SSiW and the Big Change - brace yourselves!

Welsh General / Questions
#133

Diolch o galon, Bob! :star: :star2:

Brace yourselves for when we start muttering and whinging endlessly about the Dragon app… :wink:

#134

As a Growth Club member, I’d go along with @AlanP, @emmamartindale and @Bob if that leads to increasing accessibility to the SSiW resource.

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#135

Is the dragon app anything to do with the voice dictation application Dragon?

#136

I must admit that I’d not previously looked closely at the Growth Club - with its 736 posts it’s the sort of thing I wonder whether I’d still be alive by the time I finished reading it! And I get the impression that quite a few joined in 2015? But from @aran’s reply above, maybe this is still the best way of helping increase accessibility to SSIW? Does the Growth Club need flagging up again for newer members or those that might have overlooked it - or am I just out-of-date?

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#137

In the interest of quickly clarifying the relative increase, let me mention that no currency conversion is necessary since the units cancel out in the ratio. So if we include VAT we have a factor of 12/3.95=3, while without VAT it would be just 10/3.95, basically a factor of two-and-a-half (2.5x).

That $3.50 looks like it would correspond to something more like £2.95 (or even £2.59) rather than the previous £3.95, which would have been roughly $5 per month. Unfortunately this doesn’t help—the current price is as high as it ever was, even though the previous price was not quite as cheap as it may have appeared.

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#138

Nope, although speech recognition is part of it - it’s the idea we’ve started talking about here:

:slight_smile:

A kind thought, but the Growth Club is closed now - it got us through the tight squeeze we were in at the time, and as soon as we can (hopefully imminent!) we’re going to be offering Growth Clubbers the chance to switch off their contributions and keep full access to everything for ever…:slight_smile:

We may also offer them the option to switch it over to supporting the Dragon app, if we’ve got a working model to show by then… :wink:

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#139

Dragon app?? Whats a dragon app.

#140

It’s when a dragon has 40 winks! :smile:

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#141

:slight_smile:

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#142

Why not just hold the Growth Club without terminating it. At least I don’t expect anything in return but to be able to access the materials through which I could learn and improve. This is reward enough for my Growth Club contributions + monthly membership I already am paying too. …

If you switch me off I’ll switch me on again … unless you ban me. :slight_smile: because SSiW gave me so much, not just the possibility of learning language(s).

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#143

:smiley: :laughing: :star: :star2:

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#144

Hi, where will I find Beca’s new stuff? Diolch

#145

We’ll be figuring out a section in the VERY near future - I’m whipping Ifan on an important piece of stats work that we need, and then we’ll be opening up the advanced material either (fingers crossed) by the end of this week or (worst case scenario) next week… :slight_smile:

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#146

Diolch

#147

Awww. Rats. I’m just too late to the party. I’ll finish Level 1, then subscribe.
PS: I’m loving it, even though it is really hard work, and am delighted with the progress I’ve experienced in just a few weeks. I just need to keep going this time and not let circumstances intervene.
Thank you :slight_smile:

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#149

Hi, Any news on Becca’s new section? sorry to nag! I’m just super keen!
Mandy

#150

Aiming to be up and running this week! :slight_smile:

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#151

Great! How will I find it? Mandy :grinning:

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#152

By the skin of our teeth, thanks to some fast last minute coding from @kinetic, this will be live tomorrow - when you click on ‘Learn’ on the learning side of the site (so that’s two clicks on ‘Learn’ from here on the forum) you’ll see ‘Structured courses’, ‘Challenges’, ‘Growth Club’ (if you’re a member) and ‘Intensive courses’ - from an indeterminate point tomorrow afternoon, ‘Growth Club’ will have switched to ‘Advanced’, and if you click on that you’ll see the new content.

It’s going to be pretty lo-fi at first, but we’ll prettify it in the not-too-distant future… :slight_smile:

P. S. Growth Club members will still be able to access GC content - just by clicking on ‘Advanced’, and then on the link at the top of the next page (that will only appear to GC members).

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#153

Great stuff; and as an introduction, I’m sure I heard you, @beca-brown on Radio Cymru’s Post Cyntaf this morning :slight_smile:

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