Ongi etorri!(welcome)
To the Basque Club of North
Queensland's Website. Our club is
rich with fun, good times and
entertainment. We consist of over
250 members, young and old, who
attend our social functions that
happen often. As we are a club in
North Queensland, anyone who lives
in the area can be apart of our
club. We have a membership page
where you can follow the
instructions to become a member.
Our site is also good for research,
although at the current time we are
still upgrading and posting new
pages so it will be up soon. Well we
hope you have a good time and come
back to the site.
From the webmaster
To contact the club email any one of the Committee members below
| President- Jose Goicoechea |
| Email: president@basqueclubnq.com |
| Phone: 0409799350 |
| Secretary- Bego Bengoa |
| Email: secretary@basqueclubnq.com |
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| Vice President- Jon Larrazabal |
| Email: vpresident@basqueclubnq.com |
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| Treasurer- Pedro Mendiolea |
| Email: treasurer@basqueclubnq.com |
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| Webmaster- Joseph Goicoechea |
| Email: webmaster@basqueclubnq.com |
If you are
doing research / an assignment on
the Basques you can check out this
really useful links to Basque
websites with loads of information
or check out our History page.
News
(for
your daily source of Basque news,
check out this
Basque News website)
Learning Basque language promoted in
Australia
08/14/2006
The Boga system is a computer
program designed to learn Basque
through the Internet. It has been
set up in the Basque Centres of
Sydney and Townsville.
The Basque language will be
given impetus in Australia as
the Boga system has been put
into operation at the Basque
Centres in Sydney and
Townsville. Boga is a computer
program designed to learn Basque
through the Internet.
The Culture Department of the
Basque Government explained
Monday in a statement that the
head of the Basque Communities'
Relations Abroad, Josu Legarreta,
and the co-ordinator of the
program "Euskara Munduan"
(Basque around the world), Kinku
Zinkunegi, visited Australia to
promote the program.
In their trip, Legarreta and
Zinkunegi visited Sydney,
Townsville and Melbourne. They
didn't install the Boga system
in Melbourne since the Basque
community was too small there
and they didn't have
headquarters for their use.
The same sources reminded that
the Boga method is already
working in different countries
in Europe, South America and the
United States.
The origins of "Euskara Munduan,"
set up in 2000, goes back to 16
years ago, when the plan
"Argentina Euskaraz" (Argentina
in Basque), a program that was
taken form Argentina to other
countries wanting to promote
learning Basque, started.
Read more..
The Basque Country
The Basque Country is located in the
Northern Spain and a small part of
France. It consists of Several
regions, they are Bizkaia, Araba,
Nafarroa, Gipuzkoa, Benafarroa,
Zuberoa and Lapurdi. The area of
land is 20,664 square kilometres at
the western end of the Pyrenees on
the Bay of Biscay.
Read more...
Language
The Basque
word for the language is Euskara. It
is a very ancient non-indo-European
language. Euskara currently has
eight dialects identified. Basque is
written using the Latin Alphabet.
Read more...
If you would like to learn a lot
more about the Basque Language or
Learn it read below.
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Boga is an internet
based software
application, used to
learn the Basque
language Euskara, and is
available for use for
any member of a NABO
club. When the student
subscribes himself to
BOGA, she/he is given a
user name and a
password, with which
she/he is registered in
the system. The student
must use the user name
and the password to
identify her/himself
every time she/he wants
to use this application.
The activities of the
course are organized in
several levels with an
established order, but
the student is free to
choose another order, if
she/he wish. The system
is structured in five
courses (levels), from
elementary to advanced.
These courses are
divided into strata,
that are divided into
sessions. After each
session and stratum the
student has to pass a
quiz.
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| There is also a local teacher who assists the student and tracks their progress. This teacher evaluates the activities that the computer can not evaluate (for example the writing exercises), suggests the student additional activities and supervises the learning process. |
To Get more Information,
say if you'd like to
learn the Basque
language sign up this
online form under the
Basque club of North
Queensland, If you are
NOT in the club
or you are outside of
the North Queensland
area visit this page to
find a club close to you
that's using the program
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Basque links
Basque Music- The name says it
all, check out all the site has to
offer
Buber's Basque Page- Find out
for yourself, A very large resource
to everything Basque
Euskadi.net- Official Basque
Page, viewable in Basque, English,
Spanish, French and Dutch
About- Great Resource for all
things Basque, with Maps and info
Wikipedia-
Research Information
on Basques
Gipuzkoa- Basque Resource site
Basque clubs- Site with all the
Basque clubs on the web
