Dr. Robert Vann, Western Michigan University full professor of Spanish linguistics, has had a longtime interest in the Catalan language and in the people that live in Catalonia, an autonomous ...

Thanks to the Institut Ramon Llull in Catalonia in collaboration with CU, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers courses in Catalan Language and Culture. These courses are taught by Susanna ...

Barcelona is one of the best-known cities in the world, yet visitors expecting to practice their Spanish can often be surprised when they hear Catalan spoken in the streets. The language has had a ...

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, ...

In 1983, the parliament of Catalonia passed a law that would help the region assert its identity, and its autonomy, relative to the rest of Spain. It made Catalan the region’s official language—this ...

Spain(Reuters) - (Refiled story from July 10 in fourth paragraph to clarify that source was referring to Madrid policymakers) Francesca Munoz, the principal at Sant Miquel primary school near ...

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 ...

VIC, A PROSPEROUS town of 43,000 people about 90 minutes north of Barcelona, is sometimes called “the capital of Catalan Catalonia”. Almost every building in its medieval town square has a banner ...

The tensions laid bare between Catalonia and Spain’s federal government over Sunday’s referendum have a long and painful history that reaches back to the Franco era and beyond. But never since Spain ...