“Hemeretzi, berrogeita hamar…”,
the pupils of the bilingual class of CP-CE1 of the Évariste Galois school in Anglet studiously note the equivalents in Basque of the numbers nineteen and fifty.
After three weeks without classes, the children, almost all of whose parents are non-Basque speaking, need a little more encouragement from their teacher.
“We are working on understanding the language, both oral and written, through other subjects such as mathematics
,” explains Paskale Sagardoy.
At the start of primary school, most still find it difficult to answer in Basque, the real trigger often occurs if they continue their apprenticeship in middle school. "
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