How far would you travel to practise your Welsh conversational skills?
[For Margaret, the answer (so far!) is: Slovenia! In this entertaining article, you can read about her trip to meet Tatjana and speak Welsh in a number of different places in […]
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The joys of making a fool of yourself – and 3 vital ways it improves your language learning
Sorry, folks – I haven’t felt much like writing since we lost Caleb, so I never got around to that post I really wanted to do about what was a […]
New stuff happening any second now (and crazy speeds)
Sometimes, you work flat out and it feels as though you’re standing still, doesn’t it? Other times, happily enough, you work flat out and have a brief burst of travelling […]
Rising out of hibernation just in time for a party!
So, it’s been a quiet few weeks on the blog, and much as I’d like to pretend I’ve just been taking an absurdly long Christmas holiday, the truth is a […]
Making learners suffer in large numbers
To recap briefly (you ARE reading these in the correct order, aren’t you?) – I’d figured out that speaking was vital, I was trying to think of ways to inject […]
A lunatic’s guide to building a language course
I had thought I’d finish this round up of my own haphazard journey along the language learning road a little sooner than this – but as those of you who […]
The magic once you realise it’s genuinely possible
So, I need to tear myself away from an unexpected but entertaining Smiths quote-fest on Facebook, and do something worthwhile. With a head as clear as one of Angharad Lliar’s […]
How Welsh saved a useless language learner
Bad news – you’re all doomed. No, really. One of the best writers in Wales has just told me that reading this blog made her laugh. I don’t care if […]
My own chaotic and largely unsuccessful language learning journeys (part II)
Unluckily for you, enough of you said you’d like to hear more of the ramble I was on yesterday, and three facts have conspired in your favour: 1 – I’m […]
Nothing like a trip to the hospital to get you thinking about language learning…
What’s that you say? Most people don’t think about language learning while they’re being hospitalised? How peculiar. So, a disc ruptured yesterday, and I was a teary, hyper-ventilating immobilised mess […]
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