viernes, 26 de septiembre de 2008

NEWS: HALF OF IMMIGRANTS UNDERSTAND BUT CANNOT SPEAK CATALAN

(Catalonia Today - Thursday 5/06/08 - pg 7)

Fundació Jaume Bofill has done a new study about immigrants and their level of catalan.
They have surveyed 1000 immigrants and the results were:
- 12% of the immigrants can both write and speak catalan
- 13% of the immigrants can speak but not write
- 53% of the immigrants understand the language but cannot speak it
- 20% of the immigrants don't understand a word of Catalan
So, the Fundació has concluded that immigrants in Catalonia prefear to speak their mother tongue with their families and Spanish with local people for daily interaction. The ones who speak Catalan are a minority.

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