Catalonia isn’t Kashmir. It isn’t East Pakistan or Myanmar’s Rakhine province either. It cannot complain of political repression, economic exploitation or religious discrimination. Yet, Catalan’s ...

The Spanish region of Catalonia, which has a large degree of autonomy from the government in Madrid is known for being fiercely proud of its individual culture and local language. Soaring immigration ...

Catalan is not, as some believe, a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently out of the vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans who colonised the Tarragona area. It is spoken by 9 ...

Thanks to the Institut Ramon Llull in Catalonia in collaboration with CU, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers courses in Catalan Language and Culture. These courses are taught by Susanna ...

Barcelona is one of the best-known cities in the world, yet visitors expecting to practice their Spanish can often be surprised when they hear Catalan spoken in the streets. The language has had a ...

For 30 years, schools in Catalonia have taught most subjects in Catalan, with the death of dictator Francisco Franco giving Spain’s regions the linguistic freedom they sought.But now parents fear ...

Jose M. Rojo claims, in his Correspondence 'Schools in a third of Spain teach only in minority languages' (Nature 454, 575; 2008), that public education is not available in Spanish in schools in ...

Catalonia isn’t Kashmir. It isn’t East Pakistan or Myanmar’s Rakhine province either. It cannot complain of political repression, economic exploitation or religious discrimination. Yet, Catalan’s ...