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Book SynopsisColloquial Catalan provides a step-by-step course in Catalan as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Catalan in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.Key features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Catalan will be an indispensable resource bothTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Alphabet and pronunciation guide Unit 1 Benvinguda I benvingut! Welcome Unit 2 Com es diu? What is your name? Unit 3 Un cafè, sisplau A coffee, please Unit 4 Què vols What would you like? Unit 5 Vols el meu mòbil? Do you want my mobile? Unit 6 La meva família My family Unit 7 Perdoni, on és l'Hotel Miramar? Excuse me, where is the Miramar Hotel? Unit 8 Quina és la teva adreça? What is your address? Unit 9 Tot passejant per la Rambla A Walk down the Ramblas Unit 10 Al mercat de la Boqueria At the Boqueria Fresh Food Market Unit 11 Com els vol? How would you like them? Unit12 Al restaurant Planelles At Planelles' restaurant Unit 13 La vida diària Daily life Unit 14 Què has fet avui? What have you done today? Unit 15 La sobretaula After dinner talk Unit 16 Què vas fer? What did you do? Unit 17 Quin temps farà? What will the weather be like? Unit 18 Em podria donar informació? Could you give me some information, please? Unit 19 El transport public Public transport Unit 20 Festa major! Grammar Reference Catalan - English glossary English - Catalan glossary Exercise key

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Book SynopsisWhy Catalans insist on their identity. The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Bigas Luna but, in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentlessinevitability of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the English-speaking reader with a fuller understanding of the uniqueness and quality of the culture of Catalonia by providing a comprehensive portfolio of the creative contribution of the nation across a broad spectrum of achievement. Though the artistic wealth of the medieval period is acknowledged appropriately, this study, with its focus on the modern age, privileges excellence not only in the more conventional, academic spheres of history, music, language, literature and the arts but also explores the value of more basic, popular experience inareas such as sport, cinema, festivals, cuisine and the city of Barcelona. DOMINIC KEOWN is Reader in Catalan at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS: Elisenda Barbé, Robert Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson, Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Dorothy Noyes, Montserrat Roser i Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell.Trade ReviewA lively and informative volume that covers a wide range of aspects of Catalan culture ... Currently the only book on the market that provides this sort of introductory overview of contemporary Catalan culture, it should become a key text for undergraduate courses especially ... a solid and dependable companion. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *A much-needed and timely step in the right direction for Catalan Studies. * HISPANIA *[The editor] has given 'lay' readers of English an accessible introduction to the country's history and culture. Second, he has but provided his colleagues in the field of Catalan Studies with a very solid conceptual base for future growth and innovation. The editor and his collaborators should be warmly saluted for carrying out this very important work. * CATALAN REVIEW *In summary [...] for any student, or academic, studying Hispania.it is a must read. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *[T]his relatively brief volume is succinct and impressively complete. It covers a broad range of topics, each treated with care by its author. [...] The contributors offer masterful syntheses and sharp analyses of complex issues. [...] Informative, insightful, and engaging, this volume will interest readers in search of a general survey. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContemporary Catalan Culture - Dominic Keown Medieval Catalan Culture, 801-1492 - Alexander Ibarz Catalonia: From Industrialisation to the Present Day - Antoni Segura Catalonia: From Industrailisation to the Present Day - Elisenda Barbe Barcelona: The Siege City - Robert Davidson The Catalan Language - Miquel Strubell Sport and Catalonia - Louise Johnson The Music of Catalonia - Tess Knighton Catalan Cinema: An Uncanny Transnational Performance - Jaume Marti-Olivella Festival and the Shaping of Catalan Community - Dorothy Noyes What's Cooking in Catalonia? - Montserrat Roser i Puig

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