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A Welsh class of 7 million (part 3)

March 13, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

[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)

March 12, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

[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’ […]

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What did a Welsh class of 7 million look like from the teacher’s seat?

March 11, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

[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 […]

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How a SINGLE sentence in Welsh can change attitudes…

March 6, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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 […]

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Is live radio the best environment for teaching Welsh?!

February 27, 2019by aranjones 8 Comments

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 […]

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Gateway drugs to the world of multinational Welsh…

February 19, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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 […]

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The international language of Welsh (hint: we’re going to win this)…

February 18, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

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 […]

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Becoming American and belonging to Wales…

February 15, 2019by aranjones 2 Comments

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 […]

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I had NO idea Americans were so serious about Welsh…

February 14, 2019by aranjones 5 Comments

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 […]

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Very occasionally, people are downright nasty to Welsh learners…

February 13, 2019by aranjones Leave a comment

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 […]

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