Learning Basque - Euskara ikasten dut

I'm Kristina and despite having lived in the Basque Country for three years, I cannot speak any Basque...but this year that will change !

I've decided to take learning Basque more seriously this year and I want to share with you my strategies for learning a language and my Basque language learning ressources!

Here I will mostly be sharing my Quizlet study sets. If you're learning Basque and want some free ressources keep reading!

What's Quizlet ?

Quizlet is an application and website that I find very useful for studying languages. My Spanish teacher introduced me to Quizlet when I was 16 and since then it's helped me learn Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian!

Here's the Basque class I started on Quizlet with all my Basque/English vocabulary lists.

Nowadays Quizlet is most useful to me as an English teacher, I create study sets to help my stupents study English outside of our classes. If you're a French speaker and you're interested in those free English learning ressources you can check them out here.

How does it work?

Click on the icons to access the Quizlet page for the corresponding vocabulary list. From there you can use the different games to study, my favourite is "learn".

Click on the icon to the below to join the class "Euskara".

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Week 1, Astea 1

To start I've decided to focus on vocabulary rather than grammar, I feel like Basque grammar is too scary right now. My goal this week is to try and learn around 15 basic nouns, verbs and adjectives. I created the following Quizlet sets :

Basque verbs 1

buy - erosi

take - hartu

go - joan

come - etorri

listen - entzun

understand - ulertu

give - eman

speak - mintzatu

say - esan

ask - galdetu

do - egin

open - ireki

close - itxi

know - jakin

Basque adjectives1

big - handi

small - txikia

young - gaztea

old - zaharra

vert - berdea

orange - laranja

red - gorria

white - txuria

black - beltza

grey - grisa

blue - urdina

yellow - horia

pink - arrosa

ready - prest

new - berria

good - ongi

bad - txarra

Basque nouns 1

man - gizona

woman - emaztea

house - etxea

dog - txakurra

journey - Bidaia

street - karrika

outside - kanpoan

inside - barruan

hat - txapela

sheep - ardia

lamb - axuria

song - kantua

adult - heldua

team - taldea

shepherd - artzaina

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How do I use these lists?

I try to study the lists for 5-10 minutes per day. I find that studying small quantities frequently (10 minutes, every day) is far more effective than studying a lot infrequently (one hour, once a week).

Check out all the lists here.

I hope you enjoy studying with these lists! If you're a Basque speaker and you find any mistakes please let me know, Check ou Ikus arte!