Just finished the initial Arabic intro to yellow belt. Now at stage of decision to sign up for the whole course, which is £15 per month, maybe I will stop my OAP gym membership and just walk along the Taff Trail:disguised_face:
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So the course is very good way to learn. I like the fact that the Arabic script appears with the male voice. I’ve learnt to read Arabic and this has the tashkeel (vowels), very beneficial for non native learning and especially good for my 64 year old brain.
So I’m really thinking about this. The only “jitters” for me is the Arabic is more MSA which is generally used on the news, politics etc.
My Lebanese wife and Egyptian friend just replied when I let them listen. “We just don’t speak Arabic this way” The Lebanese/Egyptian dialect is much softer.
I might just wait until maybe some dialects become available. It’s a dilemma for me!
Just seen this! Yay! But need to get Greek, Irish, and Portuguese under control (and stop inserting phonologically-plausible Cymricisms into the Greek) or it’s all going to go pear-shaped. I have dipped my toe in, but I shall be strong.
For now…
We will definitely be adding more variations, so I think it might be a good idea to wait a bit - we’ve just had a shot at Quebecois French, for example, which I’m really excited about - so no reason for us not to crack on with Lebanese and Egyptian as well 
@RichardBuck yeah, it doesn’t really help avoid distraction, does it?! 
I think first draft Estonian should be up there now as well
Amazing! 
Greek for Welsh speakers and Basque for Welsh speakers would be ones I’d really like to see.
If languages for Welsh speakers are a little way off then Basque for English speakers would also be good please!
Hopping on the “for Welsh speakers” bandwagon and French for Welsh speakers would be great.
We definitely will do the ‘for Welsh speakers’ stuff, but we had a really, really disappointing response when we released some Irish for Welsh speakers content - don’t think it even got into double figures for users! So that’s a bit lower down our list now, definitely after Welsh for x language speakers…
I am keen to do Basque for English speakers, but I know Basque for Spanish speakers took a chunk of our support crew’s time, so I’m trying not to interrupt them too much while they focus on our paid-for courses… but maybe we can kick that up the list when we’ve got most of our currently planned English-for-x courses done
This member of the support crew would be very happy to do that
Can we ask what’s planned, and what’s paid/not? (I’ve got some English students whom I’d love to push in your direction, if it’s suitable and affordable - one Ukrainian speaker in particular that I have in mind, but she’s not the only one.)
Fabulous - I’ve just fired up the Basque for English speakers course then, it is translating seeds as we speak 
@RichardBuck we’ve got English-for Chinese, Korean, French, Japanese, German, Spanish, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese speakers all under way at the moment - the intention is for all our English courses to be paid-for, but I think we’d like to make some deliberate exceptions, such as for Ukrainian speakers.
I’m with Tom for three days in Chester from tomorrow - the last time I tried to do an English-for course it got a bit hiccupy, but it might work well for us to take on English-for-Ukrainian speakers as a side quest while we’re in Chester
@Deborah-SSi Basque for English speakers is live, for when you have time to do a sanity check on it! 
Did a little this morning.
Wow. Greek and Welsh suddenly seem straight forward in comparison 
That SOV order will take some getting used to!
People often ask me if Basque is harder than Welsh - it’s in a different league
So looking forward…
I remember (the translation of) a Basque sentence from a textbook I borrowed once… It seems that some Basque verbs are so fearsome that even native speakers don’t conjugate them, instead using an infinitive and doing all the hard stuff with an auxiliary verb. (A bit like wnes i weld instead of mi welais i, but, er, rather more so.)
Anyway, the sentence in question meant “The father had given the apples to the children.” As far as I recall, the structure was “The father + apples + to give + to the children + he had them to them,” where the last bit sorts all the syntax out for you, and is all one word in Basque! Something like that, anyway. As Gareth would say, “fun”.
This would be Aitak umei sagarrak eman zizkien where the ‘k’ on ‘aitak’ shows it’s the subject of a transitive verb, the ‘ei’ indicates ‘to the (pl)’ the ‘rak’ on ‘sagarrak’ shows it’s a plural direct object, and ‘zizkien’ (the auxiliary verb) can be broken into ‘zi-, 3rd person sg subject, -n’ showing a past action, ‘zki’ a plural direct object, and ‘e’ a plural indirect object. It’s all quite logical, once you get the hang of it 
How about Catalan? Catalonia and the other areas where Catalan is spoken, is home to millions of new people who want to work and settle down there. I know that Catalan courses for new speakers always fill up very quickly, and not every immigrant comes from a Spanish speaking country, so a course to learn Catalan from English would be a most welcome addition to this fantastic resource.
Polish please.
Kindly refrain from mentioning Mr. Sheen.
Don’t take that the wrong way, I love Michael Sheen.
Yes, I AM still that random.
Hi Gary,
It has already been built and can be found in the web app at www.saysomethingin.app.