The Society has been organising the Euskara klaseak - Basque lessons for many years now and we are getting ready at the moment for the new academic year 2010-2011. There are currently two levels - beginners and advanced. The year is divided into 3 terms (September-December, January-March and April-June) and each term consists of 10 lessons. Usually, the lessons are on a week day, in the early evening, and this coming academic year, as things are at the moment, they will be held again in Oxford House. The fees are £80 per-term for Society members and £90 for non-members. Please contact us to join the lessons or to find out more about them.
What if I live outside of London or I am not able to join the lessons? There are several online courses you might join. We are currently gathering the information of the different alternatives, as there have been some changes implemented to these courses recently. We will update the new information as we get it, hopefully, very soon. If you decide to join an online course, and as actual practice is quite important in order to improve your chances of learning, you might consider joining some of our activities, if you can, as they will enable you to practice your Euskara with the many native Basque speakers who usually turn up too. Likewise, the Society periodically organises practice sessions, known as "mintzapraktikak", normally with a teacher or/and several native speakers.
Still need some other way of learning? In many occasions we have seen along the years a lot of interest from English speakers towards learning Euskara. It is not an easy task to become fluent. On top of that, not everyone has easy access to computers or the internet or, simply, wants to spend hours in front of a PC to learn it. In this case, there is a great book for English speakers, "Colloquial Basque", by Begotxu Olaizola Elordi and Alan King, with 2 tapes you can listen to, and organised to take you slowly or at your own pace to a decent level of understanding, speaking and writing, so you can progress further from there if you want.
Colloquial Basque - Book and 2 tapes to learn Basque language - Euskara
Euskara Hiztegiak / Basque Dictionaries
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