Catalan from Scratch
A complete beginner’s course in Central Catalan for English-speaking adults — built to pass the official A1 exam.
Get the full course — €70, yours forever
- All 12 units with 83 interactive, auto-marked exercises
- Full mock A1 exam with per-paper timers and attempt history
- Complete glossary (275 entries) with audio and IPA
- Progress saved to your account — continue on any device
- One payment, no subscription
Try before you buy: Unit 1 is free — along with the IPA guide and exam information. No account needed.
How to use this course
This workbook takes you from zero to CEFR A1 in Central Catalan, with one explicit goal: passing the official A1 exam (the Certificat de nivell inicial de català). Every unit builds towards the four exam skills — listening, reading, writing and speaking — and the book ends with a full mock exam, model answers and examiner tips.
The rhythm of a unit
One unit = one focused session (60–90 min). Read the theory, learn the New vocabulary (every unit adds 20–25 new words and 5–8 new phrases that are never repeated, so your stock grows to 300+ by the end), work the dialogue aloud, then do all the exercises in writing before checking the answer key. Each unit ends with a Resources box: one verified listening link and one online practice link.
Pronunciation: this book uses the IPA
Every Catalan word, phrase, example and dialogue line in this book carries a transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), between slashes, e.g. llibre /ˈʎiβɾə/. The IPA is the international standard for writing sounds; learn the symbols once (next section) and you can pronounce any word in this book — and in any dictionary — without guesswork. The stress mark ˈ goes before the stressed syllable.
Finding & using the links
• On a LingoHut lesson page, the audio word-list comes with activities — look for Listening game, Matching game, Flashcards, Dictation — and click one to practise.
• No account needed for LingoHut, Loecsen, Intercat, verbs.cat, Talkpal or Forvo. Parla.cat (A2+) asks for free registration.
• If a link stops working, open the site's index below and search the topic title shown next to the link — titles stay stable even when addresses change.
• Index pages: LingoHut → lingohut.com/en/l114/learn-catalan · Loecsen → loecsen.com/en/learn-catalan · Easy Catalan (subtitled videos) → youtube.com/c/EasyCatalan · Intercat resources → intercat.cat/en/resources · verbs.cat → verbs.cat · Talkpal → talkpal.ai/catalan-grammar-exercises · Generalitat → llengua.gencat.cat