Turkish alphabet is based on Latin letters with 29 letters in total. Compared to English alphabet, there are no Q, W, X but Ç, İ, Ğ, Ö, Ş, Ü. Below you’ll find how to sound them with those that are new to English speakers shown in bold.

Many thanks to this excellent article about Turkish alphabet on wikipedia

Learning these sounds are more important than you think. One great thing about Turkish is words sound with the letters they are formed of. As if you learn how to sound the letters and combine them to speak the words. In English, letters may sound different depending on what word they be a part of.

For example:

Alfabe (Alphabet) sounds as

A (as in father) l (as in let) f (as in far) a (as in father) b (as in bat) e (as in red)

Practice this by first saying each letter separately. A-l-f-a-b-e

Then try the syllables separately: Al-fa-be

Now you can say the whole thing: Alfabe

Of course there are those words that are read the same as English (but means different or doesn’t mean anything): put, mark, red, fart, let, zip, dart, bold, ten, tent, star

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Now you have completed this tiny step, here’s your homework! (ödev):

Try to say Ali (a male name), dokuz (nine), kelime (word), yemek (food) and your own name in Turkish (i.e. Kate will be read as Kuhtae)