Ffrindiau, it is already up and running now—‘Salon Creadigol’—where you can see, post and discuss original creations from the SSiW family. What better way to celebrate St. David’s Day than to enjoy and contribute to this cultural treasury?
We are all on the journey of learning the Welsh language for different reasons, but I am guessing for many of us because of an attachment and love of Wales and its culture. While we are at it, whether beginners or fluent, we can all offer something to the culture…. Just saying…
So come on over!
BTW I am exactly half way through revising the Old Courses, and love the thematic vocabulary units because they fix the words in my mind through the practices. That helps me enormously because I need the repetition.
Happy St. David’s Day,
Mari
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How are those different between the two sets of courses?
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In the Old Courses 1&2, besides all the progressive lessons that have systematic drills for learning grammatical patterns and tenses, there are another 20 thematic vocabulary lessons. Together, you can build a practical day to day range.
The New Levels take a different approach which is excellent, but by doing the both I benefitted enormously. Besides—they are right here, so why not make use of yet another brilliant set of tools available through SSiW?
Enjoy—hwyl,
Mari
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I was also doing Uwch, but ran into a major ‘snag’ while I had to find, then adjust to new hearing aids, so missed several lessons (I am totally deaf on one side and profoundly hard-of-hearing on the other).
I offered to pay for a one-on-one tutor, to catch up then continue on Uwch, but was told that option no longer exists on Dysgu Cymraeg. Instead, once I could ‘hear’ again, I went back to the SSiW Old Course, starting from scratch, and it has not only rebuilt my confidence, but also put the joy back into learning which I had lost.
I have not found it boring at all, but as someone with ‘special needs’ I can only thank everyone on SSiW who has helped me over the years, and continue to support and inspire me today.
Oh, and ‘chwarae teg’ my ‘snag’ coincided with my wonderful Dysgu Cymraeg college teacher falling ill, seriously ill unfortunately. I am so grateful that for about 16-18 months she went the extra mile to make it possible for me to complete Canolradd and get going on Uwch. I really hope she is recovering—I miss her.
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I was thinking more of the tenses. I know there are some ways of making tenses that I just don’t use as I’ve never really been taught them and people I speak to don’t seem to use them, like using gwneud as an auxiliary verb for instance.
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Oh that sounds really annoying!
I had a really good teacher and did the same “Uwch” class with her for several years until she retired. We basically had more or less the same people in the same room at the same time each week and she just made up a new name for the class every year. 
We didn’t have a text book or anything and it was the probably the best course I’ve ever done.
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Then you could find the Old Courses useful Sara, because they do cover that. By clicking on the Vocabulary button for each lesson you could quickly see what patterns they intoduce, so focus on what you want. I hope that helps.
Hwyl,
Mari
Lucky you! My wonderful teacher used the book, but was very flexible and responsive to our questions and needs. She had a wonderful sense of humour and really knew her stuff. What a gem—a great ambassador for the language, the college and Welsh rugby, but a hard act to follow! 
Thanks for the tip on how to know what’s covered.
I mean I understand what people mean when using those forms, I just never use them myself.
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