Learn Basque
Learn Basque
The Etxepare Basque Institute supports Basque classes at universities, language learning institutions and Euskal Etxeak (Basque Centers) around the world. Here you´ll see where and how you can learn Euskara.
Euskara. Kultura. Mundura.
At university
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Where can I learn Basque?
The Etxepare Basque Institute supports Basque language and culture courses taught at over 35 universities around the world.
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Full-immersion
In partnership with the Aurten Bai foundation, the Etxepare Basque Institute offers full-immersion summer and winter programmes in the Basque Country geared to foreign students.
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Basque certificates
The Etxepare Basque Institute partners with HABE to organize exams outside the Basque Autonomous Community designed to certify Euskara language proficiency of students at universities abroad.
At Euskal Etxeak (Basque Centers)
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Where can I learn Basque?
Over 70 Euskal Etxeak (Basque Centers) around the world teach Euskara with support from the Etxepare Basque Institute.
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Basque certificates
The Etxepare Basque Institute organizes exams outside the Basque Autonomous Community to certify language level among students of Euskara at the Euskal Etxeak (Basque Centers).
Compulsory education
The Basque Autonomous Community and Navarra have a language policy based on linguistic models of bilingual compulsory education (3-16 years). There are three models to choose from: A, B and D. In model A, most of the subjects are taught in Spanish, with Basque offered as a separate subject; Model B is bilingual; and in model D Basque is the language of instruction, with Spanish offered as a separate subject. The Communauté d´Agglomération Pays Basque offers a immersion model in the compulsory education system (entirely in Basque) and a growing bilingual model (Basque and French).
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In the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarra: at euskaltegis and Official Language Schools
The Basque language and literacy of adults is mainly channelled through the euskaltegis (Basque language schools). Euskaltegis can be either run publicly by the city or local institutions, or privately, many grouped in federations (AEK, IKA, Batuz and ELKARLAN) or operated individually. There are also Official Language Schools in the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarra attached to their respective Departments of Education.
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In the Communauté d´agglomération Pays Basque
Adults can learn Basque language at AEK euskaltegis (Basque language schools).
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In Spain: at Official Language Schools
Euskara is taught at a number of Official Language Schools in Spain.
