Jordi Gimeno, a Catalan teacher who is part of the Assistantship Network of the Institut Ramon Llull at the University of Szeged in Hungary, and one of the organizers of the first meeting, explained that, ‘the main objective behind meeting in different cities and getting to know Europe in Catalan is to provide more reasons to learn Catalan by doing activities which are fun and appealing to students’.
Gimeno believes in things which are ‘quick and easy’ and explains that the network is used for students from various countries to make friends in Catalan and see that they are not alone in learning the language…