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Are you looking for a complete course in Catalan which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Catalan will guarantee success!
Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.
The course is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work.
By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:
NOT GOT MUCH TIME?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
AUTHOR INSIGHTS
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.
GRAMMAR TIPS
Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.
USEFUL VOCABULARY
Easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking.
DIALOGUES
Read and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast.
PRONUNCIATION
Don't sound like a tourist! Perfect your pronunciation before you go.
TEST YOURSELF
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of Catalonia.
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Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
About the Author
Anna Poch Gasau is a native speaker and an experienced teacher of Catalan to adults. She has been teaching at universities and schools in France and England since 1996. Alan Yates is former Professor of Catalan Studies at the University of Sheffield and has recently received a prize for his services to the teaching of Catalan.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It you want to spend time in Barcelona or one or two other Spanish territories where Catalan is spoken then this is as good a way as any of learning some of this interesting language. Yes, they all speak Spanish as well but a few words of Catalan will reap benefits in restaurants and shops and increase your enjoyment of the place. This is a really well written and organised book which is easy to follow.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a disappointing set of CDs and put together without much thought for the student. The main purpose of language CDs should surely be to allow the learner first of all to pronounce the language properly and then to listen over and over again to native speakers talking in the language. These CDs fail on both counts. They start with interminable pronunciation exercises that bear no relation to anything in the book and are pretty much pointless since words should be pronounced in context rather than as isolated entities. You are then supposedly taught the alphabet, but the pronunciation is not indicated anywhere phonetically in writing (e.g. hak for H, etc.), so you're left out on a limb when asked to spell certain words. When the text actually gets going, it immediately starts off at normal conversational speed, so the beginner has no opportunity to work on pronunciation any more or to grasp the principles of elision, and, to make matters worse, 'realistic' background noise is often added, obscuring what the speakers are actually saying. But my main quibble is the never-relenting presence of explanatory material in English, all of which could and should have been included in the textbook rather than on the discs. Almost half the duration of the discs is taken up with wholly unnecessary and unwanted explanations in English, and because of this the discs simply don't bear repeated listening. Material on the discs should in my opinion be restricted entirely to material in Catalan so that one can listen to it over and over again in order to accustom oneself to the language. There was no audio material attached to Alan Yates' earlier (1975) version of Teach Yourself Catalan, which was essentially a grammar book of a type familiar to anyone who has ever studied Latin. The new edition is more user-friendly although considerably updated and 'dumbed-down' from the earlier version. The audio material really is most unsatisfactory though and far inferior to the material on the Catalan course (textbook in French with audio material exclusively in Catalan) published by Assimil. Mr Yates has published an absolutely outstanding book entitled 'Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar', but the efforts of the TY people to create something more accessible in the TY series are a disappointment.
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