18 October 2026 · Sara Marugan
At the blackboard, recording the videos for the syllable theory course
This article was machine-translated from Sara's Catalan original. The writing is hers; the translation has not been reviewed by a person. Read the Catalan original →
These days I have swapped my students for a phone on a tripod. I filled the blackboard, just as I do in class, and recorded my explanations of «La teoria de la síl·laba®», the method I use to teach how to split Catalan words into syllables without memorising a single rule.
I explain exactly what I explain in the classroom, step by step: the onset, the nucleus and the coda, along with their "locked" versions; the strong vowels, a, e and o, and the weak ones, i and u; and the semivowels that form diphthongs, where almost everyone trips up.
These videos will complete the method's online course. Every syllable theory Workbook comes with a code that unlocks the course, so whoever has bought it can watch the explanations at their own pace, go back to them as often as they need and practise until the method comes naturally.
Explaining it to a camera is not the same as explaining it to a group: nobody raises a hand or comes up to the board. But the goal is the same as ever: to make splitting syllables stop being a guessing game.
When the videos are in the course, I will let you know right here.
