How can you keep your child's Turkish alive abroad?
What helps keep your child's Turkish alive when growing up abroad: at home, with family and in the community, especially once the school language takes over.
Parent Decision Centre
Choosing Turkish lessons for your child means answering several questions at once. This page brings together the questions families ask most often before they sign up, with links to the pages that answer each one in detail.
1. Where should my child start?
Every child's Turkish is at a different point. Some don't know any yet, some understand but answer in English, some speak and want to move on to reading and writing. Knowing the starting point is the first step to choosing the right programme. → Your starting point in Turkish · Assessment · My child understands Turkish but answers in English
2. Which programme for which age?
We have age-appropriate programmes for children aged 4–17. With younger children, play and meaningful interaction come first; with older children, conversation, reading, writing and their own interests take the lead. → Programmes · Ages 4–6 · Ages 7–17
3. One-to-one, sibling or group lessons?
One-to-one lessons follow your child's own pace. Sibling lessons give children in the same home a reason to use Turkish together. → One-to-one or sibling lessons?
4. How do I choose a teacher?
What matters most is the teacher's experience with your child's age and level, a workable time zone, and the relationship they build with your child. → How to choose a Turkish teacher · Our teachers
5. How many lessons a week, and for how long?
Our lessons are 25-minute live lessons. How many to take depends on your child's starting point, how much Turkish is used at home and your family's schedule. → How many Turkish lessons a week does my child need?
6. How will I see progress?
Progress shows not only in tests but in how your child uses Turkish in everyday life. → How can I tell my child's Turkish is improving?
7. I'm worried about raising a bilingual child
Many parents worry that two languages will slow down their child's speech. → Does growing up bilingual delay speech?
8. Prices and the free intro lesson
You'll find packages and current prices on our prices page. Before deciding, a free intro lesson lets you meet the teacher and see how a lesson works. → Turkish lesson prices · Free intro lesson guide · Questions to ask after a free intro lesson
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Take the first step for your child
Choose a teacher and plan a gift intro lesson, or talk with our education team first.
