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Catalan for English speakers

Start with first words and everyday basics (A1–A2) in the free demo. The full version is in development.

No account · Demo progress stays in this browser · No streaks

A working demoA1–A2 · first words to everyday basics
Your life in CatalanThe idea behind the full version
Practise what you missYour answers pick what's next
No streaksA day off changes nothing

What we're building

Learn with examples
from your own life.

The full version is being built so you can choose what to practise around your work, studies and interests. Ryan's version already uses examples from his own life — the places he goes, the things he does and the people he talks to.

From Ryan's life
  • Barcelona
  • poetry
  • football
  • cats
You
«I live near Barcelona, follow football and enjoy poetry. I want to feel natural with neighbours.»
Mica turns that into…
01

Comparatives, taught through familiar places in Barcelonagrammar practice

02

A post-match exchange at the barlistening practice

03

The question a neighbour asks nextstreet practice

How review works

Each answer decides
what comes back.

Past answers decide the next round. The things you are still learning return; the things you know make room for something new.

Answer · just now01

Parla d'allò que t'agrada del barri.

M'agrada els mercats petits.
Saved for reviewels mercats → m'agraden
01

Save what was missed

Mica saves the point you missed.

It keeps the point and the sentence where it happened. You see the correction, then carry on.
Three days later02

Un dissabte ideal…

M'agraden més els cafès tranquils.
Correct this time.Less help next time.
02

Bring it back

It comes back in a new sentence.

A few days later it's back, worded differently. Get it right and the next version gives you less help.
MERCAT03

La dependenta et mira.

«Vols res més?»
No, ja està. Gràcies.Practised before Thursday.
03

Prepare the follow-up

Practise what people ask next.

The café exercise doesn't stop when you've ordered — it asks you the question that comes after.
Filmed in the founder's version · one real round, and the mosaic it builds

How it fits together

Learn a phrase.
Use it in a conversation.

Study a language point, try it in a conversation, then come back to the parts you found difficult.

  1. 01
    Know where you are.

    Follow the course from first words towards more advanced Catalan. Each lesson has a place on the path.

  2. 02
    Practise the weak point, not the whole lesson again.

    Mica saves the exact language point and brings it back in new sentences.

  3. 03
    Recognise yourself in it.

    The full version is being built with topics and situations you can choose around your own life.

The free demo opens A1 and A2. First words, everyday basics, review, neighbourhood scenes and mosaics. It is a working part of Mica you can use now.

Ryan de Weijer, Mica's maker and daily learner, at a café.
Barcelona · every evening
rdw, Ryan de Weijer's maker's mark

Ryan de Weijer — Founder of Mica

Ryan made the course
he wanted to keep using.

Mica began with Ryan's own Catalan. He still uses it every evening, and when a feature doesn't survive daily use, he removes it.

Meet the founder →

The practical bit

Questions about
the demo.

A Catalan course for English speakers, wherever you live and whatever your reason for learning. Lessons, conversations and practice that brings back the language points you miss. The free demo is open now; the full version is in development.

Start with the free demo

Little by little,
the sink fills up.

de mica en mica s'omple la pica

A Catalan proverb. Mica is the little bit.

Try the free demo →