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Nice video! Thank you for making a video about catalan. Just a few things to have in mind: - Yes, we usually say "merci" in catalan as in French, but here only in informal situations and it comes from the formal expression "moltes mercès" which means "thank you very much" in an old formal way. - Spanish "CH" and catalan "X" despite being used in similar words, they have different pronunctiation. Spanish "CH" is stronger than the catalan "X" they are different phonetic sounds. And something, probably more advanced than the video was aiming for, I think is missing: - The *vowels*. In Spanish there are 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) accented depending on the word if needed. In catalan we have depending on the dialect 7 or 8 vowels. We have "a, e, i, o, u" but "e" and "o" can be open or closed, when accented it's easy to differentiate one with the other, but when it isn't accented can be hard for non native speakers. Accented vowels would be like this: "à, è, é, í, ò, ó, ú". In some dialects, such as the one spoken in Barcelona and Girona, we have the "vocal neutra", this means that an "e" and an "a" in atonic position transforms into a "vocal neutra" it is literally a mix between an "a" and an "e" but if you are not native speaker it is better to pronounce only "a" if you are in a place where this dialect exists or pronounce it like an "e" if you are in a place where they don't speak this dialect. - The "sonorous s" and the "deaf s", they are different phonetic sounds: · If a words has only one "S" between two vowels, a word finishes with "sió", finishes with "si", finishes with "esa", and words that finishes with "vowel+s" *AND* the next word starts with vowel. Then this is a *sonorous s* · Letter "Z" is pronounced as a *sonorous s* · If a word starts with "S", a word has an "S" between at least one consonant, and a word has an "S" at the end (unless if the next word starts with a vowel) . Then this is a *deaf s* · Letters "C" (before "e" and "i"), "Ç" (before "a", "o", "u" or at the end of a word), and "SS" (double S) are always pronounced as a *deaf s* Sorry for all the text and for all my mistakes in English, hope it is useful, and again thank you very much for this video. There's still people that thinks that catalan is a dialect, even in Spain, so thanks! :)

Don't forget that Catalan is also spoken in l'Alguer (Alghero) in Sardinia too!

It's great to see people interested in catalan ✨

Catalan is an occitano-romance language, separated from the sub-group of Castilian and Portuguese. This means that Catalan is closer to Aragonese and Aranese (Occitan) than it is to Spanish. Those languages have more sounds and pronunciations than Spanish does, such as the accents: in spanish there are only closed accents (á, é, í, ó, ú) while Catalan has both open and closed accents in letters e and o (è, é; ò, ó), only open for a (à) and only closed for u and i (ú, í). It also has dieresis in the u and the, which is these two dots: ï, ü. Another characteristic is the letter "l·l" in catalan, which is pronounced like a long "L"

I have actually managed to understand a decent amount of Catalan when watching shows in Catalan. I am fluent in Spanish due to my family and can speak some french as well. It feels like my knowledge in both those languages makes it easier to understand Catalan, along with context of course.

You forgot that Catalan is spoken in Rosselló (unless you consider that “Catalonia” already includes it, in which case you're based AF), and l'Alguer in Sardinia. The ending for infinitive verbs in Catalan are -ar, -re/-er, -ir. We never use the simple past tense orally, always the periphrastic, and only in formal written texts. Other common tenses used for past include “Perfet”, “Imperfet” and “Plusquamperfet”. “Merci” (informal) / “(moltes) mercès” (formal) can also be used to say “gràcies”.

hey!, as a Valencia speaker (The variety of catalan spoken in Valencia) Great video!, but i'd like to add some litle things! First of all, it is true that in most areas of catalonia and in the balearic islands catalan is less phonetic as some vowels may neutralize and some consonants may not be pronounced, but this is not true with the western dialects, there, all letters are pronuounced and always the same way. The only exception would be the use of open vowels, those may not be clear when you read the word so you will need to hear it first to know if the word uses an open or close vowel. Also, the simple past is used on Valencia, (I don't really know if its used on other western catalan dialects aswell.) We usually combine both past simple and periphrastic in order to avoid repetition, for example (There is no meaning diference with those forms of past btw): Ahir vaig anar a la platja i em trobí amb l'Arnau. (Yesterday I went to the beach and saw Arnau) Also is great to know that on the balearic islands, (In most of the region), they also use diferent articles to words, when a catalan speaker from the penynsula may say: El/La/els/les they may say Es/Sa/Es/Ses. Im sorry if the comment may be a little confusing, english is my 3rd language and im just learning it ^^'.

Great video from a channel that's so new. Great job an keep on doing them! Hope you do great on this platform. As a Catalan myself I love seeing content about our language and people getting to know it more deeply. If there is somebody who wants to learn more, there's a Spanish channel called Linguriosa which explains a lot of differences between Spanish dialects and between Spanish and Catalan

Soy nativo del Español y tambien hablo Italiano Encuentro tambien esa similtud de vocabulario con el Italiano Hablar / Parlar / Parlare Comer / Menjar / Mangiare Pajaro / Ocell / Uccello Ciudad / Ciutat / Cità Tambien se que estas palabras son muy similares con el Frances, pero si no tuviera conocimiento del Italiano (o Frances) siento que me hubiera costado mas entender estas palabras, no conosco del todo el Catalan ni el Frances, aunque el Frances es el siguiente idioma de mi lista El Catalan tendra muchisimas similitudes con el Español, y si nos resulta bastante comprensible pero no tanto como el Portugues, Gallego o otras lenguas de España como el Asturleones o Aragones

Bro this is my first time on your channel and I went to the comments expecting them to be full of people given the quality of your videos! Amazed at how good these are for such a new channel. Keep it up bro KA PAI, from Aotearoa NZ

I like catalan, I always see or sometimes hear the mallorquin version of it when on hollyday to Mallorca.

Excellent video again! I love how Catalan sounds and I'm glad you're exploring it.

Living for your video editing and visuals 🤣 I stayed bc I was entertained and actually learned a lot 👏🏼

Great job, I bet you'll get a thousand subs before the year ends :). Also, a video of Galician vs Spanish or Asturian vs Spanish would be awesome to see in a future.

Intriguing. Couldn't tell the difference between the two as much as I hoped. Would've been quite amusing if you attempted to butcher Catalan. Was pleasantly surprised picking up the common French vocab. Still waiting on that video showing the different French accents James!

Are you un Madrid? Do u have fan meetup? I will be there from 28th October onwards.

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Don' t be shame to speak catalan, you doe it very well. The only way to lear a language is not to be afrait to mske mistakes.no body is is perfect!

I am a Colombian teacher and with your videos, I practice my listening skill in English and learn about my mother language.. Cool! 😅

In Andorra, Catalan is the official language (along with French). Andorra is the only country in the world where Catalan is the official language.

Hi. I loved your video. I wanted to tell you.. (I'm not catalan but spanish thou) and I noticed there's something tiny you should correct about your catalan pronounciation.. As you know spanish you must know in most cases spanish vowels have only one pronounciation, our five vowels and five sounds. But in catalan the "e" can be pronounced as the spanish "e" indeed, but also like a spanish "a". When you said "parles" in catalan, you said parlEs instead of parlas, that (what you did, would be more like the valencian pronounciation they would make of that word) same with the 'El' article. You're doing great. I'm sure soon you will know where to pronounce /a/ or /e/ when you see an "e".

In Portugal, there are loads of uber etc drivers that don't speak portuguese well, so it's easier for them to communicate in english. Not sure if it's the same in Spain.

Catalan is basically something like 60% Spanish with some changed letters, 35% Occitan and 5% French. A border language like many in Europe, but in this case it has been considered an official language.

I would say that there are more words in Catalan that are similar to Italian than French.

Imagina um diálogo ítalo-catalão.... - Ciao, amico! Parl'italiano ? - Parlo català, amic! No parlo italià. Imagina a surpresa do italiano. (alguns italianos desconhecem o catalão)

Castilian (as they call Spanish in Catalonia) is as similar to Catalan as it is with Portuguese.

Im tempted to learn Catalan it's like a cross between Spanish, French and italian to me

Or parler =( catalan)= parlar mangar,trobar, )manger,parler.. Espanish)=hablar,comer,encontrar..

Catalan es mai üna lenga de transission ambe relassion au munde gallo roman che lu Castillan. Ma per cauchi rasun es estrange che Catalan ha relassion toplen ambe dialet don la riviera ligüre comensa . E autri lenga d' Italia dòu nord. Ma capissi che per tu es mai diffisile che Castillan, ma per mi capissi migliu. lu Catalan

Romanian is the only Romance language that shares Slavic roots such as Russian for example, the other ones all came from Vulgar Latin which makes Romanian a distant language from the rest of the Romance languages.

"almendra" is not from Arabic.

Una persona que parla espanyol i italià pot entendre el català.

Catalan is closer to Provencal (maybe even French) than to Castilian Spanish

Catalão às vezes se parece mais com italiano que espanhol,..,.. exemplo... parlar, menjar, trobar, finestra, arribar, demà... etc.

It's not "spanish vs catalan" it's “castilian vs catalan" both languages are spanish because they come from spain.

So...umm...are you single?

Cadira....em português... cadeira.... as 2 palavras tem a mesma origem das palavras cátedra e catedral. Porque a catedral é o abrigo da cátedra (silla) do bispo.

El francés i el català no són intel·ligibles! Soc estudiant de català i ningú entén el francés sense una exposició i uns estudis previs a la llengua francesa.

Ciutat parece uma mescla de ciudad (esp) e città(ita)

Catalan is like French + Italian

Almendra doesn't come from Arab! It comes from Greek through Latin.

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