Can you understand Catalan? | #1

Welcome to our Romance Language Challenge, where we test the mutual intelligibility between Catalan and other Romance languages! If you're a speaker of French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish or any other Romance Language, let us know if you can understand what word is described in this mini-challenge. Whether you're a language enthusiast or just curious about how well speakers of Romance languages can understand each other, this challenge is for you!

Mutual intelligibility is the ability of speakers of different languages to understand each other without prior knowledge or special effort. In the case of Romance languages, mutual intelligibility exists to varying degrees due to their shared origin in Vulgar Latin and the influence of the Roman Empire.

Catalan is a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands, and the eastern part of Aragon in Spain, as well as in the Roussillon region of France and the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy. It is one of the official languages of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and is also recognized as a co-official language in Valencia and the eastern part of Aragon.

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[Ecolinguist]

🤓 Translation and additional info below:
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Què és?
És una planta que creix en els prats o també en els jardins.
Té unes fulles molt fines i allargades.
Sol ser verda, però si està seca pot ser groga o marró.
Sol ser molt densa i cobreix totalment el terra.
Si vols mantenir el jardí bonic, l’has de tallar.
És la gespa.

TRANSLATION:
What is it?
It is a plant that grows in meadows or gardens.
It has very thin and elongated leaves.
It is usually green, but if it is dry, it can be yellow or brown.
It is usually very dense and completely covers the ground.
If you want to keep the garden beautiful, you have to cut it.
It's the grass.


🤗 Big thanks to Miriam from Catalonia!

[linear_regression]

As a Spanish speaker, I understood almost 80%.

[beanapprentice]

As a French speaker I couldn’t understand the speech, but I could decipher enough of the text to figure out you’re describing grass.

[gritx]

As Portuguese I could understand almost everything, but I missed some words

[Hampter-mr]

In my parallel earth, Argentina speaks Catalan.

[panzone]

Da italiano mi sembra istintivamente molto più comprensibile il catalano che non il castigliano

[alethegamer]

As an Italian I can tell what's being said, but it takes some logic, it's not everything clear and the writing really helps

[diegodavila]

Holy shit I understood 100% I'm spanish this is such a cool language like French and Spanish combined with hints of portugues

[Unbrutal_Rawr]

In Latin, _caespes, caespitem_ means "grass together with the ground it grows on; turf, lawn". It still means this in Portuguese and Spanish.

[Aleiza_]

As an English speaker (with some knowledge of Spanish), I understood way more than I was expecting. Very interesting and beautiful language 👌

[ReiKakariki]

I can understand many thing in a paused mode in Galician and Valician we call grass gramiña alta or relva or campeira.

[Liamochii]

I'm a bit surprised, I somehow understood almost every single word (altough some were based on context) and relied very little in reading the way the words are spelled

Gespa is the only word I don't think I would have catched without the explanation 😂

[elcuhangeltv]

As an American that speaks Spanish and Portuguese, I understood most of it.

[yerxdxd]

As a Spanish and Galician speaker, I understood 90%.

[TheAmorable]

Bro I speak Spanish and was sitting here wondering why I understood a LOT of what she said!

[xapla]

As a Catalan speaker I understood 100% 😎

[dialmightyspartangod]

If you speak Portuguese or Galician you definitely can. I did

[guyracanc]

Che ñe’ẽtee ha’e Guarani ñe’ẽ, uvei añe’ẽ avei Epáña ñe’ẽ. Aentende 80% rupi.

[judna]

És la gespa, però també es coneix com a herba, una paraula més genèrica, ho sé, però a la vegada més semblant a altres llengües romàniques que pot facilitar la comprensió. Cal dir però, que el que he dit al endevinar mentalment ha sigut gespa.

[AnAmericanlinguist]

Mostly when I read it, but miss out on some important details. When spoken I miss more which makes me lose the meaning