I thought Spanish and Euskera would present my biggest linguistic hurdles here in Bilbao. Turns out, I’m having more trouble with U.S. vs. British English. Students in Spain learn British English, for obvious reasons of geographic proximity, just as students in California tend to ...Read More

One of the reasons I chose to work in Basque Country was to be able to explore more towns and cities on the northern coastline. This past weekend some friends and I took a quick one-night trip to San Sebastian, considered by many to ...Read More

The tiny region of Basque Country in northern Spain is bilingual, meaning that almost everything here–street signs, advertisements, metro exits, menus–is written in both Spanish and Euskera (Basque). Euskera is completely unrelated to any living language, so you’d be amiss to think you could ...Read More