Oh, do post your list here so i have some chance to try and learn and remember.
This remembering words is a strange / frustrating problem (for me).
Tonight there were times you were searching for a word which i knew i knew but could not remember,
yet when you used the word Iwerddon , i understood immediately, yet this seems a word i would not use often at all (strange, some words stick and others slide).
Ah Tatjana bach, you could just listen and enjoy a bottle of wine (bet you cannot resist laughing at some point).
Tatjana, this simply isnât the case. Stop putting yourself down, and stop imagining that everyone else is doing better than you - everyone goes at their own speed. If youâre not doing much Welsh at the moment, then your Welsh will (of COURSE!) feel a little more painful.
Right, hereâs a challenge - if you do Lesson 25 of Course 1 and Lesson 25 of Course 2 each day for the next two weeks, Iâll have another chat with you once the kids are back at school.
Iâve heard with my own ears, but of course I wonât argue with you about that âŠ
I accept the challenge but Iâd like to put this things clear for all the rest here and would like to say that I didnât post previous comment to look like I demand something from someone (particularly not you). Iâve just simply told my feelings right now, thatâs all.
But of course, if the chance to speak with you is here, I surely wonât refuse it!
Yes, and itâs important and good that you feel you can share your feelings hereâŠ
Itâs also important and good for us to let you know when those feelings are based on a misleading interpretation of the situation, and to challenge them so that you keep on realising what youâre achieving, and keep on achieving moreâŠ
OK, Stella, iâm still thinking about what was said in the skype session and trying to remember much of it. Some things that got mentioned and hopefully with correct spelling.
mĂŽr-forwyn - mermaid.
hen - old
hĆ·n - older.
hynaf - oldest.
oed - age.
canol oesoedd - middle ages.
Tyfu - grow.
aildyfu - regrow.
I couldnât remember the word for âshoreâ when you needed it and of course itâs âlanâ as in lan ymor.
We can also use âarfordirâ for coast which gives a similar meaning.
Iâm hoping after our next chat i will have time to do a long list of words and phrases.
Ah Tatjana bach, i need you on skype to point out the obvious, that would have saved my blushes the other night.
I have just been looking back at the beginning of this thread and trying to think of what to say about progress.
First: i have been lucky in making two contacts that are fun, we seem to get along, the next session is something to look forward to.
This i realise wonât be true for everyone, because we are all different characters, so keep trying until you click with someone (and nobody is going to judge those who drop out, itâs just part of life).
The text window in skype really does seem to be a big plus and iâm thinking people could pre- prepare words they want to use and type them in at the start of a session or being clever use copy and paste.
This of course throws up the problem that you need to know how to find the text window in skype and be able to use it (like most computer stuff, itâs simple when you know how, a mystery when you donât ) so if you connect and donât know this stuff just ask and iâm sure someone will help.
Edit: to add i find using earphones a plus (they were not expensive).
I can asure you you donât need to blush. I am the one who should as I forgot more obvious things then I could remember. That âtraethâ clicked to me only when I staretd to do vocabs for the second time but thereâs nothing near sure I wouldnât forget the word again.
And, about the Skype ⊠I didnât say for sure I wouldnât be there, Iâve just pointed out that it might be I wonât be there though. Itâs 14 days until there though so you never know what comes in at such long time.
About other thigs youâve written ⊠well Iâm not quite sure I understand the meaning of all totally.
You are correct Tatjana , i have edited some of it out that seems confusing (and i wrote it),
Really i would like to attract comments from others about their experience with skype (what they think is good or not so good).
Thank you, John:) I will continue
Ellyll (ellyllon - plural) â a tiny elf, not as tall as the tylwyth teg.
Dafydd ap Gwilym (as quoted by Wirt Sikes) mentions them in one of his poems:
Yr ydoedd ym mhob gobant
Ellyllon mingeimion gant.
(There was in every hollow
A hundred wrymouthed elves.)
Coblyn (coblynau) â small gnome-like creatures who live in mines and quarries and help those miners who are nice to them.
Ellylldan â Will oâthe Wisp, a luring elfin fire
Bwbach â a kind domestic creature who helps the maid if he likes her. But he can take a dislike to certain people â especially to those who donât drink alcohol at all
The dictionary I use has bogey and scarecrow as well as ghost for bwgan. The scarecrow in Bob y Bildar is called Bwgan Brain, where brain = crows. This certainly seems to suggest a more sinister element to bwgan than the ysbryd type ghosts wafting about in their sheets unable to touch anything.
