Erkan Mayda

Erkan is a skilled and experienced language tutor. He immediately encourages active speaking, which is the approach I need. As a language tutor myself, I appreciate his emphasis on communication while still covering key lexical and grammatical points. The class topics are relevant to everyday conversations. Highly recommended.

I just had a great lesson with Erkan. He spoke clearly and at a speed that was good for me. He also did a good job of correcting my mistakes and also affirming when I said something correctly, which I really appreciated! Overall he seems like a great teacher, and I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for someone to help them with their Turkish!

My teacher taught me how to distinguish the two kinds of present tense in which I found very helpful and very critical for my future Turkish progress. I also found helpful that he taught me suffixes that indicate what is happening at what moment such as learning how to put “while” in a word. This lesson was very informative and very amazing as always and I am excited to continue learning.

I really look forward to my lessons with Erkan. Before my lesson today, I felt like something you find on the bottom of your shoe, with a temperature and the beginnings of a chesty cough. But chatting to Erkan is so relaxing that I soon forgot how ill I was and started to enjoy myself. I am able to have meaningful conversations with him, and his gentle corrections are always useful without being intimidating.

I really enjoyed the fact that we have conversations concerning a variety of topics including daily routines, habits, and culinary passions. He truly makes your Turkish vocabulary not only expansive but makes you prepared for more common topics and for rare topics. I would truly recommend taking a lesson from him to expand your abilities.

Great lesson, looking forward for the next, thank you