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Catalan at UF

Catalan is a Romance language with over ten million speakers. It is the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. It is also spoken in other areas of Spain, as well as in the south of France (what it is called North Catalonia) and in l'Alguer, an Italian town on the island of Sardinia. Since the restoration of democracy in Spain, Catalan has gained wide currency in politics, business, education and the Catalan media, including several newspapers (Avui, El Punt) and television channels (especially Televisió de Catalunya). Catalan has been taught at the University of Florida for over ten years. In the past several years, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies has collaborated with the Institut Llull, a consortium founded by the governments of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, to bring a lecturer of Catalan to campus, to provide regular instruction in this vibrant language and its culture at different levels. UF also has an exchange program with the Universitat de Vic in Catalonia.

Contact Information

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Faculty: Elisabet Liminyana Vico
e.liminyana@ufl.edu		 Elisabet Liminyana Vico received her M.A in Pedagogy at the University Level (2005), and has done research toward a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (2005), with a specialty in Contemporary Literature. Both degrees are from the Foundation of University of Girona. She has a BA in Catalan Philology and another in Spanish Philology (both 2004, University of Girona). She was a lecturer in "Didactics of Catalan Language and Literature for Children" at her alma mater, and then started and developed Catalan Studies for the Instituto Cervantes in Leeds, England (2005-2008) and at the University of Leeds (2006-2009). She combined the teaching of Catalan and Spanish at the Instituto Cervantes of Leeds and Algiers (summer 2008) and at the Metropolitan University of Leeds (2008-2009). Now at UF, she hopes to begin the PhD program in Spanish in Fall 2010. Her field of interest is women's writing in the early twentieth century Catalonia and Spain, with a focus on the social construction of modernity, gender and identity.

Catalan Teaching

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers three levels of Catalan language and culture for the Spring 2009.

Cultural Activities

Catalan Studies of Catalan have regular Cultural Activities open to all. Welcome!

Exchange Program with the Universitat de Vic

U of Vic Vic Downtown
University of Vic Downtown Vic

University of Vic, outside the metropolitan area of Barcelona, is a private university under public supervision. It was created to develop areas of specialization necessary to put Catalonia at the forefront of international teaching and research. Widely recognized for several of its schools, the U. of Vic is eager to host international students interested in Catalan, Technology, Education, etc. Vic is a small city in the interior of Catalonia, an easy train ride from Barcelona.

About Catalonia

Where is it?

Globe Europe Catalonia

Where is it spoken?

Spoken Catalonian

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External Links

Language Institutions

Language Resources: Dictionaries

Language Resources: Translators

Language Resources: E-Learning Resources

General interest: Newspapers

General Interest: Television

General Interest: Internet Television

General Interest: Radio

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Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

170 Dauer Hall
P.O. Box 117405
Gainesville, FL 32611-7405
Phone: (352) 392-2016 (or)
392-2017
FAX (352) 392-5679
Email: sollmann@ufl.edu