After learning Basque from zero, they are now teaching it: "A difficult language? No, not at all".
Thanks to the Etxepare Basque Institute´s Euskara Munduan programme, dozens of Basque teachers from all over the world have been trained.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: a Basque flag in a North Atlantic archipelago?
The flag of this French overseas territory off the south coast of Newfoundland pays homage to the Basques, Bretons and Normans who arrived at least as far back as least the sixteenth century.
The last room at the Basque hotel in the American West
The death of the last resident of a boarding house established by Basque immigrants marks the end of a chapter whose roots go back to the mid-nineteenth century.
Elizabeth Macklin: half a century in a sigh
Things often happen by pure serendipity, like being born in Poughkeepsie, or working in the editorial office of The New Yorker back in the days when people still read paper magazines. Or like going to Madrid to learn Spanish and falling in love with the Basque language. Which is exactly what happened to Elizabeth Macklin.
An outfit worn around the world
"Languages are like coats: if you only have one, it’s the only one you can wear, rain or shine. But if you have two, or three, or even more, you can decide which one to put on every day...".