What a fabulous video - from someone who’d like to find other Welsh speakers to speak Welsh with - via Skype, or face-to-face if we can find someone close enough to her in America…
Fabulous - I feel a bit shamed now into trying a bit harder on my Welsh skills
Don’t feel shame - shame doesn’t help learning! You’re learning, and that’s perfect - so just keep going…
Shamed in a nice way - spurred on to do more
Very encouraging! If I could speak like her one day, I’d die a happy man.
She put up an English translation on her channel for us baby Welsh speakers (I’m on lesson 12, long way to go).
This isn’t the young lady who was interviewed at one of Gruff Rhys’s gigs in the American Interior film, is it?
What a fantastic girl, definitely a motivation for us “lonely Welsh learners”.
I think she deserves to have some native friends - she sounds very fluent. Is the FfrindIaith project still working?
Erm, dunno, haven’t seen it yet…
Tsk, tsk! If it is her, she bigs up SSiW in the process She could already be here!
If she is, this aged crone wishs her to know that she admires her enormously and has had a big kick up the behind to improve my Cymraeg so I can understand her properly despite her faint voice and my poor hearing!!
Why don’t ask her via YouTube or invite her here? Should I do that?
EDIT
Ah, I saw you somehow already did that … forget my message here.
And yes! Da iawn i hi!
Hey everyone! Aran brought my attention to this forum thread (via twitter). I had no idea my video had been posted on here and I definitely didn’t think that many people would pay attention to it! Thanks for all of the kind comments! I started learning Welsh with SSIW so it’s nice to have finally joined this forum (don’t know why I didn’t do it before – or maybe I did, but I forgot my username? who knows).
Anyway, thanks for inviting me here! I’ll try to make sure to visit this site more often – it seems like a really cool place! Also, I’m sure you all speak Welsh just fine!! Just keep practicing I’ve been learning off and on for 5 years now, which I can hardly believe.
-Geordan
It is me, haha!
Yay!!! We think you’re brilliant!
Awesome - lovely to see you on the forum, Geordan - now I suppose I’m going to have to watch American Interior, or Sara will give me a hard time…
Whereabouts are you in America? Have you checked out the map yet?
That’s, er, SSiW learners in three parallel earths, of course…
Gee, @aran , I never looked on this this way …it is crowdy, which I love to the bits!
@grdnlyb croeso yma o fi hefyd. Ti’n siarad yn da iawn!
I’m glad you came. Seing your video (as you could see in previous post I’ve made) my first thought was “This woman should come on here!” and I’m glad you came (finally - hehe)
I just watched your video - how wonderful and inspiring for us all. Tell us a little bit about why your are learning Welsh. Anything you tell us is bound to inspire us even more.
Longyfarchiadau,
Justin
May I point you to the thread Why are you learning Welsh? @grdnlyb
Maybe you find some inspiration there too and the others will gladly read your story!