"We should remember that Catalonia had its own language forbidden to even speak in the street for 40 years during Franco's dictatorship." We should remember th

"We should remember that Catalonia had its own language forbidden to even speak in the street for 40 years during Franco's dictatorship." We should remember this is a false myth. Catalan was never banned. There were many works in literature and music using Catalan as language during Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975). For instance, you can check the full list of works that won the Lletra d'Or awards, to the best year work written in Catalan. It started in 1956. Josep Pla, one of the most importan Catalan writters won that award in 1957. https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premi_Lletra_d%27Or https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premi_Lletra_d%27Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Pla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Pla And here you can watch Joan Manuel Serrat, singing in Catalan on TVE (the Public Spanish national television). That was in 1968. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6da-yrtBIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6da-yrtBIY What Franco did was to ban Catalan language from public institutions.