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#1

I have a few general questions about the method - I’m now on week 4, and think it’s going well. However, I’m a bit confused because it says I will get one lesson a week (and I have been), which is about 30 minutes - at the start, it said you can do the 30 minutes in one chunk, or split it up into more manageable chunks of say 6 minutes each over the week. But at the end of lesson 4, Aran says we should do 20 minutes a day, but unless I listen to the same lesson over and over, it won’t take 20 minutes?

In fact, I do do more than 20 minutes a day because I’m combining it with Duolingo, but I don’t think that’s what was meant!

The lesson does say to check out the FAQs, but unfortunately they don’t work - when I click on any of the FAQs (eg How to #4 - Make Time to Learn), I just get a message saying “Community not found” and it takes me back to the week 4 page.

My other question is specifically about week 4. “I still need to” - sometimes it’s “mae dal eisiau fi” and sometimes it’s “mae dal rhaid i fi”. When do I use “eisiau”, and when do I use “rhaid”? I got most of them wrong because when I said “eisiau” the soundtrack said “rhaid”, and vice versa!

Thanks!

Chris.

#2

This thread might help you with that - Q: Lesson 4 of New Southern Course

#3

Thanks, Siaron - although that thread made sense, it doesn’t explain the difference between “eisiau” and “rhaid”, which was my issue in this lesson.

Thanks.

Chris.

#4

eisiau (in the South) is ‘need’ whereas rhaid is ‘must’/‘have to’ (a sense of obligation). I think the problem stems with the elastic use of English where the line between ‘need’ and ‘must’ is sometimes more vague.

Does that help at all?

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#5

Thank you - that does help a lot!

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