Bilingualism in Turkey and Turkish Language Education

Figure 1 The response of “A” person acquired Turkish as a second language to the question ““ Where and How did you learn Turkish ?”


I learnt Turkish a bit at home, then I started primary school and at first-grade my Turkish developed some more, then I passed second-grade and my Turkish became better. I mean, I had well knowledge of Turkish when I was eight.


Figure 2 The response of “B” person acquired Turkish as a second language to the question ““ Where and How did you learn Turkish ?”

I learnt speaking Turkish at home. I have been speaking Turkish since I started speaking as far as I know. Bu,t I started speaking Kurdish when I was four. Then, I learnt Kurdish.