THE JUAN MORE CHANCE PHRASEBOOK
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How to read Catalan if you have some Spanish, how to say Spanish with a Filipino mouth, and the five sounds that are not free.
6 lists · 29 entries · audio where availableThe first minute
Opening a conversation, rescuing one that has stopped working, and what to do when somebody answers you in Catalan.
5 lists · 54 entries · audio where availableAn emergency
The 112 script, step by step. Then 061 for the things that are urgent but not life-threatening, and the lines to call when the danger is a person you live or work with.
11 lists · 78 entries · audio where availableThe CAP, the doctor, the pharmacy
Getting seen and getting a health card — including when your papers are not in order — then describing a symptom, collecting a prescription, and reading the Catalan letter that told you to come.
23 lists · 319 entries · audio where availableA letter, a form, a counter
The words on an official letter and the deadline hidden in it, the numbers and dates inside the answer, and what to say when you are told something different from last time.
13 lists · 130 entries · audio where availableWork, pay and papers
Your contract, your payslip line by line, what to say to an employer, and the eleven conversations nobody wants to have. Plus the vocabulary of care work, cleaning and hospitality.
22 lists · 225 entries · audio where availableYour building, your flat, your bills
Doorplates and floor numbers, the rent and the deposit, a leak in the ceiling, the buzzer, the bins, and the letterbox slip you must not ignore.
12 lists · 108 entries · audio where availableShops, markets, banks and phones
Taking your turn where there is no queue, ordering at a counter, paying, taking something back, and the two words that cancel a contract in Spain.
9 lists · 65 entries · audio where availableGetting around, and getting lost
Saying a Catalan street name out loud, asking the way, and reading the platform screen that is telling you your train is cancelled without using a word that looks like “cancelled”.
7 lists · 69 entries · audio where availableSchool
The two-stage enrolment that catches everybody, the meals grant, and the note that comes home in the bag in Catalan.
2 lists · 38 entriesWords you already have
Around a fifth of the Spanish you need is already in your mouth. This is that list — and the false friends, the three words to never say here, and the Catalan traps that look like Spanish and are not.
6 lists · 99 entries · audio where available