C2

Colloquial and Informal Catalan

Català Col·loquial

About this concept

Informal spoken Catalan features: shortened forms (pq = perquè), filler words (o sigui, bueno, vale), mixing registers, Castilian borrowings in informal speech, and the gap between norm and usage.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level C2.

Examples

Bueno, o sigui, ja m'entens.Well, like, you know what I mean.
Mira, tio, és que no puc.Look, dude, I just can't.
Passa de tot (colloquial)He/she doesn't care about anything.
Flipar (colloquial from Spanish)To be amazed/shocked.

Prerequisite

Dialectal VariationC2

More C2 concepts

Dialectal VariationVariació DialectalMedieval and Literary CatalanCatalà Antic i LiterariAdministrative and Legal LanguageLlenguatge Administratiu i JurídicDiscourse PragmaticsPragmàtica DiscursivaMedia and Journalistic CatalanCatalà dels Mitjans de Comunicació

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