Ah, I had wondered whether the ālevelā I had seen in some titles was the level of listener that the question was aimed at, or what.
And my worry was for me that Iāve supplemented SSiW with so much external material (and, truth be told, not listened to the SSiW exercises for so long) that Iāve forgotten what is covered in which level and what is not in SSiW at all, so I would be hard pressed at times how easy or difficult a given sentence would be for a new learner in terms of grammar and vocabulary.
But if itās the questionerās own current level, thatās easier to determine
This is great! Iāve listened to all of the SoundCloud recordings and it immediately sparked my interest and resolve to record my own pretty dreadful self! Fellyā¦ Iāve registered with SoundCloud and now have an account, but how on earth to do I record myself/create the sound file to (presumably) upload, share etc? Anyone have any clues? Iām running a pretty up-to-date convertible laptop thatās running W10 and kept fully updated, and I had a good sniff around SoundCloud, but couldnāt see anything obvious about how to record yourself. Help! And whilst on the subject of Level 3 after the Xmas and New Year break in regular ymarfer I decided to go back to about challenge 22 of Level 2 and work my way back up again as I had found where Iād got to (L3, Ch. 3) pretty bewildering. Having now clawed my way back up again, Iām still finding it hard, but not nearly as hard as a month ago - phew! And yes, Iām old enough to remember mangles! I always found it fascinating watching one being used. Anyway, I digress. Congratulations to the team for the wonderful work and especially for developing a few more challenges past no. 9 of level 3 which is where itād got to when I last downloaded sometime in November, dw iān meddwl.
Yes, go for it Caroline! There are a few different ways to record and I guess itās down to personal preference as much as anything, but have a look at this thread where many of us posted which methods we use - Keeping up and technical problems
Personally, I use the built-in Windows 10 voice recorder on my laptop, then upload the file to Soundcloud, then share from Soundcloud to the forum. Others have other ways , but thatās what works for me.
Congratulations Caroline. If itās any comfort, the latest challenges seem less difficult. Probably because so much of the time is spent on the necessary spaced- repetition revision, that there really isnāt too much new stuff per challenge.
Regarding the practicalities of uploading: please ignore my comments on the above-mentioned thread.
I actually follow Siaronās excellent explanation.
Pick Voice Recorder from your list of Apps and record your message.
In your Soundcloud account, click Upload and select the recording from the āBrowseā option. Then save. A blue box will come up with the file name highlightedā¦
I think the only way you can do this directly in SoundCloud is via their app - which lets you record straight to the cloud - otherwise youāre stuck with recording locally and uploadingā¦
Brilliant, well done Caroline!
Iām tagging Jane @Jane so that she can hear it (because itās here rather than on her question thread).
Donāt forget to do your 5-minute list so that @aran can turn your pink bubble red (and record a question of your own so you can go āgreenā, then heāll be able to give you your blue bubble for answering a question!)
@siaronjames Hah! All those colours, very appropriate to sail through with flying colours. Right wellā¦ better get on with it, Iām still only salmon pink.
If not earlier youāll get red at the end of the weekend as during the weekends usually our techys or @aran arenāt too hard at work here on the forum. But you never know ā¦
A tip: if you make the link a paragraph of its own (if itās the only thing on its line, no spaces in front of it, and a blank line before and after), it will turn into a little embedded box where you can listen to it right from inside the forum thread:
diolch yn fawr @philipnewton - tatjana has kindly said the same and Iāve now got a handle on it as they say across the pond. It works too - thatās a bonus!