I'm thinking of signing up for a Catalan course at university, and was wondering how other people had found learning the language. I am a native English speaker, and currently study French and Spanish (Castilian). Are there lots of similarities between these two languages and Catalan? If so, have people found it very confusing to learn at the same time as other languages? Also, could anyone recommend any useful websites where I could learn the basics? Just wanted to hear other people's experiences before making a final decision.
Thanks,
Ella :)
Hi :)
I speak catalan and if you want we could talk o write each other.
I'm interested in improve my English because in July I have and exam.
Adeu!
Hola,
I've recently started learning Catalan, and I've found these resources to be quite useful:
- http://www.intercat.cat/speakcat/
- http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/?q=catalan
- http://www.intercat.cat/en/materials-acolliment-linguistic.jsp
- http://www.intercat.cat/en/eines-aprendre-catala.jsp
- http://www.ub.edu/guiaconversa
- http://4cats.llull.cat/4cats/index.cfm
I'm also using the 'Teach Yourself: Complete Catalan' audio ebook (downloaded from itunes), which is much better than the usual CD/book format.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend that you learn Catalan at the same time as another Romance language (or two!): Catalan is like a wonderful soup of Spanish and French, but this means that it's easy to get confused.
However, if you've had no problems studying Spanish and French at the same time, this might not be a problem for you... In fact, you'll probably find Catalan to be an easy language to learn. Go for it!
I have some catalan books...e-books
if you want them, I can send ya via emails..free of charge of course:)
French,Spanish, portuguese, romanian, catalan[valencian..actually, they are the same...maybe some dialectal differences], romanche, walloon and some other small languages are all derived from Latin, so they're relatives...:)
Two years ago I decided to try learn this language by myself. I loved the pronunciation and the book with cds was useful...unfortunatelly hadn't enough time. It is a fun and interesting language to learn.
For me was relatively easy cause italian is my mother tongue. For an english speaker must be difficult, but if you know spanish and french then it'll help a lot...many words sound like a mix of italian, spanish and latin. I hope you'll enjoy learning it!
Hola...
If you speak French and also you speak Spanish you are in the "right way" to reach Català because is "in the middle" of both languages...
To learn a language just jump into it... Vinga!
Molta Sort
Antoni
