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Barregarria da. Txikitan ezagutzen zenituen, ala?

@@basqueberserk Bai, baserritarrak ziren, eta erderaz nekez hitz egiten zuten

Huh, interesting. I wonder if that has any influence from Basque.

Nice! Glad to hear it! 😄

Eskerrik asko! 😄 Harpidedunei ta euskaldunei eskerrak eman beharra dago. Zuek gabe ez nukeen ezer lortuko. 🤍❤💚

That’s right! Extra stress about stress is no bueno 😁

Yes, this is something I want to improve on! This was an earlier video, so I was just nervous. 😊 Maybe I will remake this one and slow it down!

@@basqueberserk That would be awesome!!! I really want to learn this incredible language because most of my ancestry comes from Spain. Thank you for replying to my comment. I really appreciate you and your content.

@@susanbryson753 Thank you for your recommendations! I can only grow with you guys’ help! 😊

@@basqueberserk You're extremely welcome 😁

Thanks for asking! The best one, in my opinion, is this Adizkitegi (www.ehu.eus/seg/morf/5/16/1). You can either search for forms (bilatu adizkiak tab) or explore the conjugations of each verb (jokatu adizkiak tab). You kind of have to play around with it, but it's reliable since it's made by an actual Basque organization and not just a general conjugator for whatever language like Verbix is. If anyone else has any other suggestions, please let us know! 😄

@@basqueberserk Ongi, mila esker! While studying basque I´ve found it very useful to know and have studied three specific languages to be able to understand how basque grammar works, and I think the specifications of these languages have really given me an advantage in learning faster. I am curious on what languages you´ve studied or known before learning the basque language and it´s grammar

@@Cementarii Yes! Studying other languages has helped so much in terms of grammar short-cuts. I studied Spanish which helped with a little vocab, German was my first intro to a language with declension, and Russian helped me learn more about the use of cases. Danish was helpful because it adds the definite article as a suffix on the noun like Basque does. Korean introduced me to Topic-Focus-Verb word order, and also particles which, in my opinion, helped me understand Basque’s ergativity. Finnish has like 14 cases so that helped me seriously with Basque’s large case system. So studying a bit of all these helped speed up learning Basque, but no language I studied prepared me for the huge difficulty of finite verb forms! 😅

@@basqueberserk I have an extremely similar experience in languages except replace Danish with English, replace Finnish with Hungarian (both are related languages belonging to the uralic group), and no Korean. The rest of the languages are basically the same, except I mainly studied Russian grammar while having the native speaker "blinders" for it and Hungarian. Hungarian helps a lot to understand agglutination and it´s billion suffixes (cases), so it works well for Basque, and English is also very important because it helps understand what auxiliary verbs and articles are Если задам тебе вопросы вот так, то всё равно поймёшь?

Ah that's so cool! Most magayrul tanulok egy kicsit! Basque has helped in so many ways learning Hungarian! (Although Hungarian is still super hard, I think it's more difficult than Basque.) Hehe, unfortunately my Russian classes were a long time ago, and I had a hard time getting into Russian, so I still know some basic Russian things, but not enough to understand, no. I want to re-learn it one day!

Yes! I get chills whenever I hear that song.

So cool that you have Basque heritage! Keep learning, it is a difficult path but I hope you will find it is worth it! ☺️

That’s an interesting idea! Maybe I will do something like that. And thank you 😊

@@basqueberserk Thank you so much! Highly appreciated!

Thanks so much! 🥰

😎 maybe so!

Maybe I’ll inspire someone to lead the fun grammar revolution 😎😂

Thanks! 🤩

Eskerrik asko zuri! 😄

Muchas gracias! Y cómo fue tu tiempo en Sanse? 😄

@@basqueberserk Pues Yo, un caribeño iluso, pensando que habia calor y me recibio con 12 grados y lluvia ahhahah, pero la verdad me namore de Sanse, casi me mudo , el hambiente , los vazcos, la comida, y bueno yo amo el Futbol y ahi esta la Real ahhahah, espero este año regresar y llevar a mis padres.

Ah muy bueno! Jaja, hace un poco de frío en Euskal Herria! 😄

That's right! Katu bat daukazu, you have one cat. 💪😊 The Basque accent is amazing! My accent is not quite right, but it is definitely not Spanish (I hope). 😉😄

I am American! 😊 I like learning languages, and Basque really intrigued me more than anything else I've come across, so I decided I had to figure out the puzzle that is euskara. 😅

@@basqueberserk Very interesting! I've been reading about it, because my family has a wee bit of its heritage. All this time I thought it was very much like Spanish and wow am I surprised.

You're not alone! It's definitely common for people to think Basque is a Spanish dialect, or related in some way. Do you happen to know where in the Basque Country your family came from?

@@basqueberserk I just assumed because we have Spanish from Spain as well. I don't know where yet, and all the older ones in the family have passed away so I can't ask. I can only go by the ancestry site I have and they haven't been that specific. ps. I checked, looks like mostly the area near the coast. thanks for asking : )

Ah, yes the ancestry sites can be a pain to find information. At least you found something though! Maybe one day you can narrow it down to a specific region or town!

Haha! I will have to do a special video for those! 😊

Thank you! That's very kind of you!

Tut mir Leid, ich kann nicht die Werbung kontrollieren. Ich wollte mein Kanal ohne Werbung sein, CZcams trägt die Schuld ☹️

Aupaaa!

It all looks so fun!

Just the ones I actually said are Batua, the written ones under dialectal names are from various dialects, or even just plain Spanish. 😄

Unfortunately I think Basque borrows asto from Spanish/Indo European, for example, donkey in Latin is “asinus”. In English we also have the word “ass” for donkey but it is not a polite word where I am from. 😅

Assinus comes from old celtic. Celts did borrow it from basque but not sure tbh

@@goikofinanzas hmm that would be interesting! Some sources say from Asia, but who knows, either way, I love when words come around full circle and go through distortions, it’s quite a journey.

I love it 😄

Oh really? I don’t know much about Portuguese but I guess some of the more Latin/Spanish-based ones would be similar?

@@basqueberserk Exactly. The similarity is because of the ties among the Romance languages. Maybe those dialectic variations of Euskara come from a Spanish influence and therefore Portuguese remains next too.

That’s very kind of you! I am trying very hard, don’t worry. More videos in the near future! 😄

Oh man, that’s crazy. Good for me, bad for the learning community at large. A lot of Basques make the letter S into a harder “shh” sound, too, so it is often confused with X, and even in written words you might see S replaced with X. 😵‍💫😄

Oso ondo! Zergatik ikasi nahi duzu? ☺️

@@basqueberserk Nire sustraiekin konektatu nahi dut. (According to google translate, that’s why.)

@@lezamaduque Arrazoi ona. Aupa zu! 😄

Thank you!! 😊☺️

Thanks for this! Yep the Wikipedia article on Basque grammar, at least in English, is a pretty good place to get grammar info. And Wiktionary is great too! Though a lot of missing vocab when it comes to Basque. ☹️ thanks for your tips!! ☺️

That’s so true! What a good tip ☺️

Oh really? A small town or big town? Small towns might have some Basque but not many Basque speakers in the big cities 🙁

​@@basqueberserk My wife, daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter: Bayonne; myself, nahi dut (bai?) a more rural setting, and Itsasu seems to be the closest county to Bayonne where streets are not called “rue” or “chemin” but “karrika”, “bidea” or “errebidea”, so that’s what I want to check out: Itsasu ikusi nahi dut!

@@franciscooyarzun2637 very nice! It seems like a nice town. I certainly hope you will find some Basque speakers there. ☺️

​@@basqueberserk My French is good enough for shopping and so on, and it will improve, but I have no expectation of ever being seen by multi-generational French as “truly” French.  Basques, on the other hand, are SO grateful and celebratory towards anyone who actually 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 to speak Basque, plus they apply this litmus test: if you speak Basque, then you ARE Basque, never mind your looks, origin, etc. Add to that that I actually do have a Basque surname, and I’m IN, I figure. Yes; I want to find a place from whence I felt no desire to move elsewhere: ez dit beste inora joateko gogorik ematen. [Ondo nago?]

@@franciscooyarzun2637 it is nice that the Basque people actually respect others that learn and speak Basque. 🙂 And although I’m good with Basque grammar, I’m not especially good at determining (or qualified to say) whether someone else is speaking or writing Basque well; your best bet to gauge your Basque is to find a native and ask if they would help you. There is a subreddit on Reddit if you want to ask for help practicing there, and also a Discord server, if you are familiar with those. ☺️