Practice your Catalan and have fun!

Contains two series of materials, both of which are suitable for linguistic integration and basic level. The first collection contains 23 sheets presenting dialogues on everyday situations and a guide to help teachers use them in the classroom. The second collection of 17 sheets contains simple dialogues based on the historical events and personalities reflected in the names of Catalonia’s streets.

The materials cover a range of subjects and are designed to encourage dialogue and conversation, while reinforcing language learning through reading.

Support materials for Catalan beginners taking face-to-face courses, attending self-learning centres or taking part in language exchange programmes. 

Prepared by the University of Barcelona.

Free app for finding a language partner. The app uses geolocation to bring together volunteers who speak fluent Catalan and learners with a basic grounding who want to become fluent. Developed by the Plataforma per la Llengua with the support of the Governments of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia and donations from 205 donors.

Fils de conversa consists of 10 thematic units that deal with current topics; in each one you will always find four blocks that we call fils, "threads" in Catalan: Mira i parla ("Look and speak"); Escolta i parla ("Listen and talk"); Guaita i opina ("Observe and give your opinion"), and Parlem-ne i fem ("Let's talk and do"). Each thread proposes four activities aimed at introducing vocabulary, encouraging reading among peers, practising linguistic and communicative structures and, above all, facilitating conversation.

There are over 300 activities that promote exchange and conversation. See the user guide (Guia d’ús) for a more detailed explanation of how it works.

Prepared by the Secretariat for Language Policy.

Support documents for individuals such as mentors or language volunteers helping to welcome students who have started learning Catalan. It includes seven files that reflect real day-to-day situations and contain vocabulary, common sayings and grammar rules.

This project has been developed by the language support officers of the university language services with the support of the Secretariat for Universities and Research

This two-part guide, published in PDF format, is available in several languages (Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese and Chinese). The first part explains how a language exchange works, including how the meeting is structured, its length, the place and the activities participants can engage in. The second part contains suggested themes for conversation and information to stimulate discussion on the similarities and differences between cultures and countries when you get together.

Produced by the language services of the Catalan universities with the support of the Secretariat for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Business and Knowledge.

There are two parts: a first part with vocabulary in pictures and a second part made up of a very short conversation guide. The vocabulary includes more than 1,000 words in Catalan, which appear associated with an illustration and are grouped by topic (nursery school, adult education, pharmacy, herbs and spices, meals, etc.). The topic on each sheet is provided in Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian. It includes a regional map and a world map.

 A collection of everyday conversations, starting at a basic level and getting more complex- You can listen to the dialogues in mp3 format and read them in a PDF file.