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The Basque Language – Onomatopoeias and other Idiosyncrasies

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Georgina Howard
Saturday, 04 February 2017 / Published in Basque Lifestyle, The Basque Language
The Basque language seems inscrutable! When you first look at Basque language it appears an unfathomable language full of X’s, Z’s and K’s – all those letters that you don’t want to be left with after a game of Scrabble! It is so totally different from any other language and where, in Europe, a drop of
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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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Farming by the Moon

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 28 May 2010 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle, Wildlife of the Pyrenees
Amatxi in the vegetable garden of Zubialdea in Ameztia
One of the striking things I have learned in this Basque farming hamlet of Ameztia, is just how much of daily life is affected by the moods of the weather and the cycles of the sun and moon.  Amatxi, (our adopted grandmother of 83), always says that the full moon heralds a change in the weather. Yesterday there was
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