Colloquial Catalan
A Complete Course for Beginners
Alexander Ibarz, Toni Ibarz
- 310 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Colloquial Catalan
A Complete Course for Beginners
Alexander Ibarz, Toni Ibarz
About This Book
Colloquial Catalan provides a step-by-step course in Catalan as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Catalan in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
Key features include:
• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises
• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios
• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text
• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Catalan will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Catalan.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
Frequently asked questions
1 Benvinguda i benvingut!
Welcome!
- Meeting and greeting people
- The present tense of ser ‘to be’
- Subject pronouns: T, ‘you’, ‘he’, ‘she’, etc.
- Personal articles
- Tu and vostè
- The gender of nouns and adjectives
Dialogue 1 (Audio 1: 7)
- Listen carefully to the audio twice and see how much you can recognise.
PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM | La companyia Air Litoral anuncia l'arribada del vol AL673, procedent de Paris. |
SARA | Perdona, ets la Rachel? |
RACHEL | Sí, sóc la Rachel Woodhouse. |
SARA | Hola, jo sóc la Sara Font. |
RACHEL | Encantada. |
SARA | Igualment. Benvinguda a Barcelona. |
RACHEL | Gràcies. |
Vocabulary
l'arribada (f.) | arrival |
del vol | of the flight |
hola | hello |
perdona | excuse me |
ets | are you |
sí | yes |
sóc | I am |
encantat, -da | delighted/pleased to meet you |
igualment | so am I/equally |
benvingut, -da | welcome |
a | to |
gràcies | thank you |
Dialogue 2 (Audio 1: 8)
- What's the name of the hotel?
REPRESENTANT | Hola, bon dia. Vostè és la senyora Garcia? |
SENYORA MATA | No, la senyora Garcia és ella, jo sóc la senyora Mata. I vostè qui és? |
REPRESENTANT | Jo sóc el senyor Massip de l'Hotel Central. |
SENYORA MATA | Molt de gust. |
REPRESENTANT | Encantat. |
SENYORA MATA | Rosa, el senyor Massip de l'Hotel Central. |
ROSA GARCIA | Encantada. |
REPRESENTANT | Molt de gust. |
Vocabulary
bon dia | good day, good m... |