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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3860 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 9 of 11 30 January 2015 at 8:37am | IP Logged |
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Hi @1e4e6,
I don't know which are your time constraints and I don't know if what I'm going to share with you fits your style or not. You seem to have a very strong romance base, so you should be able to understand Catalan at least at the 90%. It was like this when I first started to learn Spanish. I tried Assimil Lo Spagnolo senza Sforzo but it just seemed to me that I was going to waste my team, being too easy, so I started to listen every day 90 minutes of Spanish podcasts. After two months I can understand virtually everything and speak and write a quite broken Spanish - although I can already make me understood by natives quite efficiently with my "Itanol". I'm now going to participate to the Italki challenge (take 20 hours of lessons in the month of February - I want to do solely informal tutoring for this month and then I will decide what to do next month). I also bought a B1/B2 grammar of Spanish. So the idea is: ton of input in a first silent phase of 2 months, then speak with natives, then formal grammar (or maybe not :) ). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5678 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 10 of 11 30 January 2015 at 11:37am | IP Logged |
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That's exactly what Assimil is, a 2½ month phase of input and practice with accent. The Assimil course quickly picks up, many of the later lessons are well over 7 minutes long of straight Catalan. I gave my copy away after i finished it otherwise i'd post some pictures of the later lessons. They're like five pages long (not including Spanish translation) of paragraphs (not the one line sentences/half sentences you see early in Assimil courses), all annotated. There's also tons of interesting cultural information including a series of lessons covering the history of Catalunya from its beginnings up to the suppression of Catalan during Franco's dictatorship. I recommend going through it as an actual course (it'll also help you separate Catalan and Spanish), but i suppose you could also use it as a graded reader.
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| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5074 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 11 of 11 02 February 2015 at 6:57pm | IP Logged |
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I want to add that Assimil also brought out a French-based course, "Le Catalan", which was published later and is of different content than the old Spanish-based one, even though one of the authors appears to be still the same.
Making use of both courses would have the advantage of not only getting more content, but also of approaching Catalan via bilingual texts from two different angles, Spanish and French, which are both Catalan's 'neighbours'. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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