Completely OT: Want to try Catalan?

Question

There's a Barcelona newspaper called El Periódico (original, eh?) that publishes in Spanish and Catalan. If you can read Spanish fairly well you can read most of the Catalan. I have no idea how it's pronounced.

Catalan Newspaper

Answer 1

If you can read Spanish fairly well you can read most of the Catalan

.....or I think I can read it - heheheh

Fascinating isn't it? Portuguese and (to a lesser extent) Italian and even French are other languages that I can now "understand". I wish English had "sister" languages but our closest cousins - probably Dutch or German - are utterly alien to me. Food for thought ........

Thanks for the link Kevin.

Written Porguguese isn't too bad. Spoken Brazilian Portuguese is even easier. Spoken Peninsular Portuguese is quite different. - KevinB, Sep 12, 2010

I once saw Pelé ( Brazilian football legend) being interviewed in his native language ..... - patch, Sep 12, 2010

..... he said 2 or 3 sentences that I understood completely - so I have to agree :) - patch, Sep 12, 2010

When I was a teenager living in Caracas my girlfriend was the daughter of the ambassador from Portugal to Venezuela, so I picked up a little ;-) - KevinB, Sep 12, 2010

Impressive! - patch, Sep 12, 2010