Take a deep breath about your Catalan exam. Your vocabulary is far superior than most Spanish speakers who try to learn Catalan. Besides, you are not biased by Spanish. Most of the grammar exercises (I've taken a few) are targeted towards not using Spanish structures. In addition your pronunciation is just awesome in Catalan, so you'll do great in the oral. Besides, the examiner will be so appealed that you're from New Zealand YET you are for C level that they will put you a very high mark
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Mmmm, I do have the advantage of having very little Spanish influence on my Catalan (except for 'bueno', which I just can't seem to shake - but I'm blaming pretty much every Catalan I've ever met, except one, for that! ;D) But I do have quite a limited vocabulary still and there were a LOT of words I didn't know, which meant I had to guess the questions. I might pass, if I got lucky with enough guesses, but in that case is it really accurate to claim that I have Level C Catalan? :S
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That's the weekend I'm starting my vacations... So we have to postpone until right after, early July or something... I'll be working until 3pm, so I can always go to Sitges, meet a couple of friends there and meet you after work or something, ok?
Hmmm, well, I'll be spending all day Monday to Friday in Barcelona, from June 28th to July 23rd (doing an intensive TEFL course). The course goes from 10am to 4pm or 7pm, every day, depending on which days I have teaching practice or not. (you can see now why I'm so mad that I've had that 5 or 6 day respite taken away from me, no?)
If our lunch timetables coincide, we could have lunch together one day in July but, otherwise, it'd probably still have to be a weekend. Anyway, we can sort it out closer to the time.
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But I do have quite a limited vocabulary still and there were a LOT of words I didn't know, which meant I had to guess the questions. I might pass, if I got lucky with enough guesses, but in that case is it really accurate to claim that I have Level C Catalan? :S ( ... )
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(you can see now why I'm so mad that I've had that 5 or 6 day respite taken away from me, no?)
If our lunch timetables coincide, we could have lunch together one day in July but, otherwise, it'd probably still have to be a weekend.
Anyway, we can sort it out closer to the time.
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