The incorporation of the Socialists to the National Pact for the Language, together with the governing parties (ERC and JxCat), En Comú and the CUP, is an important step to ensure that the need to give a new impetus to Catalan is addressed with a broad consensus. The situation of the language is really delicate. The fall in its use, especially among young people in urban environments, and as a whole in key sectors such as audiovisual, education, communication and labour, has meant a major setback that should be addressed with strategic intelligence and with the involvement of the maximum number of institutional, social and economic agents. There is no magic formula, nor any simple recipe, to restore the prestige and usefulness of Catalan. What is certain is that a sum of factors, from legal and political to cultural and media, will be necessary for the reconnection of the plural Catalan society with the country's historical language to become a reality in the coming years.