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This is my country #16 (permalink) Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:03 am   This is my country
 

drahul wrote:
And talking about the place i live, we call it the gods own country, the state of Kerala in south India.

thru the link mentioned below I can suggest u 101 things that u can do in Kerala.


I know something about Kerala.

It is one of the few provinces in India where almost everyone can read. This was because some king in history thought that literacy would be good for his people, so people in Kerala have been literate for a very long time.

If I have a student in my class who has an Indian first name, but a surname that is the name of a Christian saint or a figure from the Bible, then that student is from Kerala and speaks Malayalam. If a student has an Indian first name and a Portuguese surname, this student is also probably from Kerala and speaks Malayalam.
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!Hola! #17 (permalink) Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:08 am   !Hola!
 

Hello Anna,

Benvinguta/welcome! There isn’t much more I can say in Catalan, unfortunately, but I wish I could speak your language, as well as the other communities’. You’ve made a lovely description of Catalonia. Montserrat Monastery and its surroundings are beautiful indeed and well worth visiting. Sitges, too, is a place of its own, I think, though for a complete different mood. A Catalan dish I like particularly is ‘pantomaca’* (don’t laugh!): with a glass of red wine at the elbow, perfect! (I’m not one for Cava, I’m afraid).

Ad?u and visit us often!

* Pantomaca: bread (preferably rustic) with olive oil, tomatoes and Serrano (mountain) ham.
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Hello David,
Can you recommend me any English language courses in Moldova?
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My country: Catalunya #19 (permalink) Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:46 pm   My country: Catalunya
 

anneta wrote:
Hi everyone!

I'm new here, and I'd like to introduce myself and my country.
I'm Anna, and I live in Catalunya, which I don't think you have ever heard of... well, what if I tell you I'm from Barcelona? Now you know where I'm from? :wink:

Catalunya is a part of Spain legally, but we catalans consider Catalunya as our country, not Spain. Its capital is Barcelona, we are 7 millions people and Catalunya is divided into 4 provinces: Girona, Lleida, Barcelona and Tarragona (the Roman Tarraco). We speak Catalan, a language derived from Latin and quite similar to Spanish, but pronounced differently.

Our traditional music is the "sardana", and it's danced in a cercle. Our symbols are "La Muntanya de Montserrat" (Montserrat Mountain), which is very strange (search a photo of this mountain in internet and you'll see), "La Verge de Montserrat" (Montserrat Virgin), which is a black madonna (curious, isn't it?) and a 3 branched pine, and of course our flag (5 lines in yellow and 4 in red).

We had the Olympic Games in 1992, and the Cultures Forum last year, all in Barcelona.

We've got the Mediterranean sea, mountains, plains, deltas (U2's Vertigo clip was shot in Delta de l'Ebre, in south Catalunya)... paella, great wine, lots of fruit, and it scarcely rains. Well, the tipical Mediterranean country. :D


I'm also a Catalan (from Girona) and I couldn't have said it better. I'm just going to add that Barcelona has a world widely known football club, Barça (FCBarcelona) and what Conchita said about pa amb tomàquet (pantomaca), it is a very common Catalan dish made of bread, olive oil, tomatoes and salt. You can add cheese, ham, sausage, chopped, cold meal, omelette,... I'm not fond of cava either.
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