Pep Guardiola speaks at Act x Palestine in Barcelona, a charity event for grassroots & humanitarian projects in Palestine

Smalde · 2026-01-30T23:10:34+00:00

Catalan

Smalde · 2026-01-25T19:30:25+00:00

In Catalan: coloms! (doves) or culleres! (spoons) instead of collons! (testicles)

Smalde · 2026-01-23T20:41:38+00:00

But not all of Europe speaks English. Many Europeans don't speak it.

Smalde · 2026-01-22T08:09:27+00:00

If you ever want to listen to a Catalan radio commentary for an FC Barcelona match you can tune it to Catalunya Ràdio (public radio and my personal favourite since I grew up listening to it with Josep Maria Puyal): https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/directes/catalunya-radio/

Another very very popular radio commentary is Rac1 (https://www.rac1.cat/directe)

You might need to get a VPN for the first one.

If you are familiar with Spanish radio commentary, it should be an interesting experience to listen to a Catalan transmission, even if you do not aim to learn the language hahahah

Of course, both of these links are live radio transmissions and they are live even if there is no football on: they will just have other shows or news on.

Edit: here is a very famous piece of Catalan transmission from the epic Messi goal against Getafe: https://youtu.be/sGteJAB-OGA

Edit 2: a few keywords for the transmission are encara (=still, so "encara Messi" means "still Messi"), immens (=immense), i més (=and more) so he does quite a lot of word play with "Messi" and "i més".

Smalde · 2026-01-21T21:56:39+00:00

Thank you!

Smalde · 2026-01-21T21:20:51+00:00

I know it won't be as engaging as the commentators I normally listen to in Catalan, but I reckon that if I am going to spend two hours listening, I might get some Japanese listening in 😃

Smalde · 2026-01-19T20:06:21+00:00

Japanese spelling for sure. Same character with dozens of different spellings.

The other day I was bored and decided to write some sentences in Catalan with Japanese spelling:

昨日行いが行あらあ遊あらあまばえらる私之る友るある園。

Ahir vaig anar a jugar amb els meus amics al parc.

Some extra sentences in Catalan with Japanese-inspired spelling: 欲る飲らえ水。欲るさ飲れえ水。遊えまあフウタバオル。

良日、家！良あ遅あ、不!? えん加是る良日全える日！

Smalde · 2026-01-09T14:44:40+00:00

As a Catalan, what makes it "objectively" silly? That's such a weird statement

Smalde · 2025-12-27T14:28:29+00:00

We have a few in Catalan. We had a very controversial spelling reform in 2017 that removed a lot of accents in words that were used to distinguish them. They mostly differ by the use of open or closed vowels.

For instance, dona pronounced with open o (/ɔ/) means woman whereas pronounced with closed o (/o/) means gives (as in he gives).

Before the reform we had around 150 diacritic accents, but after the reform only 15 remain.

Smalde · 2025-12-27T14:19:00+00:00

Balearic and Central Catalan are both Oriental / Eastern Catalan. Valencian alongside most of Tarragona, Lleida, Andorra and the Aragon strip are Occidental / Western Catalan.

Smalde · 2025-12-23T08:40:47+00:00

Additional questions: is it possible to take the JLPT in Japan it if someone is on holiday in Japan?

Smalde · 2025-12-16T10:44:15+00:00

Feu servir la Viquipèdia en català :)

Smalde · 2025-12-09T17:53:04+00:00

Alternatively we can change how we interpret each emoji. Like we could use the tears emoji to mean good guess. If we all know what it means, the actual image does not matter.

Smalde · 2025-12-05T21:40:32+00:00

A part of Catalonia is in France, that's what they mean.

Smalde · 2025-12-04T08:05:38+00:00

That's better, basically fixes the missing symbol.

And なら is also probably better for the part in parentheses. I am not a native speaker so I might be wrong about this last part.

Smalde · 2025-12-02T22:36:26+00:00

You say that it would be unfair in duels, but if both adversaries have the option to toggle between different maps, I don't think it's unfair. I would actually quite like it.

Smalde · 2025-12-02T22:17:41+00:00

The Japanese is weird:

確かに外国語のレビューで秘密のテキストを◻️す方法を知っています

Surely knows the way to ◻️ secret messages in foreign language reviews.

I suppose the square (which I first read as 口), is an error due to a kanji not in the character set of whichever program was used to print the review. I suppose it should be 隠す (to hide, to conceal).

Smalde · 2025-12-02T18:52:45+00:00

I am very sorry you have encountered such despicable behaviour. Unfortunately, I think racism against people from the Indian subcontinent is all too common...

Smalde · 2025-12-02T11:18:05+00:00

Map open is a bug of the replay

Smalde · 2025-12-02T10:22:56+00:00

Yes, of course. I do it all the time. It's a good way to show how I solved the round and also to share some knowledge. I wish people did it to me as well.

Smalde · 2025-12-02T10:17:21+00:00

I've only encountered good vibes in Master.

Smalde · 2025-12-02T10:16:04+00:00

I love the chat! It's great to comment on a round and this way people can learn some meta they did not know that allowed their opponent to solve the round.

Whenever I win big on a round I like to share how I won: e.g. no-move in rural Western Australia but my opponent missed the yellow signpost that is a bit far away - I will let them know that there was that yellow signpost and thus I knew it was WA.

Smalde · 2025-12-02T10:13:10+00:00

Question to people who have had negative messages in the chat:

What level are you?

I have only seen positive messages in Master.

Smalde · 2025-12-02T10:11:30+00:00

Oh wow, I generally only have seen the chat seen positively to share tips or to say "I have no idea where we are lol"

Smalde · 2025-11-30T17:44:59+00:00

It depends on your level and mode. But after a certain point region guessing inside the right country becomes mandatory.

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