We teach Turkish the way Turks actually speak it — from a small studio in Istanbul, to students in more than 50 countries.
I was working as a part-time student at the International Office, helping international students with Turkish bureaucracy.
Then one day, Sarah — now my wife — walked in.
She needed help with her residence permit documents.
I filled out all the paperwork…
Not long after, we fell in love 🙂
We had such a strong connection that we made it work despite the difficulty we had communicating with each other.
At first, we only spoke English. My English was really bad, so she helped me improve a lot.
And not just with the language.
With life in Turkey…
The language barrier was real.
And it wasn’t because she wasn’t trying. She was.
She tried to learn Turkish with:
She was doing everything she could. But none of it worked.
She wasn’t the problem. The method was.
The books, apps, and courses all taught Turkish the way other languages are taught 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇷
Learn phrases. Memorize grammar. Hope it sticks.
Problem is…
Turkish is a very special language with specific logical rules.
Memorizing 100 words will not help you like Spanish…
I was honestly surprised at how these so-called “learning tools” were setting her up to fail…
Unlike English or Spanish, Turkish is built on suffixes and logical patterns.
You can’t memorize your way to fluency — you need to see those patterns in real, repetitive, meaningful contexts.
Once she started learning Turkish as it’s supposed to be learned, she started seeing great results:
And before she knew it, she was out on her own to live her life.
She got a job…
Made a lot of Turkish friends…
And most importantly…
I didn’t have to go shopping with her anymore 😄
My mom was more than happy to do that for me.
I realised how many other people were stuck exactly where Sarah had been.
Smart. Motivated. But stuck.
Not because they weren’t trying.
Because they were learning Turkish the wrong way.
So I opened a YouTube channel. One video a week.
A few hundred subscribers. Then a few thousand. Then tens of thousands.
Today we’re at 300,000 subscribers on YouTube, and over 3,000 students learning inside our courses.
We’ve refined this method with thousands of students — and we’re just getting started.
A full path from A1 to B1, so you always know what to learn next.
Work 1-on-1 with a real Turkish teacher every single week.
New lessons every week, watched by hundreds of thousands every month.
Not an app. Just people who care whether you actually learn.
Turkish isn’t random. Once you see its pattern system, grammar stops feeling like a wall and starts feeling like a shortcut.
Not just “study” it. Every new word, every grammar rule goes straight into a real sentence — because that’s how it sticks.
Not textbook Turkish. The version you’ll hear in an Istanbul tea garden, at a Fenerbahçe game, or over dinner with your in-laws.
Ask a question inside our platform and a real Turkish teacher answers — usually within a day. No bots.
A small team of Turkish teachers working from Istanbul to help students around the world actually speak the language.
Seven days of our best A1 lessons. No credit card needed — see for yourself why over 3,000 students chose Turkishle.
