Writing a ‘better’ course, and my love affair with failure…
Right, where were we? Oh yes. Writing a better course. I’d love to say: I realised that I needed to write a better course, so (ta-daa!) that’s what I did. […]
Right, where were we? Oh yes. Writing a better course. I’d love to say: I realised that I needed to write a better course, so (ta-daa!) that’s what I did. […]
So, I’d started writing, Iestyn had started adapting the script to a southern dialect, we’d all started recording – and we released 15 half-hour lessons into the wild. And my […]
Okay, time to get to the methodology details…;-) [That’s my version of a trigger warning!] So, I’d become a Welsh speaker, and I’d spent 6 months in a pub (only […]
To be brutally honest, I was a little surprised that there was anyone out there foolish enough to *actively* encourage me to talk more about how I developed the SaySomethingin […]
I was 32 when I finally figured out that camels all look the same, shook the desert dust off my feet and came home – to face up to the […]
So, my family started to lose the language with my Nain and Taid, and that became a done deal with my mother – so my story is about reversing that […]
10 years ago today, I published a post on Facebook inviting people to join a forum where they could get access to the grand total of 15 half-hour Welsh lessons… […]
Yesterday’s piece about my grandparents, and the beginning of Welsh being lost in our family, struck a chord with some of you. But in most cases, it’s not a one […]
Tracking down my own mythology… the long road home to Welsh…
Sometimes people ask this question out loud – sometimes I just see it lurking in their eyes – the uncertainty, the lack of belief – the lack of self-belief. It’s […]