The Republican, EH Bildu, EAJ-PNV, BNG, Comuns, Compromís, and Más per Mallorca groups have presented a bill to guarantee genuine multilingualism in Spain by correcting the monolingual bias of state institutions and ensuring citizens' effective right to communicate in any official language. This is a commitment made by the PSOE when the Congress of Deputies was constituted in August 2023, similar to promoting the institutionalization of Catalan in the EU, but implemented more slowly and with the advantage that it only depends on majorities in the Spanish Parliament.

Which blog does Juntos en el Congreso de los Diputados (Together in the Congress of Deputies) belong to? The break with the PSOE would place it outside of what is called investiture blogBut a picture from this Wednesday in the Spanish lower house would also disqualify him from a blog that, setting aside its relationship with the Spanish government, carries the tag plurinational"Perhaps they don't want to be part of any blog," a parliamentary source quipped.

Speaking more than one language is associated with a lower risk of accelerated aging because it protects brain and physical health, slows the biological processes of aging, and strengthens resilience throughout life. Neuroscience has been studying the effects of multilingualism on the brain for years: we already knew that protects against Alzheimer's, that Bilingualism sharpens the mind and what does it do? the fastest and most efficient peopleA new study now shows that people who speak only one language have twice the risk (2.11 times) of accelerated aging, while those who live in a multilingual environment and regularly speak at least one additional language are 2.17 times less likely to experience this decline.

The Valencian government's Department of Education has developed a guide which guides educational centers on how to apply the new educational law that will come into force next year in the infant and primary stages and on which recently families were consulted. The document is notable for its recommendation that mathematics always be taught in Spanish, and that knowledge of the natural, social, and cultural environment always be taught in Catalan.

Multilingualism is a reality that grows year after year due to phenomena such as immigration, tourism, and international mobility. Studies on multilingualism argue that families should maintain their own family language, because it conveys a wealth of family heritage that has social and emotional value. However, they should also incorporate the language of their place of residence into their repertoire as a first step toward integration and equal living. But how can this be done? How can a language (of any kind) be introduced into the family? And how is this done in the case of a minority language—like Catalan—that lacks the regulatory power of a state? Anna Solé Mena, who published Multilingual from the cradle (UOC, 2010), helps us outline five essential steps to adding a language at home.

99.67% of pre-school and primary school students in the Valencian Community will study in the language chosen by their families during the 2025/2026 academic year. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the Regional Minister of Education, Culture, Universities, and Employment, José Antonio Rovira, who defended his department's respect for the wishes of the educational community. Organizations such as Families for Valencian do not agree, denouncing the Catalan government's violation of the results of the consultation in the classroom, especially in the eight regions where Spanish is the language of choice.

It's immediately clear that Ridha Ben-Arab (Tunisia, 1948) is a charismatic man. He's an artist, painter, and ceramist. He discovered Catalan existed in his first class. "I was a foreigner, but I didn't have to speak Spanish; I spoke Arabic, French, and English," he recalls.

Catalan is the language that Catalan speakers pass on from parents to children, but it's also the language that thousands of people who had spoken another language at home, whether Spanish, Urdu, or Turkish, have spoken to their children. Only 28-30% of Catalans spoke Catalan to their grandparents and parents, while up to 45% speak Catalan to their children—that is, there's a difference of six points from mother to child, or twelve if we include bilingual speakers. This is one of the positive data points. from the latest survey of linguistic uses of the populationThis figure contrasts with what happens with Spanish within the family: 55% of citizens speak Spanish with grandparents and parents, but the percentage drops to 37% with their children—or 47% if we include mixed uses. It's worth noting that 20% of households today declare themselves multilingual, if we look at the mix of languages spoken to their children, a clearly upward trend.

In this Sunday's dossier, we want to focus on a key factor in determining whether a language is healthy: the transmission of Catalan from parents to children. We'll speak with linguists, experts in multilingualism, and also with testimonials from the screenwriter of House on fire, Eduard Sola, and the Cavall Fort artist Màriam Ben-Arab.

Anna Solé Mena has lived in Belgium for 25 years and has worked at the European Commission for almost the same amount of time. In 2010, she published Multilingual from the cradle (UOC), a book in which she offered recommendations for raising children in multiple languages, something she has successfully practiced with her own family. Language, which was an interest parallel to her professional career, has finally converged within it: for the past three years, she has been the multilingualism expert for the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission. At a time of great social diversity and great complexity for Catalan, she advocates for the preservation of mother tongues and also for learning the community languages.

Suspicions about the real will of the Popular Party to implement the literal meaning of the new education law If the result did not favor some of their positions, they are beginning to take shape. This is at least what can be deduced from the circular sent by the Ministry of Education to educational centers, in which it gives instructions on how the results of the consultation should be applied. language in the classroom which was made a few weeks ago.

"Everyone has the right to their language in their country. It's a matter of human dignity. And we all have the right to linguistic security; that is, to live in our language. If this doesn't happen, we are facing situations of cultural and linguistic domination, and therefore also personal domination," says Vicenta Tasa Fuster (Oliva, 1974) of Dr.

The demand for studying in Valencian is growing "spectacularly" and far exceeds the supply of public and private schools. This is the main conclusion of the Valencian Education Workers' Union (STEPV). has compared the data of the consultation on language in the classroom of the Ministry of Education with those of the reports published by the union itself before the entry into force of the multilingual model approved in 2018 and now repealed.

A few weeks ago, the debates on the LOMLOE (the "Ley Celaá") in Parliament rekindled the debate on state languages in education. The controversy has now been added to by a decision of the TSJC that annuls the educational projects of two public schools for not guaranteeing the vehicular role of Castilian.