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".
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
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!
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