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Complete Catalan Book/CD Pack (Teach Yourself) Paperback – 25 Jun. 2004

by Anna Poch (Author), Alan Yates (Author)

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Catalan is a member of the Romance family of languages, which includes French, Castilian Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and is the mother tongue of approximately 10.5 million people. In Spain, it is spoken in Catalonia, Valencian, the Balearic islands, the eastern part of Aragon and El Carxe (in Murcia). These areas are much-visited by English-speaking tourists and travellers, particularly Barcelona and the Balearic Islands. Within these Spanish territories, Catalan has joint official status with Castilian Spanish. Outside Spain, Catalan is spoken in Andorra, north Catalonia in the south of France and in L'Alguer in Sardinia. More people speak Catalan than speak Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Irish. The current edition of Teach Yourself Catalan has been completely rewritten and updated for beginners in Catalan who are planning to visit a Catalan-speaking area or who are starting a course in the language. New vocabulary and structures are introduced step by step through interesting dialogues which are also on the accompanying recording. There are plenty of exercises to practise each point as you learn it and to help reinforce your new language. The course covers all the language you will need for your next business trip or holiday, including getting to know people, making arrangements, shopping, ordering a meal, giving opinions and using the telephone. There are comprehensive bilingual vocabularies and a 'taking it further' section to direct you to further sources of Catalan. The accompanying recording consists over two hours of listening material on CD and contains all the dialogues from the book, exercises in listening and speaking, and a comprehensive pronunciation guide. The book (0340 870575) are also available separately. This course contains everything you need to start speaking Catalan with confidence and appreciate the culture of Catalan speakers.

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0340870567
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978-0340870563
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New ed
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Teach Yourself Books
Publication date

25 Jun. 2004
Language

English
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15.9 x 5 x 22.6 cm
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320 pages
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Alan Yates is a former Lecturer in Catalan at the University of Sheffield and well-respected author of the current edition. He has recently received a prize for his services to the teaching of the Catalan. Anna Poch is a native speaker of Catalan and an experienced teacher of Catalan and Spanish. She has been teaching at universities and schools in France and England since 1996.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Teach Yourself Books; New ed edition (25 Jun. 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340870567
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0340870563
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.9 x 5 x 22.6 cm

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Howzart

Somewhat incomplete Catalan....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 November 2013

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I purchased this book Complete Catalan: Teach Yourself (Book/CD Pack) because, having learned Catalan some 20 years ago using Alan Yates' excellent Teach Yourself book, I wanted to brush it up, having recently made extensive contact with friends in Catalonia, and visited the region on several occasions. The book and CD's are truly excellent as far as they go - but there is one glaring omission - the past subjunctive is not covered at all, and there is one solitary reference to it as a footnote to a text in one of the very last chapters. Anyone who knows anything about Latin languages - and Iberian ones in particular - will know that you just cannot hold a normal conversation in Catalan - or indeed in Spanish and Portuguese - without using a past subjunctive at some stage or another. I am aware that modern-day English-speakers' attitude to "grammar" is usually one of total bemusement - as evidenced by the extraordinary and somewhat bewildering comment of an earlier reviewer along the lines that "the book contained too much grammar whilst all he wanted was to know how the language worked...(!)" - but to omit a crucial and indispensable part of Catalan grammar because it might confuse English-speaking readers smacks of nothing short of cowardice....

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Crisdean

a terrible course!

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I moved from this from Routlege Colloquial Catalan after Catalan friends told me that it was more colloquial whereas Routleges in more formal. But I have given up on this course. It is hard to get audio material as CDs for this course, downloading the audio files it has to be on your phone or on line - you can not get as mp3's and put on mp3 player. The speak too fast for beginners, the speech often sounds slurred, they give you too complicated language for beginners. not the most useful language and too long sentences (eg: ""Aixi només viviú vosaltres tres en aquest pis tan gran?" (so you live in this large flat by yourself?) - said fast and sounding slurred - in lesson 2 conversation 1!, they have on-line exerciser of spoken complicated speech and do not have it written down so you have to try and guess what how it is written whereas it would be better if you could also look at what is being said. It is all in all a terribly put together course no matter how colloquial it is. I have gone back to colloquial Catalan by Routledge!!!

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Christina Currell

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I'm really liking this book so far. The audios are great too and the app was easy to download. There are a few activities in each unit which is great.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 March 2021

Great for beginner 😁

Beware of older reviews!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 December 2013

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If, like me, you prefer a structured grammar-based course that will give you all the tools you need to gain a deep understanding of Catalan, then some of the reviews for this book will have appealed to you. HOWEVER, this is not the original and excellent Alan Yates book; rather it is the 2010 update, and in my opinion far inferior. In recent years Teach Yourself has recognised how dumbed down we have become as a nation - indeed this is evident in reviews that one reads regularly on Amazon where people complain that language books contain - shock horror! - grammar, or even that they are disappointed that a particular language is hard to learn. Now Teach Yourself push their wares as being 'fun' and 'interactive'. That's fine if you want to learn Catalan for a holiday visit, but not if you are interested, for example, in reading the great store of Catalan literature that exists. Personally, I am very disappointed with this volume and shall be looking for a second hand copy of the older book, which I believed, from the older reviews, this to be.

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Marina Ghedini

Good teach yourself manual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 October 2013

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Good manual, but I was very put off by the fact that the CDs were supposed to contain an "inlay card for track details" which wasn't there. I wrote but didn't get a reply. Could you please photocopy one for me and send it? I actually stopped listening to the CDs because I was too annoyed about that.

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Comprehensive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 March 2020

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Very comprehensive course, easy to pick up for a beginner but also goes into enough depth for more advanced learning

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Raymond Matthews

Great value

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 February 2019

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A through and varied approach to learning the basics of the Catalan language. Demanding dialogues along with detailed grammar points and exacting exercises all helped to make solid progress.

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