Great Name!

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Maybe not the best domain name ever, but a strong contender, PodCastellano.com.

To explain, they speak a number of languages over in Spain and the one we here think of as Spanish is more formally or traditionally known as Castilian, or as they’d say, Castillano. So PodCastellano is a Spanish-language Podcast directory.

There are a lot of them to choose from these days. Maybe I can find one by someone who’s been staying away from the caffeine and talks kind of slow....

Comments

Languages

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I'm interested to find out what languages are spoken in Spain besides the obvious. Catalan for sure, notably around Barcelona and as one nears the tiny state of Andorra in the Pyrenees; Basque. What else? I do know that historically, Leonese and Aragonese were considered separate languages, but finally "merged" to give Castellano. And in Argentina, the language spoken is referred to as "Cast-e-ZHA-no" which among other things, helps foreigners remember that Argentine Spanish has the one weirdity that the double L and the Y sounds are pronounced "zh" -- not something most people know unless they've actually visited Argentina or (as in my case) lived there.

Nate

Re: Languages

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I'm hardly an expert on this, but there's Galician, from which Portuguese split off (and which is pretty similar these days to Castilian, I think) and Occitan, which is considered an official language in the Val d'Aran in Catalonia. And Valencian, which is pretty much Catalan, but don't try to tell the Valencians that. Official documents are sometimes released in both Catalan and Valencian, each version exactly identical to the other, but that way everyone feels special.

I did not know about that Argentine pronunciation quirk.