Basque declension system is complex, there are up to twenty cases, but all nouns are dealt similarly for declension purposes. We are expected to cope well with half of these cases at the end of this course. The other key feature of Basque is that an ergative language. For word formation purposes, Basque is an agglutinating language, words are brought up basically by sticking on short words. Word formation is a main theme in Basque.
Basque vocabulary is very extent.
As many words as sand in a beach, said apologists. Be calm, not really so much, but quite a lot are used in ordinary speech. In this course we are studying just the basics of word formation. Pronouncing Basque Reading Basque is quite easy. Let's see the consonants.