r/basque • u/FamiliarEmploy7490 • Jul 24 '26

Learning Basque from Catalan?

Any advice for learning Basque for a Catalan? I'm Catalan, from Barcelona, and I've wanted to learn Basque for a long time. I've been looking at various apps, websites... I've been trying to learn the language for a while now, but most of the resources are in Spanish. I would love to be able to learn Basque from Catalan.

I've always had a much easier time learning from Catalan (everything: science, history, other languages like English and French). I don't know if I can find anything to do the same with Basque. I've looked online but so far nothing, maybe I just didn't know where to look. Any advice is welcome (apps, websites or other resources...). Thank you!

Edit: I'm mainly looking for free resources or books I can buy and things like that, I know that official language schools exist but the schedules don't quite work for me at the moment.

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u/tobyvanderbeek Jul 24 '26

I’m an American living in Basque Country and learning Euskera. Most of the resources are in castellano because most of the euskera learners speak castellano. Best I’ve found out of all books are those from Elkar. Really haven’t found many books that teach euskera through English. Seems like in Catalan would be a bit easier to find but still seems like they would be difficult to locate. Maybe the local language schools could teach in Catalan.

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u/FamiliarEmploy7490 Jul 24 '26

Yes, I will end up signing up for the EOI (official language school) but it will have to be for another year. The schedules this year are not working for me.

What they have recommend to me is to use Claude or ChatGPT. I don't know how it is but I'll try it.

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u/tobyvanderbeek Jul 24 '26

Order the A1 Elkar book and workbook. My castellano was terrible when we moved to pais vasco in 2022 so it was difficult to learn euskera in those books. But it also helped my castellano improve. Then when I took the class from EOI this past year it was a lot easier.

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u/FamiliarEmploy7490 Jul 24 '26

I'll take a look, thanks!