Place of Euskera
The French Ministry of Education determined that “some of the tests of the low will be able to pass in the regional languages” and the students, teachers and parents of Seaska were mobilized last week in favor of their realization. It would be a step, even if it is not as big as you want, to achieve that right.
I couldn't help but imagine this first test in Basque. I have experienced an ancient trauma, a kind of mistrust, which already knows that choosing Euskera carries a series of risks; that being assigned to Euskera in some areas does not mean that they respect Euskera and Euskaldunes.
"We fix errors inside, but error is not almost the main problem, but lack of respect."
I remember when I decided to take the Basque driving test. I read the exam and I recognize that for a moment I repent of my militancy. When the nor-nork and nor-nori-nork forms were more important than ever (who will let him pass to whom, who will stand still, who cannot advance who), the questions were full of grammatical errors. While I was choosing A, B or C, I was thinking: “Please let the Basque at least be a corrector, let him be aware of the confusion in the question, let him forgive me, and let him be disturbed by the author of this study.”
They are similar to the notes of the university or the professional training. A lot of specialized themes are also taught in Spanish in the Basque Country, or the students are forced to endure nefarious translations that burn their eyes and bronze their hearts: orthopedic calcos of erdaldunes sentences, romos texts, incomprehensible letters distanced from the form and logic of the Basque Country. What happens in these cases? Spanish is chosen, to save on the reinterpretation of the text in Basque (as when you read the menus of some bars). And nothing about the choice of Euskera on social networks or on electronic devices. The birthday of your friend It’s your! Congratulations to Wish himself! You have one new notification. Yes beautiful, bilingual.
We have become accustomed to risk and rejection, to reading with fear posters, signs, paragraphs; we correct the errors inside, but the error is not almost the main problem, but the lack of respect, not altering anything and not expecting anything. In the entrance test to the University of the South it is enough to compare the linguistic level in Spanish with that of Euskera. Space does not guarantee its value.
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