Week 7 lessons 12 and 13

[mari-hughes-haddon]

Does anyone have any tips on how to master these two? The Week 7 email says don’t get discouraged and I’m supposed to be moving on to Week 8 today but I still can’t get through these two lessons without using the pause button a lot of the time… Diolch!

[AlanP]

Challenges 12-14 are notoriously demanding, but the general advice is just to press on regardless. However, without using the pause button on a continuous basis I would never have got through any of the challenges. But I’m now, a year or more on, able to hold my own in Cymraeg and am having regular chats on Skype and the Slack website. Here are a few links to previous discussions on these particular challenges:

Level 1 Challenge 13 & 14 - help please?

I’ve seemed to hit a wall here with sentences such as “Your sister wanted you to tell me last night” and “Someone wanted to tell me” etc. I think my confusion is about where Oedd goes in the sentence and where the linking 'n, yr go if needed at all. Some sentences run in the same order as English whilst others are very jumbled. I guess I have to push through and just try to learn the various patters but has anyone found an easier way to work these out? Many thanks.

Level 1 Challenge 13 to 15. (was: Confused about how to go on)

In the last few days I had tried to speed up a bit, and it was going quite well, until I came across challenge 13. A complete disaster. At some point I felt my brain melting, and I was only able to utter one or two words in each sentence, and a bunch of unintelligible random sort-of-Welsh-sounding syllables. I searched for tips on the Forum and saw that a few other people felt stuck at this point (that was already a bit reassuring, by the way). A few even repeated the same challenge over and…

Level one, challenge 13 - unlucky for some?

Hi all, I completed Course One (S) a little while back, and after a short learning break, decided to have a stab at Level One. I’ve found it good, and certainly different to Course One. Not better or worse - just different! I thought I’d been making quite good progress - that is, until I hit Challenge 13! For some reason, I’ve become really, really bogged down. After wading through a sea of treacle in the first half of the challenge, I hit a solid brick wall in the second half. Despite repeati…

[alison-11]

Helo Mari, I’m at the same stage as you, and I plan to just press on regardless in the hope that some of it will have lodged somewhere in my head for future use! I had to use the pause button just to try to remember the sentences in English I was supposed to be saying in Welsh. Kept getting things wrong too. But, I’m taking all the advice, not trying to master everything in those lessons, and moving on.

[aran]

but I still can’t get through these two lessons without using the pause button a lot of the time

That really is NOT a problem! In fact, from the sound of it, you’re probably doing better with these two nasty ones than about 90% of other people…

[Deborah-SSi]

There’s some great encouragement on these challenges in Slack from people who’ve gone through them - if you’re doing one of the supported courses

For example:

I’ve just finished challenge 19 and I thought I’d pop back here with a bit of encouragement. I struggled immensely with challenges 12 & 13 and thought I’d never progress past there. I simply couldn’t remember the phrases. (Hmm…not too encouraging so far!). But I pushed on regardless and forgot these 2 challenges. After challenge 18 I thought I’d try them again. Well…either Cat and Aran have recorded whole new phrases in that couple of weeks, or…(more likely!), the process works! I found challenges 12 & 13 much easier.