Hi Haiz Hi competition for playful training in Basque Country
It is a game created by the companies Ametzagaiña and Iametza that young people between the ages of 12 and 16 work in Basque in free time. Children will have to invent a Basque referent every day and to do so they will have to answer the questions they are asked about grammar. A week after the project was launched, the creators made a positive assessment of ARGIA.
The Hi Haiz Hi project started on 2 December and will end on 15. The creators wanted to respond to the decline in the use of Euskera among young people through the competition, and they wanted to give a boost to it.
The dynamic of the game is to invent an Euskaldun character of the day and you can participate in the website Hihaizhi.eus. From a photograph that will appear blurred you have to guess who the hidden person is. To get information, you have to invent questions about the Basque country and in total there are five attempts to find out what it is.
Although the game is open to everyone who wants to participate in it, they wanted to focus on the smallest of the house. As the members of Iametza explained to ARGIA, there are two reasons why the competition is aimed at adolescents aged 12 and 16 years.
On the one hand, it is related to the use of Euskera. Being a “decisive” age to promote Euskera, they considered it necessary to deepen both the Basque level and the knowledge of the Basque referents. In addition to the references that can be found in social networks, they have also wanted to promote references from the Basque sphere.
On the other hand, the one related to the use of digital tools, since those of this age group have at their disposal a mobile or a computer. Through digital tools, the aim has been to promote the use of Euskera among young people in leisure time.
Highest score
The competition will last for two weeks and each week a winner or winner will be chosen. The objective is to achieve the highest number of points, taking into account the duration, the number of attempts and the amount of information required.
The winner of each week will take a table by boat game, while the grand prize of the overall ranking will be twice the entrance to the Irri Sarri Land adventure park. The winners will be announced on the website and on the Irutxuloko Hitza and on the Kukulaisi Aisialdi Topagunea from 16 December. In addition, each of the winners will be notified by email, indicating that he has been awarded the prize.
Promotion of the Basque country
The Hi Haiz Hi project responds to one of the objectives of Iametza, that is, the promotion of Euskera from digital tools. In recent years, more projects and similar competitions have also been created, such as the case of Memeka, which was held two years ago. It focused on the creation of content in Euskera, and on this occasion they wanted to give it “another turn”, “instead of creating content in Euskera we wanted to make known references in Euskera”.
They wanted to give “their place” to the Basque public characters to be better known among the young and, by the way, they wanted to associate the project with “a small capacity to improve or teach Basque”.
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