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| tanya b Senior Member United States Joined 4581 days ago 159 posts - 518 votes  Speaks: Russian | Message 17 of 27 27 January 2012 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Ther are 2 American professors, neither of Basque descent, who are now fluent in Basque, or Euskara, who actually teach Basque, I think at UNR. Both of them lived in the Basque country of Spain for several years. This is an example of 2 non-Basque individuals who have conquered the world's most difficult language for English speakers. There is also a story of an English sea captain who married a Basque woman who now speaks it like his native tongue. So it is definitely do-able. Elko, Nevada and Bakersfield, California have a fair number of Basque speakers. Edited by tanya b on 27 January 2012 at 6:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6353 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 18 of 27 27 January 2012 at 6:27am | IP Logged | ||
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| tanya b Senior Member United States Joined 4581 days ago 159 posts - 518 votes Speaks: Russian | Message 19 of 27 27 January 2012 at 6:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm waiting for the new edition of the Basque-Cherokee dictionary. I know nothing about Cherokee except that it has it's own alphabet and that Creek and Choctaw are very similar.
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| luvlinguae Pentaglot Newbie Italy Joined 4455 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Russian, Czech | Message 20 of 27 01 March 2012 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I found this online basic Basque course offering. It's basic and doesn't have the pronunciation as audio files, but it's
free, it's a start, and it's at least in English: http://www.101languages.net/basque/basics.html 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vikramkr Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5872 days ago 248 posts - 326 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese | Message 21 of 27 01 March 2012 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hippocrene's Beginner's Basque course appears to be quite good. Edited by vikramkr on 01 March 2012 at 6:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sjheiss Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5487 days ago 100 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, Basque | Message 22 of 27 13 September 2012 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is anyone currently interested in Basque? I speak it at a level of basic fluency, after having been learning it for about 2 years. I am not of Basque descent, just really love the language. :)
There's an extremely comprehensive course online, in English (and Spanish, maybe French too) that is completely free, at http://www.ikasten.net/ The registration page is only in Spanish and Basque, but the course is 99% in English. I say that because there were a couple times some sentences were not translated from Spanish, but the majority of the course is. That's the course I used, and still need to finish! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5059 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 23 of 27 15 September 2012 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4933 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 24 of 27 15 September 2012 at 9:50am | IP Logged | ||
It looks like you have to register as a hiru.com user first. Then it requires you to fill out an intrusive (in my opinion) form, asking for your address, telephone number and DNI number, among other things. It's too bad... I would have been interested in seeing the course, had the site not required so much information. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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