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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 28

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Today’s Challenge: Look up children’s games (such as word games) and songs. If you can, find someone to play them with you.

I found one lullaby in Basque which I thought was really pretty, so I thought I’d try to translate it? I’m really tired so I probably shouldn’t be listening to lullabies or I’ll fall asleep, but whatever, this is beautiful and I love it.

Also here’s a really pretty version by La Oreja de Van Gogh, who are amazing.

Loa, loa txuntxurrun berde Sleep, sleep, txuntxurun berde Loa, loa masusta Sleep, sleep, masusta Aita guria Gasteizen da Our father is in Vitoria Ama mandoan hartuta Our mother taken on a mule Aita guria Gasteizen da Our father is in Vitoria Ama mandoan hartuta Our mother taken on a mule Loa, loa txuntxurrun berde Sleep, sleep, txuntxurun berde Loa, loa masusta Sleep, sleep, masusta

Loa, loa txuntxurrun berde Sleep, sleep, txuntxurun berde Loa, loa masusta Sleep, sleep, masusta Aita guria abiatu da Our father has set out Vitoriako ferira To the fair in Vitoria Aita guria abiatu da Our father has set out Vitoriako ferira To the fair in Vitoria Loa, loa txuntxurrun berde Sleep, sleep, txuntxurun berde Loa, loa masusta Sleep, sleep, masusta

Loa, loa txuntxurrun berde Sleep, sleep, txuntxurun berde Loa, loa masusta Sleep, sleep, masusta Aita guriak diru asko du Our father has lots of money ama bidean salduta Our mother, sold along the way Aita guriak diru asko du Our father has lots of money ama bidean salduta Our mother, sold along the way Loa, loa txuntxurrun berde Sleep, sleep, txuntxurun berde Loa, loa masusta Sleep, sleep, masusta

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 15

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Today’s Challenge: Read a fictional story. Take note of what kind of speech is used (like poetic or writing techniques specific to the language) when telling the story.

Here is the story I read for today, which I think is intended as a kid’s story, but I still didn’t understand half of it. Because of that, and also the fact that I’m not advanced enough to analyze the story on a higher level, I decided to switch stuff up for today and translate the words I didn’t understand and to try to write a short summary of the story. Here’s the result:

Unknown Vocab:

alargun - widow

bizkor - smart/clever

inozo - lazy/idiot

senar - husband

puska - piece/portion

alegia - indeed/in other words

zaindu - to look after/care for

banatu - to split up/divide

bizkar - back (body part)

izutu - to scare/frighten

zaldi - horse

lera - sled/sleigh

ipini - to put/place/lay

zalgurdi - carriage

dotore - elegant

azaldu - to explain/show/appear

baztertu - to move out of the way

ozarkeria - insolence

sumindu - to anger/enrage

zigorrada - lashing/punishment

eztanda - explosion

gurdi - cart

pope - Orthodox priest

apaiz - priest

ezti - honey

poto - can/pot/vessel

koilara - spoon

upel - barrel

ezkutatu - to hide

esnegain - cream

eskailera - stairs

lasterka - running/rushing

irten - to go/come out

tori - here you go!

lurperatu - to bury

konformatu - to conform/be satisfied with

emazte - wife

nekazari - peasant/farmer

salatu - to confess

epaitu - to sentence

Ipuin hau hiru anai errusoei buruzkoa da. Biak bizkorrak dira, baina haien anaia inozoa da. Haien ama hiltzen da, eta orduan anai bizkorrek herentzia banatzen dute, baina hirugarrena ahazten zaie. Hau bere anaiek dirua eraman badute azaltzen duenean oso haserre dago, eta haien ama hil zutela oihuka esaten du. Hura isiltzeko diru asko ematen diote. Orduan, anaia Moskura joaten da eta jaun batekin topo egiten du. Sumintzen du jauna eta hark anaiari zigorrada egiten saiatu da, baina amari jo egiten du eta berriro anaia oihuka egiten hasi da. Jauna diru ematen dio isiltzeko. Azkenean, anaia pope bateko etxera sartzen da, eta berdina egiten du, baina popeak bakarrik ehun rublo ematen dio. Gehiago eskatzen dio, baina ama lurperatzeko eskaintzen dio popeak, eta anaiak konformatzen du. Bere etxera itzultzen da, eta bere anaiei ama saldu duela esaten die. Horregatik, bere emazteak hil dituzte eta merkatura ekartzen dituzte. Han, guardiek atxilotzen dituzte eta Siberiara bidaltzen dituzte.

Corrections welcome, as always!

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Today’s Challenge: Record yourself speaking in your target language and listen to it, taking note of your pronunciation. See if you can find ways to make your speech sound more clear and natural.

oh dear

I will deeply regret posting this, but hey look, I can speak (really poor) Basque! Please ignore my voice and everything about me, and also all the words I’m saying, and also just this entire post in general, and maybe this blog and my existence to boot. Besides that, here are some things I think I could improve on:

When I talk I don’t sound that weird but I stall a lot and my accent slips in those moments

I need to work on talking with more of an actual flow and not worrying as much about getting grammatical structures right

Also, it should be “ondo egongo da” not “ondo izango da”

I need to diversify the things I am saying because there were basically two statements made in this whole thing and it was bad

If you have any suggestions about my grammar, my accent, or literally anything else, please tell me! I would love to learn ways I can improve, since they’re usually not things I’d notice on my own.

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 30

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Today’s Challenge: Read an excerpt of an academic source in your target language. Note any vocabulary or grammar you don’t understand.

For today, I read an entire paper and sort of understood it? (Be proud of me, I stuck through!!) Since this was the last day of the challenge, I wanted to really put forth my best effort and see how much I’ve learned over the past month, which maybe didn’t feel like a lot but I’m sure practicing every day had some effect on my Basque.

The article was a linguistics paper that I came across when trying to find how to say “Gricean maxims” in Basque, and you can maybe find it here although it might be behind a paywall, I’m not sure. Here’s a list of random words I didn’t know in the article, this is by no means comprehensive but I didn’t want to get too fixated on my lack of understanding.

zehar - through(out)

ikuspegi - perspective

arabera - accordingly

antolatu - to establish

gisa - way

testuinguru - context

ekintza - action

berreskuratu - to recover

asmo - aim/goal

eremu - land/area/size/limit

baztertu - to leave out/exclude

egoki - task

aipatu - to bring up

hizketa - conversation

gain - besides

neurri - measure/extent/limit

ase - to satisfy

bereganatu - to take over

edozein - anyone/any

esanahi - meaning

entzule - listener

eredu - model/example

ezaugarri - sign

igarpen - guess/conjecture

sare - net

harreman - relationship

demagun - let’s suppose

multzo - set

amankomun - common/in common

nabarmen - evident

soilik - only/alone

goi - high/height

urrats - step/footprint

finkatu - to fix/to be set

aitortu - to admit

sortarazi - to sprout/bring about

azpiegitura - infrastructure

oinarri - foundation

orokor - general

aztertu - to investigate

maila - step/class/level

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 22

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Today’s Challenge: Watch a TV show in your target language with subtitles, and compare the translations. See if you agree with the written translations, and if not, think of how you would translate it yourself.

So because there’s no way I can compare things that people are saying with subtitles, since my Basque is nowhere near good enough to understand things without subtitles, I’m doing something that I’m actually good at, which is complaining about translations into English for songs.

hurbiltzen zara esanez

original: you come up and say

my translation: you come to me, saying

gure bixontzat dire

original: are for both of us

my translation: are for the two of us (alone)

gabien

original: at night

my translation: in the night 

gorputz bi bat eginda

original: two bodies become one

my translation: two bodies made into one

gau txori bi

original: two nightbirds

my translation: two birds of the night

nahi dogunian / nahi doguleko / aske maitte / aske bizi

original: whenever we want / because we want / love free / life free

my translation: when we want to / because we want to / love free / live free

ta ze ondo nagoen / izerran gainien

original: I think the translator died here or something, because the translation literally doesn’t match the words

my translation: and how good I feel under the stars

ixil-ixilik gaba

original: silent, silent night

my translation: the night without a sound

itzal bi ikusten dire

original: you see two shadows

my translation: two shadows can be seen

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 21

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Today’s Challenge: Practice translating from your main language to your target language.

So I tried translated my bio into Basque, which was an interesting exercise...I learned to say lots of language names though which was good 

kaixo zer moduz guillem naiz

txantxetan, percy deitu ahal nauzue (edo marisa, baina percy nahiago da) […]

lehen urtean nagoen linguistika ikaslea naiz, estatu batuetako unibertsitate batean (estatu batuetakoa naiz ere eta hemen bizi izan naizela nire bizitza guztia da). oro har hizkuntzak maite ditut baina bereziki mundu guztiako hizkuntza minoritariak interesatzen zaizkit, estatu batuetako eta amerikako hizkuntza indigenak barne. hizkuntza-biziberritzearekin lan egin nahi nuke, baina hau da amets urrutia.

nire hizkuntzak: ingelesa (L1 eta lagundu ahal dut ^^), katalana (B2-C1), gaztelara (B2-C1), euskara (B1), galesa (B1), malabarera (A1), erromaniera (A1), mendebaldeko abenakiera (A1), turkiera (A1), arabiera (A0), tamahaq/tamasheq (A0)

izan litekeen hizkuntzak: kurduera, errusiera, amharera, haitiko kreolera, irlandako gaelera, zapoteka, hebreera, tuvera, etc

1) ez egon zalantzan nire postak zuzentzea bada zure ama-hizkuntzan. ez nauzu aspertzen, asko asko laguntzen nauzu mesedez lagundudazu mila esker

2) blog hau leku segurua hizkuntza minoritariak partekatzeko, horregatik baduzu galderik/iradokitzerik/pentsamendurik/haserrerik mesedez oihu egindazu

3) gainera, ez bazaude eroso zure ama-hizkuntza ikasten ari naizela edo zerbait gaizki egin dudala uste baduzu, oihu egindazu ere. zure ama-hizkuntza ikastea ez baduzu nahi fidatzen zaitut; azken batean, zure hizkuntza da, ez da nirea, horregatik ezin dut erabaki. (hau ez da egia malabarerarekin, nire ama-hizkuntza da (benetan aita-hizkuntza) eta ikasitea eskubidea dudala uste dut.)

4) oso txarra naiz hitz egitea ba bai hitz egin nirekin maite nuke benetan egin ezin nahiz eta, baina bidalidazu galderak edo mezuak nahi baduzu, nire sarrera-ontzia betiko irekita dago!

5) ez ditut reblog egiten ez egin ditudan gauzekin, orduan postan zerbait idatzi baduzu iruzkinetan erantzungo didazu baina reblog egin ez, barkatu, astakeria da, baina beno, hau da gauzak nola egiten dituguen hemen ez dakit

ba hau guztia da! guillem el gaten mundu zolora ongi etorri!!

(bide batez guillem nire katuaren alter ego katalana da, manelko guillem gisbert bezala izena, ez kezkatu, baina hau da azaltzea nire profileko argazkiarentzat.  

As always, corrections welcome!!!

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 18

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Today’s Challenge: Read a blog entry in your target language. Blog entries are often more casual, and use expressions that resemble spoken language more than written language. Take note of how spoken language is written down.

Here’s the blog post I looked at today (it’s from the blog of Jon Garamendia, who writes lyrics for a lot of Esne Beltza songs). Because he’s a poet and a master of the Basque language, at least from what I have heard, I don’t think his blog is a great representation of normal spoken Basque/informal Basque written down, but I didn’t really know any other blogs so this is what I ended up going with. Anyhow, I had no idea what was going on (I could probably read the one sentence in French as well as the rest of the piece, and I don’t speak French), so I don’t really know if I can say anything about the language he uses, but it seemed kind of long-winded and poetic. Something about it being dark outside and wings and we’re falling but we’re up high and yeah I have no idea what’s going on. One question though, for native Basque speakers: what does ote mean/what purpose does it serve in sentences?

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Advanced Learner Challenge (Basque): Day 17

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Today’s Challenge: Practice translating from your target language to your main language, using an article or a few pages of a book.

I clearly have no idea how to speak Basque, because I just died trying to translate a single paragraph of an article, so this is all I have to offer for today. It’s all wrong, but yeah, I’m tired so this is all I’m doing. Here’s a link to the whole article if you so care to read it, it’s about Catalunya because I know nothing about Basque politics and plus it was short.

Auzitegi Goreneko apelazio aretoak hizpide izan du Carles Puigdemont Kataluniako presidente kargugabetuaren estradizio eskaria, eta hari leporatzen zaion matxinada delitua. Auzitegiak egoki jo du Puigdemonti sedizio delitua leporatzea, Alemaniako Justiziak aukera hori baztertu duen arren. Apelazioa aretoak adierazi du prozesu subiranistaren arduradunek Espainiako Konstituzioak eta Kataluniako autonomia estatutuak aitortzen zizkien "erreminta juridikoak" zituztenez, "testuinguru horretan", indarkeria fisikoaren erabilera "bigarren mailara" igaro zela. "Diseinatu zuten bide orriaren tarte puntualen batean bakarrik zuten ezinbestekoa [indarkeria fisikoa] erabiltzea. Bereziki, independentzia erreferenduma egin ahal izateko".

The Supreme Court’s appeal room released a statement asking for the extradition of Carles Puigdemont, Catalunya’s unofficial president, and addressed the crimes of rebellion that are attributed to him. The court ruled Puigdemont guilty of the crime of sedition, despite the German justice system’s ruling to the contrary. The courtroom stated that with pro-independence leaders having the “legal tools” that the Spanish Constitution and Catalan Statutes of Autonomy granted them, “in that context,” the use of physical violence was the “next step” to happen. “In one of the exact moments of the independence plan they designed, they only would use physical violence if completely necessary. Specifically, to be able to hold the independence referendum.”