Dilsever
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Our Story & Philosophy

Built for the Real Turkish Journey

Dilsever is a Turkish learning app for adults, from A1 to B2, in English, Arabic and Russian. Vocabulary, suffixes, verbs and numbers are separate practice tracks, each on its own spaced repetition schedule, and the grammar lessons show how the pieces join.

Who makes Dilsever

Dilsever is built and run by Ahmet D., an independent developer who trades as DomiLabs. He is learning Turkish himself and uses Dilsever for his own study.

It began with a textbook that taught suffixes as a list to memorize. Dilsever builds each word in front of you instead, one suffix at a time, so you can see how the pieces join and what each one adds.

Here is how the content is made and checked. Word meanings are written for Dilsever. English and Arabic meanings are checked by a second model against dictionary entries recorded with each review; Russian meanings are checked by a second model against the Turkish and the English and Arabic meanings. A translation that has not passed review is still shown for reading, but it is kept out of graded practice. Lessons name their reference works, and blog posts list their sources at the end of each article.

The Fundamental Insight: Teach the Seams

Take a common Turkish word. Notice how four distinct grammatical concepts attach in sequence:

evlerimde
in my houses
evhouse (root)
-lerplural
-immy (possessive)
-dein (locative)

Once you understand how the root (ev) accepts plural (-ler), possessive (-im), and locative (-de) endings according to vowel harmony, hundreds of related words become instantly decodable.

Why Most Language Apps Fail at Turkish

Turkish is fundamentally different from Indo-European languages. It does not rely on rigid preposition clusters or arbitrary gender rules. Instead, it builds meaning through precise, rhythmic suffix chains governed by vowel harmony.

Most language learning apps treat words like "ev", "evler", "evlerim", and "evlerimde" as four isolated vocabulary items to memorize in a vacuum. This brute-force approach leads directly to cognitive overload.

Dilsever takes the opposite approach: we teach the seams. When you understand the root and the joins, you can work out forms you have never seen instead of memorizing each one. Our interface is designed to get out of the way of the language and make its mechanical beauty clear.

Dilsever teaches one language on purpose. An app built for many languages shares one format across them. Building for Turkish alone means every tool follows how Turkish works: the suffix builder, the verb drills and the review schedules.

How it is designed

Four principles shape the design: warm paper tones instead of clinical white; solid surfaces with clear borders instead of frosted glass; suffix chains and vowel harmony drawn out in full; and progress reported calmly, with no mascot and no scolding when you take a break.

From A1 Onward: Rigorous CEFR Progression

Turkish learning materials are organized by CEFR level.

A1

Foundational Turkish

Word packs and grammar

The Turkish sound system, vowel harmony, case endings, present continuous tense (-iyor), existential var/yok, and core daily vocabulary.

A2

Elementary Communication

Word packs and grammar

Definite past tense (-di), future tense (-ecek), comparative/superlative constructions, compound nouns, and practical conversational fluency.

B1

Intermediate Structure

Word packs and grammar

Reported past (-miş), passive and reciprocal verbs, conditionals, reported speech, and complex subordinate clauses.

B2

Upper-Intermediate Precision

Word packs and grammar

The 21 B2 grammar topics are live, starting with the verb system: the causative, ability in compound tenses, guesses about the past, verbs with a helper, and the formal -makta. Then come the clause topics: participles in -ar and -maz, -maksızın and -casına, time clauses, formal conditions, and extent and comparison. After them come the connector topics: contrast, adding a point, meğer and -mış gibi, supposing, likelihood, and bari with interjections. Last come the word-structure topics: simple, derived and compound words, nouns from verbs, verbs from nouns, and consonant and vowel changes. The B2 vocabulary collection is complete, with 1,442 B2 words, idioms among them.

C1

Advanced & Mastery

Planned

Planned, not yet available: complex word order, academic and professional vocabulary, and cultural nuance.

Start Learning With Clear Structure

Experience the Suffix Lab, interactive conjugation drills, and spaced repetition decks designed for serious learners.