Catalan · Català · AI speaking partner
Catalan, with someone who won’t switch to Spanish.
Anyone who lives in Barcelona knows the problem: you try Catalan, hesitate, and the reply comes in Spanish. Catalan is learned by people who want to belong, who work in schools or the public sector, or who have Catalan family, and it needs a partner who stays in it.
Your AI partner never switches. It talks with you in Catalan at your pace, corrects the weak pronouns and the vowels on screen, and keeps going.
Català
Unlock your Catalan fluency
Speak from day one. Real conversations, corrected out loud.
Why Catalan is hard to speak
What stops learners talking, and what fixes it.
The weak pronouns
"Me’l dónes?", "n’hi ha", "li ho dic": chains of tiny pronouns that even Spanish speakers struggle with. They become natural only through corrected daily speech.
Open and closed vowels
"Déu" and "deu", "ós" and "os": the accent marks a sound. Word Mode has you say the pairs until the ear separates them.
Not Spanish
Spanish speakers understand Catalan and fill the gaps with Spanish words and endings. Each one is caught on screen.
Ways to practise Catalan
6 ways to speak Catalan on TalkNative.
- Build ConfidenceTen minutes a day with a coach who talks Catalan with you and corrects you on screen without interrupting.
- Real ScenariosTwenty-three real-life scenes in Catalan: order, check in, complain, interview, with a character who pushes back.
- Call ModePhone calls in Catalan with AI characters who pick up, talk back and remember your last call.
- Start from ZeroSixty short spoken lessons from your first hello, taught in the language you already speak.
- Word ModeThree new Catalan words a day, each said in a sentence of your own and corrected out loud.
- DebateArgue a motion in Catalan against an AI rival and get judged on your arguments, not just your grammar.
Scenes worth trying in Catalan
Practise the conversation before it happens.
- School Parent MeetingCatalan schools run in Catalan; the teacher expects it.With Ms. Alvarez, class teacher
- At a RestaurantOrdering and the bill, in Catalan, in Barcelona.With Luca, waiter
- Job InterviewPublic-sector and many private jobs ask for spoken Catalan.With Daniel, hiring manager
- Grocery ShoppingLa Boqueria without switching.With Priya, shop assistant
Five phrases to say today
The Catalan that rescues a conversation.
Say each one out loud now. Then say it to your AI partner, who will tell you how it sounded.
- 1Pot repetir, si us plau?
Could you repeat, please?
- 2No ho acabo d’entendre.
I don't quite understand.
- 3Què em recomana?
What do you recommend?
- 4Quant costa?
How much does it cost?
- 5Voldria reservar una taula per a dos.
I'd like to book a table for two.
Questions
Before you start speaking Catalan
Does it help with the Catalan C1 or B2 certificate?
For the speaking part, daily conversation in Catalan with corrections builds what the oral exam assesses. TalkNative does not run the official certificate.
Barcelona Catalan or Valencian?
Central Catalan by default. Ask for Valencian and your partner adjusts vocabulary and forms.
Are the corrections explained in my own language?
Yes. You choose the language you already speak at setup (English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and 50 more), and explanations in Start from Zero and Word Mode come in it while the practice stays in Catalan.
Is Catalan practice free?
Every module has a free taste with no card. Full access is a one-time payment for 30 days.
Your first Catalan conversation takes ten minutes.
Out loud, corrected, in any of 57 languages. No card to start.