Learn Turkish for the life you share.
Private 1:1 Turkish instruction built around your own proficiency and goals — while intentionally connecting your learning to the Turkish-speaking partner, family and everyday relationships already part of your life.
You remain the enrolled student and receive private 1:1 instruction on the full MF Turkish curriculum. What makes this program different is that your Turkish-speaking partner is intentionally included in the wider learning journey through guidance, real communication contexts and optional participation.
Already know some Turkish?
Begin when it works for your life.
Turkish for Significant Others is not tied to an academic term. Once your instructor and regular schedule are confirmed, your 10-week program can begin.
Private 1:1 instruction with partner-integrated learning
10-week program · 30 × 45-minute live sessions
Start timing is coordinated with instructor availability
Program timing is coordinated once the learner and schedule are ready. Instructors are assigned from our Turkish teaching team based on availability and program fit.
Your partner is already part of your Turkish world. Your learning program should recognize that.
Learning Turkish because of someone you love is different from learning a language in the abstract.
The language may already be around you — during family conversations, visits to Türkiye, messages, meals, jokes, traditions, celebrations and everyday moments with your partner.
Turkish for Significant Others keeps the academic structure of LevelUp Turkish, but intentionally connects what you learn to the relationships and real-life contexts that motivated you to learn Turkish in the first place.
More than private instruction.
The live instruction remains private 1:1 between you and your MF instructor. But your Turkish-speaking partner is intentionally brought into the wider learning process.
Your MF instructor leads the academic program.
You are the enrolled student in every live session.
Included through guidance, real contexts and optional participation.
- Guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner
- Context drawn from your real relationship and family life
- Communication tasks connected to situations you actually experience
- Suggestions for natural practice between lessons
- Optional partner participation in selected activities or conversations
- Feedback on how your partner can support learning without turning everyday life into another language class
Your partner does not become your teacher. They become part of a learning environment designed to help Turkish enter your shared life more naturally.
We help your partner help you.
Your Turkish-speaking partner may know Turkish naturally — but that does not automatically mean they know what you are learning, what you are ready to practice, or how to support you without overwhelming you.
Throughout the program, Multilingual Future can provide your partner with practical guidance connected to your learning journey.
A clear sense of the language areas and communication goals currently being developed.
Awareness of the kinds of Turkish you will be ready to use next.
Simple ways to create useful, natural opportunities for Turkish outside class.
Guidance that helps your partner support you rather than constantly correct or turn every interaction into a lesson.
PARTNER BOUNDARIES
Your partner is always welcome.
Most live sessions remain focused 1:1 time between you and your instructor. But when it supports your learning, your Turkish-speaking partner is welcome to join selected activities, conversations or practice moments.
- A short real-life conversation task
- Role-play based on situations you actually experience
- Family and relationship vocabulary in context
- Practicing communication for an upcoming visit or event
- Exploring how Turkish is naturally used between partners or within the family
Participation is optional. Your partner never has to attend lessons, complete homework, or take responsibility for teaching you Turkish.
A regular learning rhythm, adapted to your life.
A standard program runs for 10 weeks and includes 30 private 45-minute live sessions, typically three sessions per week. Because instruction is one-to-one, the frequency and distribution of sessions can be adjusted around your availability, goals, desired intensity, upcoming travel and individual learning needs.
10 weeks · 30 sessions
30 × 45-minute private live sessions with your MF instructor.
3 sessions per week
Recurring class days and times are normally established so your learning stays consistent.
Frequency can shift when life does.
Upcoming sessions can be rescheduled without penalty when you notify your instructor in writing by the end of your previous lesson.
Build. Expand. Speak.
BUILD
45 minutesStructured instruction in grammar, vocabulary, and the language patterns that form the foundation of the week's learning.
EXPAND
45 minutesGuided practice that helps learners connect new language, build range, and use it across increasingly meaningful situations.
SPEAK
45 minutesA fully scaffolded discussion session where newly learned language becomes active communication with the instructor and peers.
Your learning doesn't start and end with the live class.
- 1BEFORE CLASS
Preview
Come prepared with focused pre-class materials that introduce the week's language and concepts.
- 2LIVE CLASS
Build · Expand · Speak
Live sessions with your instructor, focused on the language your relationship and family life need.
- 3AFTER CLASS
Practice
Continue with dedicated written and oral post-class activities designed to consolidate the week's learning.
- 4BETWEEN CLASSES
Stay Connected
Use Google Classroom to ask questions, share work, and stay in contact with your instructor between meetings.
Your instructor can use your work and questions to guide feedback both inside and outside the live classroom.
Your Digital Classroom, Connected.
Turkish for Significant Others uses a connected set of digital tools so live instruction, interactive practice, course materials, communication, and feedback remain part of one learning experience throughout the term.
- YOUR MEETING SPACE
Google Meet
Join your instructor and small group for structured live instruction, guided practice, and scaffolded speaking.
- INTERACTIVE LEARNING SPACE
Mural
Work with instructor-led visual activities, interactive language practice, and dynamic digital whiteboard materials during live sessions.
- YOUR LEARNING HUB
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Google Classroom
Access pre-class preparation, post-class written and oral practice, course communication, questions, and instructor feedback between meetings.
Live class, practice, materials, and feedback — connected throughout your program.
Your Turkish, Step by Step.
Turkish for Significant Others follows Multilingual Future's structured Turkish curriculum from Beginner Low through Intermediate High — the same academic pathway used across our adult Turkish programs, with partner and family contexts foregrounded throughout.
- 6Progressive Levels
- MF-Designed Curriculum
Swipe to see all six levels.
Building the Foundation
Build your first functional Turkish.
At Beginner Low, you will build the foundations you need to start communicating in Turkish. You will learn how to form basic sentences, ask and answer everyday questions, describe where things and people are, and talk about what is happening in your daily life.
Introduce Yourself and Get to Know Others
Share basic information about yourself and ask others about their name, age, occupation, hometown, and everyday life.
Talk About Your Daily Routine
Describe what you do during a typical day at home, work, or school.
Express Basic Likes and Dislikes
Talk about things you enjoy, prefer, or do not like in familiar contexts.
Describe Your Immediate World
Talk about your home, workplace, neighborhood, and the people around you.
Navigate Basic Everyday Exchanges
Ask and answer simple questions about where people and things are, where someone is going, and where they are coming from.
Existence and Location — var / yok
Talk about what exists, what is available, and what is or is not present in a place or situation.
Core Noun Cases — Locative, Dative & Ablative
Describe where someone or something is, where they are going, and where they are coming from.
Present Continuous — -Iyor
Talk about what is happening now as well as familiar routines and ongoing activities.
Questions and Basic Information Exchange
Ask and answer common questions about identity, age, occupation, hometown, location, and everyday life.
Everyday Vocabulary Foundations
Build the core vocabulary needed to talk about people, places, routines, preferences, and familiar environments.
- Introductions
- Family and relationships
- Daily routines
- Home and work
- Neighborhoods
- Likes and dislikes
- Everyday questions
Beginner Mid
Connect ideas and begin telling your own stories.
A full Turkish education — set in the life you share.
From Beginner Low through Intermediate High you follow the structured MF Turkish curriculum, with personalized pacing and diagnostic adjustments. This is not a collection of romantic phrases: it remains a complete Turkish-language education program. What changes is where the examples, vocabulary, speaking contexts and assignments come from.
- Your partner
- Your partner's family
- Family gatherings
- Visits to Türkiye
- Everyday household life
- Messages and conversations
- Relationships
- Celebrations
- Food and shared routines
- Humor and informal communication
- Culturally appropriate interaction
Your level is a starting point, not a rigid box.
Placement tells us where your Turkish is strongest overall, but proficiency is rarely perfectly even. You do not need to repeat an entire earlier level because of a few missing areas. Sequencing and emphasis are adjusted within the standard 10-week, 30-session program to match your actual proficiency profile.
Intermediate Low
Your overall starting level
Selected earlier-level gaps
Only the specific areas that need reinforcement
Intermediate Low pathway
Keep moving where you are ready
At advanced levels, the curriculum becomes fully yours.
Advanced Low, Advanced Mid and Advanced High are designed entirely around you. Relationship and family contexts can go much deeper — and advanced work is never limited to partner-related topics alone.
- Deeper family conversations
- Humor & informal registers
- Idiomatic language
- Social nuance
- Extended family communication
- Heritage & family topics
- Life in Türkiye
- Complex cultural contexts
- Literature, media & pop culture
- Your professional interests
- Your own focus
A curriculum built from scratch — not around a generic coursebook.
Turkish for Significant Others is built around Multilingual Future's own Turkish curriculum and instructional materials, developed from scratch by our Curriculum Design Team and continuously refined through classroom experience.
- FORMALLY TRAINED LANGUAGE EDUCATORS
Boğaziçi University · Foreign Language Education
- MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Our instructors have firsthand experience learning additional languages.
- RESEARCH-INFORMED CURRICULUM
Second Language Acquisition · Applied Linguistics · Linguistics
- 01Formal Teacher Education
- 02Multilingual Learning Experience
- 03Doctoral Research Expertise
Every Turkish for Significant Others educator is trained in foreign language education.
Every member of Multilingual Future's Curriculum Design Team and Instructional Team received formal university training in Foreign Language Education at Boğaziçi University.
Their undergraduate training includes foreign language acquisition and teaching, linguistics, language-teaching methodology, pedagogy, and supervised teaching practice — creating a shared academic foundation for how Multilingual Future designs curriculum and teaches languages.
Our instructors are not simply fluent Turkish speakers or general tutors. They share formal university training in how languages are learned and how they are taught.
Our teachers are language learners, too.
Every Turkish for Significant Others instructor is multilingual. In addition to near-native proficiency in Turkish and English, each member of our instructional team has developed advanced proficiency in at least one additional language through their own language-learning journey.
Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, Persian, French and beyond — our instructors know firsthand what it means to learn another language as an adult, work through unfamiliar grammar, build confidence in speaking, and gradually turn classroom knowledge into real communication.
That experience shapes how we teach: with structure, empathy, realistic expectations, and a clear understanding of what learners need in order to keep progressing.
- Japanese
- Korean
- German
- Spanish
- Persian
- French
- + more
And the curriculum team goes further.
Members of our Curriculum Design Team continue their research at the doctoral level in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and linguistics.
- University of Wisconsin–MadisonSecond Language Acquisition
- Penn StateApplied Linguistics
- MITLinguistics
University affiliations reflect the individual academic backgrounds of Multilingual Future team members and do not imply institutional endorsement.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE CURRICULUM
Designed by researchers and educators working in language education, linguistics, and language learning.
Materials evolve each term based on instructor observations, learner performance, and classroom experience.
Pre-class preparation, live instruction, scaffolded discussion, and post-class practice are designed as parts of the same curriculum—not disconnected worksheets and textbook chapters.
When Turkish starts becoming part of the family conversation.
“I’ve had a wonderful experience with the Turkish language program. The instructors are knowledgeable, encouraging, and very flexible, making it easy to fit lessons into a busy schedule. I’ve made steady progress in my confidence and ability to understand and speak Turkish. I’ve received many compliments from my husband’s Turkish relatives about my ability to speak and understand Turkish. I highly recommend the program to anyone interested in learning the language.”
— KARA ULGEN
- CONFIDENCE
- FAMILY CONNECTION
- FLEXIBLE LEARNING
Not sure which level to choose?
COMPLETE BEGINNERS
Start at Beginner Low.
If you have never studied Turkish before, no placement is required. Turkish for Significant Others begins at Beginner Low.
LEARNERS WITH PREVIOUS TURKISH
Take the placement assessment.
Complete the Multilingual Future Turkish Placement Assessment. Our Academic Team reviews your responses and recommends the level that fits you.
Still unsure? We will help you choose.
Bring more Turkish into the life you already share.
You may not be living in Türkiye, but Turkish may already be part of your relationship. Pseudo-Immersive Context helps turn more of that everyday environment into meaningful language exposure.
Alongside live lessons and structured assignments, learners in Plus and Premium join a private WhatsApp learning space supported by at least two Multilingual Future instructors. Natural Turkish enters the week through voice notes, photos, short videos, everyday expressions, observations, informal interaction and real-life moments.
Where appropriate and desired, your Turkish-speaking partner can also become part of this wider immersive environment. The level of participation stays flexible for both of you.
A private WhatsApp learning space supported by multiple Multilingual Future instructors.
Turkish continues between your scheduled live sessions.
Voice notes, photos, short videos, expressions, observations and informal interaction.
Where appropriate and desired, your partner can join this wider environment — never required.
It is ongoing Turkish exposure and interaction throughout the week — not a claim that an online experience is identical to living in Türkiye.
One academic pathway. Four ways to experience it.
Every Turkish for Significant Others option includes 30 private 45-minute live sessions across a standard 10-week program — and guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner in every plan.
- 30 × 45-minute private live sessions
- Standard 10-week program
- Typically 3 live sessions per week
- Private 1:1 instruction
- Personalized MF Turkish curriculum
- Diagnostic curriculum adjustments
- Personalized pacing and sequencing
- Flexible scheduling structure
- Google Meet · Mural · Google Classroom
- MF-designed materials
- Guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner
- Optional partner participation where pedagogically useful
Partner guidance is included in every plan — it is never a paid add-on, and it does not mean your partner receives 30 additional sessions.
The core Significant Others experience.
$1,320
total for the full 30-session program
$726 × 2
$1,452 total
- Full 30-session program
- Private 1:1 instruction
- Personalized MF curriculum
- Partner guidance
- Flexible learning structure
- Guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner
Expert language educator with a degree in Foreign Language Education.
PSEUDO-IMMERSIVE CONTEXT NOT INCLUDED
Significant Others + Pseudo-Immersive Context.
$1,650
total for the full 30-session program
$907.50 × 2
$1,815 total
- Everything in Basic
- Pseudo-Immersive Context included
- Guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner
Expert language educator with a degree in Foreign Language Education.
PSEUDO-IMMERSIVE CONTEXT INCLUDED
Significant Others with a highly experienced, advanced-level instructor.
$1,750
total for the full 30-session program
$962.50 × 2
$1,925 total
- Full 30-session program
- Personalized MF curriculum
- Partner guidance
- Advanced/senior-level instructor experience
- Guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner
Expert instructor with advanced academic training and extensive experience in language education.
PSEUDO-IMMERSIVE CONTEXT NOT INCLUDED
Our most personalized, partner-integrated and immersive experience.
$2,080
total for the full 30-session program
$1,144 × 2
$2,288 total
- Everything in Pro
- Pseudo-Immersive Context included
- Guidance for your Turkish-speaking partner
Expert instructor with advanced academic training and extensive experience in language education.
PSEUDO-IMMERSIVE CONTEXT INCLUDED
Both payment options cover the same full 30-session program. Paying upfront is the lower total price.
LevelUp Turkish or Turkish for Significant Others?
Private 1:1 Turkish instruction centered primarily on the learner's individual goals, proficiency and life contexts.
Private 1:1 Turkish instruction with the Turkish-speaking partner intentionally built into the wider learning experience through partner guidance, relationship and family contexts, and optional participation.
Same academic rigor. A wider learning relationship.
Build your Turkish for Significant Others experience.
Choose the option that fits the learning experience you want. If you already speak some Turkish, we can first identify the right academic starting point.
Take the Multilingual Future Turkish Placement Assessment and let our academic team recommend your starting point.
You can begin directly at Beginner Low. No placement assessment is needed.