> I don’t think I’ve met any people from Madrid that study Catalan or Basque just to speak with the minority of people there who speak those languages.
Can confirm. I'm currently living in Catalonia. I don't speak Catalan, only English and Spanish.
My employer is based in Catalonia. They pay for English classes for any employees that want to take them. But also, they have zero interest in paying for Catalan classes for the few of us that don't speak it, and I have zero interest in learning it during my free time when I could be using that free time to learn a more useful language instead.
But the higher ups travel a lot between continents just "to meet people in person", so there's that.
Can confirm. I'm currently living in Catalonia. I don't speak Catalan, only English and Spanish.
My employer is based in Catalonia. They pay for English classes for any employees that want to take them. But also, they have zero interest in paying for Catalan classes for the few of us that don't speak it, and I have zero interest in learning it during my free time when I could be using that free time to learn a more useful language instead.
But the higher ups travel a lot between continents just "to meet people in person", so there's that.