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Learn Catalan - Basic Catalan Phrases for Tourists

Duration: 4:05
Updated: 15 Mar 2014

http://www.woltersworld.com Learn a bit of Catalan language before you head to Barcelona or Catalunya in Spain. A language that feels like a mix of Spanish and French with some fun thrown in as well. If you are visiting Barcelona or traveling farther afield in Eastern Spain knowing a few basic words in Catalan can make all the difference. Filmed in Barcelona, Spain Copyright Mark Wolters 2014 Thank you Mari for your great help!

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Marius Serra: Catalan language

Duration: 11:18
Updated: 29 May 2013

In this video, the writer Marius Serra reflects about the current situation of the Catalan language and how this would be affected by the existence of an ind...

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Catalan/english, lesson 1!

Duration: 2:26
Updated: 16 Aug 2013

For more videos, go to http://www.videosfrombarcelona.com!

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Me speaking in Catalan (comments in English)

Duration: 1:50
Updated: 07 Aug 2013

Check out my new website! www.unlimitedspanish.com Catalan is spoken by several milion of people, and it's my mother language (I also speak Spanish as a nati...

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WIKITONGUES: Ona speaking Catalan | Ona parlant Català

Duration: 2:49
Updated: 08 May 2013

My name is Ona and I'm from Mallorca. It's hard for me to explain where I'm from. And it's not because I had lived in a lot places. I've actually lived most ...

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Interferences between Spanish and Catalan (in Catalan)

Duration: 5:07
Updated: 09 Aug 2013

In this video I speak in Catalan. I talk a little bit about the common linguistic interferences that we have between Spanish and Catalan and viceversa becaus...

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::: Learn Catalan ::: Lesson 1: Say "hello"

Duration: 3:58
Updated: 15 Aug 2013

Learn to say your first words in Catalan! Come and have fun!

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Catalan and the official European Union languages

Duration: 3:46
Updated: 05 Dec 2013

Plataforma per la Llengua and Vincle Foundation would like to explain the exceptional case of the Catalan language in the European Union. This video shows that in the EU all languages of a similar size to Catalan are already official languages of the EU. The Catalan case is exceptional due to the permanent opposition of the Spanish government.

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SPANISH SECRET CONFLICT Documentary about Catalan Independence

Duration: 39:45
Updated: 25 Feb 2014

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Andorra & the Catalan language

Duration: 11:17
Updated: 25 Jul 2013

3rd video of the Spanish team for the Comenius project about Minority Languages in Europe. This video was shot in the Principality of Andorra in November 2011.

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Pep Guardiola - Catalonia is not Spain [English subtitles]

Duration: 1:27
Updated: 18 Aug 2013

Pep Guardiola, FC Barcelona coach, explains what he feels regarding his country, Catalonia, and its language. CATALONIA IS NOT SPAIN.

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::: Learn Catalan ::: Lesson 2: "My name is..."

Duration: 2:38
Updated: 01 Aug 2013

Learn to introduce yourself in Catalan!! It's not that difficult!

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Catalan Vocabulary Lesson (Sound)

Duration: 5:43
Updated: 14 Aug 2013

This video offers a Catalan vocabulary lesson which contains 160 most commonly used words in different topics such as: numbers, colors, phrases, nature, ques...

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TV interview Arquima TV3 English Subtitles Catalan Language

Duration: 2:54
Updated: 25 Oct 2013

Arquima company director, Mr. Jose Antonio Gonzalez, interviewed by public Catalan TV, TV3 channel. Sustainable construction in timber frame. Wood as an alternative to traditional constructions in concrete, steel and iron. Industrialised processes permit high quality controls and avoid problems at on site installations. No CO2 emissions, energy efficiency and cost savings thanks to the ARQUIMA systems : S.E.A. and C.A.2.D. Arquima is located in Barcelona but serves and make installations all around Europe and at the Mediterranian shore countries.

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El Català a Perpinyà - Part 1/2

Duration: 8:32
Updated: 22 Jul 2013

Reportatge sobre la situació del català a Perpinyà.

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Guanyarem la Llibertat

Duration: 2:43
Updated: 16 Jul 2013

La marxa triomfal "Guanyarem la Llibertat" és el regal d'uns patriotes al poble de Catalunya, per a reforçar les ales victorioses que ens portaran a la indep...

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Enigma between generations in catalan language

Duration: 4:30
Updated: 02 Jun 2013

a very nice song by enigma, its in catalan language i guess.

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Hunger strike to defend the Catalan language

Duration: 1:21
Updated: 02 Apr 2013

On March 1st, 2012, Jaume Bonet began a hunger strike in Majorca to defend our language; as of March 18th, his fast has lasted already eighteen days. The Spa...

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Polyglot Talks About the Catalan Language

Duration: 3:56
Updated: 05 Feb 2013

My goals and studying methodology concerning Catalan.

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Travels among languages: Catalan / català

Duration: 4:35
Updated: 23 Apr 2014

Coming from Zagreb on April 23, which is World Book Day and La Diada de Sant Jordi in Catalonia, this video is about the Catalan language - a Romance language spoken by some 7 million people, probably best known for the slogan "Més que un club" :) Sorry for the baaaaad audio quality and the lots of background noises - I'm doing these videos selfie-style with no microphone, and finding a silent spot to film in Zagreb wasn't that easy at all.

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Guardiola i el català (Kíev) - Guardiola and Catalan language

Duration: 0:27
Updated: 11 Jul 2013

Barcelona's coach Josep Guardiola talks about Catalan language.

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Learning Catalan - Formalities

Duration: 1:27
Updated: 12 Aug 2013

Common expressions in Catalan. (Note: It is not a formal course. Videos are basic, short and home-made.)

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Reportaje de Papa Topo @ Itaca - TV de Mallorca (Catalan Language)

Duration: 3:54
Updated: 12 Jun 2013

Reportaje sobre PAPA TOPO el día 02 de abril de 2010 en el programa "Ítaca" de Televisió de Mallorca (RTV Mallorca) en Català. PAPA TOPO son una banda de ind...

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Supernova SN 2014J Explodes: New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided stringent constraints on the environment around one of the closest supernovas discovered in decades.

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Space is the place to solve the riddle of life, maybe

New Scientist

15 Aug 2014

Understanding how life got started here on planet Earth may mean searching for its counterparts "out there". HOW did early Earth's inert matter give rise to its teeming life today? That's one of the biggest questions in science – and has long been one of the hardest to answer. We've known for 60 years that life's most basic building blocks can form spontaneously, given the right conditions ... There is plenty of soft evidence, though....(size: 2.5Kb)

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A follower of the ancient Yazidi religion prays at the holy Lalish temple in the Mountains of Shikhan near Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. US President Barack Obama has authorized airstrikes to protect U.S. interests and personnel in the region.

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Isis terror will affect everyone

Belfast Telegraph

13 Aug 2014

Bloodthirsty Islamic State militants threaten Iraqi civilians with genocide. But the country's barbaric civil war could also have effects on the West - with dire consequences for all of us, writes Patrick Cockburn. Iraq has disintegrated. Little is exchanged between its three great communities – Shia, Sunni and Kurd – except gunfire. The outside world hopes that a more inclusive government will change this, but it is probably too late ... ....(size: 12.4Kb)

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Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle in a tent at Nowruz camp, in Derike, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014.

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US Iraqi Mount Sinjar rescue mission "far less likely"

The Daily Telegraph

14 Aug 2014

Related Articles. US urges Iraqi PM to 'step aside' 13 Aug 2014. SAS sent in to Iraq as US troops land on Mount Sinjar 13 Aug 2014. Cameron. Britain to play role in rescuing Yazidis 13 Aug 2014. Tory MP calls for UK airstrikes on Islamic militants 11 Aug 2014. Mount Sinjar. Iraq's mountain of death 10 Aug 2014. Now, the Pentagon believes, the number of refugees still trapped on the Mount Sinjar is down to the low thousands ... Mr Hagel added ... ....(size: 8.7Kb)

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A Palestinian man inspects the damage to his shop which sells women's clothing, in Rafah town, in the southern Gaza Strip,

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Gazans return to ruined homes as truce holds

Al Jazeera

15 Aug 2014

Many Palestinians living close to the Israeli border have returned to piles of rubble where their homes once stood, as a fragile five-day ceasefire extension between Hamas and Israel entered its second day. Calm held on Friday morning as the two sides in the Gaza conflict pondered Egyptian-mediated efforts to secure a lasting peace ... "I was shocked and was screaming in the street. I still have to pay the mortgage ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)

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Liberian policemen, right, dressed in riot gear disperse a crowd of people that blocked a main road after the body of someone suspected of dying from the Ebola virus was not removed by health workers in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014.

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Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated - WHO

The Irish Times

15 Aug 2014

Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the UN agency said on its website yesterday. The death toll from the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola stood on Wednesday at 1,069 from 1,975 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, the agency said ... “Any who are sick will be immediately isolated ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)

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Love Inspires Research for Douglas '15 (Illinois Wesleyan University)

noodls

15 Aug 2014

While studying abroad in Barcelona, Douglas explored untouched alleyways and the Catalan language as he fell deeper into the discovery of what makes this city unique within the context of Spanish culture ... After the Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, long-held institutions were abolished and the official use of the Catalan language was banned for almost four decades....(size: 3.5Kb)

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In Silicon Valley, American dream materializes fast

San Francisco Chronicle

07 Aug 2014

He didn't have high-profile, high-tech connections or a resume reflecting an ability to run a company ... SabriÀ, 25, had been making educational videos to help students who struggled with the Catalan language and for the Gypsies, also known as Roma, who rarely showed up for class ... The teachers loved them too, but said they wanted to be able to personalize them or record the audio in their languages.Changing the content ... Lots of it ... E-mail....(size: 6.9Kb)

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GSAD and Plant rDNA database:two open platforms with plant cytogenetic information (Universitat de Barcelona)

noodls

18 Jul 2014

(Source. Universitat de Barcelona) 18/07/2014. Recerca ... Asteraceae . Genes that codify ribosomal DNA ... sunflowers, lettuces, artichokes and chrysanthemums ... Its research lines are also based on the study of the history of botany and ethnobotanical research; in other words, it develops studies about the relationships between people and plants and also on the traditional knowledge about plants -particularly in the Catalan language territories....(size: 4.5Kb)

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Catalan language revival fuels backlash in Spain

Reuters

14 Jul 2014

For 30 years, public schools in Spain's Catalonia region have taught most subjects in Catalan, not the national Castilian Spanish language ... The nascent movement for more Spanish teaching has only hardened supporters of the Catalan language – and of the wealthy region’s independence drive ... Catalan has also become the language of the local government here and of businesses....(size: 7.2Kb)

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Ukraine Is Regaining Ground But Losing More Soldiers

Business Insider

10 Jul 2014

Pro-Russian separatist fighters from the so-called Battalion Vostok (East) wait behind sandbag walls at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, July 10, 2014 ... In a further success, military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov said government forces on Thursday re-took the town of Siversk, east of Slaviansk, when separatists fled ...   ... Justice Department Catalan language revival fuels backlash in Spain ... email....(size: 7.7Kb)

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Announced the winners of the 1st FilCat.UB Prize (Universitat de Barcelona)

noodls

30 Jun 2014

The award ceremony of the first edition of for the best upper secondary school research projects in Catalan language and literature took place on Thursday 26 June. The prize, organised by the Department of Catalan of UB, is addressed to students in the last year of upper secondary school at Catalan centres. Its main aim is to promote school research project focused on any aspect related to Catalan language and literature....(size: 2.1Kb)

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Baltimore Sun

18 Jun 2014

As constitutional monarch, he is seen as the only player who could break a stand off between Catalan leader Artur Mas - who vows to hold a vote on independence in November - and Rajoy, who pledges to block the vote ... It cannot hurt that Felipe has studied Catalan - the language spoken by 7 million people in northeastern Spain - setting him apart from most of the Spanish-speaking Madrid-based ruling class....(size: 4.3Kb)

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Crown Prince Felipe on brink of becoming King Felipe VI

The Guardian

18 Jun 2014

Felipe's coronation on Thursday, following King Juan Carlos's recent abdication, will be a low-key secular ceremony tailored to the mood of an austerity-hit Spain. Prince Felipe of Spain in Madrid on Wednesday, the eve of his coronation. Photograph. Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images. There will be no gilded horse-drawn carriages, no foreign dignitaries and no mass ... "I'm hoping he'll speak Catalan and other languages as well." ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)

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Artur Mas: Catalonia's unlikely revolutionary

Springfield News-Sun

16 Jun 2014

That legal setback after decades of political struggle only made Catalans more determined to distance themselves from the national government in Madrid, Mas said ... Like others of his generation, he was prohibited from studying in the Catalan language — which is spoken in tandem with Spanish in the bilingual region — during General Francisco Franco's 1939-1975 dictatorship....(size: 4.6Kb)

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>Artur Mas: Catalonia's unlikely revolutionary

Seattle Post

16 Jun 2014

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From business-as-usual to political upheaval, Mas is Catalonia's unlikely independence leader

Fox News

16 Jun 2014

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Revivial of Catalan language in Spain fuels backlash

DNA India

11 Jun 2014

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Iran's Supreme Leader lends support to new Iraq Prime Minister

DNA India

11 Jun 2014

Wednesday, 13 August 2014 - 4.48pm IST . Place. Dubai . Agency. Reuters. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on Reddit ... Abadi has won swift endorsements from the United States and Iran as he called on political leaders to end feuds that have allowed Islamist militants to seize a third of Iraq ... ... Jump to comments. ALSO READ ... RELATED ... Revivial of Catalan language in Spain fuels backlash 8 Shares 4 weeks ago ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)

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