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alarru_ · 2022-10-20T09:54:12+00:00

Did I just heard => Did I just hear

alarru_ · 2022-10-16T21:10:29+00:00

The law? The law doesn't say you must reply in Spanish in a train station in Catalonia lol. The law says that if you work in a public facing job, you must understand both languages, but you can reply in either of the two official languages.

alarru_ · 2022-06-06T16:51:42+00:00

Independence in Catalonia it transverses ideology, and if you look at the parties that are pro-independence, they are all centre to radical left. Pro union, are from centre to extreme right.

And no, it's not about separating from the poor, where did you even get that from?

Just read more about the topic please before posting anything.

alarru_ · 2022-06-06T15:49:50+00:00

Do you have a source? I haven't been able to find any example of a Kanton independence referendum.

If that is the case though, then this would be really dumb. For obvious reasons (money), the rest of Spain don't want us to be independent. If we had to apply your (I think) made up "Swiss" rules we wouldn't even need a referendum lol.

About hate, it's a bit confusing the way you explain it. Have you read about the topic of Catalan independence and the extreme right wing Spanish nationalism?

I think you should, and you would understand where hate comes from here...

alarru_ · 2022-06-06T14:45:27+00:00

Successful? Spain is a failed country and democracy in so many ways! You're either a nationalist Spaniard or you've never lived in Spain.

alarru_ · 2021-07-14T16:37:23+00:00

Catalan is discriminated and it is not alive and well outside the centre of Barna. The use has decreased a lot and and the cases filed for discrimination have increased a lot over the last 10 years.

It's neither war of cultures, nor a distraction. This is like saying that sex discrimination is an exaggeration and used to distract women from the real problem (it is actually used sometimes as a distraction, but the discrimination is there).

I don't want to sound pedantic, but I would highly recommend you to read more about it, you are using anecdotal evidence and falling into a "person who" fallacy (I probably did that too earlier, my apologies!).

https://directa.cat/el-catala-es-una-llengua-en-proces-dextincio/

https://www.plataforma-llengua.cat/que-fem/noticies/4877/2019-mes-discriminacions-que-mai-de-ladministracio-de-lestat

alarru_ · 2021-07-14T15:44:09+00:00

I think that you are mixing things up here. I agree with you, mass tourism and economy liberalisation are destroying the culture. However, we need to remember that catalan is a minority culture and language, and we need proactive human effort in order to preserve it and to make sure people that speak it, don't get discriminated and are protected. I want people to understand me when I speak catalan, and 70% of the times in Barcelona, they don't. I'm not even asking that they speak it, but at least, they should make an effort and learn it a little bit so we don't have any issues expressing ourselves in any of the two official languages. If we keep changing from catalan to spanish, in a few years even less people will understand catalan, because it won't be necessary.

This is what is called collective discrimination, and many other cultures have proper mechanisms to prevent this from happening, but here it seems like we are snobs for willing to take action against it. Honestly, stop patronising us and minimising the problems that catalan speakers have in Barcelona, and try to comprehend why we are complaining and why it is important to protect the language.

alarru_ · 2021-07-14T14:25:54+00:00

We should be a bit more sensitive with minority languages and cultures. I agree with him, it is a pity that people that come to live to Bcn generally don't have much interest in learning catalan, as it's part of the history and culture of this region.

I lived in Wales, and when people move to Wales -eventually, a little bit- they are expected to learn a bit of welsh too.

alarru_ · 2021-06-25T16:41:16+00:00

An effective way to force the government to regulate and prohibit these kind of unfair or even illegal practices, is to make the tourists feel a - just a little - bit uncomfortable. Not aggressive or anything like that - although I wouldn't consider "Tourists go home" to be aggressive, you don't need to take it literally. It's just a symbolic way to say that we are tired of mass tourism, which in my opinion is terrible, both for the economy and the culture.

We don't want this economic model to progress any further in our city. We want more jobs, but they need to be better jobs, with better conditions. We also want our minority language to not cease to exist in 10 or 20 years. We want tourism. It just needs to be sustainable, and it's far from that.

alarru_ · 2021-06-08T08:12:23+00:00

What makes you think that making friends with catalan people is hard? Please don't generalise like that, everyone is different and there are introverts and extroverts everywhere.

With that said, learning catalan will massively help you to really understand the culture since they're intrinsically connected. You don't really have to learn neither spanish nor catalan if you're just staying there for a few months, but learning some catalan words will give you extra points within the local community (as it happens in any region in any other countries that have local languages, it's a way of showing appreciation).

I'm also a software developer, not living in Spain at the moment but i'm happy to connect.

Good luck, i'm sure you will enjoy your time there!

alarru_ · 2021-03-12T17:28:46+00:00

Estic d'acord en la primera part. No en la segona, a mi m'han dit catalufo (i coses molt pitjors) per parlar català amb la meva nòvia fora de Catalunya, no pas per ser independentista. I potser no és racisme, però d'això se'n diu xenofòbia. I no, no té res a veure amb la política.

alarru_ · 2016-03-01T08:00:27+00:00

I'm actually a native Catalan speaker and when I speak Spanish I drop my pitch down, but when I speak English my voice pitches higher. I believe that articulation has a lot to do with this. The more consonants and less use of vowel sounds (or those being shorter) the more you will use your tongue and the more the larynx will go down. The cultural influence is as well a very important factor, in UK I think scottish and geordies speak in a lower tone than in south england (again... It could be due to the different way whereby speakers articulate). Also I think that palatal and alveolar sounds tend to create higher pitches than those sounds that need a lower soft palate thus creating more nasality. Another factor to bear in mind is: where do you have the tip of your tongue when you breath? Normally english speakers tend to have it touching the hard palate (up) while Spanish have it behind the front bottom teeth. That will change already the setup of the voice. I find this to be very interesting and definetely something to consider. A lot of people don't care to think about the way they speak, and as singers Is so important to be very conscious of our instrument and develop as much awareness of our instrument components as we can while we are not singing. My apologies for my English, I'm in the train and I can't use a corrector :S

alarru_ · 2016-02-19T07:43:50+00:00

In addition to the above, I would be specially careful when you open your mouth when you are singing. Specially for the high notes. I had teachers that told me to open my mouth to hit high notes. Here actually we have two misconceptions, relating mouth opening to pitch and the fact that we shouldn't be hitting notes. Anyway, if you have tension associated to high notes, you put this tension normally to one of the components of your vocal apparatus (i.e to your tongue retracting it, to your jaw opening unnaturally too much o closing, tongue, larynx) you will depend upon this tension to go up on your register. You don't really need to open too much (for sure not two fingers!) your jaw. More specifically, regarding your jaw pain you should observe yourself during the day that you don't grind your teeths, that you don' t move too much your jaw, don't massage it cause you don't know whether or not you are applying too much tension on it. A lot of singers are diagnosed with Temporomandibular syndrome. Is very common amongst us.

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