Well, here we are. My week off is over and I am trying to make a wrap on it. What to say? There was no particular activities in Cymraeg direction regarding listening, watching etc. I’ve listened to some music on radio and SoundCloud but nothing more and I did vocab lesson every day except yesterday and today. Today I’ve listened (only listened though) to Lesson 25 of Course 2 and the purpose of it was searching for the differences inbetween Cymraeg gog and Cymraeg de in order to prepare a bit for a kind of special conversation vis Skype. But about this a bit later …
This week was extra rich with Skype conversations and I can be only happy for this. I’ve had conversations with @stella, @margaretnock, @brigitte twice (one (now I already can say this) regular and one out of schedule ) and with @ramblingjohn just about an hour or so ago. Every session was about an hour long and in most of them about an hour of Cymraeg was spoken so I can be satisfied.
Each and every conversation was different and interesting but it almost never was in a range of lessons but rather beyond this which many times caused me a challenge (but I’m usually guilty to get off track - hehe), what is also not just good but very good (umm … well … as long as you can still pear into gairadur once or twice on a session because you just didn’t learn the word yet) …
Each and every one of those I’ve sponek to, have their own way of conversing and with each of them I could talk about different things so I can say I practically didn’t “ymarfer” but rather had a proper chat (mostly) in Cymraeg almost similar to one I could have in a cafe sitting with someone at the table with the cup of coffee (yah, you can have whatever I’m always for coffee though) and talk.
The conversation with @ramblingjohn was but something special because I wanted to ask him so many things we both didn’t learn yet but just didn’t have enough of vocabulary to do so. So we decided we’d siarad next month again and I hope our conversations would become those on a regular basis in which we can learn from each other …
I admit I was a bit awkward today as I all of a sudden forgot even words I should know already but it will surely go smoother and smoother every next time. It might very well be I’ve invented some new structures which actually don’t exist in Cymraeg in wish to be understood in what I wanted to say. …
I hope I and @elizabeth_j_corbett_ (@elizabeth_jane) will manage to establish skype “connection” for our sgwrs tomorrow. I find her as way advanced learner so it might be there will be moments of silence from me in conversation again, but surely not as much silence as I provided in first ever conversation with Margaret. In comparison with conversation with @aran, Aran’s one was rain of words against that first one with Margaret, really. Why (really) I was silent that time, I really don’t know now. - hehe
So, back to work tomorrow, some listening to Cymraeg stuff on the bus and vocab lesson at the evening + conversation with Elizabeth is tomorrow’s plan but you never know what more can unexpectedly be added to this schedule.
Thank you all for taking your time and talking with me and I’m sorry if I might disapoint someone as one would maybe think I’m more advanced learner then I appeared to be when having the conversation.
Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi bawb!
Hwyl!