In this presentation, I hope to share my years-long experiences of teaching differentlevels of Ottoman Turkish and organizing an advanced intensive summer school onOttoman language and paleography. As the field of Ottoman studies continued togrow in the early 2000s, especially in the North American universities, and theOttoman archives and manuscript libraries became relatively more accessible toresearchers, the number of students wanting to master the language increasedconsiderably. Unfortunately, many universities are still reluctant to add an instructor to teach Ottoman exclusively. Instead, students are scrambling to make up by attending summer courses. But is this a viable method? I will offer my observations about the curricula, student profiles, challenges of teaching and learning the Ottoman Turkish language.