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Welcome back to XarxaMOOC.
In this video we’ll review ‘Intercat’, in particular the section ‘Sign me up!’
Intercat is a set of electronic resources for learning Catalan language and culture,
primarily intended for exchange students who are visiting Catalan universities.
This site has several sections, but now we’ll focus on ‘sign me up!’
which presents a selection of resources and tips to communicate and activities to develop your speaking skills.
To enter, you must click on www.intercat.cat and in the top menu select sign me up!
In the menu on the left, select the first section ‘language integration’
and see that we observe some interesting content.
Start with ‘language exchange’.
This service is useful for it you want to do a language exchange in Catalan conversation - another language
with international students from Catalan universities.
Depending on what you choose, you’ll obtain some resources or others.
Although on Intercat you can only access the list of the universities in Catalonia,
there are many more universities in the Catalan-speaking area that offer this service.
Contact the language service of your university and get information.
If we go back to the menu on the left and we click on ‘Language Volunteers’ we can find a similar resource.
Catalan universities offer linguistic and cultural support to students of the same university
during the stay of the students participating in exchange programmes.
Volunteering was a project that lasted many years with great success and we invite you to join,
as it’s also offered at other universities across the Catalan linguistic domain.
From this list, for example, Pompeu Fabra University,
where we find all the information needed to sign up and access the services that are offered,
such as trips and guided tours, or information about Catalonia and Catalan.
Finally, the section called ‘Materials’, we can find basic documentation to start to speak in Catalan.
It’s graphic materials, prepared by the Directorate General for Language Policy
Catalonia Regional Government, ideal to encourage conversation with language pairs.
‘Viure a Catalunya. Vocabulari en imatges’ is basic vocabulary in pictures
that’s aimed at people who have just arrived in Catalonia and don’t know Catalan.
‘Viure a Catalunya. Comencem a parlar’ is a compilation consisting of daily conversations in audio and text format
aimed at people who want to practice speaking and listen to different Catalan dialects.
‘Vivim junts. Materials per a aprendre català’ is a collection of materials
for beginners using Catalan.
It’s a suitable resource to start conversations.
And finally, the collection ‘Parlem tu i jo’, which aims to facilitate dialogue and conversation
between trainees and volunteers involved in the language volunteering programme.
Well, so up to here we have the INTERCAT ‘sign me up!’ section. I hope this has been helpful information.
Thank you for taking part in XarxaMOOC.