Launch of the MOOC "Turkish Language Contact Kit": registration now open!

23 May 2023

  • Distance learning

  • Digital education

  • Training

Are you a language enthusiast? A professional preparing for a trip to Turkey? A curious tourist? A language student? This MOOC will help you acquire the basics of the Turkish language - a language that is both Asian and European, like the country itself. Open to all and free of charge, it will run from April 24 to June 2, 2023. Registration is open from March 20 to May 20, 2023.
MOOC Turc - visuel
MOOC Turc - visuel © Inalco‎

Launched in 2017, Inalco's MOOCs can be accessed worldwide on the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform. These "contact kits" offer beginners a oral and written initiation and cultural cues centered around several tasks enabling initial contact in the language: introducing oneself, getting around, finding accommodation, eating, making a purchase...
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The "oriental language contact kit": Turkish, the first oriental language taught in France at the time of the Sun King in 1669!

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



By the end of the course, you'll know how to introduce yourself, book a hotel room, buy transport tickets and get around, place an order in a restaurant, and shop for gifts and food.



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

The MOOC in practice

The course runs from April 24 to June 2, 2023.



It lasts 6 weeks. The pace of work is estimated at around 5h per week, i.e. 30h of training.



The course is structured by videos of dialogues representing common communication situations and short theoretical lectures that develop the elements of grammar. The lexicon and a mini-text of the week complete the sequences.



Daily exercises will help you check what you've learned. On the forum, you'll be able to exchange ideas in Turkish with other learners and with the teaching team, through a series of short activities. We encourage you to take part in the discussion forum and apply what you learn right away. A worldwide virtual classroom will be created thanks to you!



Training content:

  • short dialogue videos
  • pedagogical videos
  • written and graded practice exercises
  • lexicon of each week
  • one or two short texts to listen to each week
  • one Turkish city to discover per week

This MOOC will be validated by a certificate of participation (with 60% of exercises validated) and/or by a final supervised distance assessment for the Certificate (50% of correct answers).

Register

Registration is open until May 20, 2023 on the FUN platform.

MOOC Turkish language contact kit - Session 1

Course start date: Monday, April 24, 2023