Hi all - here we have a lifeboat crew member, so lots of vocab around the sea, boats and beaches! 
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Well I really enjoyed that - and goodness what a dedicated person Mali is - talking as she is about the the serious business of saving peoples lives…in her spare time. 
Very impressive.
I thought I understood this very well but when I went through the transcript had accumulated quite a few words by the end. However, I got a reasonable understanding again regardless…which is the thing which has moved on for me.
Mali has a very useful habit of saying a Wenglish or English version of the word before the full Welsh version - great! That may have helped in this case 
Thank you once again.
Rich 
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Excellent! Glad it went well for you. And I agree, amazing dedication for someone who has a pretty demanding daytime job. Respect…
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I’ve just listened to the first 10 minutes so far.
I love the sea and the ocean, and also I enjoy water sports (so I’m very aware of the dangers and of the importance of lifeguards, by the way).
Therefore I expected to understand a lot this time, but then…I didn’t! 
I even totally missed the paddle board, even though I do it from time to time.
However there was a couple of funny moments that cheered me up, when I was a bit discouraged:
The first is that she seems to repeat, out of the blue, amor…amor (= love, as you can guess), with a piedmontese accent - that’s just quite hilarious. 
The second time, cause I was just hearing: [unintelligible sounds] blablablablablabla…ond…blablablablablabla…kayak… blablabla…gallu…blablablablablabla…prif beiranydd YES, I KNOW THIS!
And right away I got sydd heb eillio, am amcan gyfrif appear in my mind because that’s how the lyrics stuck in my head go on after that! 
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I know this isn’t a reply to your post but I’m looking for something I read recently on forum about difficulty of downloading the Advanced onto iphone but can’t find it so asking you here…
I can only access the units if I’m connected via wireless not 4G - is that the same for everyone or is there some fix I can do? Diolch!
Hello Jenny,
are you using Android or iPhone app?
I’m using iphone
Sorry Jenny, I don’t have an iPhone, and this problem cannot happen on my iPod because it only has wi-fi.
However wait here, I’m “calling” now… @rich who might know (or @lewie for sure!)
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Hi @Jenny
Can I check whether you have the App or you are using a browser…
If you have the App can you see the advanced tab - by sliding past the challenges? Or is it that this tab has nothing showing on it…
Rich 
Diolch yn fawr iawn Gisella!
…sorry just reading back on the messages a bit more thoroughly 
…you can download the recordings into your phone by holding your finger on the one you want (and get rid of the ones you’ve downloaded by the same method)…see picture below. Then you don’t need a connection at all to play them.
Rich
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Rich’s advice below is very helpful … so I forgot to ask: what is different when you are on 4G? Is it that you don’t see the Advanced page - or that the lesson just isn’t playing?
Brilliant Rich - thanks! I wasn’t holding down on the lesson for long enough to show the download pop up. I had the first one but then none of the others so have listened to Beca’s life story so many times that I almost know it off by heart! Diddoral iawn!
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Thanks Lewie - I just wasn’t holding down for long enough but all clear now and looking forward to more of Beca’s chats.
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Loved this. Interesting mixture for me of getting quite a bit of the gist, but missing detail in between until I read the trawsgriff.
Some wonderful new expressions which I shall try and lock into my memory:
heb os nac oni bai (without a shadow of a doubt)
and
bondigrwybwyll (something like ‘it goes without saying’, short for na bo ond ei grybwyll)
And some ‘sea’ words I didn’t know. I knew traeth (beach), glan (coast) and arfordir (seaside). But, for example, tywod (a stretch of sand) llanw (tide) and llongddrylliadau (shipwrecks - worked that one out from context!) were new to me. I also liked the fact that the word for headland is trwyn (nose).
When I told my mum about this week’s episode, she told me about an old friend of hers who was a GP on Pen Llyn for many years - for some of his patients, the only way for him to get to them would be for the lifeboat to take him.
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You poor thing!!! 
Wow, that’s certainly a new use for a lifeboat! Glad you enjoyed the content and vocab!
Not at all! Loving your chats - realising that hours of listening to those pesky chipmunks has really really helped! No longer panic because I can pick out words I don’t know or only vaguely know. (The only problem with this is that while I’m asking myself what cystadleol means the chat’s moved on and I have to gallop a bit to catch up! But having the transcript is great.) Diolch!
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Fantastic! Glad you’re enjoying them. I love doing them - people are endlessly fascinating!
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