All Posts Tagged With: "catalan"

Trip Advisor, Catalan and xenophobia

I was reading El Periódico newspaper this morning and a letter caught my eye which I thought would be good to relate. Apparently this Catalan guy called Joan M. Serch wrote some kind of review on Trip Advisor about his stay in La Seu d’Urgell, Catalonia.

24Sep2009 | Catalonia | 7 comments | Continued

Pathetic TMB throws rattle out of pram and bans adverts

TMB can only be described as pathetic for vetoing and advert for their buses which reminds the Catalan government that they should include a checkbox which says “Castellano” on the enrolement papers for schools here in Catalonia. This check box is for parents to tick so the school knows that their children should be schooled [...]

18Mar2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued

Carod Rovira against the Spanish language

Not only does Carod Rovira seek to destroy the Spanish language in Catalonia, but he also attempts to banish it from the countries where it is spoken. The princely sum of 1 Million euros that the Generalitat of Catalonia has just donated to “promoting bilingualism in Ecuador “is nothing more but an attempt to get Ecuador [...]

16Mar2009 | Catalonia | 7 comments | Continued

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or Catalan, he was Scottish!

Christopher Columbus was actually a Scotsman called Pedro Scotto and his family originally came from Scotland, too claims a Spanish historian. In a report by The Telegraph, these allegations made by Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga have turned upside down the normally accepted narratives regarding the famous explorer’s origins. He is said to be the son [...]

9Mar2009 | Catalonia | 4 comments | Continued

Corbacho says that imposing the Catalan language on immigrants is counterproductive

The Ministry of Labour and Immigration, Celestino Corbacho has said that the administration must promote awareness of Castellano or co-official languages to immigrants, but not as an obligation. Imposing the Catalan language on immigrants for example, would have a counterproductive effect, the minister noted in an interview with El Periodico de Catalunya, which it [...]

23Dec2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued

Praise for Catalan language policies

I read with interest Erik’s post from his blog at wirdheim in vilanova and I have to praise his unbiased views. I say this as quite a few people have just lately left a few less than savoury comments in their efforts to make their mark and force their opinions on others. He explains that [...]

17Dec2008 | Steve | 16 comments | Continued

The Catalan media might have to go back to school

I’ve been reading with interest what’s been happening this week in Cataluña regarding the…ahem language spoken by the Catalan media. The Periódico de Cataluña gave us an insight this week into the right and wrong way of pronouncing certain Catalan expressions which are used on a daily basis on TV3 et al. Now I understand [...]

23Nov2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued

September 11th The National Day of Catalonia

11S, The National Day of Catalonia Most of us, remember the 11th September as one of the most terrible days in world’s history because of the suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States. But this has been a celebration day in Catalonia for many years. On 11th September, centuries ago in 1714 to be [...]

11Sep2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued

Catalan kids don’t know their Spanish geography!

I was sort of horrified to learn this morning whilst my 10 year old daughter was going over her homework in Catalan that Catalonia’s primary school children know virtually nothing about the rest of Spain regarding geography. My wife happened to ask her if she knew any of the names of Spain’s river and she drew a [...]

3Dec2007 | Catalonia | 62 comments | Continued