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Basque-ing under a summer sun: update, an exciting trip and more tips on keeping going with your beginner level language

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It's been well over four months since I posted on my Basque learning. Basque is a fascinating language "isolate", related to no other and spoken by about 600,000 people on both sides of the western end of the Franco-Spanish border.  Yes, I'm still at it and in this post I'll bring things up-to-date.  Let's mine some tips from my story too, to help you sustain your … [Read more...]

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