Patricia Speaks Basque

[DerekIsAwesome1494]

Inork ez du hemen ezer negatiboa buruz euskararen hobeto esaten.

[kaindrg]

many basque words like knife and axe come from a root word meaning stone... i dont wanna make assumptions but those of pretty big implication on age

[agergondra]

She is new basque... which means that she did not acquire Basque, but learn the standard variety. 

[kaindrg]

@agergondra lol old money new money jk. makes sense since monder political history not many older ppl would pass on their distinct dialect rather the modern autonomous region would standardize theri own

[Luixmai]

Actually, she does lot of mistakes, but is good to see that she does not have forgotten how to use the language.

I am basque too and I try to practice it everyday, along with Spanish and English xD

[MsJollycholly]

why are Americans not taught more about the Basque? Their language, music and their origins???? I feel ripped off by my years of learning Spanish why I never learned of the Basque?

[clockworkorange1986]

@MsJollycholly, this is a strange comment. If Basque is your heritage then I respect that. But obviously we learn Spanish in schools because there are about 400 million Spanish speakers just south of the border. Clearly for an American student Spanish would be more useful.

[phishead07]

@clockworkorange1986 very true that spanish is MUCH more useful than basque, BUT learning a language is never useless, regardless of its popularity. to me each language i learn (in the process of learning 3) i feel like i am winning the lottery

[onthestcroix]

@clockworkorange1986 Don't forget the 40 million on our side.

[wojciechzby]

@MsJollycholly Good point. Some scientists believe that this language was spoken in western Europe so long time ago that first Basques had a chance to meet the last living Neanderthals in southern France. Only Chinese can compare.

[JorgeLorenzoSpain100]

Its widely accepted that the Basques are the original Europeans.Science doesnt lie....

[Mamonar]

@JorgeLorenzoSpain100

Widely accepted means science?

[kaindrg]

@JorgeLorenzoSpain100 u mean one of the alst remaining unmixed remeber spanish portugese welsh irish breton type celts are also close to basque north welsh have up to 90% similarity geneticly. but genetic says alto fo thing. for instance europeans of shown to be farless geneticly like original indo europeans than their language seems to be

[papparazi81]

lol thats wierd im basque but i grew up with the normal spanish, and then when im lissining to this im like LOl WTF ? i dont understand it ;P

[txeriffo]

She says she didn't like your spinachs! :P

[breizhcatalonia1993]

your BASQUE exchange student

[ALBIONTYKE]

Basque is not Indo-European. The Basques are the original people from Europe & have been here over 35,000 years. Many migrated north through western France & on to Britain & Ireland. Steven Oppenheimer's DNA research has proved that all indigenous people from Britain & Ireland are between 80% & 95% Basque origin. Only a few are 80% DNA mainly around East Anglia. The invading Indo-European hordes did not push them west as previously thought & only dominated but far less so in the west.

[asturnation]

@ALBIONTYKE Not, 80-95% origin of britain and ireland people are celtic migrations from Iberic Peninsule. Not basque migrations.

[ian69wells]

how long ago did she stay with you ?

[ohrob]

@ian69wells Two years ago, in the summer of 2008.

[vwbora1point8T]

Catalan, castillian, French whatever you claim to come from latin is NOT from Latin. It is a derivative of the native language with a Latin superimposed influence.

[JonnyLightning]

@vwbora1point8T

Not necessarily, the Romance languages are derived from the variety of Latin spoken in the various provinces in which they are located. While this does mean there may be a few words of previous native, foreign influence, the vast majority of all of these languages comes from Latin, especially with Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.

[ellatolerance]

ahh i like how people are actually informed about basque :D my grandfather was basque but he raised his children in mexico so I never really knew too much.. wish I could speak it sounds beautiful to me :D

[edithxlove]

@ellatolerance Yees,, I agree with you :) Basque is a beautiful language :)

[mahavishnuxc]

@edithxlove fucking savages, speak spanish this is spain goddamn it! but seriously its so strange in basque country, its like a whole different country rather than a part of spain. my parents are from san sebastian.

[trex0911]

piece of cake! lots of "-eeeeee" and "eeeeeeee" and even more "eeeee"

[lallamabantaz]

@trex0911 aww poor kid!! she was probably very nervous about having all that attention on her... I was once an exchange student in the US too and I felt so shy whenever my host family introduced me to other people and asked me to tell them about my Basque heritage and everything...

[jonsebaxtianelkano]

Basque people can assure, just after hearing the first few words that this girl doesn't know how to speak basque properly. She just know basque from what she learnt in the school, never had been spoken the language with friends or family.

Nevertheless, i am happy to listen people who's main language is Spanish, but they at least understand Basque and try to speak it.

The Basque Country and our own language are lovely, and we have to preserve this beautiful language.

[peterfaigl]

Some researchers into human prehistory suggest Basque may be , or be related to, the hypothetial language spoken by the inhabitants of the mythical Atlantis...

[FynnDynamite]

Basque is the oldest still existing language in the world ...

[vergettigrego]

Euskara oso hizkuntza polita da. Basque sounds beautiful , i'm learning Basque(batua) and Japanese(it going quite well) and it interesting to see that there many resemblances in word order between these languages. Then i read an article about Japanese language on Basque wikipedia and i could understand(without Google translator) that Basque and Japanese sentence structures are in many instances similar! The person(a Basque of course) who wrote the article said that it is easier for Basques

[Bebevv]

I read that basque people have very high population of negative O blood... I'm from central America so I'm part native American and part Spanish/European... I wonder if my ancestor was Spanish/basque, since I have o negative blood and it runs in my family on my moms side. And O negative is thought to have originated with basque people. Brings up a lot of questions. To why their language is one of kind as their blood line.

[tripitrapu]

@Bebevv My friend, loads of the ships that went to South America and invaded, raped and killed your people were made by Basques and sailed by Basques as we were the best sailors and big ship builders in Europe at the time. There're loads of people in South America with Basque surnames, even in important places like goverments.... so I wouldn't be suprised in you got Basque blood running through you. Forget the word Spanish though, we're just Basque and very proud!!

[jorgemarbur]

@tripitrapu What r u talking about? In the first trips there was not ne single basque. South Americans speak with the s instead of the z because most of the sailors were from the south of Spain. Basque went to South America recently whit Franco!! U were born spanish and u will die spanish, I guarantee u that. Un navarro!! And dont say Iam basque for being navarrean because I am not!!

[HATORHIHANSOLO]

Jeje, iruditzan zait nik bakarrik ulertu dizutela.

[Sarillajoy]

@ CamilaRox11- HesseJamez is right. Basque is not related to any other language in the world. It is not germanic and cannot be traced to ANY other language. It is in a language class of its own. Spanish is nothing like Basque. I speak spanish and have lived in and researched the Basque country and language. There is a romantic (albeit, unscientific) thought that some people believe Basque is the very first language ever spoken, dating back to the Tower of Babel (Biblical story).

[comisariostrelnikov]

Ha dicho espinacas? a mi me mola esta pava. Neska, neska vente pa Zaragoza que el idioma es sencillo y tenemos muy buena verdura de la Ribera del Ebro.

[fabianv94]

1. Basque is not related to germanic languages, it is the last surviving member of the Iberian languages

2. It is an Agglunative language, meaning that the sentences, phrases etc are altered via morphemes and using them as suffixes and infixes.

3. Basque has notably loaned the 'h' letter to Spanish, originally it was an 'f' e.g

(old Spanish)- Fijo became >>>> (modern Spanish) Hijo. This is also observed in the Occitan dialect Gascon, Filh (standard) >>>> Hilh (Gascon)

[drprdmrd]

@fabianv94

Basque has far connection with old japanese language.

[FeroxX]

strange, im just here because of the Spain national football team, and i read that the main of the team are Basque, and i was curious how different it may be from original Spain. and im really impressed, however the langue does sounds like a bit hungarian O_o) maybe im totally wrong. but this is my first impression, (im hungarian)

[Behatzailea]

@FeroxX really? does it sound like hungarian even though you are hungarian? any similar words to hungarian? did you understand anything but spinach, espinaka? I am just curious...

[Ultraviolight]

To anyone reading this who speaks Basque could you write how you would pronounce Xabi (as in Xabi Alonso)

Thanks

xox

[DJROBERTLEWIS]

how eird...lol...it sucks my dad never learned how to speak the language..either my grandfather never taught him or just rather not speak it since he moved to guatemala were it wasnt used and learned to use castellano instead...i wouldve loved to learn how to speak Basque..

[CardinalBeauty]

can someone please tell me what basque is !!

im so confused, im thinking its spanish but Iooked it up & it said

it was related to german language wtfff

[shanahanism]

Basqe is NOT a Germanic langage, it does not come from the same family as English or German is not even in the Indo European language group that most European languages come from, many language experts believe it is possibly the oldest surviving language in Europe.

[vitunlihakeitto666]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eee

[Svet69]

Sounds like Spanish.

[mmgoicochea]

@Svet69 spanish sounds like basque... basque is way older!! at least 30000 years lol

[PoliomanGamer]

@mmgoicochea I think that for obvious cultural reasons, euskara has adopted a few words from latin, french and spanish, but in essence it is a totally different language.

[MrLello90roma]

euskara,NO spanish!

[OisinGD]

If she's speaking Euskara (Basque) surely she is Basque.

[LSLNSRTRM]

This is definitely NOT a Germanic language. It might have some relation to them, given the proximity, just as it sounds like it might have borrowings from French or Spanish, but definitely not either of these exclusively. Could be related to Finnish, Hungarian, the other finno-uralic languages. Not Indo-European, not that we know of. But it sounds like it has Celtic influence, too.

[GeoTaoKlarjetMoschoi]

Basques are eastern Iberians Rlatives to Georgians all historians try to hide this fact

[shylence]

Prove this? instead of spamming over Basque videos

[iSPaLiTo]

@GeoTaoKlarjetMoschoi There aren't any relation between Iberian from Spain and caucasian iberian, we don't know why ancient romans called caucasian iberian with the same name, basque is provably relationed with ancient iberian language

[qbqoqbqshark]

@GeoTaoKlarjetMoschoi That's the second time I've heard this. Thank you for reminding me of this.

[shirleystemple]

I think she's speaking it with a bit of a Spanish accent. Correct?

[perreteable]

@shirleystemple Yes, actually she's not a native speaker but is doing a great job.

[gipcambero]

Before Roman conquest, Basquecwas spoken until Bordeaux, in all South western France

[TheEyesOfSam]

Beautiful Language and Woman by the way!

[wolfratungs]

Osondo nago msesdez eskerrik asko marmitako iparralde idiazabal eta batasuna.

[ozan562]

spanish people can't talk basque well;turks and hungarians can talk it better.

[fabjorn]

@ozan562 is there any turk or hungarian who speaks basque in this world? I thought that the native speakers are basques, who are, not entering politics, spaniards, and speak spanish as well, so evidently there's somehow a similarity or asimilation in the pronunciation of both languages, besides spanish pronunciation was influenced by basque in the origin of this language

[Magyar]

@fabjorn I speak Hungarian and I can't understand Basque (Euskara) at all. 

[Sarillajoy]

@fabjorn Basque is a language older than Spanish, so Basque was not influenced by Spanish. Basque is also spoken in a southern part of France. It is a completely different language, although lives side by side with Spanish &/or French. The Basque people do not consider themselves Spanish. When the Romans conquered Spain, they were able to conquer every people group in Iberia except for the Basques. There has been a struggle for autonomy ever since.

[drprdmrd]

@Sarillajoy

Basque language is spoken somewhere in America (probably South America) before Columbo reveal it. This is written in Otto Muck's book on Atlantida. One Christian Basque priest cna speak easily on Basque with any native Indian tribe.

I think, in history war is fought from time to time between "Aryans", and agglutinative language speaking people like Basque, Coreans, Japanese, and between Red and White race generally.

[Leslie88EE]

@ozan562 are you saying that turks and hungarians speak basque???

[rbierl]

I went to Galdakao in September for two weeks and visited Bilbao, Gastez, and most of northern Spain including the basque parliament in Gerniko. Better than the language is the people themselves. The culture is just as unique and the food is fantastic! It is too bad the Basque cannot attain independence peacefully. Biher Arte!

[JonnyLightning]

I wish there was a way to find out what Euskara is related to; I find it aggravating that all we know is that it isn't related to anything else.

[TheEyesOfSam]

Euskara is one of the oldest languages in the world, its been well preserved and the origin of the Basques dates back to the appereance of the cro-magnon in Europe (origins of the Europeans)

[shirleystemple]

I've heard it maintained Basque is related to Finnish, oddly enough.

[TDWP077]

Cinc estrelles, només perque la noia és tan xula!!! XD

[Saperwill]

éééééééééééeee..

[IlStudioso]

Sounds like a mix between Spanish and Armenian.

[midaztouch]

I can't believe more people have not pointed out the most obvious thing about this video: how CUTE this girl is! Okay, just kidding (she is very cute though). I have distant basque ancestry and just wanted to hear what it sounded like. For all I know, I have been pronouncing my (very basque) last name wrong my whole life. Basque sounds very nice (at least how she speaks it). Thanks for posting.

[Nida081]

muy bien =) i want coming to pais vasco and spain because I am turk and i want see in spain

thank you thank you :D english grammer

[hidalgolarraz]

SHE SAYS... "Tomorrow it is my last day. At 5.30 I´ll take a bus to go to the airport and I´ve had a wonderful time with my family here in Boston. They´ve been great with me and It´s been the first time I´ve eaten spinach. I didn´t like it at all but I ate it. I´ve had a pleasant time and I believe I´ll come back next year"

[ceniboy]

i like the way speakers of all the iberian languages (except portuguese) say the word "bueno" now and then, it sounds funny but cute, I've started doing it when I speak English with my Puerto Rican/Filipina friend, she thinks its cute!

[meh23p]

She is sweet. This sounds beautiful. :)

[camundongodance]

it sounds like spanish

[Biscaine]

Every language or at least most of the ( Spanish being no exception) have undergone similar standardization processes.

Such as modern standard castilian Spanish ever since Antonio de Nebrija by order of the "reyes Catolicos" unified it.

So i guess is only fair to call modern Spanish "batua" as well. ;)

[TheBudman770]

Hi!

I'm an ignorant American who's posting on various videos involving languages I've never heard of. If you don't believe me, try looking for my various posts on other videos. Anyway! Since I'm having a hard time trying to find a fact about the language that hasn't already been said in order to disprove my ignorance, the only thing I can come up with is this: I had no idea that there was a Basque National Football team. Yup...that's it...no one else has said anything about that...Well, onward!

[Pdasilva0324]

The Basque language has always fascinated me, with it's isolation in a largely Indo European world. I hope to see in my lifetime a proven link with Basque and another language or language family (Aquitanian not withstanding).

As a native English Speaker and also fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Basque to me sounds like mixed up or backward Spanish ( I know it is NOT, just the way it sounds since the phonetic system is so close to Spanish). Would love to learn it some day!

[Luixmai]

The basque language of nowadays borrows lot of words from Spanish, but actually the basque language has no relation with it.

Gaur egungo euskerak gazteleratik hitz asko hartzen ditu mailegaturik, baina izatez euskal hizkuntzak ez dauka berarekin inongo erlaziorik.

[typacsk]

I heard it used to be the other way around? ("ezkerti" is the only thing that comes to mind, but are there others?)

[kembot77]

kaixo! zer mogus? i'm not basque but i'm learning.

[edithxlove]

@kembot77 Is not ZER MOGUS i'ts ZER MODUZ haha:)

[newhuskytwenty]

@kembot77 ok, keep on learning, you have a long way to go, lol

[stareleades]

I have to admit

Basque sounds nice

but it looks horrific

too many x,g,k,z,

too harsh looking

[oscarlazzar]

Me parece muy tierno, una niña aprendiendo a hablar en Euskera, lindo de veras

[HesseJamez]

I understood "ETA" *lol*

[txuri88]

it means "and".

[bbklimotxo]

ondo txo!!, zabal zazu; berton ezta etxen baña gitxienez kanpuan aukeria daukonak entzutia desagertu baño ariñao

[artistfood]

It sounds latin-ish to me. I know it didnt originate from latin but it has a style to it.

[faceofjesusinmysoup]

it's not related to any other language in the world

[Amaiuxx]

You are doing well, zorionak!

[SolAurum]

The "eh"'s sound like they could be "and", amiright?

[jocksoff]

eta (which she says several times) means "and"...

[Ainho92]

No, the "eh" sound is like a pet phrase. I'm basque!

[TXONMI]

ei! oso ondo!

[mcbutter238]

que guay

[Emmenite]

So is this girl a native speaker of Basque, or does she just know some of the language?

I've been trying really hard to find some decent audio of a person speaking basque. I'll I've really been able to see is written basque, so I wanted to see if it sounds as unusual as it looks.

[ohrob]

She's a native speaker. She speaks Basque at home.

[Emmenite]

Cool! Thanks for putting this up and giving me a chance to actually get an idea of what this language sounds like.

I must say, though, that I'm a little disappointed. I was really hoping that it would sounds really unusual, but it sounds almost like it could be Spanish (minus all of those familiar-sounding words).

[saturdayboy]

I agree basque language nowadays is dissapointing in that sense: all the phonetics are exactly the same as spanish, except the sound of "z" and "s". I believe this was not how it was originally centuries ago, but maybe spanish influence led to a spanish pronunciation of basque. Or maybe could be spanish pronunciation comes from basque language since basque is a much older language. Still I think basque spoken naturally in small villages still sounds pretty different from standardized basque.

[jocksoff]

there are several different basque dialects and the one i hear the most does sound alot like spanish to the untrained ear.

[WHITEVOLK8814]

Are you crazy? Spanish pronunciation comes from latin and from old languages before the Romans came: celtics, suevos, alanos, vándalos... The basques have been always hidden in their small lands and the only basquian word that I know in Spanish is "zulo" wich means hole.

Their pronunciation is from spanish and their language is from the Caucasus, I think...

[Amaiuxx]

You think wrong:

Nowadays it is stated that the five vowels that exist in Spanish come from Basque.....And that Basque maybe comes from the very old Aquitanian....

You shoul read more....

We are not isolated! We have not been isolated althoug there a lot of mountains.....

[Gosling3]

I heard grammer is similar to Japanese...which sound strange because Japanese are in Ural-Altaic language group...Mongol, Korea and Japan language.

[HesseJamez]

Until now nobody knows where basque came from, no relationship to any other language in the world.

[Christieaux]

@HesseJamez I found out this recent theory made bout stone age human/bronze age human migrations, there are "native europeans" featuring basques, hungarians and finno-uralics whic came to europe through spain via Morocco from africa, the other "indo-europeans" featuring the celtics, italics, basis for greeks and basis for germanics, came to europe from the iranian plateau, from egypt general area via arabia. That's why hey are so different. Seperated by about 40,000 years O.O!

[CamilaRox11]

@HesseJamez its a germanic language.. thats why it doesnt look like any other language in spain... it comes from the same family (germanic) as english and other languages, even if they sound nothing alike...Im a Spanish major and this is what I study (not just castillian spanish)

[dcampos0]

I am doing research on this... you have no idea what you are talking about

[neipsters123]

@CamilaRox11 basque is not a germanic language... look it up. It is a language isolate related to no living language in the world

[vompsplat]

@CamilaRox11 absolutely false. Basque has absolutely nothing in common with Germanic languages.

[ofarevolution488]

@CamilaRox11 it's not a germanic language, its classified as a language isolate, It is the last remaining pre-Indo-European language in Western Europe

[bathory184]

@CamilaRox11 Hahaha are you kidding me?? The Germanic is a indoeuropean language, just like Indus, Iranian, Armenian, italic, Greek, ,Latin, Baltic, Celtic, German and Slav, all theme brought by the Indoeuropean Tribes (2500-2000 ac). Basques are the last remnant of the Palaeolithic inhabitants of Western Europe and there is enough evidence that the already spoke Basque in that time.

[bathory184]

@CamilaRox11 Most of the tools used by basques in land work, are composed by the root “aitz”, That it means “Rock”, the material used in the paleolithic to make tools, like aizkora – ax, aiztoa – knife, aitzurra- hoe… The paleolithic finished 10000 years ago, so there is no relation between Basque and Germanic languages

[drprdmrd]

@bathory184

Basque and Germany are not connected.

When it comes to the Germany some linguist consider it as flexion-agglutinative language. But for me is hard to comprehend how Germany can be considered even as partially agglutinative.

[Denis14P]

@CamilaRox11 not true

is a language isolate (unrelated to any family of languages in the world)

[Sarillajoy]

@CamilaRox11 HesseJamez is right. Basque is not related to any other language in the world. It is not germanic and cannot be traced to ANY other language. It is in a language class of its own. Spanish is nothing like Basque. I speak spanish and have lived in and researched the Basque country and language. There is a romantic (albeit, unscientific) thought that some people believe Basque is the very first language ever spoken, dating back to the Tower of Babel (Biblical story).

[charkee1]

@Sarillajoy Basque shepherds in eastern California were amazed to hear Basque words mixed into the Shoshoe language. Basque seems to be related to Tamil and some Basque is found also in Armenian. I also speak Spanish and several other languages and Basque is nothing close to Romantic or Germanic languages, though Basque has some loan words from Spanish.

[kaindrg]

@HesseJamez yes on speculation exist but there is link between it and other neolithic culture of the mediterranean. the entire country of spain is genetily basque just that the majority is latinized

[kaindrg]

@HesseJamez umm geneticly the spansih are just romanized basque also many old royal families from spanian happend to be very basque since the rebuttle against the moors started with a couple of king from teh basque region. Exampls of family name would be Salazar- sala(spansih -hall) and Zahar(basque - old). others ar mendoza, jimenez

[el1407]

@HesseJamez There's a strong resemblance to the Iberian Language which died out in the 1st/2nd centuries. Since it's been extinct so long, there's not too much remains of it but with what evidence there is, there are a lot of similarities. e.g.... numbers 1 - ban, 2 - bi, 3 - irú, 4 - laur, 5 - bors, etc (bat, bi, hiru, laur).

[recruitmentch]

@HesseJamez not true. i speak basque and i have a welsh friend who can understand certain aspects of basque. there are similarities between welsh and basque

[nextstep333]

@recruitmentch I am no Basque speaker but it has resemblance to some Celtic Languages like Welsh and Gaelic.

[RectulThreat]

@nextstep333

lol no it does not

[Amaiuxx]

I'm from Bilbao, one of the capitals of what is known as EAE/CAV but not Basque Country at all, Basque Country is EAE/CAV + Nafarroa + Iparralde or 'Zazpiak bat', Euskal Herria.

The standard of Basque is known as 'Batua' and it is taught with sounds very similar to Spanish ones.

[nietsmmar2]

Hey i always wanted to ask a person from Euskal herria this question... La magnoria de ustedes se consideran Espagnoles or Basque people^^?

[Ainho92]

Basque people!

[seanfl219]

actually, research shows 57% of citizens in the Basque Country use a dual identity, they identify as being both Basque and Spanish

[dudipare]

We are basque, no spanish.

[SamerOne1]

@dudipare FREE BASQUE COUNTRY...

GREETZ FROM KOSOVA!!!

[sawyerbobby]

@dudipare what's the difference between basque,catalan,and major spoken spanish?

[euskoalex]

@sawyerbobby

catalan and spanish come from latin language, just like french or italian.

basque's origin is still unkown, is completely different from spanish or catalan and is much older.

[jorgemarbur]

@dudipare You are basque and spanish. Basque country is not a country. What is your passport from, your ID Card from?? Un navarro!!

[JonnyLightning]

@jorgemarbur

The Basques are not Latins, and thus their country should not be under Latin control.

[newhuskytwenty]

@dudipare the most stupid comment ever, we are Basque and Spanish or Fench too

[dherrero]

My country is Spain. My city is Bilbao (Basque). In the same way other people is spanish and is born in Madrid or any other city

[robertemmet04]

sorry but bilboa is viscaya it is the basque country, euskal herria, it has nothing to do with spain

[Amaiuxx]

But people speaking native Basque do not normally speak standard, except people from Nafarroa (because Batua is taken from the dialect spoken there).

In EAE/CAV and Nafarroa Basque has sounds very similar to Spanish ones, but in Iparralde the Basque sounds are very similar to the French ones due to the influence of French language.

I speak standard and 'bizkaitarra' (the dialect of my province).

[euskalantifa]

barkatu estea baino batua ez dator nafarroatik, dialekto guztien nahaskeretatik baizik.

hitz batzuk nafarroatik hartuta daude bai, baina beste batzuk gipuzkeratik, bizkaieratik...

[Amaiuxx]

it sounds like Spanish phonemes because she speaks in the Spanish territory or area

in the French territory Basque is French accented and 'it sounds like French' because of the influence of French phonemes/letter sounds

[JonJack2]

that´s because she is a spanish speaker aswell, she speaks the standard dialect of basque called "batua", that means "unified" that sounds similar to spanish, the way the "original" basque sounds changes even from a town to the next one, in only a few kilometers

[Biscaine]

The reason Castilian Spanish sounds like Basque is precisely because in its development from its latin roots, ( syntax and grammar) it adopted the phonetics directly from the Basque.

In other words Castilian Spanish is basically latin spoken with a Basque accent or better yet when the romans brought latin to Hispania and the ancestors of today's Basque who already were there tried to speak latin===> castellano came out. :)

[ronniegana2]

i think the metal band Nunbait (Myspace music) sings in Basque.

[Amaiuxx]

Nunbait means 'somewhere'

[warrolerdo]

I'm Basque and I can assure you that this girl is NOT NATIVE speaker.

[Luixmai]

Joer, euskera oso ondo hitzegiten dezu, nik baino gehiago (ohitura galdu det jada, egun guztian erderaz hitzegiten detelako agian xD)

[silentsea93]

That's so cool. I've wanted to learn Basque, but it's really difficult for me! I do speak Spanish almost fluently, but I'm horrible at Basque.