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 […]
[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 […]
[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’ […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. I’d love to say it never happens – but it does – it happened to me, once, and left me feeling […]