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[spacetravelwriter]

Langblr reactivation challenge

Week 1

Day 1: Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge? Add whatever else you’d like to your introduction post!

Name: Kanita

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Native in: Bosnian(+Serbian, Croatian), English

Languages learning:

Spanish (upper intermediate) - I haven't taken any DELE exams, I don't really learn Spanish, I use it on a daily basis and I gotten myself up to a high level like this;

German (B1 from 2 years ago) - I haven't used German in over 2 years (since I started uni I haven't had much use for it) and the German I knew was from school, I plan on getting back my level and exceeding it one day, but for now I'm not in the mood to get back to it, maybe next year;

Basque (beginner) - I'm not a total beginner, I have been learning it since May, I can express some of my thoughts, I've been learning it mostly with the book "The Basque language: A practical introduction" by Alan R. King and I had done a 14-day challenge before that to get myself into the basics. I'm totally in love with this language and I plan on being conversational until May-June 2023, aka in around half a year

Special mentions: Arabic(Syrian), Japanese - I'm really interested in learning these languages but I'm making myself put it on hold before I get a bit more comfortable in my Basque

Main target language: Basque/Euskara + I want to take a DELE Spanish exam next year (C1 hopefully)

I've already explained it here that I'm far away from the Basque Country, and that I don't plan on working there (at least anytime soon, my love for the culture of Euskal Herria is growing every day) but that I still somehow fell in love with this language. I might not need to use it anytime soon, but I feel happy learning it. Plus, I did use it once in real life. Here's a fun short story:

In the same post I've mentioned where I got the idea of studying Basque from. This August I visited Madrid to watch Real Madrid's women's team play in the Champions League. Long story short, I met the player I mentioned in the post (Nahikari) and while most of the conversation we had was in Spanglish, I told her something in Euskera. I totally messed up the word order (also giggled) the first time I said it but she asked me to repeat it and understood me. So, I count it as using the language even though I said one single sentence (it was pretty long though, I had to think about it a lot).

What do I hope to get out of this challenge? Well, hopefully connect with more people that are studying the same languages I mentioned, especially Basque because it's really hard to find another person studying Basque.

[victusinveritas]

Personally I've always liked the Dené-Caucasian Hypothesis even though it is also a bit much.

(Not offering an opinion on this final theory.)

[hufflepufflinguist]

1/365: no zero days in 2023 langblr challenge

Thank you to @chenopodiumlang for coming up with this idea. The goal is to do at least a little bit of language learning each day for the year of 2023.

I will start with only revising and improving my Spanish and then hope to add other languages (such as Italian, Euskera, or other new languages) during the year. I don't have any particular fluency goal, I just want to have fun :)

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Spanish:

-15 min Vocabulary revision

-30 min Spanish only YouTube videos (currently kinda interested in the FC Barcelona and watching their content)

[beautiful-basque-country]

eztitan

Basque word

It’s translated as in seventh heaven, on cloud nine; literally, it means in honey.

[useless-catalanfacts]

This is a very sweet song by the Basque band En Tol Sarmiento (ETS), originally written in Basque language and called Zurekin Batera.

(Spotify link)

The Catalan band Búhos sang the song translated to Catalan in collaboration with ETS, who also sing in Catalan in it (and very well!).

(Spotify link)

Find the lyrics of the Catalan version and the translation to English under the cut!

Vull quedar i explicar-nos la vida i tenir temps per riure i temps per plorar. Escoltar que tens una ferida i que encara no saps com es curarà.

I want to meet up and talk about life and have time to laugh and time to cry. To hear that you have a wound and that you don’t yet know how it will cure.

Vull sentir les histories de sempre que et fan tan feliç quan tornes a explicar. Una llàgrima vol esclatar, t’he trobat a faltar

I want to hear the same stories as always that make you so happy when you tell them again. A tear wants to burst, I have missed you.

Si vam poder escalar aquell mur va ser perquè junts ho havíem somiat. Ja no em puc imaginar el futur sinó no el visc amb tu sempre al meu costat

If we managed to climb that wall it was because we had dreamed it together. Now I can’t imagine the future if I don’t live it with you, always by my side.

Quants cops t’hagués dit que t’estimo i massa vegades m’ho he empassat. Una llàgrima vol esclatar, t’he trobat a faltar.

How many times would I have told you I love you and too many times I swallowed. A tear wants to burst, I have missed you.

Que si és un regal aquesta vida és per què la visc al teu costat. La meva ànima avui et somia i és per què et troba molt a faltar. Que les pors que avui ens castiguen ens fan forts pel que vingui demà Una llàgrima vol esclatar t’he trobat a faltar, t’he trobat a faltar.

If this life is a gift, it’s because I live it next to you. My soul dreams of you today because it misses you so much. The fears that punish you today will make us strong for what tomorrow may bring. A tear wants to burst, I have missed you, I have missed you.

Quan recordo els dies a la plaça i ara passo i veig que està sol aquell banc. Et quedaves sempre a dormir a casa i saltàvem el foc la nit de San Joan.

When I remember the days at the square and now I walk by and see that bench is alone. You always used to sleep home and we used to jump over the bonfire together on the night of Sant Joan [summer solstice tradition].

Ara se’m fan eterns els diumenges i es fa fosc després de dinar. Una llàgrima vol esclatar t’he trobat a faltar.

Now Sundays seem eternal and it gets dark after lunch. A tear wants to burst, I have missed you.

Que si és un regal aquesta vida és per què la visc al teu costat. La meva ànima avui et somia i és per què et troba molt a faltar. Que les pors que avui ens castiguen ens fan forts pel que vingui demà una llàgrima vol esclatar t’he trobat a faltar, t’he trobat a faltar.

If this life is a gift, it’s because I live it next to you. My soul dreams of you today because it misses you so much. The fears that punish you today make us strong for what tomorrow may bring. A tear wants to burst, I have missed you, I have missed you.

[hizkuntzak-maite-ditut]

Helping a friend review some Basque topics. It's been very useful to me as well, as I had forgotten a couple of details. *･ﾟ✧

[karolinium]

•to all langblrs•

do you have any resources - websites, apps, books etc. where to learn basque / galician / catalan?

[miss-manley]

I’ve always wanted to learn Basque, and last year I got to visit Bilbao and San Sebastián. So I made a list of some of the words I picked up. They’re mostly religious, since I visited a ton of cathedrals. They’re also likely not 100% correct, since this is just what I gleaned from reading without any prior knowledge of the language.

(Euskera - Español - English)

Andra/ama - señora - lady

Birjinaren - virgen - virgin

Gabena - privado - private

Kalea - Calle - street

Hilleria - cementerio - cemetery

-a/eko - genitive ending?

Ixili - silencio - silence

Otoitz- oración - prayer

Kapera- capilla - chapel

Batatioaren - bautismal - baptismal

Klaustroa - claustro - cloister

Katedrala - catedral - cathedral

Bisitatz- visita- visit

Bidarriak - calzadas - stairs

Ispila - espejo - mirror

Izozkiak - helado - ice cream

Txokolatea - chocolate - chocolate

Marrubia- Fresa - Strawberry

Eta - y - and

Ez - without?

Bai - yes?

Kalitatea - calidad - quality

Axtarnatik - huellas - footprints

Haurrak- niños - children

Final k - plural marker?

[languageslanguor]

Hi! I know, I'm very inactive lately. I'm focusing mostly on my studies and personal life. But, as Tumblr is a place, where people will understand my love to languages, I have to ask you for some help. It's nothing very complicated, but really important for me.I study ethnolinguistics and one of my main languages there is Basque. Recently, together with my group, I took part in a competition made by Etxe Pare Institutua (Institution that is taking care of Basque culture and language) - we had to make a very short film (20sec) where I'm talking Basque and Polish. The winner of the competition can go to a Basque course in the Basque Country FOR FREE, and I would love to, as a poor student and languages lover.What can you do to help me? Like the video on YouTube and reblog it or send it to your friends. For this kind of competition, it will be important, how popular the video is.What will I do for you? I will do a raffle for everyone, who'd like and reblog the video. 1 point/number for like (if you have more google accounts and will give more likes - more points for you!), 1 for each rebloging (if you'll do it in other places, like facebook, or sth, it's aditional point). And you can win a detailed picture

[speakbasquetome]

Asko maite zaitut.

Google.

I love you so much.

[spacetravelwriter]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge

Week 1

Day 2: Write a list of goals you have for your target languages. Make both long term and short term goals. An overall goal could be to have the ability to talk with native speakers with ease and a smaller goal would be to finally learn that difficult grammar point that's been plaguing you for ages. How will you achieve them?

Basque: my main target language

Weekly: I plan on sticking to 1 lesson a week from the book "The Basque language: A practical introduction" by Alan R. King. I'll stick to 1 lesson weekly because I bring my notebook with me to uni and do excercises during boring lectures and breaks I have in between (15-min breaks) and I don't even have to do anything at home. It's easier for me sticking to a habit like this.

Small habit: listen to a podcast 2-3x a week (it doesn't matter if I don't, because I listen to Basque songs a lot and on a daily basis anyway). These podcasts aren't to be listened only once because my level is still too low to understand. At this point I just get to understand more of the context of the podcast every time I listen to the same one.

In the next month (until 2023): I need to review all grammar I learned because I feel like I brushed over some parts a bit. I won't force myself to master that grammar but I need a reminder. Same goes for vocab, especially those fillers, words like "just, anyway" etc.

In 6 months: I want to be comfortable enough to go on Tandem app and talk to euskaldunak there. My goal until May-June is to become conversational, so that would be my test to check if I managed it.

Spanish: daily used language

Short-term goals: I don't have because I don't even sit to study anymore, I just pick up things by using it online all the time.

Small habits: I already do the comprehension excercises by listening to Real Madrid players speak Spanish, but I want to find some fun podcasts to listen to sometimes

1 thing on my wishlist: I want to read a book in Spanish, I have bought a middle grade book which I haven't yet had the courage to start because I had a bad experience at trying to read German books, but I know my Spanish is much better, I just kind of have this fear

Long-term goal: take the DELE C1 exam in autumn 2023/spring 2024 (I'm missing some of the basic vocabulary, even for A1, so I need to work on that)

German: I need to regain the level I had

I'm not excited about this because my German is school-taught and I finished school 2 years ago. Now I have a completely different language learning system and I don't know how to apply it to the language I had a broken system for studying. I want to get back to it, hopefully next year, but I still don't know how

Figure out which language to learn next

I won't force myself for this but Here's the list of languages I think I want to take up (from most excited about to somewhat excited/not sure at all):

Japanese

Arabic

Korean

Portuguese

Polish

Turkish

Russian

Keep in mind this list can change anytime, I'm kind of getting the idea of learning Finnish or Hungarian, so I might just randomly take up one of those. My brain is unpredictable but it's also better to listen to my guts than force myself to decide on a language. This is exactly how I took up Basque 😅

[hufflepufflinguist]

98/365 no zero days in 2023 langblr challenge

Spend a lot of the day driving and had not much time else.

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Spanish:

-learned 5 words with origins in euskera

Catalan:

-some duolingo exercises

[beautiful-basque-country]

About word “perro” and its possible Basque origin?

The dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language just says that the origin of word perro [dog in Spanish] is uncertain. But according to some specialists it could have a Basque origin. 

"It’s very surprising that in no other Romance language the word used to name that animal looks like perro. In French it’s said chien, in Portuguese cão, in Italian cane, in Català ca (and also gos), etc., all of them words related to Spanish 'can', from Latin ‘canis’. But perro?", wonders Andoni Sagarna.

This member of Euskaltzaindia [Academy of the Basque language] mentions a theory about the word having a Basque origin.

“In Basque, the common nowadays word to say dog is ‘txakur’. There’s however another word with the same meaning, ‘or’, although it’s an archaism and its use is very rare. But some defend that both words, ‘txakur’ and ‘perro’, originate precisely from ‘or’", he says.

The explanation as to how ‘or’ became ‘perro’ would be the following one: "The Basque term ‘eper’ means ‘partridge’. A compound word is possible eper + or = eper-or [literally partrdige dog, in English, gun dog] and from there, ‘perro’".

[segledepericles]

Inoiz ez da beranduegi ... elebakartasuna sendatu daiteke!

“It’s never too late ... Mono-lingualism is easy to cure!” in Basque/Euskara

[smuglyankabrazilyanka]

#6 #16 #26 #36

6: 4 turns off

*If the person is not polite;

*If the person is unhygenic;

*If the person judges the fact that I like to play video-games at 20;

*If the person lacks the minimum of decency (e.g. racist, transphobic,)

16: Favourite place

Probably my favorite place is Pamplona, in Spain. I consider that city as my second home.

26: Meaning behind my URL

I really like the soviet aesthetic (yes, I know it was an awful period for lots of people). The language part was because my blog was supposed to be a langblr.

36: Tattoos and piercings I want

I’m not a very big fan of tattoos,  but if I were to get one, I’d tattoo Spain on my wrist, and inside the country I’d write ‘etxe’, which means house in Euskera.

Thanks for asking, anon!

[windisfengisviento]

Tips for Learning Some of the Languages of Spain!

1.       Learn Spanish (or at least be able to read it, depending on your goals). Spanish will help you with the other Romance languages (Catalan, Galician, and Aranese), and it will also open more resources up to you for these languages that less Anglophones study. And if you’re main goal is to speak to the most people in Spain, Spanish is probably most useful.

2.       If you’re in Uni and you want to study abroad, a lot of these languages have summer programs (except for Aranese, I believe).  You can study Galician with the University of A Coruna and University of Santiago de Compostela, Catalan at Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Barcelona, and Basque in San Sebastian.

3.       Even if you’re not in Uni, there are many language schools you can study at in these, and other locations!

4.       You can find a lot of speakers of these languages to practice with (except for Aranese again) on language exchange websites or apps like HelloTalk!

Some Highlighted Resources:

Spanish:

http://www.studyspanish.com/

http://conjuguemos.com/

Catalan:

http://parla.cat/

Galician (in Spanish):

http://e-galego.cesga.es/index.htm

Basque:

https://ikasten.lingua.es/

Aranese (Occitan):

http://corsi.aranes.org/www/index.php