We Tried to Learn Europe’s Oldest Language in 7 Days
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2021
- In a moment of stupidity, we thought it would be a good idea to try and learn a language in a week.
It was a gruelling challenge and we owe a debt of gratitude to many people. This would have been a very different (and less interesting) week without the input of Eider, Maite, and Aitor who helped us immeasurably.
Also, thanks to Mikel and Gurutze at the Euskararen Etxea. We recommend it thoroughly.
Finally, thanks to the wonderful Basque band Skabidean for letting us their song 'Betirako'.
Basque is a jewel that has survived thousands of years and is now thriving especially among the youth. It was an honour to study it and we hope other people decide to do the same.
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Kaixo, lagunok! 7 egunetan mordo bat euskaraz ikasi duzue, zorionak! I was so excited to see your first tool to learn survival Basque was the Intrepid Guide's 99 phrase, as I wrote them and recorded them myself for Michelle Frola, the site's owner. I'm a Colombian Bascologist with Basque ancestry (C1 in Basque). Galdera bat: euskara ikasten jarraitu ote zenuten? Zein mailatara iritsi zarete? Besarkada bat Kolonbiatik eta eutsi beti goiari!
You have learned more euskara in 7 days than some people who live here all their life. Congrats! You two are great. Zorionak eta mila esker gure hizkuntza ikasi daitekeela frogatzeagatik. 💝
Bai baina el subjuntibera de los cojones me está jodiendo la vida. No es extremadamente difícil pero vale ya no? El euskara es complicado vale ya de mentir joder.
That's entirely true. Some people from Extremadura or Andalusia living here since 1960 won't even try it. Mila esker Agur!
It is very much appreciated the interest you have shown!! Zorionak eta eskerrik asko!
Congratulations!! And thank you for your effort 👏👏 you are more than welcome to come back to the basque country. If you have learned so much in just seven days😱 I can’t imagine what you can learn if you spend a month here… well done guys! Eskerrik asko eta laster arte!
Zorionak bideo ederra egin duzue! Nire neskalaguna italiarra ta bi urte daramatza euskara ikasten eta oso zaila egiten ari zaio. Bideoa erakutziko diot zuen energia isladatzeko. Eskerrik asko!!
Kaixo! I enjoyed my time working for a company near Loyola. Spent a whole summer there. Quickly learned, "Beste bat/bi." As an Asian American dude saying egun on, eskerrik asko, iz horriegotik, and other small greetings/gestures, the joy/pleasure from the locals was just priceless, and I feel like they saw me more then just someone visiting.
Zorionak!!! Well done and thank you for making Basque a more visible language 😊.
Astonished. Good job and great respecto for our language, culture and land. Mika esker eta jarraitu ikasten!
Eskerrik asko gure hizkuntza mundutik zabaltzeagatik. Eskerrik asko Bikote! Besarkada bana!
Average Spanish fan vs Average Euskera enjoyers
Harrigarriak zarete! Bejondeizuela!
Zorionak, bikote!! Eta eskerrik asko Euskal Herriko erdaldunei koloreak ateratzeko eredu bat emateagatik!
zuen euskara ona da zazpi egunetan 👍👍💯
Couldn't believe when I saw you were in Bergara, my hometown. Truth to be told that kind of level in 7 days is more than spectacular
Born linguist! I am learning Basque at the same time! Excellent
Harrigarria benetan! Oso ondo egin duzue. Milesker eta aurrera!
Agertu egin zaut ta laket dut.
Awesome job guys! I love how you've somehow debunked the idea that Basque is an impossible language to learn. Many people just don't try because of this idea.
More vids like this!
Xabi everybody knows euskera os fuckin complicated, do not lie to the people like that. Nos i am learning subjuntibera and I wanna die. STOP SAYING FALSE THINGS
Eskerrik Laguna. That’s hype me to learn Euzkera
That bookshop looks amazing, what an amazing atmosphere, we don't have anything like it in the US.
Wow, awesome job guys. Izugarrizkoa lana egin duzue!!
Uauuu!! Eskerrik asko!!! Oso bideo interesgarria!! Eskerrik asko bikote!! 😍😍😍
Zorionak eta eskerrik asko bioi!!
Among the most difficult things when learning Basque are the conjugation (especially NOR-NORI and NOR-NORI-NORK, most of my non-native friends have a hard time with this), and the dialects. As a northerner, some southern accents and sub-dialects are quite tricky to understand, even though I'm native speaker
So impressed, guys! Thank you !!!
Another great video lads! Very informative, especially as I never knew about this language! The video also reminded me of some of the best elements of travelling, like meeting up with a variety of new people quickly in different settings, and often randomly!!
Top effort on learning the language as well - impressive effort for seven days. You're both clearly very good linguists! Nice touch at the end too, making the point on just how hard it is to learn a language, appreciated that! 😀
This is such a good video - interesting topic, well shot and edited, perfectly paced. I'm surprised it's not on a view count ten times what it actually is. Well done fellas
Wow, one of your best videos so far guys. Really impressive, what lovely people. I felt I was there with you. Keep these videos coming, they are so interesting. Enjoyed the comedy of Ollie being constantly eating when he should be talking 😀
Well... Basque Country and Food, you know 😍
Great job!!! Zorionak😉
The end got me surpised haha
It proves to me that the other people who claim to "learn" a language in only "7 days" are liars, or most of them
Others even want to achieve fluency in that short period of time, others select languages that they already know properly, others learn for a month or more but it was "7 days" (cutting parts in their videos and changing date on their devices), even I found a Mexican guy who was learning Spanish in 7 days but lol, every time he spoke in English, he had a Spanish-native speaker accent from Mexico and no, I'm not exagerating, my native language is Spanish and I know overly well how people sound when they speak English :/
Tho, you learned more than one could do in a week, you were vey honest with it
You guys are such an inspiration for me, I really like your content btw :D
Rare honest youtube vloggers. I didn't know such a thing was possible, haha.
All Mexicans Don't speak Spanish; he might have had an accent because his native language is an indigenous language. I know families who speak an indigenous language in their homes, and not Spanish.
I really enjoyed your video, guys! It is incredible what you have achieved in only seven days. I am Catalan and currently studying Basque. Badakit euskara oso hizkuntza zaila da baina egia esan hizkuntzak maite ditut eta arrisku handiak ere bai.
Zorte on! It is a privilege to study such a beautiful language. Perhaps we'll try Catalan soon - Sebastian
This is such a good video omg it deserves so many views
You guys got a better level in seven days than some of my friends in their lives learning in school (without much ineterest sadly) Mila esker eta horrela jarraitu, ikaragarriak zarete!
Outstanding job you've done in seven days! Zorionak eta eskerrik asko!
Eskerrik asko bikote, nahi izatekotan emen duzue lagun bat euskera ikasten jarraitzeko, besarkada bat!
Amazing, it just goes to show that if someone really puts themselves into learning something it can be done, great content again and inspiring.
Mila esker, Ollie and Sebastian!
Good job boys! the best way to learn a language is to practice, comunicate and not have same. Txalo handi bat zuentzat, lan ederra egin duzue. Since I was very young I wanted to learn English, finally with more than fifty I did it. Egunero landu behar da. 👏👏👏
Oso ona, bikote!! Bejondeizuela.
Great video! You are really good with languages :)
Ederra!
Wow .. Your picture quality is so clear!
Thank you, I'll forward your comment onto GoPro 😀 - Ollie
I was very pleasantly surprised by your progress in such a small amount of time, from someone who has been speaking Basque all my life I invite anyone who is interested to give it a try, there are many people here ready teach whoever they can
Dut and so on is the helper of the verb. It means the time and subject of it. As they told you we have names and the final of it will tell you what we're talking about. Laguna means friend, lagunarekin means with the friend, lagunarengana means up to the friend, lagunarekin means due to the friend, and so on.
Kristo piztu da! Benetan Berpiztu da! ☦️
Gora euskal herriaren askapena. Noizbait aske izango gara. Jo Ta Ke independentzia lortu harte.
Aupa, mutilak! Eskerrik asko, bihotzez
Zorionak bene-benetan , ez da gauza erraza eta garrantzitsuena ikasi duzue jada!
Bejondeizuela!! bikain aritu zarete!
Thank you for the fun experience watching the language emersion. I am wondering what computer application you demonstrated at the hotel scene with the normative grammar color coded red/blue/green?
Eskerrik asko, lan bikaina eginen duzuena ! Bejondeizuela!!
Video osoa ikusi ondoren , gustokoa izango nuke euskararen emborra ta sustraiak ezagutzeko Nafarrora joango bazinen, ala eta guztiz , Eskerrik asko berriz eta baliteke zuon hurrengo bideoan Nafarroan. 😃
Zorionak !!!!! 💪💪🔥🔥🔥
IRUÑATIK ZORIONAK BIKOTE!!
it's not the oldest overall, but the oldest living language in europe. But otherwise, a really cool video
Zorionak!😀
I can’t wait to meet my roots
I recognized the rock band, Berri Txarrak, on the woman’s shirt.
…that’s about it
Oso bideo ona, euskara oso hizkuntza polita eta misteriotzua da, baina oso zailaa!!!
Ederra 👌🤘🤘
The video is excellent, BUT starts with a Flamenco dancer which is typical from Spain (or the rest of Spain), concretely from Andalusia, almost 700 kms away from there...
Biba ziek ! :)
Where does the map @0:15 come from?
I've known about the existence of Basque language and location..... But never in my deepest thoughts I've says it was extremely difficult to study because it is not related to any other language known..... It is horrific 😐 I've learned Italian from Romanian ( both Latin) in 3 weeks and perfextiones accent in 2 months.... But holy shit this is too much
There is a vague resemblance to gaelic, albanian and to armenian ,but only barely so.
Regardless the age of the language, I like Basks and their country. I couldn't believe that during Franco's dictatorship this beautiful language was forbidden!
Jajaj mutiko ea ulertzen dozun hauxe 😂😂
Methinks, they had to have migrated from legendary ATLANTIS, as recorded by Solon, when visiting ancient Egypt and Plato, in his Dialogues! Something WARNED these Proto-Basques to very-hurriedly get out of there, before it sank below the ocean waves! But who knows? Maybe these very Atlanteans thought these proto-Basques as SO UNLIKE Them as well!
No only descendants of Neolithic peoples not Atlantis
@@TempleofBrendaSong Atlantis is as suppressed in public awareness as U.F.O's!
Oso ondo ikasi duzue. Zorionak. Igertzen da euskaraz eta ingelesez idazten ari garela, ez baitugu espainiar ergelen iruzkin nazkagarririk irakurri behar eta.
Spanish was born in La Rioja derived from vulgar Latin written and spoken by Basques. That`s why Castilian or Spanish and Basque share the same phonetics. Hence Spanish has Basque origins. Furthermore there is theory, albeit debated, that old Iberian was Basque or close to Basque.
I m curious if a Turkish, Japanese, Nahuatl, Quechua, or Georgian speaker went there to learn Basque, how much easier would it be for there.
Hizkuntza polita baina saia
GORA EUSKAL HERRIA TA ASKATAZUNA .... !!!!
ZORIONAK BIKOTE!
Unbelievable. Makes me feel rubbish though - been trying to learn Spanish for couple of years! Well done. And very entertaining. Wheres next...!?
@@chescamoore1285 Spanish?
Amaia we already know that you are abertxandal but many people do not know the difference. Please stop shareing your opinión of herri batasuna. STOPPPPPP!!!!!
I wonder; if we don't know the origin and the age of a language, how we know that is the oldest in Europe? In the other hand, we have found Greek writings from 21st century BC (till today at least) hence we assume is much older.
Think it is based on several things: there are various theories as to the origin of the Basques, but the one most commonly held today is that they are direct descendants of the indigenous people of Europe, before the Indo-European migrations…so well before Ancient Greek (which is Indo-European) one pointer is that the words for certain basic tools all have the same root for the word for stone (which I think is “Aitz” in Basque)..that strongly points towards the fact those words originated when stone was the main material used for making these tools (i.e. the Stone Age, as opposed to bronze, iron etc).
You say that there are Greek writings from 21st century BC, that cannot be correct, Greek is definitely in the Indo-European language family, and the Indo-European migrations were known to have happened between 6000 to 3000 BC….with these migrations, the Indo-European languages evolved…
@@velouris76 Please note that Indo-European theory is strongly contested.
@@velouris76 Probably it was a reference to proto-greek ,that certainly existed in the 21st century BC . :)
I realized it was scripted when you said "dezakegula" hahaha, I thought "there is no way they learnt that".
Dena den, zorionak! Asko ikasi bazenuten, itxaro dut ahaztu ez zenutenik! Nik ere euskara ikasten dut.
El video tiene más cortes que las sábanas de la cama de Freddy Krueger.
W icl
Zorionak
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So, you’ve learned Greek? Because there isn’t a spoken languages with a written form older than it.
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