I’ve been looking at a five day residential with popeth cymraeg…its described as an intensive course.
I’m sure bootcamp would be very beneficial but with two mini bootcamps arranged already maybe something to learn new things?
Has anyone any experience of popeth cymraeg?
Having completed all course material what level should i aim for (though i hate this mynediad, sylfaen etc stuff)
I see it was a local initiative in Denbigh. I suppose its value depends on the quality and experience of the teachers and of the students. I’m sure lot of Forum folk will be interested to hear how it goes, what they teach and how well! It seems to date from the late 90s, so has lasted nearly 20 years!
Ioan Talfryn of cariad@iath etc is the Director of Popeth Cymraeg, so the course should be pretty good
My thoughts as well. It looks an interesting thing to join in with as it’s such a good price and I’d be really curious to experience a different teaching method.
Surely if we’ve got to the end of SSiW course/level one we must be somewhere around the end of entry 2, beginning foundation 1. [quote=“henddraig, post:2, topic:7210”]
date from the late 90s, so has lasted nearly 20 years
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That will be really interesting to experience, sort of the era of ‘Now You’re Talking’ that can be found on Youtube. that’s fun to watch not so much for the Welsh but for some of the fashion 
I’ve no experience of popeth cymraeg but would be interested to hear about it.
If you’ve done all the current SSiW material and are speaking regularly your level of speaking ability is probably up there with Uwch - these are people who’ve been learning Welsh for years. Then it’s down to how much you want to push yourself with the reading and writing on the course.
I can only provide my experiences having done some day courses with Coleg Gwent
After about 6 months and the old Course 1 and Course 2 I did a weekend course at Sylfaen level and it was fine. I had done no reading/writing, but had no problem in following along with all the stuff about who had what cold/earache/stomach ache. I did feel a dunce when it came to calling out vocab and filling in blanks in sentences, but perhaps that was payback for all the uhs and ahs that came back at me when I spoke to people…
Around a year later and following Course 3 and a bootcamp I did day course at Canolradd level. Speaking was again fine, and in fact they taught using Welsh, rather than English. The grammar was a mix of some stuff that was totally new to me, but also stuff that I was comfortable with because of SSiW and was considered to be pretty advanced for Canolradd
You will learn new stuff on bootcamp though, although its focus is to improve your speaking confidence rather than teaching grammar.
Oh that was nerve racking…i phoned in welsh and asked to speak to someone about the courses in july.
The response was lightning fast so i asked her to repeat it a little more slowly.
She took my details and someone will call me back.
I thanked her and despite my clumsiness no english was harmed in the making of this phonecall.
Oh my word, my head is spinning.
A familiar phrase and one I’ve practiced a lot to be ready for the ‘wild’!!
Wow. That’s impressive. Well done 
Oh da iawn ti! 
We visited there and bought copies of their course material for Mynediad 1 & 2. They are pretty good but you need someone to practise with which is OK for us as it is what Pat uses and I was (then!) a bit ahead of her. It does go fairly fast, though, and the folders and the CDs need to be used together.
Just checked out Popeth Cymraeg and it looks really good and a very good price . I really want to do an intensive residential course somewhere or a boot camp but would be impossible due to parental responsibilities . I notice they do day schools which would be possible to do but also have no idea at what level I would put myself down at although I would guess that anyone who has done the whole of the SSIW course would be at a high level
Da iawn, ti!!! 
Well done for phoning in Welsh - scary for ages after face to face has started to get easier! When someone calls back, you can always ask them directly which level you’d fit into.
As far as speaking ability goes, you’re certainly up with the Uwch level. It just depends on your comfort zone regarding the reading and writing side, if you haven’t done much formally. I didn’t regret diving straight into a Uwch 2-day course after doing courses 1-3, although there were loads of things that hadn’t finished (started?) falling into place yet. Canolradd may be a bit boring for you. (Depending on the rest of the class of course).
I went on the 5-day Popeth Cymraeg course at Nant Gwrtheyrn, It was for people who had done more than 6 months of Welsh as a minimum and was really suitable for anyone above that level. You will learn from their materials, whatever stage you’re at.
It was similar to Cariad@Iaith, built around a story/play, and you pick up everything as you go along (not disimilar to SSiW), play games and so on. It is very different from a standard course. There is no formal grammar, no reading aloud in front of the rest of the class, no embarrassment when you make mistakes - you don’t even use your own name (so it’s not you making the mistakes anyway). I would definitely recommend it - lots of fun and I learnt so much from it.
I still listen to the CD of the story, sometimes at double speed like the listening exercises 