Thank you for your interest in Euskara through the Basque Museum & Cultural Center. We are very excited to be offering the following opportunities both in person and online. If you have any questions, please reach out to us.
Cost for classes is $175 per semester. If you are a member of a NABO-affiliated club, you can receive a discount of $50. We also have scholarship opportunities available for those interested. Please contact us before you sign up.
We require 7 students minimum per class. If a class doesn’t meet the required minimum by the registration deadline, students will be contacted and given the option of shifting to another class or a refund (less credit card fees). Should any BMCC classes not work for your schedule, check out the online learning opportunities from NABO.
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This course is for beginner students with no, or very little, Euskara knowledge or experience. Euskara Gaur I is designed around the objective of content-based learning with practical skills.
Learning Outcomes: Students will learn the language through a functional approach with emphasis on communicative competences, with the goal of being able to introduce themselves and others, exchange personal information, describe places and express what they want/have to do while sightseeing/shopping, check timetables of events, ask about/give information about touristic places and express purpose. Students will be given exercises, listening/video watching activities, speaking activities, worksheets and more.
Prerequisites: No knowledge of Euskara is necessary to enroll in this course.
Schedule: September 9 – December 2 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course is a continuation of level 1 and it is appropriate for students with basic vocabulary and an understanding of common verb patterns/expressions for social interaction. This course is designed to foster further communicative competences through speaking and listening skills.
Learning Outcomes: Students will learn how to express past/future actions as well as habits/routines, describe plans through conditional situations, and express likes/dislikes among other functional/social skills. Students will be given exercises, listening/video watching activities, speaking activities, worksheets, and more.
Prerequisites: Euskara Gaur I or a beginners’ course (one year of Euskara)
Schedule: September 9 – December 2 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course is a follow-up of level 1 and 2 with an emphasis on more complex sentences with a higher level of grammar/lexis. The course is designed to increase communicative competences through coherence and grammar context based and a functional/situational approach.
Learning Outcomes: Students will learn how to express current activities, conditional situations, what they can/can’t do, give/ask for opinions, interact socially in real life situations through role-playing, and listening to/watching native people while doing exercises and practicing oral interactions.
Prerequisites: Euskara Gaur II or at least two years of Euskara studies.
Schedule: September 9 – December 2 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course is for students with a few years of formal Euskara education or comfort at a basic conversational level. More advanced grammar concepts are taught through practical listening and activities.
Prerequisites: Euskara Gaur III or at least three years of Euskara studies.
Schedule: September 9 – December 2 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course offers you the Euskara language skills you would want to have to travel to the Basque Country. Thoughtfully designed, this course introduces a new province each week while focusing on topics that will prove useful on your next visit such as traveling, shopping, ordering in a restaurant, and understanding different Euskara dialects/accents.
Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to communicate effectively with accurate vocabulary/grammar for traveling situations and ask for/exchange information in oral communicative activities.
Prerequisites: No knowledge of Euskara is necessary to enroll in this course.
Schedule: September 12 – December 5 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course is designed for students who can interact in oral communicative activities expressing habits, future plans, describing processes and inferring consequences of conditional situations. Focused on euskal jaiak (Basque celebrations and festivities), students will be able to interact with Basque people through listening activities with videos and more.
Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to get in contact with the “jaiak” of different cities and villages while visiting places virtually and taking part in celebrations throughout Euskal Herria. Have fun enjoying the “jaiak” while improving your Euskara!
Prerequisites: Euskal Herria Esagutzen I & II, Euskara Gaur I or an upper beginners’ level course.
Schedule: September 12 – December 5 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course is designed for students who can already communicate in Euskara for past, present and future activities, exchange personal information and describe places/cities. Focused on euskal kirolak (Basque sports) students will continue to improve their Basque grammar and fluency to carry out conversations among themselves, Euskara students of other nationalities and even native speakers.
Learning Outcomes: Exposed to authentic material through videos and pictures from Euskal Herria as well as local/native people speaking, students will learn about euskal kirolak while getting deeper into Basque customs and traditions. Let’s play sports all together!
Prerequisites: Euskal Herria Esagutzen I – III, Euskara Gaur II or an intermediate level course.
Schedule: September 10 – December 3 (no class Thanksgiving week)
This course helps students jump to a good level of communicative competence, polishing both listening and oral skills. Being exposed to material from Euskal Herria, students interact virtually with the language and Euskal traditions pretending they are in an immersion camp (barnetegi) as real as possible.
Learning outcomes: Students will be able to interact with native people virtually every class, to understand different local accents while going up the grammar ladder of a A2/B1 level.
Prerequisites: Euskal Herria Esagutzen I – V, Euskara Gaur III or an intermediate level course.
Schedule: September 11 – December 4 (no class Thanksgiving week)