Hi guys, long time lurker

Member since 19 June 2012

Alwyn8157New member17 November 2014 22:35:29

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.

andyTHEO Member

Member since 19 November 2010

andyTHEOMember18 November 2014 09:16:12

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.jsp http://www.parla.cat/pres_catalaenlinia … /index.php

Grammar
http://www2.iec.cat/institucio/seccions … efault.asp http://www.verbs.cat/en/

Dictionaries
http://www.grec.cat/cgibin/mlt00.pgm http://dlc.iec.cat/index.html

Other useful sites:
http://www.llull.cat/catala/home/index.cfm http://www.enciclopedia.cat/

Newspapers:
http://www.ara.cat/http://www.lavanguardia.com/index.html http://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/

Alwyn8157 New member

Member since 19 June 2012

Alwyn8157New member18 November 2014 09:26:21

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