Catalan for non-Catalan-speaking students – 1st Semester

This course is aimed at providing students with linguistic tools needed to face basic daily communicative situations.

Fee

• Tuition fee: this course is free of charge

Recognition of credits

• Recognition of 1.5 ECTS

Objectives

• To introduce foreign students to the Catalan language and culture.
• To help foreign students in their integration into the university community.
• To help foreign students acquire a level of Catalan that allows them to communicate and develop within the Catalan society.

Method

Classes will follow a communicative approach from real productions (both oral and written) in the university and extra-university context.
The method will be dynamic and communicative, and will encourage oral participation in class, aiming to improve the four linguistic skills. Grammar and vocabulary knowledge will be extended and consolidated.

Assessment

This course’s evaluation will be based on:

• Class participation
• Assessment of activities to be developed throughout the course
• A final assessment exercise

Registration

If you want to sign up, write an email to the Language Service ([email protected]), with your name, surname, ID and the course to enroll in.

• The linguistic scope of Catalan.
• Catalan phonetic system.
• Correlation between sound and spelling. Alphabet.
• Basic words and expressions used in daily communicative situations:
  • Introductions
  • Greetings
  • Directions and locations
  • Timetables and dates
  • Daily actions and activities
  • Work, professions and jobs
  • Requests in restaurants and shops
  • Physical descriptions
  • Physical and mood states
  • Directions and means of transport
  • Weather conditions
  • Opinions and assessments
  • Basic vocabulary of everyday life
• Morphology and syntax:
  • Nouns. Gender and number
  • Articles. Determinative articles
  • Adjectives
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs. Models of conjugation. Regular forms. Main irregular verbs
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases. Adverbs and adverbial phrases
  • Conjunctions
• Orthography:
  • Schwa
  • O and U
  • B and V
  • P/B, T/D, C/G in final position
  • Voiced and unvoiced S
  • Spelling: X-IX, J-G, TX-IG
  • Spelling: M-N, MPT-MPC
  • Spelling: L·L, H, R-RR