Shakira speaking in Catalan language in Barcelona

Wednesday Shakira performed in Barcelona, at the Palau Sant Jordi.

Not only did she perform a great show but she also showed a great level in Catalan language.

This was the intro speech to the show:

Or in the intro of the song "Inevitable":



We should remember that already back in 2006 she said that she had "sang catalan" (catalan blood) - her grandmother was catalan, and her second family name is "Ripoll"-:

Early before that day, she attended a press conference where, asked if she would like to sing someday in Catalan language, she answered that she did, and declared that she would like to make a cover of "Boig per tú":

Christopher Columbus' First Language was Catalan

There have been many theories and studies about Columbus' origins. He would come, according to these theories, from as many different countries as researchers have written about it.

Some of these studies claim that he was catalan or, at least, from the Crown of Aragon. The last one, based on the study of the writtings by Columbus, has been published by Estelle Irizarry, Professor from the Georgetown Univeristy. Based on the use by Columbus of one punctuation mark used only in catalan language, Irizarry declares that his first language would be catalan and that he would probably come from Ibiza.

This researchers demostrates too that the text that prove that Columbus was genovese would have been forged.