Improving oracy

Shwmae. I have just set up an account but not sure where to start. I want to increase my fluency before starting a 1 year Teacher Sabbatical in Welsh in September. I can hold a basic conversation currently, I just need to practice speaking more than anything else. I don’t want to waste time with basics I already know. Can anyone advise please? Diolch.

1 Like

Croeso @joanna-box

So if you have subscribed and have access to the lessons, I guess it depends on how much you know already…and how short of time you are :smile:

The course goes through permutations and combinations of sentences which, by example, teaches you what the rules are. This starts of as a ‘piece of cake’ - and usually ends up melting your brain within a fairly short period! :smile:

You could try cutting in at say challenge 5 (of 25) - and see whether you know the vocab. If you are going to do the Northern course I would say the vocab is a bit more ‘standard’. I guess if you knew all the vocab and could say all the sentences, you could work forward and find the point where this isn’t true by going to 10 and so on, and start just after that.

However, if you have time, personally I would recommend whipping through the earlier ones, as vocalising the answers (which is part of the process) would give you an excellent footing for when material you don’t know starts coming on stream.

Pob lwc, good luck!

Rich :slight_smile:

1 Like

If you need speaking practice, you could join the Welsh Speaking Practice group on Slack, where over 1,000 other people are waiting to talk to you. You can request people with a particular level of fluency if you wish. To get an invitation to the group, send an e-mail to: admin@saysomethingin.com, with ‘WSP’ as the heading.

Diolch yn fawr Rich.

I will follow your advice. It doesn’t hurt to do some revision anyway.

Diolch.

Jo

1 Like

Diolch Bronwen. I will get some practice first and then be brave!

Diolch.

Jo