PODCAST: Parlem català? – Learning Catalan, at home and abroad
Listeners from around the world on how and why they learned Catalan and their favorite words
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What is it like to learn Catalan?
Catalan News takes this question to academics and foreign speakers of the language
Teaching the Catalan language abroad
Catalan is taught in over 100 universities around the world, including Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Cambridge
In ‘Learning to talk to plants’, grief and loss are anything but grandiloquent
Marta Orriols on her widely acclaimed novel, representing Catalan literature abroad, and book recommendations for Sant Jordi
Is the air pollution affecting children’s performance at school?
The Catalan scientist Jordi Sunyer is developing a research study on how children’s brains are affected by air pollution. The hypothesis is that pollution diminisihes children’s capacities to learn.
Catalan language learners abroad double since 2003
Catalan language is taught abroad, mainly in university. Last year 1,252 applicants took the language tests held in 76 cities throughout 32 countries.
The first free and open website for learning English is now available
The project, sponsored by three Catalan universities, focuses on the academic community but it can be used by everyone. The initiative is unprecedented in Europe, especially as regards self-learning systems.