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Some people speak Spanish and they learn Catalan… and some vocabulary is the same. Actually, I remember checking, in 2006, how many words are exactly the same in Spanish and Catalan compared with Catalan and French or Catalan and English. I was trying to explain “how different are these languages” to Estonians and I […] Li deia a la meva cosineta: si una «taula» petita és una «tauleta»… com és una «monja» petita? «mongeta»! I un «calçot» petit? «Calçotet!» I ara he llegit d’una persona que parla català molt bé però que és nadiua d’Estònia: «per què dieu carnisseria, gelateria, peixateria, cansaladeria, etc. però llavors dieu òptica enlloc d’ulleria?» Li […] We usually say “Good morning”, “good night”, “Happy New Year!”, or “have a nice weekend!”. We say this to wish a nice morning, night, year or weekend. But I think that we are missing some other important time units: weeks and months. I advocate that we should also say “good week” (on Mondays) and “good […] In Catalan we call “centpeus” (100 feet) to that animal that has many legs (similar to a caterpillar). On the Wikipedia I can see that it’s also called “one hundred legs” (not feet). I like how it sounds in French: “mille-pattes” (pronunced as /milpat/). Means 1000 legs (hey, more than in Spanish or Catalan). But […] In English we say “Good morning” (so, we wish a good and nice morning). In Catalan we say “Bon dia”. Literally: “Good day”. It seems that Catalan language is a bit more generous than English language: wishing a whole good day! (not just the morning). But in Spanish… we say “Buenos dias”. So, literally: “Good […] El català és una llengua que, com quasi totes, està rodejada d’altres llengües. Però fins i tot hi ha molta gent que no és catalano-parlant dins les zones més catalano-parlans. Això fa que hi hagi tendència a utilitzar paraules que no són correctes en català, però ens sonen bé perquè les hem agafat, per exemple, […] |
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