Finding blue belt very hard

I was just about to suggest Gareth King’s Colloquial Welsh too, as it’s excellent.

Depending how much you like to see grammar laid out in simple tables, you might find https://clwbmalucachu.co.uk/ useful. I’ve got a fair number of verbnoun conjugations all laid out, and am still moving stuff over from the old HTML site. But if you find that useful then it’ll be worth buying BBC’s Learn Welsh book, which is basically just tables of stuff.

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Love that movie!

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I also love this movie!

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I hear you! Think I went at it the wrong way around…

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Like others, I am finding Blue Belt suddenly more challenging than the earlier ones - what I have just noticed is that when I end a practice session and pick up again the next day, it automatically brings me to the next new word being introduced rather than the previous one, which I am sure it always used to. This means I’m sometimes actually missing out on practice if I stop just after a new introduction and come back next day, rather than getting a bit of extra to ease me in gently! Now I’ve realised, I just skip back with the replay button and though it’s still tough it’s not quite so daunting.

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Oh, thank you very much for letting us know about that - definitely doesn’t sound like correct behaviour, I’ll bring it up with the tech team :slight_smile:

Hi Claire - could you DM me the email address on your account? The tech team would like to take a look at the logs for you :slight_smile:

It would be a really good idea for you to delete that post, so that your email address doesn’t get scraped by spam bots! Sorry, DM is ‘direct message’, I should have been clearer about that :slight_smile:

But I’ve got it now and passed it on.

Will do, but thought that was a DM as it only had your name at the top and I couldn’t see how else to do it!
How does one DM on this platform?

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Ahh, I see! You’d need to click on my name and then ‘message’ :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi @claire-82 - our best guess here is that you’re ending practice sessions mostly in the spaced repetition content - so each new phrase has a certain amount of practice, and then we’re revisiting previous phrases - so when you start again, going to the next new phrase will give you the new material and then immediately revisit the previous material.

If you stop a session while a new item is still being introduced, then your next session should go back to the beginning with that new item.

But as always, it’s mostly about the emotional journey, so if you prefer to go back a bit at the beginning of every session, that’s fine as well :slight_smile:

If this doesn’t feel like a good description of what you’re experiencing, do please drop us a line at admin@saysomethingin.com and the tech team will be able to take a closer look at your account :slight_smile:

Thanks, Aran - that makes sense! I’m fine now with playing it by ear whether to skip back or not; I was just struck by it seeming like a change from the earlier levels.

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It may just be that there’s more spaced repetition by the time you get to blue belt, so there will be more times when you finish a session in the spaced rep…

But really glad that you’re getting the hang of it, well done!