Plus: āI want to find a shop near the hotel where I can buy a few postcardsā <-- will be immediately useful to me next week :D. And Aranās voice seemed to be back to normal again (he sounded a bit odd to me in L2C24+25 for some reason). And the recap of bits from Level 2 was nice - a combination of familiar + good practice.
Minus: the volume seemed to go up and down, fading in and out seemingly at random rather annoyingly. Not sure whether this was due to the iOS app or the audio file itself. Also, the pauses seemed to be very long, especially for the short items such as āshopā or ānear the hotelā ā are they all the same length rather than being longer for long snippets and shorter for short ones? So there were several pauses where I had ālongā finished speaking before Catrin chimed in.
The volume bit has been fixed. When you get to Challenge 3, you should notice that the ups-and-downs have been flattened out a bit Iām pretty sure that Ifan has also adjusted how the length of those pauses is calculated (again, starting with Challenge 3).
(Will Challenges 1 & 2 be re-mastered at some point? I gather that with the new setup this is mostly a mechanical thing rather than having to get Aran and Catrin sit down for another round of recordings?)
Iām sure that those two will be remastered at some point - but the focus right now is on getting the machinery tuned up so that we can produce more lessons.
In the mean time, Iād also like to give my thanks to those who didnāt wait until Level 3 was completed but went through the first two Challenges and provided feedback so that the subsequent ones could be improved ā and to those who did the improving
Weāre doing a rebuild of the SSiBorg at the moment to allow us to keep to a faster/smaller cycle of build->publish - so probably going to be two weeks to a month of radio silence, but after thatās over, Iām confident weāll be publishing on a weekly basis from then onā¦
Can I ask about āhyd yn oedā. I feel Iāve missed something obvious. Sometimes it appears at the beginning of a sentence and sometimes at the end(?). What am I missing?
Haia Aran,
Dwi wedi bod yn mwynhau lefel 3 yn fawr iawn!
Oes yna ācourse guideā mynd efo yr audio hyd yn hyn?
Dim brys, dwi jyst ddim isio colli unrhywbeth!
Dwiān aros, dwiān aros,
Mwy lefel tri,
Dwiām licio memrise,
Gwers saith? Ga i?
Efo y ssiborg,
pob dydd dwiān siomedig,
Gwers arall yn fuan,
Byddai oān bendigedig,
Hefyd yn bwysig,
Dim bardd ydw i,
Felly dwi angen gwers newydd
Maeān mwy hawdd i mi
Gyda llaw, dim ond jƓc! 'Sgen i ddim digon o amynedd!
By the way, just a joke! I donāt have enough patience!
Hi Aran,
Quick question - Iāve had a new bank card and need to update my details but on the screen it wonāt let me change the card number and CVC code. I can change address and expiry date but not the actual card details. Can anyone help?? I donāt want to miss any of the new level 3 when it gets added on! Diolch,
Jenny
Great to see that the new challenges have arrived. I missed their arrival so am now starting to catch up. I am impressed with the sound quality.
Perhaps I have over-prepared myself with course 3 (N & S) and also plenty of Radio Cymru, but I am finding Challenge 7 to be a rewarding and stress free experience.
Iām pretty sure that Ifan has also adjusted how the length of those pauses is calculated (again, starting with Challenge 3).