With the ‘nhw’ - no, don’t pronounce the h 
Time will tell! The first thing to do after your end-of-Bootcamp breather, though, will be to carry on with new material - it’s always better to do a full run through before revisiting lessons, if possible 
Liciwn i gael yr amser i astudio mwy 
I must talk aloud to myself - Rhaid i mi siarad yn uchel efo fi fy hun
Day 9: Lesson 9 of Course 2. Still listening to the lessons only once. Having skipped over so much in such a short time I do sometimes tend to get a bit confused over which new word is which as they are not yet all fully embedded in my memory. Things don’t all come instantly to mind so I still have to pause occasionally while I drag out the right phrase, although some come straight away. I rather like the phrase llyncu mul for to sulk.
The Daily Challenge. Record myself speaking for 3 minutes. As soon as I went to record myself my mind went blank, so I jotted down a few notes in English (not in Welsh) to remind me of what I could talk about.
I have uploaded it to Soundcloud.
But I warn you it really is dreadful. It’s probably the worst recording you have had, with far too many hesitations, very poor pronunciation as well as being full of mistakes. I apologize for torturing such a beautiful language.
I enjoyed your recording. Thanks
Janice, that is absolutely excellent! 
You really must stop this business of putting yourself down. You jumped into a really challenging situation, with added fear levels knowing that you were going to share it with people you don’t know, and you produced excellent, intelligible, real Welsh. You ought to be extremely proud of yourself.
You’re clearly doing superbly. The fact that you need to take time to think sometimes is absolutely normal - while the fact that some phrases come straight away is an exciting sign that your brain is starting to internalise some elements of the language, which is superb news.
All in all, many, many congratulations - but no more putting yourself down when you’re doing so extremely well!
Day 10: Lesson 10 of Course 2. On the whole I don’t have any major problems with doing the exercises, although I don’t pretend I always remember the words or phrases, because I frequently say the wrong thing. On the other hand I can often say the phrase without use of the pause button at all.
The Daily Challenge Speak to someone in Welsh for 10 minutes. I shall do this challenge, although it might not be immediately. I would find it much easier to speak to someone I could meet in person, but it isn’t that easy to find someone here who speaks Welsh. There must be some Welsh people here, but you can really just go up to strangers in the street and ask if they speak Welsh. That might well be fine in Wales, but not so much here in Essex. I know Skype is the other possibility, and I shall try to get my daughter to sort out my husband’s laptop so I can use that for Skype (mine is too old).
Yesterday’s challenge of recording myself speaking for 3 minutes has shown me how little I can actually say on my own. I realize my ability to recall the vocabulary I have learnt is at the moment still rather poor when not given a prompt by Aran. The challenges have shown me that besides merely doing the exercises as recorded, I need to do other ‘recall exercises’ as well, by trying to think of everyday things in Welsh as I go about my daily tasks, and maybe even writing down phrases in English, using the words already learnt, and then translating them aloud.
There will be many verbs for everyday activities that I haven’t learnt yet, e.g. ‘I am washing the pots’, and I shall have to look them up. And there will be many expressions I won’t know, for example what is the Welsh for ‘I am making a cup of tea’? Is it Dw i’n gwneud paniad o de? It could be, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that it is. And when it comes to saying phrases like ‘I am putting the kettle on’, it would be easy to make a mistake and make it sound as though I intend to wear it rather than switch it on, both of which can be ‘put on’ in English but do not necessarily use the same expression in Welsh.
I have enjoyed doing the Online Bootcamp. Going through the 10 lessons in 10 days was an interesting experience. I didn’t think I would remember very much at all of the previous lessons, but I was surprised at how much I could actually remember. In future I shan’t worry about moving on if I feel I am getting a bit stuck. I can always go back over the previous lesson later, and might well find that I no longer have such a problem with it.
The Challenges were useful as they were something different to what we have been doing with the exercises, and can be incorporated into the weekly routine. It could be useful to listen to the occasional podacast and try to understand what is being said.
Speaking aloud, even recording myself speaking, could also be useful exercises from time to time, particularly speaking without a written Welsh script, but ‘off the cuff’. I know from having learnt Italian that, at least for me, it is a matter of keep practising the language so that I am gradually able to recall things more freely, and hopefully eventually I am able to think in Welsh in the way that I can in Italian.
All in all the Online Bootcamp was very useful and it has given me ideas of how to progress with learning Welsh if I am serious about speaking it.
Thank you for the comments and encouragement.
Many congratulations, Janice - it’s very clear that you’ve achieved a great deal, and you should feel deservedly proud of what you’ve done.
Don’t worry about this - it’s a natural part of the process, because you haven’t had much opportunity to use your Welsh in conversational settings. It will come in due course. You might find that a simple pattern of spending 5 minutes each day only allowing your internal dialogue to be in Welsh, noting down what you want to say but can’t, and then asking for help on here (for example, yes, dwi’n gwneud panad o de is right!) will help you build your conversational muscles.
That’s probably the single most important takeaway you can have from this quick run-through, and as long as you remind yourself of that feeling any time you get a bit stuck, I am entirely confident that you’re going to end up a very good Welsh speaker indeed
wow that is very very impressive. Your accent is impeccable and I enjoyed listening .Anch’io parlo italiano.
Grazie del complimento, Maynard. Diolch yn fawr. I must admit I do find Italian much easier than Welsh, but that could just be because I learnt Italian many years ago, whereas I am very much a beginner at learning Welsh.