When Andreu Pedr’oacute;-Garcia walks into his class every afternoon, he is one of only two university instructors in the state teaching the Catalan language. This class, which was launched at the ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Inside a Barcelona film studio, a technician cues up a scene from the movie Prisoners, showing Jake ...

Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE will launch its new Catalan-language television channel, 2Cat, on October 13th. The new channel will replace L2, which currently broadcasts in Spanish across the ...

CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT Spain (Reuters) - Francesca Munoz, the principal at Sant Miquel primary school near Barcelona, is fighting a linguistic crusade that has fueled a remarkable recovery of the local ...

Under pressure from Catalan separatists, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez asked the EU to make Catalan, Basque and Galician official languages - Copyright AFP ...

In writing about how the Catalan language “has become a tool of identity but also of exclusion,” The Times seems to miss the point that the choice to enforce a Spanish-only policy and to outlaw the ...

From left to Right: Juan Herrero-Senés, Susanna Pérez-Pàmies, Núria Silleras-Fernández and Javier Krauel. Photo by Noah Larsen. Catalan is a romance language spoken in four European countries: Spain, ...

BARCELONA — More than 70% of cinema screens in Catalonia, one of the richest regions in Spain, were dark Monday as exhibitors staged a one-day strike in protest against the regional government’s move ...

BARCELONA – Thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday to protest against a court decision that mandates that 25% of all school subjects be taught in Spanish, reducing the ...

Pushing for Catalan to become an official EU language has been one of the key goals of Catalonia President Salvador Illa during his last visit to Brussels. The language, spoken by around 10 million ...