Thanks for that, Nathan.
Are you going to be in London for the get-together ... ?
:-)
Chris
On 10 Jun 2009, at 06:38, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> The other language is Valenciano, the official language here. It is
> really just a dialect of Catalan and is somewhat artificially promoted
> by the regional government. The only people who actually use it are in
> the inland villages--I have never actually heard anyone speaking it on
> the street in Alicante, Valencia or any of the other larger towns. But
> it is used (alongside standard Spanish) in all government
> communications (including road signs), there is a public TV channel,
> it is taught in local public schools and so on. Fortunately, my
> daughter goes to the European School here (the EU has its own schools
> for children of its employees) and so is not subjected to this
> nonsense.
>
> Thanks for looking!
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