VHB-Smart: Language Change & Social Contexts
2026-2027 (under development)
The project expands the LMU’s digital Turkish learning units with new thematic areas and presents Turkish as a functional language in academic, professional, and social contexts. It connects language change, professional communication, and cultural developments within an interactive learning environment, making the historical evolution and the diverse functions of the Turkish language accessible to learners.
Topics of the Learning Units
Time and Science: Temporal Concepts in Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Administration in Turkish: Concepts and Institutional Contexts
Correspondence in Turkish: Historical and Modern Contexts
Terms for Legal Contexts: Terminology and Change
Turkish in Everyday Life: Language Change in Use
Health in Turkish: Terminology in Use
Economics in Turkish: Terminology and Communication in Context
Education in Turkish: Language in Academic Life
Turkish in Migration Contexts: Language and Social Mobility
Public Life in Turkish: Language in Orientation and Public Space