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Article: Basque-ing in Maghera!
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- Mid Ulster Mail (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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EVERY year now for the past 12 years a group of young people from the Basque Country have spent the month of July in or around Maghera.
More often than not the weather is never kind to them but a warmer welcome they couldn' t possibly find.
The pupils are aged from 13 to 17 and attend bilingual schools in the Basque Country. Although they are taught through Basque and Spanish, from as early as the age of 4 they start to learn English and many of them end up doing the Social Sciences course in 4th and 5th year through the medium of English.
So, naturally many of the children spend part of their summer holidays improving English. One of the ...