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I recently discovered and started frequenting all the internet resources that have grown around the language learning community (there's a lot of websites, yout
by kace91 6y ago
I recently discovered and started frequenting all the internet resources that have grown around the language learning community (there's a lot of websites, youtube channels with polyglots showing off, etc).
As a Spaniard, it was really surprising to see how popular the Basque language is around those circles. I think it's a mix of the historical quirkiness of it being a pre-roman western European language, and the bragging potential for language learners due to how niche and unrelated to other languages it is.
If you ever need to make some money on the side, there are sites where you can book conversations with native speakers to practice, and basque is really in demand, so an euskaldun can make good money :)
- jng 6y agoYes, that's true. I also think this is due the history of linguistics itself as a field. Until the 19th century, I think scholars focused on european languages. Nearly all of them of indoeuropean origin: Maltese probably just ignored, Finnish and Hungarian found to be distantly related (I never saw Estonian mentioned in older texts), and Basque was "the mysterious isolate". Please share with me some links to those sites where I could make some side money just by speaking some Basque, sounds like a good mental break from programming :)
- unhammer 6y agohttps://www.italki.com/ https://www.italki.com/ – I've heard from language learners that it's actually a very good way of learning, if you can't do full immersion (compared to stuff like srs, duolingo, grammar books, etc.)