Catalan language teaching in Northern Catalonia is not showing significant improvement. Only 19% of students have any contact with Catalan during their education, the same as five years ago and just two percentage points higher than a decade ago. This represents 15,700 students out of a total of 82,800, according to data from [source missing]. the Public Office of the Catalan LanguageA study analyzing the 2024-25 school year found that 81% of young students in Northern Catalonia do not encounter Catalan at school. Only 6% of students who study Catalan receive bilingual or immersive instruction (4,864). Half of the schools offer Catalan, but the number of students drops drastically as the educational level increases, making it difficult to foster fluency and effective use of the language. However, in primary school (ages 3-10), where Catalan is most prevalent in education, the increase is significant: in a decade, the percentage of students who have contact with the language has risen from 25% to 31% (13,000 children). 22% receive introductory Catalan, 5.6% study in bilingual schools, and 2.8% participate in immersion programs: 1,100 students attend Arrels or Bressola schools, which are growing but very slowly and represent a very small minority. However, bilingual education has gained one percentage point in a decade.

"My Instagram account has exploded. Friends tell me they want to be my agents," laughs Finn Higgins, an Australian from Melbourne. The 24-year-old arrived in Barcelona less than two years ago to study a master's degree in landscape architecture at the ETSAB (UPC). He learned Catalan and always speaks to those around him. "I learned Catalan with the friends From the floor, with social networks and Carles Porta, I'm hooked on Crimes", he says.