I may as well come out of the cupboard and admit that my curses don’t work!
Proof is that Aran and Iestyn still seem to be around…
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We have that in English too, in the form: “A trouble shared is a trouble halved”. 
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Hi,
I have just finished the first level, and I can only say that the idea of not repeating lessons, and carry on on to the next really does work. No, I don’t know how to say it all, but Aran repeats the new things in following lessons and builds on them so it is a continuous learning curve.
Perhaps I should now take my own advice and jump in to level 2 without repeating the last challenge in level 1 as I planned😂.
Bye for now.
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Yes, go for it! 
Thank you Mike, I’ll remember!
Thank you @janfrancis84, and yes, in light of your own experiences, go for it! 
I skipped the lesson yesterday so I want to do at least 2 today. It’s very encouraging to read everyone’s replies!
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Wow, I admire all of you who can listen to a lesson once and then move on! I guess I’m the odd one out here as I have to listen 3-4 or more times before I have a working memory of the vocabulary. The sentence structure settles into my brain more permanently that way. I used to compare my learning method with others but then realised that we all learn differently and no one is “wrong” in the way he/she chooses to learn.
I (very strongly!) suspect that what you’re saying here is that you need the 3 or 4 repetitions to have the sense of conscious control that you want - but this is (almost certainly) an emotional decision rather than an actual neurological constriction. If you repeated by running the whole way through a Level before revisiting the start, you’d almost certainly discover that your brain had built memories in a series of layers under the level of your conscious control - in other words, you’d discover that you had learnt the earlier material successfully, despite not feeling at the time that you were retaining it.
As you say, though, making that emotional decision is fine - the most important thing is that you feel happy enough with the journey to keep travelling…
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Oh yes, definitely a conscious control! But then again, I sometimes forget why I walked into a room at home! I guess I base this on the fact that when I’m listening to Radio Cymru (even though it pretty much washes over me), when I hear words that I know I learned, but sometimes cannot remember the meaning, it worries me that I didn’t go over the lesson enough! I’m sure that with time, I will start comprehending more and won’t be so obsessive! I will soldier on though…currently at Level 2, lesson 2.
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This is what happens - but it can be tough to trust in it when you don’t feel/notice the improvements (because they mostly happen underneath the level of your conscious mind). Are you doing the listening exercises every day?
I’m moving on because @aran made it a dare… 
It goes against every inclination I have. I want to repeat, write stuff down and not move on until I understand everything and know how to say every sentence of every challenge in Welsh. So I do a bit of both: I don’t repeat the challenges but I do copy the vocab lists (by hand, it helps me learn the words better than by typing) and review before I do a challenge. I don’t look at them while doing the challenge though. I tried it once and although I got more right, the next challenge I noticed I had remembered less… how counterintuitive is that!
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It’s so interesting how we all have different ways of studying/learning. I don’t write things down and I also don’t find it necessary to use the pause button. I will often have entire sentences or snatches of phrases pop into my head instead of just single words and I have, on more than one occasion, had dreams in Welsh. I listen to Radio Cymru daily to get the flow of conversation but I don’t always listen to the exercises. I will start doing that and perhaps I can shorten my repetition of each lesson.
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