EL CATALÀ! The Catalan Language is Fascinating

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i'm catalan and honestly i'm so surprised by the accuracy of this video. really great job !

laiaferran
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When I first watched Merlí, I thought "It's Portuguese, no, it's Italian, no, it's Spanish. But I don't understand what they say! Why???". I'm a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker and I understand very well Italian and Spanish. Catalan is an amazing and beautiful language. Great job, Paul.

marialuizadeoliveira
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"Warning! Abandon topic Abandon topic!"

Vulcanwoman
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I am half German half Italian, and I speak French and learned Latin. I find Catalan in some ways very similar to Italian, and I once conversed with a Catalan in Italian while he answered me in Catalan. That worked well and was very fun!

ElinT
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Great video, but I have only a little thing to add: I'm from Alghero and here we don't exactly speak Catalan, but what we could call a Catalan dialect, the Algherese (what a surprise). In fact, our dialect is basically the Catalan language of the 14th-15th century, so we can say that it is the "arcaic" version of modern Catalan, mixed a little bit with Sardinian and Italian, so some words are not the same; because of that, we can have an almost perfect conversation with Catalans.
I just wanted to add this little information :)

xMarcoMax
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Surprisingly good natured comment section. No political flame wars here that i can see. Just language enthusiasts!

nikobellic
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I'm a native speaker of portuguese and I can understand 100% of written catalan but 0% of spoken catalan

jake_oliver
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Since Andorra is an independent country, Catalan can be considered an official language at the national level.

schiarazula
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I am a Catalan native speaker and I took a course of Occitan while I was living in Montpellier.

My experience was that Occitan was ridiculously close and easy to learn. The teacher even told me that I should not try to mimic her pronunciation because her family, like most Occitan speakers, skipped a generation and she had a thick French accent with stress on the last vowels, gutural rolling r's and all; instead, she said I should just use my own Catalan pronounciation with some Mistralian extra rules (like the A's at end of feminines pronounced O's, which was hard to pull out, especially because Aranese Occitan speakers in Catalonia don't do it).

All in all, it was like learning a different dialect more than a new language. Very similar to going to Mallorca, where a combination of thick, different accent (weak vowels in stressed syllables, for instance, is natural to a Balearic speaker but counter inutuitive to a central Catalan speaker) and new vocabulary makes for very confusing "I though we spoke the same language!" moments.

By the way, kudos for the way you lampshaded the quagmire of politics embroiled in the language discussion ;)

Ennio
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Sóc l'única catalana que ha vist el vídeo per curiositat? Hahaha, no he pogut trobar a ningú als comentaris provinent de Catalunya. Em sembla una llengua molt tendre i bonica. Visca el català i visca la terra!

noemidiaz
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As a Catalan speaker, it’s great how easy it is for us to learn French or Italian for us compared to other people, even Spaniards. It’s crazy how much closer it is

mckenzie
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As a portuguese speaker 🇵🇹, that lived in Catalonia for 15 months i have to say that when it comes to pronunciation and phonology Catalan feels like it's closer to Portuguese than to Spanish. When i heard people speaking Catalan from the distance, it literally felt like they were speaking Portuguese

tcbbctagain
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I'm a native speaker of Portuguese, and I didn't have lots of complications learning Catalan, I'm not a native in Catalan, but I started to understand better Italian, Occitan and a little French. I'm just in love for Catalan, and I recommend to learn because Catalan is a very beautiful language!

caioalmeida
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I am Valencian and the reason they want to call it Valencian instead of Catalan is because they don't want to have something to do with the independence. I am a lingust so I call it Catalan, my mother tongue

monicamolla
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I love the way how you decipher languages Paul. Keep up the good work 😉

Mr._Lechkar
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I'm from Valencia, and my native language is catalan. Some people insist catalan and valencian are two different languages, they are not, valencian is only the name we have here for our common language.

hnavarro
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Portuguese is my mother language. I find Catalan an intriguing and interesting language.
Just returned from vacationing on the island of Menorca; 11 days were not enough. I was in paradise.
I've been watching MERLI, on Netflix, and I'm in love with the language.

mrtsx
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The first Romance language I studied was Spanish, followed by French, then Portuguese and now Catalan. I have known about Catalan since I studied Spanish ten years ago, but hadn't begun studying the actual language until very recently. What strikes me are the similarities to French in terms of vocabulary (matí-matin, gaire-guère, finestra-fenêtre, semblar-sembler, netejar-nettoyer), but the pronunciation is very much similar to Spanish or Italian with the trilled r, or Portuguese with the open and closed vowels. Actually, one of the features that stand out to me as unique wasn't mentioned in this video--the "eix" infix when conjugating -ir verbs (llegeixo, tradueixes, existeix, protegeixen). A phonological feature that stands out to me is the prominence of "ll" and "ny" in final positions (lluny, Llull, any, pertany, vall) since Spanish never has "ll" or "ñ" at the end of words.

El català em sembla una llengua molt bonica! Bona feina, Paul!

cuylerotsuka
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I'm from a city in the center of Italy is very similar to Catalan and when I went Barcelona I spoke my dialect and we understood each other

wisdon
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I’m russian and I can speak catalan a little.
As for me it’s the most interesting Romance language. I can speak also Italian and Spanish but Catalan definitely is my favorite

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