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Keep Calm and Speak Catalan

03 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by Louise in Travel

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Catalan, expat, language, travel

Our friend Vicens models the T-shirt I gave him a few weeks ago. Vicens is a native Catalan speaker.

Our friend Vicens displays the T-shirt I gave him a few weeks ago. Vicens is a native Catalan speaker.

I have now spent three months trying to decipher Catalan, and have given up hope. But I’ve learned a few words, and these are my favorites:

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When Catalonia Takes Over the World

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Louise in Travel

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Catalan, expat, Girona, travel

catalan sign in grocery store

Nothing could have prepared me for Catalan. Well, maybe my sixty years of French study and forty years of Spanish study and those two miserable years of Latin. But the Catalan independence movement around here has become so fierce that the signs and menus are no longer bilingual in Catalan and Castilian Spanish, as they were just last year. It’s all Catalan, all the time.

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