So, much less time available this week and my backstop option of listening in the car wasn’t the solution it usually is, as with the noise in the car it was a bit tricky to hear - not a problem as headphones around the house did the trick - in the end.
This was a patchy one for me but I suppose it does follow a pattern in terms of the things that tripped me up - standard stuff ok, specialist vocab - dodgy.
Some areas seemed easy to understand - not too quick (apart from @beca-brown wrth gwrs, but hey…
) - I notice on my transcript that they are ‘scribble free’.
Other areas when talking about becoming an architect and the Llety Arall project, there were simply, quite a few words that were new or new-ish. Couldn’t conjure them up whilst listening - the transcript and lookup s came to the rescue. So once more, one to be put down to experience.
I have seen recently that a person uses 5 to 10 thousand words a day from a pallet of 20 to 30 thousand
. I guess I need to listen to as much as possible otherwise it could take a while
I’m trying to listen to more Radio Cymru now which pleasingly, seems more within reach. Dal ati!
I thought this Sgwrs was very interesting in all sorts of ways - chav In Welsh is er, chav, and I know the question in MacDonalds in Caernarfon now! Just need to perfect my reply, ”Mac mawr pryd o fwyd gyda…
It was great.
Thank you once again.
Rich 