10/28/2019

National Geographic is a prestigious magazine around the world, although beyond the thesis that is exposes there will be those who think that this article does not honor that line of prestige, rigor or solidity, but in any case, it is National Geographic so given the level of diffusion that it will achieve we wanted to bring it here. The article authored by Erin Blakemore was published last Thursday entitled, ...
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10/28/2019

With sociologist and linguistic expert, Ane Ortega Etcheverry, as invited scholar, the content of the Chair to be developed today and tomorrow, October 28 and 29, in two presentations is “Strategies for the Revitalization and Use of Euskera,” and “The Collaboration of Indigenous Languages.” In today’s session, Ortega will give a talk entitled, “Promoting New Speakers of Basque: ...
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10/25/2019

Last weekend, the city of Valladolid experienced its traditional Euskal Jaia annually organized by the Gure Txoko Basque Club in the capital city, this year celebrating its 36th anniversary. The program began on Saturday with mass at 6pm at the Cathedral in Valladolid, sung by the Gure Txoko Choir, directed by Javier Frontela.
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10/25/2019

The expedition of 24 travelers organized by Euskal Argentina will travel according to the foundational objectives of the entity, to promote relations between Iparralde and Basques who emigrated to the Southern Cone, as well as “to investigate, stimulate and disseminate (on both sides of the ocean) the knowledge of the Basque Diaspora especially that of Iparralde.” The association organizes a trip ...
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10/25/2019

After the successful recuperation of the festival in 2018, the city of General Roca, in the province of Rio Negro in Patagonia, organized the Festival of Communities again this year. The celebration will take place on November 2nd at the facilities and grounds of the Italian United Association with the same communities participating, the Italians, Basques, Israelis, Chileans, Spanish and Lebanese. In the ...
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10/24/2019

We received very exciting news from San Francisco with the wedding last weekend in Burlingame of two young people, Fred and Danielle who, surrounded by their family and friends celebrated this important day in the style of a traditional Basque wedding ceremony followed by more celebration. Those present tell us that it was a beautiful, memorable day with extraordinary atmosphere where there was no shortage of ...
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10/24/2019

We have been announcing this event for a couple of weeks on our agenda, but with it being only two days away, it worths to mention it again. The Basque Cultural Center in San Francisco will be the site this Saturday for a gathering of Basques and fans of Basque culture for the “Basque Cultural Day,” an informative event held every two years organized by the BEO (Basque Educational Organization), ...
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10/24/2019

The Teatrotren II Theater group in Rosario has premiered in October the work “Odaluza Vasca,” the story of Navarrese, Guillermo Larregui, better known as the “Basque with the wheelbarrow,” this time taken to the stage. “Odaluza Vasca,” tells the story of the travels of Larregui, that began in 1935, in Comandante Luis Piedra Buena in the Province of Santa Cruz in Patagonia, ...
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10/23/2019

It is clear that there is not a perfect machine translator for Basque, or any other language, and nothing will substitute, at least for now, work done by a human being. Automatic translators could help in translations from and to Basque, but none available currently reached the same level as those for other surrounding languages. Now, however, despite the inevitable margin of automatic translation ...
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10/23/2019

In hopes of repeating the successful experience in 2016, the group Patxi eta Konpania, directed by Patxi Perez will begin a tour on November 1st that will take them through Basque and Navarrese clubs throughout the country as well as take them to Semana Nacional Vasca this year in Bahia Blanca. In fact, the group won’t only entertain at the dances at the huge festival, but will also teach workshops as ...
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