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Almost everyone is bilingual in Barcelona. They teach Catalan and Spanish at school, and both are spoken by the general population. How did they get non-bilingu
by aurelianito 6y ago
Almost everyone is bilingual in Barcelona. They teach Catalan and Spanish at school, and both are spoken by the general population. How did they get non-bilingual people there?
- lolc 6y ago"Therefore, unlike in previous studies, the researchers established a bilingualism gradient: from people who speak only one language but are passively exposed to another, to individuals who have excellent proficiency in both and use them indiscriminately on a day-to-day basis. To create this gradient, several variables were taken into account, including the age of acquisition of the second language, the use made of each language, and switching between languages in the same context."
- asveikau 6y agoI would expect there to be a fair amount of monolingual Castilian speakers there too. People who moved there from another part of Spain for instance.
- aurelianito 6y agoIf they tapped into this population they wouldn't be able to make any valid conclusion because they are intrinsically different.