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Language and culture students from Boise State University Basque Studies, along with Nere Lete and Ziortza Gandarias Beldarrain from the Department of World Languages, participated in the worldwide Korrika 2022 by organizing their own event on campus. Korrika, which means “running” in the Basque language is a 10-day event organized by the Alfabetatze Euskalduntze Koordinakundea (Basque Language Literacy and Language Teaching Collective). The event intends to raise funds to support the teaching of the Basque language but also encourages all speakers of the language to recommit to Basque, a less commonly taught and minoritized language.
Thousands of runners of all ages from the Basque Country and the Basque Diaspora run one-kilometer-long relays in a popular race that meanders through Basque Country covering more than 1,242 kilometers. A designated runner, most often representing a group that supports the Basque language, carries the lekukoa (baton) that passes from hand to hand symbolizing the Basque language as a collective patrimony. In addition to Boise State, other universities and cities outside the Basque Country joined the initiative.
Interviews with Lete and Gandarias Beldarrain appeared in the Berria newspaper and the NAIZ radio station, media outlets in the Basque Country.
Boise Basque Block
Boise State Department of World Languages
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This months language is Japanese!🗣
USEFUL PHRASES🤍🇯🇵
♦️Hello.... こんにちは (konnichiwa)
♦️My name is… 私は…です。(watashiwa…desu)
♦️Yes... はい (hai)
♦️No... いいえ (iie)
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♦️Thank you... ありがとうございます (arigatougozaimasu)
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This months language is Japanese!🗣
USEFUL PHRASES🤍🇯🇵
♦️Hello.... こんにちは (konnichiwa)
♦️My name is… 私は…です。(watashiwa…desu)
♦️Yes... はい (hai)
♦️No... いいえ (iie)
♦️Please... お願いします (onegaishimasu)
♦️Thank you... ありがとうございます (arigatougozaimasu)
Your role with the WLRC: WLRC Director.
Majors, Minors, Certificates: Educational Technology (Masters), Online Teaching for Adult Learners (Grad Cert), Mass Communication/Journalism (BA), Spanish (BA).
What Languages do you speak/are you learning? English, Spanish, and a little ASL and Japanese.
I am PASSIONATE about providing students with opportunities to practice their language skills in a safe environment and creating high quality, low cost (free is best!) teaching materials for use by our K-16 instructors and students.
One STRENGTH of mine is brainstorming! If you need help coming up with an idea for an activity, I’d love to help.
One FUN thing about me is I’m on a quest to try as many flavors of Japanese Kit Kats as possible! (Did you know they are made by Nestle in Japan, instead of Hershey’s?) So far I’ve tried over 80 flavors and my favorite would have to be “Tokyo Banana”.
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📚The Boise State Pathways Project team is excited to share our new Let’s Chat! collection of French, German, and Spanish conversation activity books!
Each language has its own dedicated Pressbook, making it easy for teachers to search for and implement Pathways activities. In addition to a “one-stop” shop for interpersonal speaking activities, the team has worked hard to add the following elements to each activity:
🔶Products, Practices, and Perspectives:
We've included the target cultural practices, products and perspectives for each activity.
🔷Updated Thematic Topics, including Grammar:
Each activity is tagged with a set of keywords including thematic topics and grammatical structures. This will help you to find an activity in the Thematic Table of Contents, located at the beginning of the book, or by using the search button at the top of your screen.
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The Cultural Notes section contains additional information regarding the activity’s theme or grammatical topics. These can help the course instructor become more familiar with the topics at hand, be shared with students, or integrated into additional course activities.
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Oliver, Jeffery. “French Lecturer Saget Assists with French Elections in the U.S.” Boise State News, April 15, 2022. shorturl.at/kvyB3
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Major: French secondary education.
What languages do you speak/are learning? French, English, and many West African dialects.
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One STRENGTH of mine is prioritizing others’ need.
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