I’ve only just signed up and my brain is fried. Did anyone else feel this way ?
4 Likes
Most people! As you progress through the course, in the little breaks where you get told about how really, really cool our brains are… at some points there will be definite smugness as reference is made to how fried your brain probably feels!
Accept it, laugh at it, and be amazed how well you are actually learning despite feeling overwhelmed. Once you really “get” how powerful this method is, it’s something of a rush.
3 Likes
Thank you Verity
2 Likes
Or I guess I should say Diolch yn fawr
2 Likes
I’ve been using the (South version) challenges, and Iestyn comes out with some really weird visuals at times. Putting our brains through washing machines (on the fastest spin cycle, it feels like) and worse, a mangle!
I’ve laughed out loud a lot while learning Welsh. 
In March I was monolingual. Last week I chatted in Welsh with total strangers “in the wild”.
So I think, a few disturbing metaphors aside, what SSi does to our brains works!!!
8 Likes
That is one of the most exciting things I’ve read on this forum! And you wouldn’t have got there without putting the effort in. Llongyfarchiadau!! 
2 Likes
Diolch, Deborah. 
It was only fairly short conversations, but it was so much fun realising I’d managed real communication in Welsh, with someone who was neither a fellow learner nor a trained tutor, and I didn’t need to clarify in English.
I was on Nia’s “Live Welsh Week”, so I heard heaps of Welsh on guided tours etcetera, and followed more than half of it. (Educated guesses and following the group covers the rest.)
A real buzz.
4 Likes
Occasionally I feel quite overwhelmed!
I can slip back into, ‘ I’m not up to this’ thinking. Even a slight panic that this is beyond me. I really like the suggestions about treating it more like a game and trusting the process.
One thing I don’t doubt is that it is very good for my brain, stuff is going in and lodging.
I don’t need to put pressure on myself, I’m learning for fun.
3 Likes