Which is this language?
Maria del Mar Bonet is one of the greatest Catalan language singers. She is from the island of Mallorca and, therefore, has a Mallorcan Catalan accent. She mainy sings folk songs but she also has sung jazz -as here- and others.
You can look her up in the Internet.
Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Country of Valencia (País Valencià) where it is also known as Valencian, mostly in Spain but with smaller territories in Andorra, Rosselló (south of France) and l'Alguer (Sardinia, Italy).
I am from the south of the Valencian country, south of Alacant (Alicante) and I understand every word. Catalan is my home language and the language I use the most every day:
Jim no em porta mai les flors que prefereixo
Jim no em diu mai que m'ho mereixo
Jim never brings me my favourite flowers
Jim never tells me I deserve it...
You can look her up in the Internet.
Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Country of Valencia (País Valencià) where it is also known as Valencian, mostly in Spain but with smaller territories in Andorra, Rosselló (south of France) and l'Alguer (Sardinia, Italy).
I am from the south of the Valencian country, south of Alacant (Alicante) and I understand every word. Catalan is my home language and the language I use the most every day:
Jim no em porta mai les flors que prefereixo
Jim no em diu mai que m'ho mereixo
Jim never brings me my favourite flowers
Jim never tells me I deserve it...
El español es mucho mejor que el catalán. Ojalá Franco hubiera hecho más para reprimir su uso.
El español es mucho mejor que el catalán
Franco tiene razón, el español es mucho más sencillo y lógico que el catalán
Franco tiene razón, el español es mucho más sencillo y lógico que el catalán
Some of our Spanish speaking friends from Spain -I imagine- just can't cope with Catalan, the second most widely used language in Spain and the first in a great part of rich, civilised, Eastern Spain. Isn't it a real pity? The fact is some of them can't even translate their thoughts into English.
What can you expect from anybody signing "Long Live Franco" a dictator who has been dead for 34 years!
Catalan is as beautiful a language as Castilian Spanish or any other language of the world. We don't have a problem. Some of you do have one.
What can you expect from anybody signing "Long Live Franco" a dictator who has been dead for 34 years!
Catalan is as beautiful a language as Castilian Spanish or any other language of the world. We don't have a problem. Some of you do have one.