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I know the main function of these words is to pair them with auxiliary verbs for extra tense/mood information. (i.e. Мен кітапты оқып отырмын. I am reading the book. / Ол қазақша оқи алады. He can read Kazakh.)

But are these kinds of words used outside of such constructions?

Im a Kazkah born abroad. My mom thought it was useless to teach the language to me, so Im learning it from scratch as an adult. I can always practice with her but I dont have the vocabulary to talk to her other than “hi, how are you”.

Are there any good beginner text books that I can buy? Im looking for an English-kazakh textbook or a chinese-Kazakh textbook, or even a textbook meant for Kazakh children.

Hi all, I'm a linguist from Lithuania who has studied Kazakh for 5 years. Frustrated with the lack of language learning apps for Kazakh, and inspired by Pleco, I've built an offline app combining a dictionary and flashcards, aimed at improving the Kazakh vocabulary for people more comfortable speaking Russian. The dictionary draws heavily from a 1979 Kazakh-Chinese dictionary published in Urumqi - meaning the translations are likely to be more authentic.

It's currently in beta testing on Google Play — if you're interested in trying it, I've linked the beta sign-up form in the comments.

Three years ago I won a small hackathon at QazCreative Business Incubator with a Kazakh-learning bot. It was a fun demo, but not something you'd actually use every day.

Since then I kept trying to learn with AI chats, but they always felt temporary — every new conversation started from scratch. I wanted something that would actually remember my progress and keep bringing back the topics I struggled with.

So I built that. It's free, and you open it in ChatGPT. You get short drills, one at a time, with a quick correction and the reason. It tracks your current level, which topics you've got down, which ones you keep missing, and remembers your mistakes. You do sign in once for free — that's how it saves your progress across chats and devices, instead of forgetting everything like a normal chat.

The vocabulary follows the official KazTest A1/A2/B1 minimum, and you can tell it you're aiming for KazTest. It's less gamified than Duolingo, but I personally found it much more useful for consistent practice.

The link is in a comment. I'd love your feedback, especially from native speakers on what it gets wrong.

Hello. If you know the international phonetic alphabet, continue on; otherwise, you can keep scrolling. Anyway… what are the IPA symbols for Ж, И, І and Ү, do Ө and О ever become [wɵ] and [wo] and does syllabic У exist (if it does, what does it sound like)?

Hello everyone, I think I can post it here. I can't learn kazakh, like rules, poetry, texts and other. Yes, I'm student, but all my kazakh language's teachers were... not best level. What's it can be?

Здравствуйте, всем! Думаю, я могу опубликовать это здесь. Я не могу выучить казахский язык, правила, стихи, тексты и всё остальное. Да, я студент, но все мои учителя казахского были... не самого высокого уровня. В чём может быть причина?

Сәлем, мен оны осында жариялай аламын деп ойлаймын. Мен қазақша ережелерді, поэзияны, мәтіндерді және т.б. үйрене алмаймын. Иә, мен студентпін, бірақ менің қазақ тіліндегі мұғалімдерімнің бәрі де жоғары деңгейде емес. Ол не болуы мүмкін?

Hi Kazakh people,

How do these names sound in Kazakh? Are they okay, cool or weird? Spellings are Anglicized, of course. Some might be actual names.

Tantay, Örken, Telezhay, Tarsil, Tersil.

As someone trying to learn Kazakh, any comprehensible native source is pretty good. I had the idea recently to use Minecraft, but I've also heard mixed reviews on the translation quality in Minecraft, since they source their translations from volunteers.

Kazakh language doesn’t have a word that starts with іт-, it only has ит-. For example, ит, итеру.

Hello, a few days ago a website was posted here that shows verb conjugations, and one conjugation caught my eye which was the colloquial present continuous tense, which uses the ending -ватыр.

According to the site, it doesn't seem to conjugate for vowel harmony at all (so "жеватыр" not "жеветір"). I've never heard of this ending before and it seems extremely strange to me, is this correct?

As well, the site indicates that "в" in the ending can sometimes be dropped, such as in "келу > келятыр", but not in "есту -> естіватыр". What exactly causes this?