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> A spaniard who doesn't speak catalan won't understand 95% of a normal convo I don't know if I'd go that far. I just youtubed catalan and would say I understo
by jfaucett 9y ago
> A spaniard who doesn't speak catalan won't understand 95% of a normal convo
I don't know if I'd go that far. I just youtubed catalan and would say I understood about 75-80% of what this guy is saying. [1]
Also, I mainly meant that statement ironically :) Catalan is its own language, its just funny to me that "dialect" is a negative term, language is not, and usually the big country with the military dictates which provinces speak a "language" and which ones are speaking a "dialect".
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdiVss0X6V0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdiVss0X6V0&feature=youtu.be
- joeyspn 9y agoYeah that man speaks slowly what appears to be the variant of catalan spoken in France... I'm referring to something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-OXwRP5A9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-OXwRP5A9E Spanish speakers will notice a lot of "familiar words", but most of the time it's difficult for them to extrapolate the meaning of what is being said.
- ice109 9y agoI speak shit Spanish (very weak third language) and even I can get the gist of what they're talking about. I'll admit all the stuff around the rolling rs is very hard to make out though.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThat kinda answered my question whether French and Spanish regions spoke the same Catalan.
- paperpunk 9y agoYou described yourself in another comment as fluent in three languages – I wonder if you might be much more practised at figuring out things spoken in other languages than others.