A Welsh class of 7 million (part 3)
[Recap: sitting nervously in the Green Room at Radio 2, wondering how many different ways a live language lesson can go wrong.] ‘Are you the Welsh guy?’ said a friendly […]
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A Welsh class of 7 million (part 2)
[Part 2 of 3 from ‘behind the scenes’] Studios all have the same internal logic – that strange balance between ‘what looks normal on a screen’ and ‘where cameras move’ […]
What did a Welsh class of 7 million look like from the teacher’s seat?
[Part 1 of 3 from ‘behind the scenes’] It’s been a strange and topsy-turvy few weeks in our usually peaceful world of running an online Welsh course – and last […]
How a SINGLE sentence in Welsh can change attitudes…
In the aftermath of all the fuss around Jeremy Vine’s Welsh lesson on Radio 2, I saw someone saying ‘He only learnt one sentence’. Well, that’s both true and not […]
Is live radio the best environment for teaching Welsh?!
It wasn’t an actual plan to skip writing anything yesterday or on Monday – just a side-effect of the joys of half-term, and a slight distraction coming my way at […]
Gateway drugs to the world of multinational Welsh…
Because the SaySomethinginWelsh forum is so multinational, the idea of people speaking Welsh in other countries has become pretty normal to me. I have to make a conscious effort to […]
The international language of Welsh (hint: we’re going to win this)…
The interesting responses to my piece about belonging and America last week (coupled with one or two tired idiots banging on about ‘dead’ languages!) has got me thinking about what […]
Becoming American and belonging to Wales…
So… MANY… interesting responses to my piece about America yesterday… And I’ve GOT to share one of them – a fascinating piece of thought/explanation from Kass (see http://www.kassmcgann.com): ‘As an […]
I had NO idea Americans were so serious about Welsh…
Last August, I was a guest speaker at the North American Festival of Wales in Washington D.C. It was an incredible event. They’d pretty much taken over the Hilton in […]
Very occasionally, people are downright nasty to Welsh learners…
Very occasionally, people are downright nasty to Welsh learners. I’d love to say it never happens – but it does – it happened to me, once, and left me feeling […]
