Same here
I’ve asked Catrin to look into it and I’ll let you know when I hear from her.
This was the reply from Catrin:
All you need to do is to click on “view invoice”, and then click on download so you can view it independently from Xero. You will then be in a position to proceed with your bacs transfer - details of our bank account are on the invoice - Account name, SaySomethinging.com Ltd.
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Yes, I’d assumed from the original email that we had to pay through the Xero gateway, but it seems a bank transfer is fine. Mine went through OK.
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Hi all, thought I’d better introduce myself as this is fast approaching!
I’m Charlie, I live in Leicester (originally from Yorkshire), but I’m half Welsh. My taid did speak the language but unfortunately my father doesn’t so I learnt mostly through SSIW.
I’ve completed the southern course, but definitely need a refresher before I go to bwtcamp!
Looking forward to the challenge and hoping I can use it to push myself on a bit.
See you there soon!
Charlie
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I’m Chris, and also live in Leicester (I know @charlie-o as we are part of a small Leicester group who meet to practise our Welsh in a local pub). My maternal grandmother was Welsh but not Welsh speaking, but died when I was five - but I did live in Newport Gwent for a year for work experience in 1980/1 and did Welsh evening classes when I was there. I’d never moved beyond basic conversations but have been doing SSiW and Duolingo for 9 months, and am looking forward to immersing myself in Welsh and meeting everyone!
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helo pawb! abheda ydw i. say it using alphabet cymraeg✅
i live near lampeter & am delighted to join an immersion course😃
my teacher is in blaenau ffestiniog, where i studied cymraeg gog, through mynediad and into sylfaen before leaving the area. since then i’ve done a bit of this, a bit of that, some classes here & there, without sticking to it to completion.
i speak tolerable present tense welsh and understand slower spoken welsh. my reading level is ‘parsnips and owls’ level, by stephen owen rule.
dw i’n edrych ymlaen i gyfarfod chi i gael sgwrs yn y gymraeg!
oh, are dictionaries allowed?
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hello nicola, chris and charlie! 
that’s 4 of us & presumably 5 to go 
abheda
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I certainly hope dictionaries are allowed! 
gobeithio hefyd!
Unless things have changed since bootcamps started up again, the old rule was NO dictionaries! I believe miming became very popular in their absence 
… but I’m sure @Deborah-SSi or @nia.llywelyn will clarify 
Hi,
I’m Lisa and I’m coming bwtcamp too. I live in Bangor and have no idea what the Welsh for parsnip or owl is! I’m trying to decide whether to practise my Welsh this week or my acting/charades skills. I’m looking forward to a week of immersion very much. There is a lot of WEnglish spoken up here in my workplace, so I’m hoping that English is allowed…
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What is the Welsh for charades??
Welsh for charades? "Siarad"s, surely? 
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I’m hopefully getting delivery of a “Scrabble yn Gymraeg” tomorrow, which I’ll bring with me
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hiya lisa
pannas for parsnips and tylluan for owl, says the online geiriadur. i didn’t know them either. (along with most foods, animals and plants!) but these, together, in english, are the title of a wonderful learner’s book of microstories in cymraeg with additional footnotes, like this:
- DW’ISIO’R GÊM ‘MA
Mae Mabon ac Owen mewn siop.
Mabon: Dadi! Dw i angen gêm fideo newydd! Owen: Ti ddim angen gêm fideo newydd.
Mabon: Plîs! Mae ‘na gitarwyr¹ robotig² yn y gêm ‘ma!
Owen: Mabon, ti ddim angen y gêm ‘ma. Ti isio’r gêm ‘ma.
Mabon: Iawn! Dw i isio’r gêm ‘ma. Be’ rŵan? Owen: Na, mae gen ti ddigon o gemau eraill³ yn y tŷ!
Mabon: Iawn… awn ni⁴ ‘nôl⁵ adre?
Owen: Na awn⁴, awn ni⁴ i dŷ Alun.
Mabon: Ond dw i methu⁶ chwarae gemau fideo yn nhŷ Alun!
Owen: Mae’i deledu’n fawr, ac dw i angen gwylio’r gêm bêl-droed.
Mabon: Dadi, chi ddim angen gwylio’r gêm bêl-droed. Chi isio gwylio’r gêm bêl-droed.
1 Gitarwyr isn’t the toughest to decipher, guitarists. What’s cool here is the ending. Adding -wr (from gŵr = man, husband) equates to adding -er in English; dysgwr = [male] learner. Adding -wraig (from gwraig = woman, wife) equates to adding -ess in English; dysgwraig = [female] learner. Finally, adding -wyr (from gwŷr = men, husbands) equates to adding -ers in English; dysgwyr = learners. Naturally, some exceptions exist.
2 Robotig is exactly what you think it is; robotic. There are a number of English words ending in -ic that transfer pretty seamlessly into Welsh by employing -ig instead; topic = topig, academic = academig, Catholic = Catholig, etc. Back in Story 8, we met arall (= (an)other, else). The fun, however, doesn’t stop there. Eraill is the plural version of arall and yields stuff like siop arall (= another shop) > siopau eraill (= other shops).
etc etc
we are, apparently, not to use saesneg at all. hm.
it’s going to be interesting!
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na, that’s the speaking word.
the miming word is apparently siarâd!
don’t you just love cymraeg? a single tô bach, and the emphasis changes from a foreign word that sounds like nothing you know (sha-rad) to a fancy way of saying sha-RAAD for charade!
ain’t cymraeg wonderful?! 
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I was joking, but it’s an excellent point - it does make sense that charade would be siarâd, but to turn things full circle - apparently the word “charade” derives from the Provençal word “charrado” meaning “conversation” (pronounced “sharado”).
So conversation is pronounced “sharad” in Cymraeg and “sharado” in Provençal - but probably coincidence!
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Actually, Chris isn’t far off!
charade: siarâd
charades: siaradau
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