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Monthly Archives: October 2013

How angry schools can make me

October 31, 2013by aranjones 46 Comments

I wrote a post on our forum the other day about the remarkable generosity and love in the SaySomethinginWelsh community. It should perhaps have been on the blog – it […]

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Languages in Schools, Our community, Spanish, Welsh

Making learners suffer in large numbers

October 24, 2013by aranjones 9 Comments

To recap briefly (you ARE reading these in the correct order, aren’t you?) – I’d figured out that speaking was vital, I was trying to think of ways to inject […]

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Accelerated learning, Spanish, Welsh

A lunatic’s guide to building a language course

Featuredby aranjones 10 Comments

I had thought I’d finish this round up of my own haphazard journey along the language learning road a little sooner than this – but as those of you who […]

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Accelerated learning, Spanish, Welsh

The magic once you realise it’s genuinely possible

October 18, 2013by aranjones 17 Comments

So, I need to tear myself away from an unexpected but entertaining Smiths quote-fest on Facebook, and do something worthwhile. With a head as clear as one of Angharad Lliar’s […]

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Spanish, Welsh

How Welsh saved a useless language learner

October 17, 2013by aranjones 16 Comments

Bad news – you’re all doomed. No, really.  One of the best writers in Wales has just told me that reading this blog made her laugh.  I don’t care if […]

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Welsh

My own chaotic and largely unsuccessful language learning journeys (part II)

October 16, 2013by aranjones 9 Comments

Unluckily for you, enough of you said you’d like to hear more of the ramble I was on yesterday, and three facts have conspired in your favour: 1 – I’m […]

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Welsh

Nothing like a trip to the hospital to get you thinking about language learning…

October 15, 2013by aranjones 26 Comments

What’s that you say?  Most people don’t think about language learning while they’re being hospitalised? How peculiar. So, a disc ruptured yesterday, and I was a teary, hyper-ventilating immobilised mess […]

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Welsh

A big step forward with the frameworks, but no more marketing joy!

October 11, 2013by aranjones 6 Comments

No, I haven’t been dead for the last couple of weeks, just focused…:-) Two main things to talk about today – the joys of marketing, and the joys of building […]

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Accelerated learning, Dutch, Spanish, Welsh

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