Wannabe Polyglot Wannabe Polyglot
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Hi! I love learning languages and everything related to them— connections, unique qualities, history/evolution, and more. I'm an aspiring (or wannabe) polyglot and want to share my love of languages while also being educational to help others learn these languages. If you have any suggestions or ideas, send me a message through Anchor!
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El Català/The Catalan Language
Hi everyone! In this episode I invited my friend Andrea to talk about the Catalan language, Catalan culture, and more! See below for a more detailed breakdown of topics and when they appear, some corrections for errors I made in the episode, and links to the Catalan resources mentioned in the video.
Topics
0:00- Podcast Updates/Current Plan for Episodes
3:12- Introducing Current Episode and Guest
4:32- Andrea's Story/Past with Catalan
8:39- My Story with Catalan
10:18- Andrea talks about being able to understand Catalan better than she can speak it
13:26- Many Catalan words are similar to French and Spanish but Catalan still has lots of unique words
15:11- The letter 'x' in Catalan and some fun words with it
17:29- We both talk about our habit of going from Spanish to Catalan and confusion with false friends
19:50- Catalan words sometimes look the same as English words because of its unique spelling
20:54- The Catalan Duolingo course
22:40- Catalan representation (or lack thereof) and people not knowing about it
23:50- Is Catalan a 'minority language?' (I talk about the number of speakers)
24:55- Catalan shows on Netflix (in the US)
26:22- TV3, the most popular Catalan TV channel (news, shows, performances, Youtube channel)
31:58- Weird sentences in the Catalan Duolingo course Andrea has seen
34:37- What resources you can use to learn Catalan
35:43- Our experiences with the Catalan Duolingo course and its pros and cons
38:11- Where else Catalan is spoken outside Catalonia
39:47- The unique Catalan past tense
42:44- Catalan weak pronouns and their (in)famous combinations
48:00- Catalan Christmas culture weird to foreigners (caganer, cagatió, capgrossos)
53:29- Music Recommendations and Wrapping Up
Corrections
16:44- I misspell 'xarxa' (net/network in Catalan)
38:20- Alghero (Alguer in Catalan) is in Sardinia, not Sicily
39:50- The tense is the periphrastic past (not passive periphrastic, which I remembered from Latin)
40:27- vaig anar means I went not I ate (that would be vaig menjar)
42:34- I meant to say 'literary' instead of 'historical' since another past periphrastic is used colloquially
45:32- "tell it to me" would be digues-m'ho (not "diu-me'l")
Resources
TV3 (Youtube and Website)
Julia Riera/Daily Catalan (Youtube and Instagram)
Catala al Natural (Youtube and Instagram)
Couch Polyglot (Youtube and Instagram)
Easy Catalan (Youtube and Instagram) -
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