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Tips to learn Catalan (by polyglot Alex Rawlings)

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Alex Rawlings is a polyglot, citizen of the world. He was born and grew up in London and he is living currently in Barcelona. You can learn from his experience learning multiple languages with his book  " How to Speak Any Language Fluently ". In this video he gives some advice to learn Catalan. Enjoy!! Instagram: @My6Tongues

EUROCOMROM- The Seven Sieves: How to Read All the Romance Languages Right Away

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The EuroCom   method was created to encourage multilingualism in Europe. It was presented by Til Stegmann from the University of Frankfurt. This method teaches you to take advantage of your knowledge of one Romance language in order to read the other Romance languages. All over the book there are exercises for reading articles, ads, different texts written in different Romance languages. The method explains how to read 5 Romance languages simultaneously. The version I have uses Catalan as a sort of bridge language to learn how to read Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian. There are other versions of the book that use another Romance language as a bridge language: Eurocomrom - Els set sedassos (CAT) Eurocomrom - Les sept tamis (FRA) Eurocomrom - As sete peneiras (POR) ... This method takes a text written in a Romance language and applies seven filters ( sieves ) to it in order to 'decipher' the meaning. The 'sieves' or filters are: Fir...

Parla.cat: resource to learn Catalan

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If you are interested in learning Catalan there is a good resource on line: Parla.cat It offers free and paid plans and you can get access to official exams and course. Try it! Catalan is my native language. I'm here if you have any doubt! Good luck / Bona sort! Facebook   fb.me/My6Tongues Instagram   @My6Tongues Tweeter   @MTongues