For a week I only spoke Catalan at home. And in the shops and on the street with the other dog walkers that I met.  I read the newspaper in Catalan and listened to iCatfm and watched  tv3 which is the Catalan public television station.
Yes, there was a little English – phones calls to the UK, coffees with a friend in Granollers, and writing here.
Also I watched BBC1 a couple of times – there was a drama on for three nights which I got hooked into although I missed part three because of the football!!! (anyone know what the mystery was about?)
Oh and we went to see La Red Social at Granollers film club  – it’s the film about Facebook which of course was in English but had subtitles in Castellano.

So…how was it?

• I enjoyed it and didn’t seem to be speaking any less
• I started actually using the grammar we are learning in school – the subjunctive and past tenses and imperatives. ‘Passa’m la sal, sisplau’, ‘he estat 20 minuts corren al gimnàs’ i ‘desitjo una casa que tingui un jardi per les meves gosses’
• I realised I haven’t got a handle on the use of pronouns yet
• I still thought in English but I didn’t need to translate slowly before speaking. Some things seem to be more automatic. 
• Words I didn’t know that I knew started to come to the surface
• I tried to trust what was coming out of my mouth – sometimes it was wrong!
• I felt a bit frustrated with how hard it is to understand people talking at a normal speed
• The biggest thing to come out of it was a boost in confidence about speaking and learning Catalan. I surprised myself with how much I know.

So I have decided to continue for another week! thanks for supporting me

Also, thanks to all who have asked about the drawings – yes I am doing them on an application called whiteboard on my mobile phone. There would be more but I have had trouble saving them so have lost a few but hopefully will get this sorted in the next week. Must be that Spring energy – needing to do something different and new!