Hi everyone,
I am currently preparing to live and work out in Catalonia for a few months, possibly in later 2015.
For the past year or so I have been learning Catalan and I am progressing somewhat. I have been taking private lessons, well I was, until my tutor returned back to Barcelona, so right now I am self teaching using the Teach Yourself Catalan course. It would be nice to have someone to chat in Catalan to.
Over the next year I will be learning Castelliano, or Spanish, as it is commonly called, again taking private lessons but I have a couple of Spanish friends here in Liverpool who will be able to help too, so I'm confident and looking forward to commencing learning.
I've also enrolled on a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course, which begins in December and which I'm pretty excited about as this certification will help me get by if I don't immediately find work in my chosen industry, which is Helpdesk./ Tech Support.
Anyway, sorry to rattle on, just thought I'd say Hi .
Regards.
Hi guys, long time lurker
Hi Alwyn
Nice to virtually meet you! I see you're motivated about learning Catalan so I've copied and pasted some links that I gave to a friend of mine when he was learning the language. Hope they're useful! Try Lingo Bongo for langauge exchanges.
See you.
Andy
Tons of resources here
http://www.intercat.cat/ca/index.jsphttp://www.parla.cat/pres_catalaenlinia … /index.php
Grammar
http://www2.iec.cat/institucio/seccions … efault.asphttp://www.verbs.cat/en/
Dictionaries
http://www.grec.cat/cgibin/mlt00.pgmhttp://dlc.iec.cat/index.html
Other useful sites:
http://www.llull.cat/catala/home/index.cfmhttp://www.enciclopedia.cat/
Newspapers:
http://www.ara.cat/http://www.lavanguardia.com/index.htmlhttp://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/http://cat.elpais.com/?cp=4
(El País recently launched a Catalan version - I think the articles are direct translations of Spanish ones)
Television:
http://www.btv.cat/http://www.tv3.cat/
That's fantastic Andy, thanks for the links and the info, I've not even heard of Lingo Bongo before, I'll be sure to check that and the rest out.
Thanks
Alwyn
@ Andy > This is a nice post, thank you for this sharing of information. 
You're welcome! :-)
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