I'm trying to get back into the swing of studying Basque a bit more, so I'm going to try to listen to a song every day and look up all the words I don't know. I'm starting off with this song from Idoia's newest album, De amar y desandar, which is called "Autofikzioa" and which I'm a big fan of.
ilunpetan - in the dark (from ilunpe - 'darkness')
ito - to drown
kontraesan - contradiction
errai - gut
gatibu - captive, prisoner
hala ere - despite everything, nonetheless
(Ez nago ziur zer den "urperatzear" - uste dut "urpe" eta "atze" elkartzen dituela baina ez dakit zer esaten nahi duen)
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Tentative challenge topic schedule for the 30 Days of Vocab challenge!
Music instruments
Music theory
Clothes
Chores
Birthdays
Furniture
Agriculture
Animal husbandry
Gardening tools
Trees
Flowers
Birds
Insects
Astronomy
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
Geology
Geography
History
Aquariums
Boats
Miniatures
Cooking
Conversation
Writing
Transit
Dungeons & Dragons
Board games
Flags
Iâm going to try to do Catalan, Basque AND Welsh; weâll see how that goes. A lot of these will probably be very silly lists, but Iâm excited for them either way. Feel free to tag me in your guysâ posts, and letâs learn some vocab!
Yes, I did the calculations and I have the right week...welcome to the eighth week of the challenge! Itâs going pretty well, here are the numbers:
Basque* (1129/1903 mots = 59%)
Welsh* (477/1632 mots = 29%)
Romani (355/715 mots = 50%)
Amharic* (687/1646 mots = 42%)
Despite the progress Iâve made, I donât think Iâll make it to the end of the courses before the challenge ends. That being said, Iâve never passed the milestone of a thousand words in the Memrise course before, so itâs already been worth it. And I think Iâm going to continue, if I can, during the year. But first, I need to focus on the four weeks that I have left, because I can still do a lot with that.
I was also thinking, and I think Iâm in the ideal moment to âlevel upâ my Welsh and Basque. What I mean is that I almost know how to speak them â not master them, but just that words and phrases are starting to come to me without having planned them beforehand. Because of that, I want to have more hours of study with these two, because if I start understanding series/songs/conversations/et cetera, Iâll have more hours of practice and that wonât bore me. Because with Catalan, I already have more than 100 hours this year (and with the rest of my languages, less than 20), just because I watch shows and go to conversation hours and stuff. Therefore, this is my challenge for the end of the year.
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I think that weâve passed the middle point some week in here, Iâm not sure because itâs been so long since Iâve made a post about the challenge that I donât even know what week weâre on (I think the sixth but Iâm not 100% sure). But I studied a lot on my trip, probably because I didnât have Tumblr to keep me busy, and I advanced a fair amount. Here are the percentages and the numbers:
Basque* (982/1903 words = 52%)
Welsh* (327/1632 words = 20%)
Romani (239/715 words = 33%)
Amharic* (578/1646 words = 35%)
Russian* (455/4995 words = 9%)
Iâve set aside Russian because the course has audio, which is very useful for me, since I donât read Cyrillic very well, but also annoys me :P The rest are going pretty well, Iâve learned almost (or maybe more that) 200 words for each. And thereâs no course with a percentage under 2 digits! So Iâm pretty happy with my progress.
Iâve changed some of my goals for the end of the year but Iâll explain that to you guys later.
Okay so hereâs the text I wrote, based on the following prompt from the language server Iâm in:
The last person on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
Obviously because I have to always try to be super clever, I put a very unoriginal twist on it :â) Anyway, please feel free to give corrections! Iâd especially appreciate help rephrasing sentences so that I donât repeat izan/ukan a million times.
Nire logelan negoen, bakar-bakarrik. Hormak begiratu nituen, eta dardaratzen zirela iruditzen zitzaidan. Mundua bukatzen zen. Familia, lagunak pentsatzen nituen. Ez zeuden nirekin, eta falta botatzen nituen. Baina ausarta izan behar nintzen. Oso zailea zen, gizaki azkena izatea. Guztia nahiz eta, bizirik atera behar nintzen.
Munduko janari guztiarekin, ez nuen gose edukiko. Arma bat behar nuen, animalia basatiekin borrokatzeko. Eta gero barazkiak landatuko nuen, janari gehiago edukitzeko. Plan osoa imajinatzen nuen orain. Zailea, baina ez zen ezinezkoa. Gizaki besteak hil zituzten, hori bai, baina ni ez. Indaregi nintzen, haiek baino indarrago. Irabaziko nuen.
Nire planekin hasteko abain ninzten, norbaitek atea jo zuenean.
âAfaltzeko etorri!â esan zuen nire amak.
âBanoa!
Ongi pasatzen nuela, hain justu irten behar nintzen. Ze pena!
6. Name some of your favorite blogs and why you love them!
Bakarrik euskarazko/euskal blog gustokoenak jarriko ditut, blog gustokoen gehiegi ditudalako. Euskaraz/euskarari buruz idazten blog gustokoenak @goazen eta @beautiful-basque-country dira. Itzaiak guztia azaltzen dit, eta nire testuak zuzentzen ditu, zentzua ez badute ere. Oso hitzetako lista erabilgarriak egiten ditu ere, maite dut! beautiful-basque-country oso blog polita da, oso irudi ederrak jarritzen dituzte, eta euskal kultura ondo azaltzen dira. Oso erabilgarria da. Blog biak asko atsegin ditut, jarraitu itzazue euskara ikasten ari bazara!
