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Learning Basque language promoted in Australia

08/14/2006

The Boga system is a computer program designed to learn Basque through the Internet. It has been set up in the Basque Centres of Sydney and Townsville.

The Basque language will be given impetus in Australia as the Boga system has been put into operation at the Basque Centres in Sydney and Townsville. Boga is a computer program designed to learn Basque through the Internet.

The Culture Department of the Basque Government explained Monday in a statement that the head of the Basque Communities' Relations Abroad, Josu Legarreta, and the co-ordinator of the program "Euskara Munduan" (Basque around the world), Kinku Zinkunegi, visited Australia to promote the program.

In their trip, Legarreta and Zinkunegi visited Sydney, Townsville and Melbourne. They didn't install the Boga system in Melbourne since the Basque community was too small there and they didn't have headquarters for their use.

The same sources reminded that the Boga method is already working in different countries in Europe, South America and the United States.

The origins of "Euskara Munduan," set up in 2000, goes back to 16 years ago, when the plan "Argentina Euskaraz" (Argentina in Basque), a program that was taken form Argentina to other countries wanting to promote learning Basque, started.

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