<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1b7" class="gmail-Am gmail-aO9 gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:85px">Thank you! Very informative. Have always loved that region of the world, and I particularly loved Catalunya.<div> </div><div>As per the talking to foreigners bit, I do find it interesting. Having learned a few languages with few speakers or that are not the majority language, by far, in a particular place, I have often been met with people who think learning their own language is a silly idea, or they might even take a while to come around to the idea of not speaking the dominant language to a foreigner. In Catalunya, I found quite the opposite. I speak Spanish quite well, but I do not have anything near the accent of a Spaniard, so no matter how hard I could (haven't, but... haha) try, I am obviously not from anywhere on the Iberian Peninsula. Nevertheless, I have been asked many times. to speak Catala, even though I wouldn't be able to really piece it all together to make anything intelligible in terms of speaking actual Catala, but as you noted, it was relatively easy to understand what people were saying. So, it seems like there is a contingent of people who feel confident enough to assume that obvious outsiders will use their language, whereas the opposite is often the case in many places across the world. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, the question was mostly about how (what I perceive, at least) a strong linguistic community might play into or influence people speaking a related dialect nearby (and in this case, across a national border). </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I look forward to watching to movie and sharing it with friends and colleagues (many of whom also know and love the region).</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:08 PM David Valls <<a href="mailto:davidvalls@gmail.com">davidvalls@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear Shawn</p>
<p>Catalan has very few dialectal differences, and there's also a
continuum within the language, going up north in France to the
very south in Spain. However, as with other dialects,
Roussillonese or Northern Catalan dialect has some specific
features not shared with other dialects across the border, in
Spain. Some specific phonetic and syntax features, as well as some
specific vocabulary, specially dealing with the fact that after
more than 300 years of French rule, this Catalan has borrowed from
the French language, while in the south, Catalan has borrowed from
Spanish. However, there's mutual comprehension. <br>
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<p>According to statistics (
<a href="https://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=eulp&n=3646" target="_blank">https://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=eulp&n=3646</a> ), only 11,8% of
Catalan speakers in Spain do not switch to Spanish when someone
addresses them into this language. So, perhaps you've talked to
this 11,8%, which in Barcelona, believe me, it's much, much lower
than 11,8%. Sorry, but I don't get the relationship between being
a foreigner and being addressed in Catalan. I've travelled quite a
lot and in England people insisted me on English, in Japan
insisted me on Japanese and so on. However, I can tell you of
thousands of people who live in Catalonia for many years and
insist on not speaking Catalan at all, this colonial behavior is
one of the reasons -but not the only one-, why Catalan speakers
must be bilinguals.</p>
<p>And yes, we are nice ;-) and the language in Southern Catalonia,
Valencia and Balearic Islands is very alive, although not trouble
free.</p>
<p>All the best,</p>
<p>David<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Will definitely watch, but I used to live in
Toulouse, and I took lots of trips to Catalunya, where Catala is
very alive and well. Is there a great difference among the
dialects when you cross the border or even get into Barcelona
(where people even sometimes insist on speaking Catala over
Spanish even to a foreigner, although most always very nice)?</div>
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<div>Dear David,
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<div dir="auto">Gràcies per compartir-lo.</div>
<div dir="auto">It's heart-breaking. Every time I see it I
feel the same. </div>
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<div dir="auto">I am glad that colleagues from all over
the world can now understand it, with subtitles in
English and French.</div>
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Thank you for documenting the last speakers of Catalan in
Catalunya Nord.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Mariona<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El dj., 10 febr. 2022
10.28, David Valls <<a href="mailto:davidvalls@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidvalls@gmail.com</a>>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear
all,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> It's
not on Australian languages -or perhaps, it is
somehow-, but I wish to share this documentary
which I have co-directed. It's about the last
native speakers of the Catalan language -and its
local dialects- in Northen Catalonia (in the most
southern part of France). Now, we've got the
English and French subtitles:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6rUG0xxXNM" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6rUG0xxXNM</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZHpq7Vpws" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZHpq7Vpws</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank
you for your kind attention,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">David
Valls<br>
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