> A spaniard who doesn't speak catalan won't understand 95% of a normal convo

I don't know if I'd go that far. I just youtubed catalan and would say I understood about 75-80% of what this guy is saying. [1]

Also, I mainly meant that statement ironically :) Catalan is its own language, its just funny to me that "dialect" is a negative term, language is not, and usually the big country with the military dictates which provinces speak a "language" and which ones are speaking a "dialect".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdiVss0X6V0&feature=youtu.be