Anita speaking Catalan | Romance languages | Wikitongues
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Date: 2013-03-29

Anita speaking Catalan from Mallorca, known natively as Mallorquí. Catalan is one of the Romance languages, most closely related to Occitan, as well as other languages of the Mediterranean, such as Corsican, Spanish and French.

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Bé, hola, jo em dic Anita. Estem aquí per parlar una mica de que és el que vol dir tenir una identitat i sobretot que és el que vol dir tenir una identitat amb una llengua. Per mi és una cosa una mica complicada perquè, bé.. mun pare és Americà, de Estats Units i mu mare és Argentina, però jo vaig crèixer a Mallorca; i per això, bé, vaig anar a escola publica, tot es temps que vaig viure a Mallorca i per això vaig aprendre Català. Encara tenc molts d'amics a Mallorca i encara tenc la sort de trobar molta gent per el mon que parla Català i per això es una petita part de la meva identitat i una cosa que estic molt orgullosa de tenir. Per mi es especial poder parlar Català perque es una llengua que no molta de gent en el món parla i quan et trobes és com una festa! No és lo mateix que dir: A tu parles Castellà, o tu parles Anglès? Genial! Però quan et trobes amb algú que parla Català es realment especial. Inmediatement tens algo en comú que nomes entre vosaltres s'enten. I bé, per això és especial per mi. Tambe hi ha moltes altres coses que defineixien una identitat per mi, o tenc altres llengues que formen part de la meva identitat, pero Català té algo realment tant especial perquè és tan petit i tan exclusiu. Com amb les altres llengues que puc parlar no puc dir que sigui tant una festa cuant et trobes una altra persona, no? Pareill que si et trobes algú de Mallorca com algú de Barcelona, o de Menorca, o Ibiza, o València, encara que els accents tenguin alguna cosa de diferent tens una petita unió. És una cosa que és molt rara dins el món i trop que és molt maco ser part d'una cosa així. 

Hi, my name is Anita. We are here to talk a little about what identity means and more importantly to discuss what it means to hold an identity in relation to a language. For me it's a little complicated because, well, my dad is American, from the United States, and my mom is from Argentina, but I grew up in Mallorca. And, well, i went to public school the whole time I lived in Mallorca and that's why I learned Catalan. I still have lots of friends in Mallorca and I still have the luck of finding people around the world that speak Catalan, and for this reason it is a little part of my identity, and something that I am very proud of. Speaking Catalan is very special for me because there are not many people in the world who do speak it, so when you find someone who does its a celebration! Its not the same as saying: Oh, so you speak Spanish, or, you speak English? Awsome! - When you find someone who speaks Catalan it is really something special. You immediately have something in common that is only understood between you. This is why its important to me. There are also many other things that define my identity, but Catalan holds something very special, because its so small so exclusive. Like with the other languages I can speak, I couldn't say that its that much of a celebration when you find another person that can speak it. No matter if you run into someone from Mallorca or from Barcelona, Menorca, or Ibiza or Valencia, even if the accents are different you still have a small union. Its a very rare thing in the world and I think its beautiful to be part of it.

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