Donostia-San Sebastián. Besides the classes in southern Euskal Herria, Euskera is being taught at Official Language Schools (EOI) in Barcelona, Miranda de Ebro, Madrid, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante. As confirmed to EuskalKultura.eus by Izaskun Kortazar Errekatxo, who teaches Basque at the EOI in Alicante. She, originally from Bilbao, learned Basque as an adolescent and she livied in the United States for years, where she assisted in creating NABO’s Euskera program, serving as its first coordinator (a post currently occupied by Sonia Castañon from Salt Lake City), aiming to improve and coordinate Basque classes taught at Basque clubs all over the country in collaboration with HABE.
Along with Euskera, Spanish and English, Kortazar also speaks Portuguese since after leaving the US she traveled to South America and she lived in Brazil for a time specifically to learn the language. After returning to Europe she settled in Alacant-Alicante, Spain where she teaches Basque at the local Official Language School, as she did before at the Ikastola, the Basque club and Basque Museum in Boise, Idaho.
In Alacant, for example, the Official School of Languages provides the first three years of this language (the first is called 1 for A2, the second 2 for A3 and the third 1 for B2). This new school year classes will take place in the afternoon for two hours two days a week, beginning at 4:30pm (there may be a slight variation). Classes cost 90 Euros a year and currently, and for as long as the situation allows, will be taught face-to-face. There is still time to enroll.
-For more information or to enroll: euskera.eoialicante@gmail.com
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