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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4784 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 1 of 18 14 December 2011 at 2:25pm | IP Logged |
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Benvinguts!
Just thought I'd start a thread for the small Catalan TAC 12' team, can we tempt anyone else? Catalan is a beautiful language, with a wonderfully different past tense and some interesting conjugations, so why not learn it here with us? A bit like French, a bit like Spanish, Catalan has its own interesting history which saw it develop from Latin in the early 10th and 11th centuries. Spoken mostly in Catalonia, and very strongly outside the main metropole of Barcelona, Catalan has gone through not one, but two resurgences. Firstly in the high-culture Renaixença in the middle-to-late 19th century and then again in the 1970's and 1980's and up to the present day (after the fall of Franco). It has a burgeoning cultural output, ranging from novels to films to theatre productions and many quality newspapers. What else is there to say? Espero aprendre molt català aquest any, i desij tenir un nivell com B1 o B2 abans del fin d'any. Vaig a llegir molt, anar a les meves classes i també parlar amb tothom que pugui! Edited by Alexander86 on 14 December 2011 at 2:25pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4692 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 2 of 18 15 December 2011 at 3:03am | IP Logged |
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I don't have the time to TAC, but I could join you all for a couple weeks at the
beginning of the challenge. I've actually registered at parla.cat for their free online course, but haven't started yet. edit: For the record, I just tried a sample lesson on the parla.cat website. And hated it. It reminded me of those high school text books that try too hard to be cool, though this one was animated. Edited by kanewai on 15 December 2011 at 6:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6006 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 3 of 18 16 December 2011 at 11:01am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for starting this thread! Should we try to come up with a team name?
kanewai -- I, for one, would love it if you joined us, even for a short time. We have so few people here who want to learn Catalan, I think the more the merrier! Why do you want to study it? If you don't like parla.cat, here are some other online options: http://www.intercat.cat/speakcat/ http://www.elizabethcastro.com/personal/learncatalan.html http://ice.uab.cat/fontdelcat/ http://www.parlacatala.org/ -- for exchanges I can't personally vouch for them, though, as I haven't used them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4784 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 4 of 18 16 December 2011 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, join us for a few days, a few weeks, whatever you like. Although this thread contains the TAC Catalan it
would be brilliant if we could just be open for all Catalan speakers and learners of whatever capacity =) Anem anem! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4784 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 5 of 18 16 December 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
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And about the team name? I'm happy with it just being TAC Catalan, but if you're willing to come up with a
beautiful catchy name then I'm all for it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5496 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 6 of 18 16 December 2011 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for starting this thread, Alexander86!
I haven't used parla.cat enough yet to form an opinion on, but I really like the textbook Veus (we're using it in my university course). It's definitely got a sense of humor and makes use of texts that teach you cool stuff about geography and culture related to the language. Unfortunately I think it's rather hard to get hold of, outside of Spain – but this is my vote for it anyway. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4784 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 7 of 18 16 December 2011 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
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Jinx, quin curs fas a la universitat, com quin nivell i tal i quants anys? No sé del teu llibre 'Veus' i ara de moment
faig 'Teach Yourself Catalan' que em sembla bé. Dec estudiar una mica ara! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4692 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 8 of 18 16 December 2011 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
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I'll be spending a week at the end of March in Barcelona. I'd like to be at least
familiar with Catalan for the trip, and be able to pronounce words somewhat respectably. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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