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Spanish, Catalan and Basque: What You Need to Know to Do Business in Spain

Spanish, Catalan and Basque: What You Need to Know to Do Business in Spain

June 6, 2019 |

Almost everyone in Spain speaks Spanish, also known as Castillian, as either their first or second language. But, Spanish isn’t the only language spoken in Spain. Catalan (or Valencian) is spoken by 19% of the population, Galician by 5%, and Basque by 2% of the population. Although they are not spoken by a large percentage […]

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Six Things You Didn’t Know About Languages

Six Things You Didn’t Know About Languages

By Sarah-Claire Jordan Languages are extremely important. They are, possibly, one of the things that set humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Besides helping us to communicate our needs and wants with each other, they serve as material for creating beautiful works of art in the form of poetry, novels, prose, and other […]

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Five Good Reasons Why Basque is the Coolest Language

Five Good Reasons Why Basque is the Coolest Language

[ 0 ] August 28, 2015 |

By Sarah-Claire Jordan Basque Country and everything associated with it may have a bad connotation for those who remember the violent attacks in the late 60s and 70s by a Basque separatist group, but that’s only one small sampling of a people with a unique culture and language. Nowadays, the Basque people have autonomy in […]

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