{"id":66,"date":"2009-04-05T02:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-04-05T02:19:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T02:19:26","slug":"euskara-ikasten-learning-euskara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2009\/04\/05\/euskara-ikasten-learning-euskara\/","title":{"rendered":"Euskara ikasten… learning Euskara"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In 1991, I went to Euskal Herria to learn Euskara.\u00a0 My dad is from Munitibar, and my mom’s grandparents were from Leikeitio (her grandma) and Mutiloa (her grandpa). While of course my dad was fluent in Euskara, my mom hadn’t had the opportunity to learn.\u00a0 Her dad, while born and raised in Oregon, also knew Euskara though he had never visited the land of his parents.\u00a0 Long story short, I didn’t learn any Euskara as a kid, so I thought to go to Euskal Herria and see what I could learn.<\/p>\n

I attended the University Studies Abroad Consortium’s program in Donostia, where I took an intensive course in Euskara.\u00a0 My teacher was Nekane, an euskaldun-berri who did an admirable job of teaching her three students Euskara (though I could be, at times, a difficult student).\u00a0 (I’ve learned that Nekane passed away a few years ago.)\u00a0 She taught us Batua and every weekend I went to visit my dad’s family, in Ermua and Munitibar, where they speak Bizkaian.\u00a0 On evenings I wasn’t with family, struggling to apply my Batua to understand Bizkaian, I spent my time with other Americans in the program, who had gone to learn Spanish, and played foosball in the local bar.<\/p>\n

So, I didn’t learn too much.\u00a0 I got some basics, some words, some phrases, but nothing that got me to the point of being able to hold a conversation.\u00a0 So, whenever I see any type of online course, I’m at least intrigued, hoping that I can try to improve.\u00a0 So far, I haven’t done anything yet, but I keep hoping.<\/p>\n

This is a long segway to mentioning two new efforts for learning Euskara online.\u00a0 The first, provided by Gorka Bakero, is an English course<\/a> he has developed and made into a PDF document.\u00a0 Gorka has also provided a forum for Euskara students to find one another and practice.\u00a0 Eskerrik asko Gorka!<\/p>\n

The second is Ikasten.net<\/a>.\u00a0 Ikasten.net is a part of Hiru.com<\/a>, a resource for Euskara.\u00a0 Ikasten.net is an online course of sixty lessons.\u00a0 The course seems to be in Spanish, though I was unable to register as it asks for my “DNI” number, which makes me wonder if the site is for Spanish citizens only.\u00a0 I’m not sure.\u00a0 But if anyone knows more, I’d appreciate hearing about your experiences.<\/p>\n

A few other courses (though badly organized) are on the Euskara page<\/a>.\u00a0 If anyone else has a favorite online Euskara course, please share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1991, I went to Euskal Herria to learn Euskara.\u00a0 My dad is from Munitibar, and my mom’s grandparents were from Leikeitio (her grandma) and Mutiloa (her grandpa). While of course my dad was fluent in Euskara, my mom hadn’t had the opportunity to learn.\u00a0 Her dad, while born and raised in Oregon, also knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euskara","category-websites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}