Basque dancing, bertsolaris and Basque art and theater are all subjects of videos presented in an online presentation by the website Euskal Munduak (Basque World). The website’s exhibit, Batekmila Basque Worlds, is a contemporary and multilingual view of the world of the Basques. The online exhibit includes photos, music, videos, recordings of normal everyday sounds, to showcase the Basque culture. [...]

The renaissance of Bilbao reflects the perseverance of the Basques.

Many options exist to learn the Basque language in the United States The Basque language, referred to as Euskera in Basque, has survived centuries, despite its current classification as a endangered language. The language is a significant identifying marker of the unique Basque culture and scientists have not been able to identify any definitive connections between Basque and any other [...]

Maialen Lujanbio and Andoni Egaña are part of a unique research project

Bakersfield’s thriving Basque community was featured in a news report by local TV station KGET Channel 17. The report highlighted local landmarks such as Wool Grower’s restaurant and the Noriega Hotel. Historian Steve Bass was interviewed and talked about Kern County’s rich Basque history. Also featured in the report was visiting Basque Professor Unai Nafarrate, who is teaching a language [...]

The creation of a standardized Basque language, Euskera Batua, by the Euskaltzaindia — the Academy of the Basque Language — in the 1960s raised perhaps as many issues as it resolved. Which were true Basque words, and which were derivations of surrounding languages? Basque experts have debated these issues for decades. Luckily, the development of a unified Basque has led [...]

Korrika is a running event held every other year in the Basque Country since 1980 in support of the Basque language Euskera. It is a community run in which thousands of people join in, sometimes up to 600,000. This year, four U.S. Basque communities, San Francisco, New York City and Boise and Mountain Home, Idaho will be joining the Basque [...]

A website dedicated to digital language learning has unveiled a series of interactive games to help people learn the Basque language known as Euskera. Developed by Digital Dialects, the program features text and audio games that teach phrases in Euskera, as well as the names for numbers, animals and colors. There are also games designed to help users build and [...]

Speakers, students and aficionados of the Basque language can now download a free android app with a dictionary that translates words in Euskera and Spanish The app has a memory to store all the translated words so internet traffic is reduced and translated words can be accessed with minimal connection problems, according to developer Arima Pinturi. You can download the [...]

Free audio file with 10 key phrases