{"id":4772,"date":"2021-08-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2021-08-15T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T22:06:52","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-week-gaurko-hitza-basque-word-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2021\/08\/15\/basque-fact-of-the-week-gaurko-hitza-basque-word-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: Gaurko Hitza, Basque Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In between my sophomore and junior year at the University of Idaho, I spent a year in Donostia with the goal of learning Euskara. When I told my dad that I wanted to learn Basque, he asked “Why? Why not Spanish? You can speak that everywhere.” I guess he was too pragmatic. Anyways, I did learn some Basque and felt like I got a reasonable handle on the grammar. My Achilles’ heel, though, was vocabulary. I never built up a big enough vocabulary to really be able to converse. If only I’d had Gaurko Hitza<\/a>, or Basque Word of the Day! Every day, they send an email with a new word, it’s history and usage, and translation into English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. I subscribed about a year ago. I can’t claim my vocabulary is increasing all that fast, but here are some of my favorite words over the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ipi-apa ezagutzen zituen eskualdeko bazter guztiak. [(From start-to-finish, he\/she knew every corner of the region.) Erabili goldea hilen hezurren gainetik, Olga Tokarczuk]. Image from Gaurko Hitza<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n