I spent 2 weeks in Spain in the early 80s and some of that in Catalonia (Cataluña) and Barcelona. I was rather surprised to hear two different languages in the city and out in the country. The area is absolutely beautiful. After that I went on to Costa del Sol and a few other locations. I never quite got a taste for onion and potato omelots and I ate a lot of them! One of my favorite places in Spain was Alpujarra.

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>>>O thank god, I thought I had just become dyslexic ( or that they were just very bad spellers ... )
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>>No its ok Peter and Jean where just being rude.
>>Imagine a room full of people having a conversation
>>where suddenly two people slip into another language for a short (private) chat. What could they be saying ? Complimentary, I think not.
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>Actually, I used to spend a lot of time with Levantines. They would sometimes switch languages four times in the same sentence <g> Never really bothered me, doesn't bother me here unless the message is to me.
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>Have to admit Dutch leaves me kind of cold as a language and doesn't inspire me to want to learn it ( probably also because they all seem to speak English as well as I do and spell it better )
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>But I encourage any Catalan speakers to post in Catalan. I don't understand that either but it actually looks like a language I *should* understand <bg>