#although august i'm probably going to do malayalam since i'll be at home with my parents

[guillemelgat]

Hello everyone! I’m back onto the whole language month goals, and I’m starting out with a month of Basque.

I’m going to be using de Rijk’s Standard Basque: A Progressive Grammar, which I would not really recommend to any beginners—it’s alright but it’s not my favorite. The one good thing it does have, though, is exercises at the end of each chapter, which are just English-Basque and Basque-English translation; they’re a good way to start to get the gears running in my brain again. In addition, someone made a Memrise course of all the vocabulary (it’s called “Standard Basque - vocabulary” by MatiFilozof if the link doesn’t work), so it’s a good way to learn lots of vocabulary as well. I technically finished the course last summer, although I need to review it, but I figured that a combination of these two things would work to jumpstart my brain some.

I don’t want to promise any Basque grammar posts, because I’m quite busy with a couple of other goals/activities as well, but I’ll try to make some! They’ll be based off the book. In addition, I’m trying to come up with a way to practice Basque auxiliary and synthetic verbs and noun declensions so that I can easily do some of that every day and keep getting better at it. I’ll let you guys know if it ends up working out.