I started with the northern and on completion, did much of the southern, after finding I had a little difficulty understanding, Iestyn on my first Bootcamp. I found it very useful for general comprehension of the spoken language; and following more on the radio and television. I catch myself mixing elements of both courses depending on whom I’m speaking to: much to my own amusement.
I found myself after a few hours shooting through the southern lessons as there’s not much difference between them.
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Hello! I’m on lesson 10 of Course 1 and am really enjoying it, doing 1 or 2 lessons a week.
However, I’ve only just seen that people seem to recommend doing Level 1 rather than Course 1.
Should I stop and start doing Level 1 or carry on with Course 1? What do you think?
Thought I would chip in here. I started with first half a dozen lessons of the old course one.
Then switched to the new level 1. I think its much better and have now abandoned all of the old course material on Aran’s advice.
He was quite right too but I did have to get used to the new material first. Once you get used to it you will find new level 1 is far better. Just my opinion though
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Thanks Ann!
Should add that I’m doing Southern.
You are welcome. Mine is Southern too. 
If you’re progressing smoothly, then it doesn’t really matter too much either way 
I think the new material is a lot better - but we know the old stuff works too. The only thing I’d bear in mind is that we’re not currently producing new material for the southern version as fast as we’d like, although fingers crossed that will change in the not-too-distant future…
If you do decide to switch to the new Level 1, maybe when you have finished it, you could quickly run through the last couple of lessons of Course1 and see how you get on.
Then it might be worth going through the Course 1 vocabulary. Some of it may be familiar by then, but it should probably fill in a few gaps.
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Hi, I am pleased to say that I have just completed course 1 and i’m still going on Level 1 on lesson 18. I’m enjoying the Welsh language and never thought that I would be speaking Welsh like I am. Awesome I just want to thank everyone and I will continue on I’m still looking for people to talk to however, I’m sure they will turn up Dioch.
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Hi, I am coming to the end of Level 1, it has been awesome had a bit of frustration when I thought that I was doing alright and then I hit lesson 21, wow a bit of a mouthful however, it was great when I think of how much there is to learn and actually what makes or puts a language together. I will leave thinking too hard about that for now still loving the learning tho yes I did get a bit frustrated last night but I think that was a good thing and a wake up call. Still have not found anyone to talk too that is possibly whats letting me down a bit so I just keep talking to myself thanks .
Everyone has ups and downs with different lessons, Peter, don’t worry about that - you don’t need to master every individual lesson to end up speaking the language
Hello! So I’m a little confused. I’ve been trying to learn for some time now (read: years) but I’ve had to take some huge breaks leaving me only on lesson 6 of Course 1. I’ve been terrible at using the forum, and can’t remember seeing the Levels when I first started. As I have come relatively short on my learning journey, should I jump over to Level 1? Or finish Course 1? See I’m not sure I understand what the difference is other than one being newer! I hope someone can explain! Diolch!
That’s what I’d recommend - the Levels are a complete rewrite of the approach, using everything that I learnt from feedback from a lot of learners over the first three or four years of the course - and they also take you into our new approach to listening exercises (every five sessions) which I think are much, much more efficient than anything in the old courses…
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Diolch, sounds great, I will do that then!
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Keep us posted on how it goes! And let us know when you hit the wall…
I’m approaching the end of Level 1 now (a terrifying thought), and was just wondering about the Course 1 vocabulary sessions. Would they be of any use to me at this point or is the material covered throughout Level 1? Or do they use different sentence structures/verb forms and would just confuse me?
A superb thought and a superb achievement! 
Refresh my memory - are you doing the northern or southern version? If you’re doing the northern, I’d say press straight on - there’s certainly nothing particularly important left in the vocabs that hasn’t been cooked into Level 1 - and we’ll get to the end of recording Level 2 in the pretty near future…
If you’re doing southern, we’re going to be publishing quite a bit more in the next two or three months, but there will be a little lag-time - so in that case, you might enjoy doing the vocabs, on a ‘do NOT worry about any unfamiliar bits in them’ basis only…
I’m doing the Northern course. I’ll press on then! Diolch!
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How are you finding the listening exercises? Are you giving them 5 minutes a day? It’ll make a huge difference for you
I always listen to them a few times on a day I do a lesson, and in the car. If I’m not driving or doing a lesson I do forget often… I’ve made my car (when on my own or with just Tom) a Welsh only zone, now I’ve discovered I can get Radio Cymru in Lancaster and Manchester! Well, Welsh only except for the traffic reports!