Post Tagged with: "Euskera"

Online Exhibit of the Basque Culture

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. [...]

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Learn Basque Online, at Basque centers and colleges

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 [...]

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Madonna Kicks off World Tour with Basque Group Kalakan

Madonna Kicks off World Tour with Basque Group Kalakan

Basque group Kalakan was featured in Madonna’s recent World Tour.
Story originally published May, 30, 2012

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Innovative New Car Has a Basque Name

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Basque hard rock group Berri Txarrak

Basque Rockers Recording Album in L.A.

Berri Txarrak, one of the biggest names in Basque rock, jammed at a studio in trendy Venice Beach in September 2011.

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U.S. Communities Start their own Korrika Events

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 [...]

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New ineractive games to learn Euskera

New Interactive Games to Learn Basque Language

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 [...]

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Download Free Basque Language App

Download Free Basque Language App

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 [...]

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Basic Basque Language Phrases Online

Free audio file with 10 key phrases

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Basque Language Added to Google Translate

The Basque language has just been added to Google Translate, the company announced. The announcement was made May 13 in the official Google Blog. The blog post noted that Basque had been added in alpha status, which means the translations may be less fluent than those of other languages. As with its other languages, Google Translate invites people to contribute [...]

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