To @aran
n.b. I have a bone to pick with you, oh, sneaky teacher!! There, at the end of your book, Cymraeg in black and white!! And I gazed at it and remembered reading books in Cymraeg when I doubt your Dad even contemplated a girlfriend, never mind you - and I put the kindle to sleep for a bit to improve my chances of re-learning enough to understand it!!
And thank you very much indeed to Liz @elizabeth_jane and M. Werdermann for the first two reviews on the US site - and particularly kind ones they were tooâŚ
I frequently do that- but certainly consider myself a speaker!
It is perfectly alright to switch to English to explain a point or make something clear if thatâs the way the conversation goes, along with your vocabulary and the person you are speaking to. None should think they stay a learner because they do that.
I havenât read the last chapter yet - mostly because I was reading on the bus and the fact itâs in Welsh felt like so much of a vicarious triumph that I had Something In My Eye and had to put it away for fear of public embarrassment.
I have just downloaded the book for yesterdayâs price of ÂŁ2.99 . I am currently on holiday in sunny Blackpool and am sitting outside with a pint watching the world go by . A perfect place to start on the book . I can hear a family chatting in Cymraeg a few tables away from me which is nice to hear
As I said. The words we use about ourselves are Really Important.
I donât mean to be hostile to anyone, wherever they are on their language journey, But, in my experience, too many people call themselves a learner for far longer than is necessary or true. And in doing so they diminish their own achievements and do themselves down.
I certainly know that with Welsh, in Wales, people seem reluctant to say they are able to speak Welsh, whereas someone who can speak French or Spanish to a far lesser degree (sometimes the same person!) would be happy to describe themselves as able to speak French or Spanish.
To be honest, Iâve lost a lot of interest in defining what a âWelsh speakerâ actually is, as Iâve learned the language.
A very few people (if any) in Wales canât speak any Welsh, there are people who can speak as much Welsh as anyone can any other language, and in between there are a load of others.
Arbitrary lines arenât much use to individuals - personal goals and enjoying using the language are.
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Oh⌠So I just spent half an hour writing a review and an hour trying to gather up the courage to press submit, finally pressed submit and then read this⌠:â) Oh well
I didnât know about that limitation. (Wonder if itâs the same on all Amazon sites).
They should have done the check at the point where you clicked to start writing the review.
How annoying of them.