SSiW and the Big Change - brace yourselves!

[Bleddyn]

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

[AlanP]

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 Does the Growth Club need flagging up again for newer members or those that might have overlooked it - or am I just out-of-date?

[daschaich]

The UK to US converter I used last night had it at about $3.50 originally… so 5x is not 100% accurate, but it is closer than double

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.

[aran]

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

Our shot at helping NAFOW *and* breaking the Million Speakers target

I was thinking in Washington about how we help children acquire words. Not how we teach them a whole language - just how we give them a few words. It was because of what Donna Lloyd Jones said about the NAFOW age profile. She was right - it’s not a young crowd. But as I looked around the tables while she was speaking, I could see a different crowd - the people I’d met who were there because they’d learnt some Welsh. It was a much, much younger crowd. And I thought - the language isn’t an add…

Does the Growth Club need flagging up again for newer members

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…

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…

[amandalaing]

supporting the Dragon app

Dragon app?? Whats a dragon app.

[rich]

It’s when a dragon has 40 winks!

[aran]

Our shot at helping NAFOW *and* breaking the Million Speakers target

I was thinking in Washington about how we help children acquire words. Not how we teach them a whole language - just how we give them a few words. It was because of what Donna Lloyd Jones said about the NAFOW age profile. She was right - it’s not a young crowd. But as I looked around the tables while she was speaking, I could see a different crowd - the people I’d met who were there because they’d learnt some Welsh. It was a much, much younger crowd. And I thought - the language isn’t an add…

[tatjana]

This is a really nice idea. Perhaps when the Growth Club comes to an end those people might be persuaded to maintain a small contribution each month to a scholarship fund. The money all goes towards developing the course anyway.

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. …

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…

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

[aran]

If you switch me off I’ll switch me on again … unless you ban me.

[Mandy]

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

[aran]

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…

[Mandy]

Diolch

[Helene]

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

[Mandy]

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

[aran]

Aiming to be up and running this week!

[Mandy]

Great! How will I find it? Mandy

[aran]

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…

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).

[JohnYoung]

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

[aran]

You did indeed! And I gather there were some interesting background chats about SSiW happening there, but I’ll leave that for Beca to talk about when she gets the hang of the forum…

[stephenhoughton]

What an amazing resource! Thanks Beca and everyone involved.