Anyone expecting coverage of the stated A2-B2 range from 13 words
- Learners who cannot spot spelling errors, such as 'iligili' for 'ilgili'
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25RAJ 1000 Most Common Turkish Words100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 43 Weakour #17
A frequency-ordered list of about 1,000 Turkish headwords with English glosses, no sentences and no audio: usable as a quick vocabulary checklist, but weak as a primary study deck.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's strength is its order. In the sample, common words arrive early: 95 of the top 100 Turkish words are taught, mostly in the first quarter, and the opening cards (bir, ve, olmak, bu, için, o, ben) are the right ones to meet first. Headwords are spelled correctly and the glosses are mostly right. But every note is a bare word with a string of English meanings, such as 'varmak: to arrive (at/in), to get to, to reach, to attain, to appear, to hit; to amount to; to approach', with nothing to show which sense matters or how the word behaves in a sentence. Some glosses look machine-pulled: 'ama: but, if', 'kendi: own, self, respecting', 'kural: ... ordonnance'. Coverage is also patchy. It teaches only 62% of the top 1,000 and skips very common items like da, mi, mı, seni, teşekkür and lütfen, while later entries drift toward oddities like 'âdet: usage, habit; menstruation' or 'birim: unit, monad'. The case markers in parentheses, such as 'yapmak (i)' and 'çıkmak (den)', are unexplained, appear on only some verbs, and nothing in the deck tells you what they mean.
Use it if you already have a textbook or course and want a frequency-ranked list to check against or to drill in the reverse direction. It suits a learner who can add their own context. Do not use it as a first or only deck. A true beginner gets no grammar, no pronunciation and no example of any word in use, and Turkish suffixes and word order will not be learned from isolated headwords. Anyone who wants to read or listen to Turkish will need to supply sentences and audio from elsewhere.
Worth it if
- Learners who already study from a course or textbook and want a frequency-ordered vocabulary supplement
- Checking which of the most common Turkish words you do not yet know
- Self-directed learners willing to add their own example sentences and audio
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need grammar explained and words shown in sentences
- Anyone who needs to hear Turkish, since there is no audio
- Learners who want to see how words behave in context, since the deck gives only isolated headwords and gloss lists
- Learners who need the 100 or so everyday function words and phrases the deck skips, such as da, mi, mı, lütfen and teşekkür
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26Turkish Verbs100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 30 Poorour #30
A 199-card alphabetical list of Turkish verb infinitives with English glosses, useful only as a rough verb checklist and not worth studying as a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck does one thing: it gives you a Turkish verb for each English gloss, such as 'sell' -> satmak or 'cough' -> öksürmek. Many of the verbs are everyday ones, and the sample shows almost no errors in the Turkish. The weaknesses are structural. Cards run alphabetically, so çarpmak ('collide with, strike against, multiply, bang') and dövmek ('beat, thrash, pound') arrive in the first 25 cards while yapmak, almak and bilmek come near the end. Measured coverage is thin: 75 of the top 1,000 Turkish words and 122 of the top 2,000. There are no sentences, no audio and no images. Several prompts pile up unrelated senses, for example 'knock (down), steal, play a musical instrument, ring a bell' for çalmak. There are also small slips: değismek for değişmek, 'Seperate' for ayırmak, and stray capitals and spaces in a few glosses.
Use it if you already have a Turkish course or grammar and want a supplementary list of verb stems to check yourself against, ideally one you will rework. Do not use it as a first deck or as your main way to learn the language. It cannot teach you how verbs are conjugated, which case their objects take, or how they sound in a sentence, and the unordered, mixed-frequency list gives a beginner no sense of what to learn first.
Worth it if
- Learners who already study Turkish elsewhere and want a quick checklist of common verb infinitives
- Anyone willing to add their own example sentences and audio to a ready-made verb list
- Learners who want English-to-Turkish recall practice for single verbs
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who need an ordered path from simple to harder material
- Learners who want to understand conjugation, tense or case government from the cards
- Anyone who wants listening practice or sentence-level reading practice
- Learners who want comprehension-oriented study with natural context
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27Most Useful Turkish Phrases100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 56 Mixedour #9
Number 9 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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28Beginning Turkish/English Vocabulary100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 31 Poorour #28
Bobs Turkish is a shuffled list of 722 single-word cards with no sentences, audio or images, and it is only worth using as a supplementary English-Turkish word bank.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's strength is that the cards are simple and mostly correct: one Turkish word or short phrase against an English gloss, such as «yağmur» / «rain» and «kütüphane» / «library». It covers everyday nouns, adjectives and infinitives. The problems are structural. In the sample, 709 of 712 measured notes are words or short phrases, and the few sentences are trivial ("Bu bir kitap", "Bunlar kitaplar."). Order follows no frequency or topic logic: «jilet» (razor) is card 11 and «vapur» (ferry) is card 23. Meanwhile very common words are never taught, including da, gibi, var, yok, ki, sen, biz, şimdi and çünkü, and the deck covers only 33% of the top 1,000 words. I also found errors in the sample. «kuçuk» should be küçük, «şıkayet etmek» should be şikayet, «-den bahsetmek» is glossed as "from mention", and card 544 has its fields swapped (Front "half", Back "yarım"). "kalkmak" appears at both #15 and #713.
Use this if you already study Turkish from a course or textbook and want extra vocabulary to flash-card, and you are willing to edit cards as you go. Skip it if you are a true beginner looking for a path, or if you want to learn how Turkish sentences work. Nothing here shows suffixes in use, word order or any context, and the sequence will not tell you what to learn first.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course and want a loose bank of nouns, adjectives and verb infinitives to drill
- Intermediate learners who can spot and skip the odd typo and the rare words themselves
- People who want quick two-way word recall and will add their own example sentences
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a guided sequence from the most common words
- Anyone who wants to learn grammar or sentence patterns from the cards
- Learners who need audio for pronunciation
- Learners who want comprehensible-input practice, since there is almost no running text
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29Easy Turkish Grammar Pack 2100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 38 Poorour #18
Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.
An 18-card Turkish A1 pack of number words plus five locative-suffix examples; too thin and too flawed to be worth studying as a grammar course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The number cards are clean single-answer recall: "20" gives "yirmi", "100" gives "yüz", and the tens run in order. The locative cards ("at home" gives "evde", "at school" gives "okulda") show -de/-da with a short rule note, and the stems (ev, okul, araba, göl, kedi) cover both back and front vowels. Against that, the pack is billed as grammar, yet 13 of its 18 notes are bare numerals and none is a sentence. Card 13 spells the word "millyon" where standard Turkish has "milyon". Card 18 prompts "in the cat", which is an odd English cue for "kedide". The rule note says the suffix follows vowel harmony and ignores the -te/-ta form after voiceless consonants, so the rule is incomplete. "on bir" and "on iki" also come before "on" and "bir" are taught. The file has no audio or images, and it covers about 1% of the 1,000 most common Turkish words.
Use it only as a small number-word drill, and only after fixing the misspelling. It is a supplement, not a way to learn grammar. If you want grammar, sentences, or a frequency-driven core vocabulary, look for another deck. Nothing here teaches common words such as ve, bu, için, çok or ben, and nothing shows the suffix in a sentence.
Worth it if
- A1 learners who want a quick drill of Turkish numbers from 11 to 1,000,000
- Learners who already have a course and want a short extra reminder of the -de/-da locative suffix
- Anyone who wants a tiny base deck to edit and extend with their own cards
Not for you if
- Anyone expecting a grammar course, despite the "Grammar Pack" name
- Learners who need example sentences or reading and listening practice
- Learners who want common-word coverage; the deck teaches 9 of the top 1,000 words
- Learners who want a correct, complete explanation of locative forms without checking another source
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30Turkish Vocabulary Core 1k (from Ling) by Soi100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 61 Mixedour #5
Number 5 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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31Turkish 12000 sentences from easiest to hardest50% positive of 6 AnkiWeb ratings 60 Mixedour #6
Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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32Turkish - 2,000 Most Frequent Words50% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 33 Poorour #26
A part-of-speech word list of about 2,100 Turkish entries taken from a frequency dictionary, with no sentences, audio or grammar, so it is only worth studying as a supplement for someone who already has a Turkish foundation.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The glosses are mostly sound, and the cards are clean and readable. The opening is sensible: the first 27 pronoun notes run bu, o, ben, biz, sen, siz, herkes, kim. After that the deck is sorted by part of speech, not by frequency. In the sample, the verb subdeck at roughly 25% of the deck includes demokratikleşmek ("to democratize"), yadırgamak ("to find odd") and yalamak ("to lick"), and the adverb subdeck ends on sabahleyin and düpedüz. Every entry is a bare word or short gloss, so you never see a word used in a sentence, a case ending or a verb form. Direction is also inconsistent: Adıllar and İsimler put Turkish on the front ("savaş / war"), while Fiiler, Sıfatlar and Zarflar put English on the front ("to kiss / öpmek"). That inconsistency also means the coverage figures (46% of the top 1,000) are probably understated. The measurement read the Back field as Turkish, so it reports bu, ben, sen, biz and kabul as never taught, yet the sample shows them on cards (#1, #3, #6, #781). Even so, the order by part of speech, the missing context and the missing audio all stand. A few spellings are non-standard: "obğektif", "birşey", "herşey", "hergün" and "yeralmak". Some glosses are loose, such as tütmek as "to smoke".
Use this if you can already read simple Turkish and want to widen your reading vocabulary through a recognition list, ideally alongside a course or graded reader that supplies sentences. It also suits someone willing to build their own example sentences and ordering on top of it. Do not use it as a first Turkish deck. With no sentences, endings or audio, you would be memorizing isolated words and would meet rare verbs long before you have the common nouns and everyday verbs that Turkish text is built on. It is also a poor fit for anyone who wants to speak or understand speech.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners who already read Turkish and want to widen their recognition vocabulary for written texts
- Learners who will add their own example sentences, or pair the deck with a graded reader or course
- Someone who wants a quick look-up and review list of nouns, adjectives and adverbs by part of speech
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need common everyday words in a sensible order
- Anyone who wants to learn how Turkish sentences, case endings or verb forms work
- Learners who want to speak or understand spoken Turkish, since there is no audio
- Anyone expecting a frequency-ordered core of the most common words in the order of use
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Specialist decks: analyzed, not ranked
These three decks teach one thing each: the sounds of the Turkish alphabet, numbers written out in words, and the letters of the Ottoman script. The analyzer scores a deck as a full language-learning resource, so they lose points on vocabulary, sentences and grammar, which they were never built to teach. Their reports are here for anyone who wants that one focused drill.
1Turkish Alphabet100% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 58 Mixednot ranked
Pronunciation: the sounds of the alphabet, 29 cards.
A complete, accurate 29-card Turkish alphabet deck with audio on every card, worth an hour or two as a pre-class primer and not worth studying beyond that.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck covers all 29 letters in alphabet order, with the capital-lowercase pair on the front (for example 'Ğ ğ', 'I ı', 'İ i') and three Turkish words on the back (for example 'doğru, ağrı, bağır' for Ğ). Every card has an audio file, and I found no errors in the sample, which here is the whole deck. The example words are mostly concrete and everyday ('kedi', 'masa', 'su', 'otel'). The cards are bare, though. Nothing marks the target letter inside the words, the words have no translations, and the front is just a letter with no prompt saying what to recall. Each card carries a single audio file for three words, so you can't tell from the file whether all three are spoken. The measurements show the deck is not a vocabulary course: it teaches 2 of the top 1,000 Turkish words, and it has no sentences, grammar or context.
Use it if you are a true beginner who wants to link each Turkish letter to its sound before a first A1 class, ideally with a teacher who can explain the sounds. The author says it was built for exactly that, and it fits. Skip it if you want vocabulary, sentence practice or anything past letter recognition. It also won't help if you need a deck that explains how the letters sound, since the cards give no pronunciation notes and rely entirely on the audio.
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners learning the Turkish letters before a first class
- Students of the deck author's A1 class, as the author intends
- Learners who need to learn the ğ, ı/İ, ş, ç, ö and ü letters by ear
- A short daily review of letter-to-sound links
Not for you if
- Anyone looking to build Turkish vocabulary: it teaches 30 words, nearly all outside the 1,000 most common
- Learners who want sentences, grammar or context
- Self-study with no teacher or other source for sound explanations, since cards carry no pronunciation notes
- Anyone past the first week or two of Turkish
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2Ottoman Turkish - Osmanlı Türkçesi100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 47 Weaknot ranked
Script: the letters of the alphabet used before 1928, 35 cards.
A 35-card Ottoman Turkish alphabet deck that follows the traditional letter order, but with a wrong card at #2, no audio and no words, it is only a rough starting aid.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck does one thing: it shows one Arabic-script letter on the front and gives the Turkish letter name and Latin value on the back, such as ﺏ -> "be, b" and ﺩ -> "dal, d". The order is the standard alphabet order and each card adds one item. Multi-value letters are at least recorded, for example ﻭ -> "vav, v, o, ö, u, ü" and ﻯ -> "ye, y, ı, i". The problems are accuracy and thinness. Card #2 shows the glyph ﺕ but answers "Hemze ', a, e, i, u, ü", and ﺕ appears again at #5 as "te, t", so you would learn contradictory answers for one glyph. In the sample, #23 is missing a comma ("gayın g, ğ"), #31 gives only "n" with no letter name, and the back fields list several sound values with no labels for which applies when. There is no audio, no images, no example words, and every card shows an isolated letter form, so you never see how letters join or change shape inside a word.
Use it if you read Turkish, already have a textbook or teacher for Ottoman script, and want a quick drill to match letter shapes to names. Do not rely on it as your only resource, and do not use it if you want pronunciation, reading practice or vocabulary. The deck teaches none of the 1,000 most common words, which is expected for a letter deck, but it also means it gets you only as far as the first step of reading. Check the card at #2 against a reliable alphabet chart before you study.
Worth it if
- Turkish speakers who want a quick drill matching Arabic-script glyphs to Turkish letter names
- Learners who already have a textbook or teacher for Ottoman Turkish and need a small supplementary deck
- People who want the traditional alphabet order in a short deck they can finish in a few sessions
Not for you if
- Anyone who wants to hear the letters, since there is no audio
- Learners who need to read connected Ottoman text, because there are no words, sentences or letter-joining forms
- Non-Turkish speakers, since the explanations and letter names are written in Turkish
- Beginners who need explanations of how vowel and consonant values of letters like vav, he and ye are chosen
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3Turkish Numbers from 1 to 1.000.000100% positive of 1 AnkiWeb rating 62 Mixednot ranked
Numbers drill: writing out numbers from 1 to 1,000,000.
Sayılar is a clean, accurate 44-card list of Turkish numbers from 0 to 1,000,000 with audio on every card, worth an hour or two as a supplement but not as a way to learn Turkish.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck does one narrow job carefully. The order is sensible: 0 to 9, then 10 to 19 ("On bir", "On iki"), then 20 to 23, then the tens, then 100, 200 and 245, then 1000, 2023, 10.000 and "Bir milyon". Each card adds almost nothing new, and compound cards like "İki yüz kırk beş" and "İki bin yirmi üç" introduce zero new words, so they test whether you can assemble numbers rather than just recall them. Every number word in the sample matches its digits, and all 44 notes carry audio, though I can't judge how good the recordings are. The weaknesses come from scope. There are no sentences, no example fields filled in, and no explanation of how Turkish builds numbers. Only 23 distinct words are taught, and the measurements show 14 of the top 1,000 Turkish words covered, so the deck teaches almost no general vocabulary. It also reuses a note type built for English example sentences, so the cards carry empty fields and an unused type-in slot.
Use it if you are a true beginner who wants numbers drilled with audio, or if you already study from a course and want a quick supplement for counting, prices, years and phone numbers. Skip it if you want to read or speak Turkish in context, or if you expect it to supply the grammar and everyday vocabulary that an A1 learner needs. Each card is also a single digits-to-Turkish prompt, so you practice producing numbers but never hearing one and decoding it.
Worth it if
- Beginners who need to memorize Turkish numbers 0 to 1,000,000 with native-style audio on every card
- Learners of a Turkish course who want a short drill deck for counting, years and prices
- Anyone who wants to practice building compound numbers ("İki yüz kırk beş" = 245, "İki bin yirmi üç" = 2023) from a small set of building blocks
Not for you if
- Learners looking for general A1 vocabulary or sentence practice (the sample shows no sentences and the Example fields are empty)
- People who want grammar explained, since nothing on the cards says why "On bir" is 11 or how the tens and hundreds combine
- Learners who need to understand spoken numbers by ear first, because each card is digits on the front and the Turkish word on the back
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How we picked and scored the decks
We searched AnkiWeb for “turkish” on November 8, 2026 and went down the results in the order AnkiWeb lists them. A deck made the list if an English speaker can learn Turkish with it. That includes decks written entirely in Turkish, which suit advanced learners and are marked Turkish only. It rules out decks for speakers of other languages and decks that teach English. The first 30 that qualified are on this page. When a deck comes in parts, we analyzed and ranked every part on its own score, since a series split by level (A1, A2, B1) can be strong where a learner past part 1 would start. Each part's card shows how the other parts scored. Decks that train a single skill, like pronunciation or numbers, are analyzed in their own section and not ranked.
Each deck was scored once with Anki Deck Analyzer 1.8.2 (claude-sonnet-5-5, effort high, the same settings for every deck), from the file as downloaded, with the deck's AnkiWeb description passed along. The analyzer measures what can be counted (the progression curve, vocabulary against a frequency list, audio and image coverage) and has Claude read a fixed sample of about 90 notes for the rest. The score is out of 100: the five fundamentals carry 80% of it, the four nice-to-haves 20%.
26 decks we skipped, and why
- The Oxford 5000 - English English Turkish (version 2): teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Oxford 5000 Word List (English-Turkish)(İngilizce-Türkçe): teaches English to Turkish speakers
- english - turkish with images and audios: teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Turkish Arabic: for Arabic speakers
- A1 German Turkish: teaches German to Turkish speakers
- Русско-Турецкий\Russian-Turkish\RU-TR: for Russian speakers
- Türkisch A1 Vokabeln: for German speakers
- Турецкий 3000 слов.: for Russian speakers
- Yiğit Efe - Başlangıç Seviyesi İngilizce: teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Durusul Lugatil Arabiyye - Cilt 1 - Ders 1-2: teaches Arabic to Turkish speakers
- Turkish Persian 3000 words: for Persian speakers
- Türkisch Deutsch Lang KoEk: for German speakers
- English Conjunctions (Turkish): teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Turkish Persian 1000: for Persian speakers
- Vocabulário Turco PT-BR (Turkish Vocabulary): for Portuguese speakers
- Gökşin - İngilizce 4. sınıf: teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Memrise Turkish-Arabic تركي-عربي: for Arabic speakers
- Istanbul Yanabcilar Icin Turkce: for Uzbek speakers: the textbook's translations are in Uzbek, with English alongside
- English - Turkish (1922 Cards): teaches English to Turkish speakers
- English - Turkish - 4 (3252 cards): teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Arabic common 100 words: teaches Arabic to Turkish speakers
- 🇬🇧🇹🇷 2000 Academic Words/Phrases (English-Turkish): teaches English to Turkish speakers
- Almanca-Türkçe-İngilizce A1.2 (Menschen): teaches German to Turkish speakers
- Турецкий 3000 слов.: for Russian speakers
- Turkish words A1 (400 words ) with image and audio: for Arabic speakers: pictures with Arabic glosses, no English
- Academic English Words for Turkish speakers: teaches English to Turkish speakers
A few things the score can't tell you. The analyzer can't hear the audio or see the images, so those two criteria only check that the files are there. It reads a sample, so it can miss errors in a large deck. Each criterion is judged once, and a second run can move a criterion by a point, so read decks a few points apart as level. The weighting is ours, too. A deck that scores 60 may still suit you if the thing it's weak at is something you don't care about.
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