Top Beginner Phrases in BASQUE 

Aw thank you! You’re very kind! 🤗

So cool that you have Basque heritage! Keep learning, it is a difficult path but I hope you will find it is worth it! ☺️

Basque and Sicilian are both definitely unique and awesome.

Basque language has nothing to do with Sicilian. Basque is a pre indo-european language mixed with Celtic and Goth languages.

Stai Zitto! Who said it has anything to do with Basque. It was a joke.@@melgaard45

@@melgaard45 Nobody here claimed they were related (although some people do since both groups have the most similar DNA, apparently, [if I remember correctly] but I don’t hold with that language theory, so I get your frustration.) But they are still both unique and definitely underrated, in my opinion 😊

I love relations between other languages! Even if they happen to be minor, strange coincidences occur or long-forgotten borrowings have been interchanged, and it’s really quite a nice mystery. Thank you for this little bit of comparison! 😊

لا علاقة أخويا بيناتهم

Ados nago zurekin. Euskara misterio izugarri eta ederra da. Eskerrik asko zure oharragatik! ☺️

Thanks!

Haha! I will have to do a special video for those! 😊

Yes, this is something I want to improve on! This was an earlier video, so I was just nervous. 😊 Maybe I will remake this one and slow it down!

@@basqueberserk That would be awesome!!! I really want to learn this incredible language because most of my ancestry comes from Spain. Thank you for replying to my comment. I really appreciate you and your content.

@@susanbryson753 Thank you for your recommendations! I can only grow with you guys’ help! 😊

@@basqueberserk You're extremely welcome 😁

Once you get the logic of it, it’s definitely not such a hard language! I think for me the hardest things are (still) word order and the multitude of auxiliary forms. Also I understand that the case system is tricky if you are not used to that sort of thing. It’s definitely a different way of expression and some people find it daunting. 😌

Badakit. Sake -> txakoli, topa!

@@ernstkrudl4895 noun Bizi hiz ?

@@georgetteberho7293 ez dut ulertzen. Iparraldekoa zira? Untsa zira?

@@ernstkrudl4895 xiberoan izigari ountsa !!

@@georgetteberho7293 I am lost with your answer. Where do you live and do you speak Basque. Please answer in in English or in French si´l vous plait.

I definitely should have, didn’t even think about it at the time of filming! Next time though ☺️

Eskerrik asko! ☺️😊 ez da perfektua baina beti praktikatzen ari naiz, txiri-txiri. 💪

When it's alone, generally yes, though I have heard one occasion when a native pronounced it like a Z, but maybe that was an outlier. When there are two Z's, they often like to pronounce it like "tz", like "ez zara" sounds a lot like "etzara". And sometimes, in the word "ez", they drop the Z before another word that starts with N or L, like "ez naiz" sounds like "ehnaiz". But that doesn't always happens. Some speakers pronounce 'tz' more like the 'ts' or 'tx'. So to answer your question, Z isn't always pronounced like S, but alone, yes.

@@basqueberserk in textbooks audios (slow talking) it is sometimes not shortened/changed, in songs and normal speed talking (FAST) the shortening/changing is the normal. I like examples: e(z) naiz hemengoa: I am not from here. I dare say after digging into this language on my own for some years, all these little side notes/comments of our "language fairy" are so much of the Basque language core and ultra helpful. Milesker!.

@@ernstkrudl4895 thank you for your insight! 😊