“I don’t speak it well but you have to make an effort”

In a publication on the Tiktok platform made by the Catalan media Vilawebyou can see the Dominican singer Henry Méndez offering an interview. During this clip, the interviewee was asked about His opinion that is one of the four co -official languages ​​of Spain, the Catalan.

The official language of the Dominican Republic is Spanish, which greatly facilitates this artist to be able to work more peacefully in our country; Therefore and because a large part of the Spaniards love the musical genre that singers of this size. Therefore, being able to collaborate in countries in countries that use the same language everything will be easier.

“The effort to learn Catalan is worth it”

However, in case of going to Catalonia, the ideal to try to cultivate to the fullest and also study the language spoken there, as it has declared. Méndez’s reality is as follows: “It is not that Catalan speaks infinitely well, but I think The effort that one is about to speak is worth ithe explains.

When a tourist arrives at a certain place, it is normal to study all those new aspects that he will know. Either something related to gastronomy, culture, change from euro to another currency, whatever; Everything is likely to be analyzed to learn more in depth what is being visitedso the same should happen in Catalonia, as the singer reasons.

“If you get to a new place, you have to integrate”

Being a piece of Spain in which its citizens can communicate in two different ways, the best solution will be the following: “In the end you will reach a site, if you want to integrate and want to participate in the different activities that are done in the language of the place, then What you have to do is learn that languagehe states.

His particular case was that of a person who got involved inCatalan learning from the first moment. Precisely, he was the one who put his “Part and started reading newspapers. I bought the dictionary that was Castilian-Catalán and when I didn’t know how anything was said to look for it”details.

This process cost him a lot at the beginning but, little by little, he was able to learn many grammatical aspects and was able to go “chaining words, linking and forming phrases too”clarify. At present, its more than advanced level is not a mystery, since “Then, after five, seven years, I started doing a Catalan course and there all began”concludes.