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The People of the Baztan Valley

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 08 January 2015 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Baztan Valley, Spanish-English differences
Xan Milhura and his family escorted allied pilots over the border into the Baztan Valley
The origins of the Basque people has been a subject of great debate, and of great political interest. Here is a study on the people of the Baztan Valley, a traditional Basque valley in the northern Pyrenean valleys of Navarre which throws some light on the subject. The People of the Baztan Valley In 2010 a team
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The importance of ‘work’ in the Basque Culture

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Georgina Howard
Tuesday, 09 April 2013 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Spanish-English differences
The Baztan valley - making hay while the sun shines
As I dashed out of my neighbour’s farm Amatxi (the grandmother) waved to me from the door ‘Que trabajes mucho!’ she said; a translation from the Basque ‘lan haunditz egin’ meaning ‘I hope you have lots of work!’. She wasn’t being funny, nor making subtle remarks about my lazy ways, (I don’t think), she was
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Talk about languages; we have enough problems with our own!

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 07 February 2013 / Published in Spanish-English differences
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Talking about languages; we seem to have problems enough with our own! How many of us have tried in vain to get past the automated telephone systems that protect companies from their clients! (For those of us living abroad with foreign accents trying to get through the automated switch boards of large telephone companies (NO

Change of Language? Change of Personality?

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 14 December 2012 / Published in Bilingual Families, Spanish-English differences
Once again thank you to Francois Grosjean, Ph.d. Emeritus professor of Psycholinguistics at Neuchâtel University, Switzerland, for his latest blog on bilingualism and personality change. Without falling into boggy ground over the definition of personality (something so difficult to define and yet something we are so acutely aware of ) the question ‘do our personalities change when
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Business with the Basques in Northern Spain

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 03 August 2011 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Spanish-English differences
Basque friends at a cideria with Basque champion woodcutter 'Olasagasti'
Any article entitled ´Working with the Spanish’ will get into stormy waters if it attempts blanket coverage of the Iberian Peninsula and this is no truer than for the proud Basque people who inhabit the rugged coasts of the North. Just like the English ‘go on holiday to Europe’ so the Basques ‘go on holiday
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Life on a Basque Farm (as I never knew it)

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 / Published in Basque Lifestyle, Spanish-English differences
My dear neighbour and friend, Sagrario, lives on the Basque farm next door and is 47 years old. She is more or less of my generation – or so you would think until you heard the stories of her childhood. Only then do I realise the true extent of the cultural abyss between us. Sagrario
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