Frequently Asked Questions

Dilsever is a dedicated Turkish learning platform built specifically around the agglutinative nature of the Turkish language. Rather than treating inflected words as thousands of separate memorization cards, Dilsever teaches the underlying roots, suffix chains, and vowel harmony rules.

Because Turkish rewards tools built for it. A Turkish word is a root with suffixes stacked on it, and vowel harmony changes each suffix to match the word. An app that teaches many languages shares one format across all of them, so it tends to treat evlerimde as one more word to memorize. Dilsever teaches one language, so the software follows Turkish: it builds words one suffix at a time, works out vowel harmony by rule for 59 suffix families, generates verb forms by rule, and schedules suffixes and verbs for review as well as words.

Yes, from A1 to B2. One ordered path of 200 steps mixes 103 grammar topics, 76 themed word packs and 21 AI tutor scenes, and it always shows your next step. Each grammar topic ends in a mastery check with a pass mark of 7 out of 8. You can also open any step you choose: only Pro locks a step, and a free account opens 6 grammar topics. This is a study path, not a complete course of any level, and C1 and C2 are planned.

It is built around how Turkish works, not around a format shared by many languages. Words, suffixes, verbs and numbers each have their own spaced repetition schedule. The AI tutor, part of Pro, starts from your weak words and recurring mistakes and makes one correction per reply. Every curriculum word has audio and a meaning in English, Arabic and Russian, and the interface works fully in all three, including right to left in Arabic, so you can learn Turkish from your own language rather than through English. Word meanings that have not passed review stay out of graded practice. Dilsever teaches no other language, and it does not replace a teacher.

It depends on your goal, and no app suits everyone. If you want to understand how Turkish works, so you can read and build forms you have never seen, choose an app built only for Turkish: Dilsever is one, with public lessons and a free plan that needs no card. For regular spoken conversation, add a tutor or a speaking partner. For an official certificate you need a recognized course and exam, which Dilsever is not. If Turkish is one of several languages you want to try casually, a general language app may suit you better.

Dilsever follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Levels A1, A2, B1 and B2 are available today, and every word pack and grammar topic is placed at a CEFR level. The B2 vocabulary collection is complete, with 1,442 words, and the 21 B2 grammar topics sit on a B2 path with them.

The U.S. Department of State’s National Foreign Affairs Training Center (formerly the Foreign Service Institute, FSI) puts Turkish in Category III, its “hard languages” for English speakers, and expects about 44 weeks (1,012 class hours) of full-time study to reach level 3 in speaking and listening on the ILR scale, general professional proficiency. Its typical week is 23 hours in class plus 17 hours of self-study. Dilsever covers A1 into B2; that figure is not for those levels, and the real time depends on your weekly hours and on the languages you already know.

Turkish is regular but unfamiliar. The U.S. Department of State’s National Foreign Affairs Training Center (formerly the Foreign Service Institute, FSI) lists it among its “hard languages” for English speakers, those with significant differences from English. The differences are structural: meaning is built by adding suffixes to a root, the vowels of a suffix change to match the word (vowel harmony), and the verb usually comes last. In return, spelling follows pronunciation closely, there is no grammatical gender, and no verb swaps its stem the way English go becomes went. The Turkish dictionary lists thousands of words of Arabic origin, so an Arabic speaker meets familiar vocabulary, and Russian speakers already know what a case is.

Turkish has two distinct vowel harmony patterns: 2-way (A-type: a/ı/o/u vs e/i/ö/ü) and 4-way (I-type: ı, i, u, ü). Dilsever includes dedicated interactive vowel harmony explainers, color-coded visual joins, and the Suffix Lab, where you can experiment with suffix combinations in real time.

The Suffix Lab is Dilsever’s proprietary interactive builder. It separates Turkish words into clear, tactile morpheme tiles: root in brand bole, suffixes in alternating cobalt and turquoise. You can tap suffixes to inspect their grammatical gloss, practice suffix attachment drills, and see how vowel harmony shifts suffixes automatically.

Dilsever implements SuperMemo SM-2, a widely used review scheduler (Woźniak, 1990). Each time you review a word, suffix, verb or number, you rate your recall: Again, Hard, Good, or Easy. The system recalculates your ease factor, repetition count, and next review date, with gaps that widen as you keep getting a word right. The strength of the evidence is behind the spacing effect itself: Cepeda et al. (2006) pooled 317 experiments and found that spacing reviews out beats cramming them together.

Instant Decks let you name any topic and get a ten-card deck generated for it, with contextual Turkish example sentences, natural audio, and morphological breakdowns. They are separate from the pre-built pack library, which groups words by theme instead.

Dilsever is free to start. A free account includes practice and spaced-repetition review, the alphabet trainer, one vocabulary pack for your level, six grammar lessons (greetings, vowel harmony, to be, the plural, the present tense in -iyor and possessive suffixes), the plural in the Suffix Lab, the present tense in the Conjugation Lab, the numbers from 0 to 10, one AI tutor session, one instant deck, three translations, three notes and three assignments. Dilsever Pro opens every vocabulary pack, every grammar lesson from A1 to B2, every suffix, tense and numbers topic, and unlimited notes and assignments; the AI tutor, instant decks and translation are included with usage limits. Pro is billed monthly or yearly, and you can cancel at any time.

Dilsever uses pre-rendered high-fidelity neural Turkish audio (Chirp 3: HD) for thousands of vocabulary words, phrases, and example sentences. Pronunciations reflect natural Istanbul Turkish phonetics and proper vowel length distinctions. It is a native-sounding synthetic voice, not a recording of a person.

Yes. The interface is also available in Arabic, with a complete right-to-left (RTL) layout, and in Russian. Grammar explanations and word meanings are written for each of the three languages.

Yes. A mobile app is in the works; for now, open Dilsever in your phone’s browser. It is designed for phones as well as for computers and tablets: the layout adapts to the screen, and controls are sized for touch, most of them at 44px or larger. On supported devices you can add it to your home screen.

Grammar Lab has 103 topics ordered from A1 to B2. Each topic is a short lesson with form tables and examples, a practice block, and a mastery check; 102 topics also carry a folded cheat sheet that reduces the rule to a few lines and can be saved to your notes. Suffix and tense topics also link to the Suffix Lab or Conjugation Lab drill that trains them, and the other topics practise with fill-in sentences written for them.