I did Duolingo's hidden language (Catalan)... but it's a speedrun 

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As a native catalan, I see this as an absolute win.

1:10 HOLY MOLY THAT IS THE MOST NATURALLY SOUNDING SPANISH ACCENT I EVER HEARD FROM AN ENGLISH SPEAKER

Your pronunciation is better than people I know who lived in Catalonia for 40 years and never bothered.

As a native catalan, that was IMPRESSIVE. You sound like a native!!

As a native Catalan, I can say that bread with oil and sugar is indeed a thing here in Catalonia. It's so common to eat that as a snack when you're a child, or poor, or both. 😂

"It's weird but it is consistent" you defined the entire language with that sentence. That's what differentiates us from French and Spanish, Spanish is simple, French is just straight up chaos, we're not simple, but we are consistent in our weirdness.

As a catalan from catalonia , this is just epic Edit: visca al pa amb tomaque 🗣🗣

This video felt like like home. Speaking Spanish, Catalan and English all at the same time lmao

As a native Catalan I thought you were gonna butcher the language but you did great!

Molt interessant. Rarament veig presència del català a les xarxes, molt bona feina! Salutacions des de Catalunya

It's so funny how your Spanish accent is so similar to the accent Catalans have when speaking Spanish hahahah

As a catalan, I really appreciate the representation, and your comments that prevent the typical stereotypes

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9:47 although not as common, depending from the zone in catalonia, u can also hear people saying "carrota" in stead of "pastanaga", but that is only in the northern regions. Another example would be with the word tomato (tomàquet), people from the north say "tomata". Or for example, in stead of pronouncing the word water as "aigua", they pronouce it as "aiga", without saying the "u"

The amazing part here is you instantly get the idea of what we call the neutral vowel (what you call the unestressed e and a sound) and other characteristic sounds in catalan that take ages for an average spanish speaker to identify and assimilate

Spoiler Alert: half of the comments start with “As a catalan”

The thing about the j shifting into a g is because ther is a rule that states that "Before a, o, and u, goes j. Before e and i, goes g".

There's a reason for the change between the feminine -a and plural feminine -es. When the language was standarized a century ago it was decided to be the most ''neutral'' talking about dialects, so in the west dominion of catalan we don't have these ''unestressed'' vowels and, for general law, the vowels are pronounced as it's written. So we say: dona (with [a]) and dones (with [es]). In my zone (Lleida and sorroundings) we pronounce dona= donɛ and dones=dones. Here, almost all the final ''as'' are pronounced ɛ. In the north and south where I live they say [a] for the final ''as''. In the east they say [ə]. In the balearic isles they don't have this unstressed and stressed vowels so stressed vowels can be pronounced as [ə]. This is all talking in grosso modo, there's exceptions obviously. I find amazing that you like these kind of things and I bet your pronounciation is really good, although the ''ll'' are pretty bad. Also, that you said of ll being different in castilian and catalan, I don't see it, although it's true that in some catalan parts it's pronounced sometimes [i]. It's true that you may refer to the ''yeísmo'' or ''ieisme'' which it's a nowadays phenomenom in castilian (transferred to catalan) that makes the ''ll'' changed to the castilian ''y'' or german ''j''.

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I can confirm, a toasted slice of a good bread with olive oil and sugar is a wonderful snack.

At the beggining I thought you were native spanish by the accent, I was amazed. AND WHEN YOU STARTED WITH THE CATALAN OMGG, im not really used at people from outside here speaking correctly the language and getting the accent, it was amazing man

As a catalan I was really pleasently surprised by your accent! Congrats

If you don't like vowel reduction, then I've got the perfect thing for you : *occidental dialect*✨✨

Haha, I'm a Valencian speaker, and I love to use this course as a way to learn some more about the Central (Barcelona) dialect of my language but, specially, as a way to make up for those days where I don't feel like doing the French course XD.

as a catalan,spanish and english speaker your pronuntiation is really good

parles millor català que jo! 😅

wow dude, I've learned a lot about the euphony and spelling rules of Catalan! thank you. Btw, if you want to say something got "spanishized" you say it got "Hispanicized"

9:50 i've heard "carrota" as well in certain regions :)

In catalan (and valencian, a catalan dielect) we actually have many words for carrot: pastanaga, pastenaga, safanòria, carlota, etc. Also, the vowels don't sound different depending on whether it's stressed or not, they sound different depending on whether they are open or closed. Those two concepts are not the same, although somehow related. Take the word "parèntesi" (parenthesis) and the word "parella" (pair). The stressed part of "parèntesi" is the syllable "rèn", and the stressed part of "parella" is "re". Both "e"s are stressed, but the one from "parèntesi" is open and the one from "parella" is closed. Then, you have graphical accents (e.g. "é" and "è"), which are placed on the main vowel of the stressed syllable if it follows certain rules similar to spanish rules. Whether you put one or the other depends on the vowel being open or closed. To add to the confusion, we have many dialects (e.g. valencià, català, balear). Certain words have vowels that are open or closed depending on the dialect. But that's not all: a lot of words are written the same way, but pronounced differently, depending on the dialect. For instance, "però" (but) is always written with "ò" but pronounced "ó" in valencian. Also, each dialect has its own conjugation terminations for verbs (e.g. català: "menjo", valencià: "menje", balear: "menj"). Some expressions like "soc malalt" (i'm sick). Also, when you get into "pronoms febles" you'll see the real difficult part of catalan. You basically need to know catalan syntax to use them correctly. They're basically used to substitute parts that are already known. For instance, "porta això"->"porta-ho", "fes el llit"->"fes-lo", "menja verdures"->"en menja", "regala els llibres"->"regala'ls". Oh, and pronoms febles usually have 2, 3 or up to 4 different ways to write them, and you have to choose the correct one based on where it appears. And sometimes you need the pronom feble even if you have the original part present "t'agrada el teatre?" The "t'" (with the ') is the pronom feble, which refers to "el teatre" (even though it's still there). Oh, and catalan is also spoken in the País Valencià and Illes Balears, come and visit them ;)

This is the first time i see your channel and as a native catalan I'm actually surprised of your catalan accent, is really impresive. Theres people here that don't even compare, good job 👏

Ah so cool seeing someone learning my language! You do really great! Duolingo gets the meals wrong tho imo. In Catalan we differentiate 5 meals: Desdejuni (breakfast), esmorzar (a meal you take at around 10/11 am, super important in Valencia), dinar (lunch), berenar (at 5/6 pm) and sopar (dinner). In Spanish it would be: desayuno, almuerzo, comida, merienda and cena

I study catalan language in college and I'm a native speaker. As someone who is learning how to teach catalan I'm impressed with the awarness and the naturality you have

13:10 , when the verb uses "j" but you conjugate it and you put an e/i behind the "j", it converts to a "g". That is because the sound on g when its followed by e/i sounds as a "j"(menjar(infinitive)->mengem(we eat)). Also, this is catalan so you are going to find a lot of exceptions and that's how it is jajja. I'm a native catalan speaker btw and i think you did it really good!!

Com a valencià, aprove aquest video. També volia dir-vos que si aneu a València i li pregunteu a la gent si el català i el valencià són el mateix, molts vos diran que no. En realitat canvien coses de Catalunya, València o les Illes Balears, pero no tant com a ser una llengües diferents, pero per temes de política, solen denotar-les així. (As a valencian, I aprove this video. I also wanted to say that if you go to Valencia and ask the locals if Catalan and Valencian are the same, many would say "no". In fact there's no major difference between what's spoken in Valencia, Catalonia or even the Balearic Islands, but because of politics, they usually denote them like different languages.)

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14:20 You'd need something like 'some', but without actually giving it an approximate quantity. Here's an example: "There were some people bothering me earlier." By (in your mind) assuming 'some' doesn't actually quantify anyhting, it works, since it doesn't determine an exact amount, the approximate amount depending on the context. That being said, it is true there is no direct equivalent to it, the use of 'some' being more of a bandaid for that gaping hole in the english language.

hii native Catalan speaker here, this was so impressive and your accent is so good. The problem with stressed and unstressed vowels mainly happens because Duolingo is using a Barcelona' accent. If you go a bit north that usually doesn't happen, for example Andorran's accent, both stressed and unstressed vowels sound the same. I hope it helped :)

Very good pronunciation! You did an amazing job. Feel proud of yourself! Thanks for giving credit to the existence of our language!

per què pronuncies millor que molts nadius? Es boig 😭

I think Quebecois French also takes the normally "lunch" word for breakfast and the "dinner" word for lunch compared to standard French.

First video I've seen by you and the editing had me dying. Great content!

You've left me completa y totalmente enlluernat! Parles quasi perfecte, l'accent castellano, català and English. Bravo, olé, de collons!

I love your videos!

Enhorabona! M'ha encantat aquest vídeo! Ets un crac! Hem de fer una col·laboració!

hey, thank u so much for taking your time to learn our language, you're doing great!! keep up :)

You have not only an amazing knowledge, your accent is super good. Even better than some people born in catalonia. Congratulations!

I have Catalan on my list of languages I wanna learn Edit: if I argue with my friends in (US) English where we live our accent is VERY hard to understand what we are saying for the rest of English speakers

In duolingo you are learning Barcelona's Catalan, but western catalan (Lleida, Tarragona and Valencia basically) do not differenciate between stressed and unestressed vowels, and it is perfectly valid, hopr that helps!!

🤣 you visuals are hilarious man thanks for the video. Very similar to Spanish and French

This was SOOOOOO enjoyable to watch as someone who has lived in Catalunya basically my entire life and also as a language lover LOL

i am amazed at your catalan pronunciation! literally sound native

1:12 WOW BRO I'm not lying i've never heard such a strong spanish accent in a non native speaker, that was INSANE. You have an even stronger accent than many spanish people wtf. Congratulations bro, that's incredible. (i'm an italian living in Catalunya, where we speak spanish and catalan, so I know what I'm talking about when I say you have a PERFECT SPANISH ACCENT)

I'd rather not delve into politics, but acknowledging a language so often oppressed by the rest of Spain (and some Catalans) goes a long way in preserving it. I'm glad to see that importance is still being placed on my native language.

Catalan is basically françeñol and I'm here for it!

DUDE, as a catalan person, this is amazing, YOUR ACCENT IS AMAZING, Ets increible! A really am shcoked by your accent :0 this so cool fr

This is amazing! ❤ I want to add that the pronunciation in Catalan changes depending on the area, you are pronouncing the Catalan from Barcelona. In my area we pronounce as it is written (it is not menjU, but menjO). Both are fine, but depending on how we pronounce the words we usually identify where we are from. Hope it helps!

Probably Burmese if you're talking about vowel reductions. The number 1 is /tɪʔ/. Sounds something like "tick" But if you add a classifier or any kinda suffix the /ɪ/ changes to /ə/ and the glottal stop completely disappears. So 1 (of a thing) becomes /tə.kʰu/, /kʰu/ being the classifier for anything.

I think that in tarragona or girona, they dont say "pastanga", they say "carrota"

You’re video was awesome! I’m a native Catalan speaker and about the vowels that are pronounced different to how it’s written, it depends on where in Catalonia are you from. The “standard” is the catalan spoken in the province of Barcelona but if you go to Lleida for example, they pronounce the vowels just how they are written👍🏻

12:07 in latin america they have different sounds for ''s/z/c'' because they got it from andalusian, not recognized as its own language although it might qualify for that but it is spoken is andalusia and near southern zones

DUDEEE IM LITERALLY CATALAN! I have a C1 in English, so it’s really good and I understand it a lot! But seeing an English person learn Catalan? The language I’ve been speaking since is was a baby? Nah, it just hits hard, thank you for doing this. Spanish people literally hate us 😭✋ (we had a civil war 😳)

1:45 How could you forget?? 😁 Hungarian! a-á; i-í; e-é; o-ó; ö-ő; u-ú; ü-ű... should I go on? (Un)fortunately I can't, that's all. 😂 (As I was thinking about this more I realized that we have fixed stress on the first syllable so I am pretty sure I failed in linguistics... 😂 But I will leave this comment up for a fun fact and/or a discussion that we have ridiculous amount of short-long vowel pairs in Hungarian. :D)

Bread with a drizzle of olive oil and sugar is definitely a thing! and if you think that's weird, bread with a drizzle of wine and a chocolate bar is also a thing. they're not as popular nowadays but they were throughout the 1900s as a an affordable snack. Both in Catalonia but also in Spain in general.

In case you are curious about the G / J change in Spanish/Catalan words, there was a Spanish author, named Juan Ramón Jiménez (usually written Giménez with a G) that had a strong opinion about this issue. He thought that many words had useless sounds, especially in words that have letters with the same sound, like is the case of G and J, so he decided to stop using one of them at all. That's why he wrote his surname like Jiménez and other words that had the sound GE / GI he changed them to JE / JI. He also did that with other letters like C / Z. He considered those sounds to be useless and in his words: "I hate the useless. And I truly believe that you should write how you speak, not the other way around." I hope you like the info!

just so u know, cervesa isnt a spanisation its just a word that comes from latin, obviously we share a lot of vocabulary bc catalan and spanish are very close but we also share a lot of vocab w other romanic languages as u have noticed

in portuguese i think it´s the same: like you write boy in european portuguese menino, but the sound is actually mɨNInu

Gràcies per l’interès 🤩

m'encanta que la gent vulgui parlar Català, la veritat m'ha fet molt feliç aquest video, gracies per tot

Do i see right, that there is no more guarani?

Visca el barça ❤️💙

Ets MOLT talentós!! Quin orgull que hagis volgut aprendre la llengua catalana. ❤

apreciate because catalan, is not a minor language of Europe but largest on the continent without a state, a side of Andorra

Too bad you learned a fake language.

I'm from Valencia, where lots of ppl speak valenciano (it is almost like catalán but with some slight differences) But there are things of catalán like the "u" sound at the end sometimes or some words that are different that confuse me. Even if I have been learning valenciano almost since kinder when a catalan person with a strong accent speaks fast it gets h a r d :'3 Nice vid btw! ✨

as a native Catalan, and a Spanish speaker since I was very young I have been impressed by your accent and your fluency when speaking. I'm glad you made this video, because more people will be able to know about the existence of Catalan. I really like your content. greetings from Catalonia.

Funnily enough, about dinner and supper, you usually would use the former for the main meal of the day, and the later for a smaller evening lunch, so if your main meal was in midday, you would say dinner and supper as in catalan. Alas, with time dinner cemented itself as the evening meal as that was usually when ppl ate the most, whereas the smaller midday snack became lunch, so nowadays dinner and supper can be used interchangeably for the evening meal and the connotations between them can be found elsewhere. Anyways, as a catalan I can confirm the rest of the world is wrong! As we say some times, "Esmorzar com un rei, dinar com un príncep i sopar com un pobre"

Happy to be from Barcelona and seeing this video

I'm from Valencia (spain) were we speak a variation of the catalan, In Valencian all the vowels are pronounced practicly like in spanish.

Great video, you nailed the pronunciation! Regarding the fact that Catalan language is a mix between Spanish, French and a little bit of Italian, I'd like to qualify that actually the closest existing language is Occitan, as they are part of the Occitano-Romance subfamily within the romance languages. So Catalan is like a brother with Occitan, whereas it is like a cousin for French, Spanish and Italian.

As a spanish from Cataluña I have to say you talk Catalan and Spanish really well. I love your accent

Thank you for sharing our language!!

Native catalan speaker and both your catalan and spanish sound very nicely! You did a great job

3:48 you are correct except in some parts of catalonia such as Lleida we pronounce it as it's written, we also pronounce some vowels like an open e at the end of words, the pronunciation Duolingo gives is more like from Barcelona as it's where most of the population lives And also you pronounce Spanish as if you were native, like really well

Olive oil and sugar, as well as andalousian breakfast (grille bread, olive oíl an tomates) are typical meals in Andalusia. They were brought to Catalonia by Andalusia workers who started to live there back in the fifties and sixties.

i live in catalunya and i feel like happy now that this language is getting more popular

You have an excellent pronunciation in both and catalan!!! By the way, have you noticed bulgarian has an accent that is very similar to catalan? Whenever I hear people speaking bulgarian that's what comes to my mind.

I just discovered your channel, I’m a native catalan and I am sooo impressed! Also so funny content, suscribed!🔥

yes!!! esmorzar, dinar i sopar, I always always mix them up when speaking Spanish or English. Nice video!!

you have an insanely good spanish accent, like i have never heard a non native spanish talk like that, like, that’s absolutely insane

Your catalan pronunciation is just perfect, much better than most spanish speakers here in Catalonia

1:10 He literally speaks Spanish like a french guy living in spain for the last 20 years, my aunt has the exact same accent in the way she does miss some of the C sounds and pronounces S, but not all of them, like a latin american does, for example. Very curious accent, and most definitely polished asf!

As a native Catalan I loved watching this! You are really good

Hola, soy andorrano, ser hablar el catalán y home, se puede pronunciar reemplazando la "e" por una "a" o no. Todo depende de la región. En el Sur, ( provincia de Barcelona y Tarragona) se suelen canviar las letras y hablar la mayoria de veces reemplazando la "e" por la "a" o la "o" por la "u". En la provincia de Girona generalmente cómo se escribe y tanto el Lleida como en el Principado de Andorra, se suele reemplazar la "a" por la "e". Eso són algunos casos concretos. En Valencia se usa también el catalán pero algunas palabras y estructuras de frases canvian al igual que en Mayorca y Menorca. Luego, Catalunya del Nord, que está en Francia, hablan el occitán. Pero con el catalán de Barcelona (que es el que has aprendido tu) te entienden todos a la perfección.

8:00 i treat it like if it's open (to the left) you're like inhaling while stepping back, and if it's closed it's like you're exhaling and stepping in

As a native Catalan, I love your pronunciation in Catalan, but also in Spanish. I hope I can speak the same way you speak Catalan but me in English one day.

Almuerzo es una palabra con diferentes significados según la zona. En muchas zonas de España es el desayuno, en otras zonas es una merienda de media mañana, creo que en México también es esta comida. En algunas zonas de Andalucía, Canarias e Hispanoamérica es la comida fuerte del día. Por cierto, tu pronunciación del catalán es impecable.

As a catalan and spanish speaker... man you're good af at pronunciating both. Eeeeh... amazing

The pronunciation is magnificent