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My alma mater offered a condensed/accelerated year of Catalan for people with several years of study with another Romance language. The lecturer was a native speaker from Barcelona, and the class was taught almost exclusively in Catalan (the less effective "Lets talk about the names of colors in Spanish" approach). I didn't take the whole year simply because my schedule didn't leave room for it 2nd semester. The only particular difficulties I remember are that Catalan had a touch of French's penchant for unpredictable silent letters, and accent marks that went both directions (ouverta i tancada) over vowels except A (à only).

[QUOTE="fulminty, post: 2189317, member: 68788"] My alma mater offered a condensed/accelerated year of Catalan for people with several years of study with another Romance language. The lecturer was a native speaker from Barcelona, and the class was taught almost exclusively in Catalan (the less effective "Lets talk about the names of colors in Spanish" approach). I didn't take the whole year simply because my schedule didn't leave room for it 2nd semester. The only particular difficulties I remember are that Catalan had a touch of French's penchant for unpredictable silent letters, and accent marks that went both directions (ouverta i tancada) over vowels except A (à only). [/QUOTE]

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