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Reference materials

Resources to write in Catalan and English.

Gramàtica zero clarifies the most frequent syntactic questions in a practical and simple way and, as its subtitle declares, aims to guide users with the minimum grammar. It tackles the most important and common linguistic doubts and tries to clarify them with as little terminology as possible. It offers accessible explanations to everyone and it is supported by a remarkable range of examples with a graphic presentation that allows the solutions to be visualised at a glance.


Manual de documents i llenguatge administratius is a tool that regulates and unifies the preparation of institutional documentation and sets the model of administrative language, especially in terms of style, linguistic criteria and the conventions that are specific to it. This publication is the result of a collaboration between the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Valencia, the University of Alacant and the Universitat Politècnica de València, which makes it an obligatory reference for Valencian university administrations.


Criteris lingüístics per als usos institucionals de les universitats valencianes aims to contribute to a homogeneous and appropriate style in Catalan for the formal uses of the university institution.


The Interuniversity Style Guide is designed for teaching and research staff, administrative and service staff and language professionals who have to write institutional documentation in English. Although one of the sections covers general writing criteria, the word style in the title refers to linguistic conventions relating to spelling, punctuation, typography and other editorial aspects. Consistency in these areas provides clarity and cohesion in texts that facilitates and simplifies comprehension.


The aim of the Gripau website is, mainly, to make easier the writing of texts to students taking subjects in Catalan, either during secondary education or during the first years of university. The Valencian universities are committed to provide the means for students to increase the use of Catalan and that is why, through this website, we are making this tool available to them so that they can use the language in a fully normal way in all the areas of university life.


Vocabulari de dret consists of almost 6,000 entries, with equivalents in Spanish, and is the most extensive compilation of legal terminology in Catalan to date. It is conceived as a useful tool not only for university students and lecturers, but also for professionals in the world of law.


Vocabulari de dret romà consists of 398 entries containing 493 Latin names with the corresponding equivalents in Catalan, Spanish, French and Italian. It includes terms from the main branches of Roman law, such as sources, public law (political and religious institutions, administrative and fiscal law, and criminal law) and private law (person and family, civil procedure and property law), as well as the transmission and reception of this law.



The Nomenclatura de gestió universitària offers, in English, all the terms or notions that appeared in the regulations and institutional texts of the universities. It is a consensus on the terminology and use common forms in all the universities.


The Guia d'ús per a un llenguatge igualitari offers resources and strategies to the university community to use egalitarian, non-sexist language in communication.


This guide contains a set of multilingual criteria for writing egalitarian texts in Catalan, Spanish and English, which allow equal visibility between men and women in the documentation of the universities of the Xarxa Vives.

Learning materials

To improve your use of Catalan and your multilingual skills.

The Qüestionari d'Autoavaluació Lingüística (Catalan language self-assessment questionnaire) allows you to find out which mistakes you do in Catalan and correct them with direct links to Ben dit! videos and Gramàtica zero to help you solve your doubts. 


Ben dit! is a series that will help you improve your use of Catalan with short videos, just over a minute long, that get straight to the point (words, expressions, resources...).


Món de llengües is a series of videos produced by the University of Valencia Languages Service and MediaUni in which international students from different origins explain their language and culture.


In the Forthem Digital Academy there are different online language courses (French, Italian, German, Polish, Finnish, Latvian, Spanish...) offered by the different universities of the alliance, open to the university community and free of charge.


Tenim paraula is a set of audiovisual resources that aims to support both teaching and research staff who teach and do research in Catalan, and administrative and service staff who work in this language. It is divided into 80 chapters of advice and language recommendations that will help to clarify some of the most frequent doubts of users.


Fonet is a phonetics practice software very useful tool to improve pronunciation and diction in Catalan, especially suitable for university teachers.