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Education issues (and Basque food invades Belgium!)

October 29th, 2009 jehoul.sanne 1 comment

Last weekend, during my stay in Bilbao, I talked to Mikel and his roommate about communication issues and the generally low level of English in the Basque Country and Spain. They gave me a bit of insight in the main educational problems and it became a bit clearer to me where the biggest gaps are. Read more…

Say what? Euskara, the Chinese of Europe

September 22nd, 2009 peters.michael 2 comments

The Basque language is one of a kind. Not related to any other language, the vocabulary seems made up by a three year old, containing a whole lot of x’s and k’s. On top of that, it’s hard to find any structure at all (although there really is one). Read more…

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