Showing posts with label catalan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catalan. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2013

haters gonna hate: catalan.

a language i thought i was able to learn. but 7 months and a huge discussion later about independence, i gave up. honestly why learning a new language (and yes it's very similar to spanish and french, but it is a language), when you don't have to? the fact is that i'm tired of being discriminated by not speaking catalan. i can read it and partly understand it when crackovia is on every monday night.

i've been doing interviews where they hadn't read my CV. so when they asked me if i knew catalan, i had to say no. also a couple of years ago i went on a family vacation to barcelona. and asking something in spanish, like if they could help me or a direction, they always seem to pretend that they don't understand what i'm saying. but the matter in fact, i'm in spain! there isn't any country called catalonia, anymore. yes, they were a country before spain took over. so i decided to give up. besides, by that time i knew my time would be over soon enough to not do anything about it.



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