Is Catalan hard to learn?
Learning Catalan is neither harder nor easier than learning any other language. People who want to learn a language can do so relatively easily. For people who speak one or more Romance languages, Catalan is very easy to understand. This is especially true for written and scientific language, which is what we use most at this university. Even if you don’t know any Catalan, you could probably decipher “àcid desoxiribonucleic” and “revolució industrial” correctly. It may be a little harder to learn to understand the spoken language, but this is not an insurmountable task. There are a handful of complex pronunciation rules, but in terms of grammar and vocabulary, Catalan is very similar to other Romance languages. Most foreign students who come to Catalan universities already speak Spanish. This knowledge of Spanish provides an excellent base for learning a little Catalan. You might not earn an advanced certificate in the language, but you will surely learn enough to understand classes ta
