Catalonia Today spreads its wings

The Eng­lish lan­guage mag­a­zine Cat­alo­nia Today cel­e­brated its 10th an­niver­sary in June this year. How­ever, the pub­li­ca­tion is about to start a new ad­ven­ture this month with a major ex­pan­sion of its con­tri­bu­tion to the range of prod­ucts of­fered by the El Punt Avui media group, of which it is part.

Over the years, Cat­alo­nia Today has of­fered in­for­ma­tion and analy­sis of local is­sues in Eng­lish, ad­dress­ing a wide fam­ily of read­ers from Cat­alo­nia and abroad. With the need to mas­ter Eng­lish grow­ing steadily over the past decade, the rel­e­vance of re­sources like Cat­alo­nia Today can make a big dif­fer­ence in help­ing those want­ing to ad­vance in the global lin­gua franca to achieve their goals.

In fact, help­ing to im­prove our read­ers' knowl­edge of Eng­lish has al­ways been one of the most im­por­tant aims of the mag­a­zine. An­other has been to pro­vide those read­ers who are to some ex­tent de­pen­dent on Eng­lish with in­for­ma­tion about their adopted coun­try. With these two ob­jec­tives in mind, Cat­alo­nia Today will now be able to offer more in­for­ma­tion – and more Eng­lish – than ever be­fore.

Since April last year, Cat­alo­nia Today has made a weekly con­tri­bu­tion to Presència – El Punt Avui's Sun­day sup­ple­ment – ac­com­pa­nied by fea­ture and opin­ion ar­ti­cles, quizzes and read­ing com­pre­hen­sion ac­tiv­i­ties. How­ever, from No­vem­ber 10, and sched­uled to co­in­cide with the his­toric events sur­round­ing 9N, Cat­alo­nia Today and El Punt Avui will em­bark on new joint pro­jects, in­clud­ing two pages of Eng­lish news and com­men­tary in the group's daily news­pa­per. And that's not all, as Cat­alo­nia Today will also pro­vide an hour of Eng­lish tele­vi­sion on El Punt Avui's new TV chan­nel every evening.