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Monthly Archives: January 2019

Writing a ‘better’ course, and my love affair with failure…

January 31, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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. […]

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Doing good things and bad things… how I started to understand which was which…

January 28, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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 […]

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Trigger warning: gradually increasing methodological detail ahead…

January 25, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

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 […]

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For heaven’s sake – are you COMPLETELY crazy?!…

January 24, 2019by aranjones 5 Comments

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 […]

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How I came home, and how that became a new kind of language course…

January 23, 2019by aranjones 9 Comments

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 […]

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Bringing the language back to life in my family…

January 22, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

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 […]

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Ten years ago this very day…

January 21, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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… […]

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Welsh

Two generations to lose it

January 16, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

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 […]

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Tracking down my own mythology

January 15, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

Tracking down my own mythology… the long road home to Welsh…

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Welsh

Is it actually, genuinely possible?

January 11, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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 […]

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