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WiSe 20/21: Online: Baskisch für Anfänger (ohne Vorkenntnisse)

Unai Casas Antia

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Unterrichtssprache: Baskisch/Englisch

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This course will be an introduction to the fascinating Basque language, Euskara. A journey into a language different from any other European language. This course is offered every Wintersemester. The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the Basque language through structural analysis and the development of basic written and conversational skills (useful in daily life at home, at work, with family, with friends, in the street, market…). At the end of the course, the students will be able to communicate in basic ways with Basque speakers, and will gain a good grasp of the structure of the language (ergativity, free word order, particular verb inflection, rich declination…). The Basque language attracts the attention of linguists because it is said to be one of the oldest languages in Europe and the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in Western Europe. The origin of the Basque language is still unclear and often myths and false assumptions have been created on this subject. Today, Euskara is present on the internet, at university, in literature... It is a very lively language, although it lives in a situation of diglossia, and the coexistence of languages (Basque, Spanish and French) and various social factors sometimes cause conflict. It has 800,000 speakers in northern Spain and southern France, and a hard-to-predict number of diaspora speakers (especially in the US, Paris and several Latin American cities). Join this journey to the wonderful language of the Basque country, full of enigmas, strong and peculiar customs that will be discovered through very dynamic activities, such as interactive presentations, brief dialogues, games, songs… These courses are organised in cooperation with the Basque Language and Culture Institute Instituto Etxepare and every year students from the Institute´s international network of universities will have the chance to apply for scholarships to study Euskara in summer at the Basque Country. • A Brief Grammar of Euskara, the Basque Language, Itziar Laka, UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY. https://www.ehu.eus/eu/web/eins/basque-grammar • Gramática didáctica del euskera, Ilari Zubiri, DIDAKTIKER. • ARIAN 1.1 Euskara ikasteko metodoa, Elkar. close