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Office: Center for Basque Studies (GL 281) Phone: 784.4854 http://basque.unr.edu Course Description The second year of Basque language study includes a structural review, conversation, and writing. It also includes further work with the unique structure of the Basque verb and system of suffixes. The classroom-taught course will in general follow the syllabus, allowing for differences in learning styles of each class. General Syllabus Lesson One Simple past (preterite) of izan, Nor forms, and talking about the “distant” past Ari nintzen (past progressive) Lesson Two Simple past (preterit) of izan, Nor forms. Identification and transformation from present to past and past to present. Lesson Three Simple past (preterit) of egon. Lesson Four More practice with the simple past (preterit) of izan and egon. Lesson Five Simple past (preterit) of ukan (Nor-Nork) and talking about the “distant” past with third-person singular objects (it, him, her) Lesson Six Simple past (preterit) of ukan (Nor-Nork) and talking about the “distant” past with third-person plural objects (them) Lesson Seven Simple past (preterit) of ukan (Nor-nork). Identification and transformation from present to past and past to present. Progress Test One Lesson Eight More practice with the simple past (preterit) of ukan (Nor-Nork) Bigger, biggest, and too big: comparatives (-ago, -en, -egi) Lesson Nine Simple past of ukan and izan, and the habitual past More ways to make comparisons (using adverbs; saying “as... as...”). Lesson Ten More practice with making comparisons Lesson Eleven More practice with the simple past (preterite) of ukan (Nor-nork) and review izan Lesson Twelve Saying “so” and “so much” (hain and hainbeste) Saying “as much... as” “as many... as” (bezainbat) Lesson Thirteen More practice with subordinate marker -la, using new tenses Preterite of eduki with singular and plural third-person objects Lesson Fourteen Review of verbs izan, egon, eduki, and ukan (third person objects) Progress Test Two Lesson Fifteen Review of ukan, Nor-Nork (present tense) with first and second person objects (nau, zaitu, gaitu, zaituzte) Lesson Sixteen Simple past (preterite) of Nor-Nork, first and second person singular objects (nindu, zintu) Lesson Seventeen Simple past (preterite) of Nor-Nork, first and second person plural objects (gintu, zintuzte) Lesson Eighteen Review of present and past tense of ukan, Nor-Nork, with third person objects (dut, nuen) Lesson Nineteen Using all objects of ukan, Nor-Nork, in the present and past tense Lesson Twenty Subordination marker -(e)n in relative clauses Lesson Twenty-one Past tense (preterite) of jakin Distinguishing between subordinate markers: -(e)la or -(e)n A note about subordination marker -(e)nik Progress Test Three |
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