Crimean Tatar
A beginner course in vocabulary and grammar.
Start with the basics. Each lesson begins with a choice of Latin or Perso-Arabic script.
First words & word building
Learn a few everyday words, then see how a single ending changes their meaning.
10–15 minutes · 8 exercises Lesson 2 · BeginnerMeet the distinctive sounds
Learn how six distinctive sounds are formed, compare their features, and recall words from memory.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 3 · BeginnerWord stress & greetings
Find the strong syllable, notice endings that do not take stress, and learn a short greeting exchange.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 4 · BeginnerBuild a sentence
Arrange subjects, objects, and verbs; ask about people and things; and learn short farewells.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 5 · BeginnerConsonants & syllable patterns
Compare consonant groups and distinguish the sound of a consonant from the syllable pattern used in grammar.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 6 · BeginnerPlurals & counted things
Choose a plural ending, build noun phrases, and decide when a quantity already makes the meaning plural.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 7 · BeginnerVowel harmony
Follow the last vowel when choosing endings, and notice how lip rounding affects word building.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 8 · BeginnerInfinitives & useful verb phrases
Build dictionary forms of verbs and use short phrases for necessity, possibility, and refusal.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 9 · BeginnerChoose the suffix consonant
Combine vowel harmony with the stem's final consonant to choose location and direction endings.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 10 · BeginnerSix noun cases
Use noun endings to express possession, direction, an object, a location, and a starting point.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 11 · BeginnerWhen stem consonants change
Recognize consonant changes before vowel endings and learn the source's exceptions as complete forms.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 12 · BeginnerPresent-tense actions
Describe who writes, asks, and wants something using the source's affirmative present-tense forms.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 13 · BeginnerTalk about the past
Describe past actions you know about and choose endings for who took, gave, held, or did something.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 14 · BeginnerMy, your & our
Add possessive endings to family words and familiar nouns, with or without an owner pronoun.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 15 · BeginnerWhen a stem loses a vowel
Learn four source word families in which a short stem vowel disappears before a vowel-starting ending.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 16 · BeginnerLink nouns into phrases
Use possessive noun forms in phrases for city centers, holiday days, and named places.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 17 · BeginnerCases after possessive endings
Say to, in, and from with possessed nouns such as our city, your street, and his or her hand.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises Lesson 18 · BeginnerSay what does not happen
Make present and past verbs negative, and use a separate negative word with nouns and short expressions.
15–20 minutes · 12 exercises