BEGINNER'S BASQUE,W 2 AUDIO CDS Book

	Introduction	7
	History of the Basque People and Their Language	11
	The Basque Country Today	19
	Some Aspects of the Basque Culture	25
	Abbreviations and Symbols	29
	Alphabet and Pronunciation	31
	Exercises	37
Lesson 139
	Dialogue & vocabulary: First conversation: Good morning!	40
	Grammar	44
	Nouns and noun phrases	44
	The definite article singular	44
	The verb 'to be'	46
	The subject	48
	Word order	48
	Questions	48
	Exercises	50
Lesson 251
	Dialogue & vocabulary: What is your name?	52
	Grammar	56
	The negation	56
	To be somewhere	56
	The strong r	56
	The indefinite article	57
	The word beste (other)	57
	The plural article	58
	The word batzuk (some)	58
	Exercises	60
Lesson 363
	Dialogue & vocabulary: Where are you from?	64
	Grammar	68
	The verb and its conjugation: General notions	68
	The perfective	68
	The recent past tense	69
	The relational suffix -ko	70
	The location suffix -n (geographical names)	71
	The direction suffix -ra (geographical names)	71
	The word ala ('or' exclusive)	72
	Exercises	74
Lesson 477
	Dialogue & vocabulary: From where to where?	78
	Grammar	82
	The past tense of izan (to be)	82
	The remote past tense	82
	The past tense of egon (to be)	83
	The separation suffix -tik (geographical names)	84
	The interrogative particle al	84
	The word edo ('or' inclusive)	84
	The word samar (rather)	85
	Exercises	87
Lesson 589
	Dialogue & vocabulary: Are you thirsty?	90
	Grammar	94
	The verb 'to have'	94
	The transitive subject	95
	The transitive conjugation	96
	The recent past and remote past tense (transitive)	97
	Plural objects	99
	The partitive suffix -(r)ik	100
	Is/Are there any ...?	101
	The word baizik (but)	101
	Exercises	104
Lesson 6107
	Dialogue & vocabulary: Lunch is ready	108
	Grammar	112
	The imperfective	112
	The (habitual) present and past tense	112
	The demonstrative pronouns	115
	Adverbs of state	116
	Exercises	119
Lesson 7121
	Dialogue & vocabulary: How many flowers?	122
	Grammar	126
	Numerals (1-20)	126
	Do you have any ...?	128
	The words bera(k) and bere(n) (third persons)	128
	The verbs 'to want to' and 'to have to'	128
	The comparative	129
	The verb eduki (to hold)	129
	Exercises	133
Lesson 8135
	Dialogue & vocabulary: The days of the week	136
	Grammar	140
	The future tense	140
	Numerals (ordinal numbers)	141
	The genitive suffix -ren	142
	Exercises	145
Lesson 9147
	Dialogue & vocabulary: In the city	148
	Grammar	152
	The simple conjugation: etorri (to come) and joan (to go)	152
	The location suffix -an	153
	The direction suffix -ra	154
	The separation suffix -tik	154
	Exercises	156
Lesson 10159
	Dialogue & vocabulary: Let's go to the station!	160
	Grammar	164
	Ibili (to walk) in the simple conjugation	164
	The direction suffix -raino	164
	The instrument suffix -z	164
	The possessive adjectives	165
	Exercises	168
Lesson 11171
	Dialogue & vocabulary: At what time will the train arrive?	172
	Grammar	176
	Telling the time	176
	The direction suffix -rantz	179
	Complements of place	179
	Complements of time	180
	Exercises	182
Lesson 12185
	Dialogue & vocabulary: A walk in the mountains	186
	Grammar	190
	The dative of izan (to be)	190
	The dative case -ri	192
	The suffix -rekin meaning '(together) with'	192
	Other prepositions	192
	Numerals (21-100, 1000)	194
	Exercises	196
Appendix A	How to Be Inventive in Basque	199
	Noun Makers	201
	Adjective Makers	204
	Verb Makers	206
Appendix B	Declension Summary	209
Appendix C	Conjugation Summary	215
	Exercise Key	223
	Glossary Basque-English	241
	Glossary English-Basque	261
	Bibliography	283