This might be silly of me, but it only recently occurred to me that we could have easily identifiable accents in other languagesā¦ I do enjoy hearing accents in English, so I can see how it might be thoroughly interesting hearing accents in Welsh
And thank you! Diolch. 
Hereās the link to online Radio Cymru via TuneIn from where I tend to listen. BBC Radio Cymru. If you register on TuneIn for free you can also save your Radio stations to play them whenever you want. Their phone app is also great. So, you donāt need to bother with Radio Cymru website if you have problems with this.
Enjoy listening.
When I did my first Bootcamp it was pointed out to me that I that I was stressing my words in the wrong place - on the last syllable instead of the next to last one, making what I was saying unintelligible to welsh speakers. This being pointed out to me made a massive difference because in days people could understand what I was saying: even without a native accent.
āThe rule in Welsh is that the accent, or stress, goes on the penult (the next-to-last syllable). There are a few exceptions to this general rule, to be noted in the lessons. A regular exception to this rule is that words ending in ā-hauā are accented on the last syllable.ā
ā¦ I have absolutely no idea what Iām stressing. But thatās helpful! Iāll try to keep an eye on that and see whatās coming out of my mouth.
Thank you, Tatjana! Iāll check that out now. Very helpful!
As everyone else has said, accents are slippery things - and if you pay close attention, youāll probably start to hear that itās fairly common for the two speakers to pronounce things slightly differently from each other (thatās certainly true for the northern version, anyway!)ā¦ 
Just a very quick comment here - that sounds as though you are probably either repeating sessions more than you need to, or making dramatically heavy use of the pause button (or both!).
You might find it interesting to do lessons 6 to 10 on a āno repetitionsā basis - particularly given that 6.1 and 6.2 are famously the worst lessons I wrote, and can lead to unnecessary pain and distress if you try to āget them rightāā¦ if you push on through to 10 and then revisit 6.1, you should find that it has magically become easier
Oooooooooo yes, believe him. Iāve done repetition on that famous lessons 6 until Iāve got a bit angry I canāt cope with them and went forward ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF COURSE. Then ā¦ I did some pause inbetween all (I admit) and humbly returned afterwards to those 6-ies. The question arised in me: āWhat in the name of God Iāve struggled that much about?ā It was way easier that second time. (shhh, donāt tell anyone I went through the whole course 2 times afterwards ā¦ - hehe).
But siriously donāt repeat those Lessons 6. Theyāre equally hard in both versions but if you push through it pays off. Magic of @aran works (even for me, stubborn and perfectionist as I am).
Eep - that sounds scary! But we can definitely give it a shotā¦ and Iām always willing to try new things.
I think, thus far, weāve done each lesson about three timesā¦ and we try to use what weāve learnt as much as we can between times. Part of our problem is that we do Welsh daily for a few days and then get busy and donāt do it for a monthā¦ which I realise isnāt the best way to learn stuff! My former clarinet teacher would be appalled that I didnāt learn better practice habits from her. 
And youāre right, of course! We had noticed different pronunciations in the lessons tooā¦ not so much at the beginning, but the further we go, the more I hear!
The using what you can between times is brilliant, and will make a huge difference. 
The triple repetition is a very common pattern, but what is actually happening there is that you are letting your need for conscious control overrule the learning system - your brain is telling you that you donāt know it all, so youāve got to repeat the lesson. With experience and trust youāll get to the point where you know that the repetition which builds the learning will come from the way in which we revisit every word and every structure as you keep on going through the course.
This runs counter to most traditional norms of learning, but itās actually not a bad thing in and of itself.
The problems come from the way in which you respond to this kind of structure - for most people, the month gap (or however much it is) convinces them that they have to start again (from the beginning or near the beginning) - and that of course means they get stuck, and never progress significantly - their own little Sisyphean endeavourā¦
But if you push on with new material each time you get going again, the first new session will feel painful, but after that youāll be back up to speed.
Look at the difference.
If you do an hour a day for three days, repeating each session 3 times, and then a month off, and then repeat from near the beginning:
Step 1 - sessions 1 to 2. Month off. Step 2 - sessions 2 to 3. Month off. Step 3 - sessions 3 to 4. Month off. Step 4 - sessions 4 to 5. This is something like your current approach, right?
Now try:
An hour a day for three days, with no repetition, pushing on with new material after each month off:
Step 1 - sessions 1 to 5. Month off. Step 2 - sessions 6 to 10. Month off. Step 3 - sessions 11 to 15. Month off. Step 4 - sessions 16 to 20.
This second approach will feel much more scary - much more out of control - but it will get you to conversational ability massively faster. We regularly see people whoāve done the 25 sessions of Course 1 (plus the vocabs) getting through a week with no Englishā¦
Our record so far for a break, by the way, is 14 months - @louis did 10 sessions of Spanish in a day, then took 14 months off, then revisited the last of those sessions - and said that he got about 40% right straight off, but could sense that he would have been back up to 80/85% if heād run through it a second time.
So you really donāt need to worry about the breaksā¦
As long as the pronunciation is right I donāt think it matters about the accent, If I visited Australia I wouldnāt put on an Australian accent, and I wouldnāt expect someone from another country visiting England to disguise their voice by trying to speak English with an English accent. The main thing is that the pronunciation is near enough to be understood.
You might try finding the āDal atiā or āHwbā Welsh learner programme videos on Youtube. This may be slightly more accessible than Radio Cymru (although I would also recommend the latter when you feel ready for it). I believe there is no geo-restriction on BBC radio (as there is on TV and on S4C TV), and I find the easiest way of finding programmes is via the schedule:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocymru/programmes/schedules#on-now
Look down the schedule and choose a programme that has the āplayā icon next to it and select that programme, e.g.
Then hit the āplayā triangular icon on the programme page. Some programmes are also downloadable as podcasts, and if so, that should show up on the programme page.
However, there is also a list of them here:
This ^.
I was watching some random things on S4C yesterday and came across āCalon,ā which was a short video where the producers asked the kids to say something they know about XYZ subject. This particular episode was āPrif Weinidog.ā
Anyway, there were a batch of three kids whom they interviewed together all wearing school uniforms and all clearly fluent speakers, and one of them did not trill her Rās when she spoke. I have a horrible problem with rolling my Rās, so hearing her speak naturally even without the perfect R made me feel A LOT better about my own struggles.
It is an ongoing battle What @cap said, and keeping in mind that unless one takes elocution lessons to acquire the desired target accent (like Dylan Thomas was made to do, to get rid of his Welsh English accent and substitute it with a ācut-glassā accent), it is very likely that traces of oneās native accent will remain, and oneās Welsh will be the more exotic for it!
I strongly support @mikeellwoodās suggestion re the Radio Cymru podcasts, these are excellent for getting exposure to spoken Welsh
Iāve just completed the dreaded 6.1 South and actually thought it was alright. And the cat was rolling around purring while listening to me so I take it as a compliment! Is there worse to come in 6.2? I thought lesson 5 was the hardest one so far, I got so used to ādwiā that āI haveā and āI needā really threw me and Iād completely lost the plot by the end.
Going back to the original subject, my accent is pretty terrible at the moment (I canāt roll my Rs to save my life) but Iām hoping itāll come with time!
Lessons 6.1 and 6.2 are both manageable on their own, but when they were one lesson (apparently) it was rather intense! (although I never got to experience it myself!).
But once you have completed the lessons 6 (including the bonus lesson), you will find getting through the following lessons a lot smoother.
Sorry for the super slow reply! Life happened for a bit there.
I do see your point that Iām rather overriding the learning system by repeating it too many timesā¦ oops! That being said, itās still an overwhelming notion to consider moving straight on with the next one after a single hearing, but Iāll suck it up and give it a try. 
And, while we do our breaks, we do always move on when we come back, instead of moving backwards, because I remember reading somewhere thatās the right thing to do!
Now that is something that didnāt really occur to meā¦ I would never expect someone who has just come here to sound Australian, so why should I manage to sound Welsh? Thank you for that contribution, itās cleared my mind considerably!
Thank you very much for the YouTube suggestion and youāre positively an angel for helping me finally understand how to listen to Radio Cymru! Iāve felt like such a technological dunce over that one!
Iām not sure why, but mentioning this famous Bonus Lesson 6 always brings smile to my face rather then a memory of how frustrated I was doing both (regular) lessons 6.
My boyfriend is a first language Welsh speaker and canāt roll his Rās at all. Even on their own as a sound, he just canāt do it. I try to remember to do mine, but what tends to happen is that I roll them in words Iāve learnt from SSiW and donāt in words Iāve learnt from himā¦ Hoping that as I worry less about getting the right words out Iāll start picking up the pronunciation better!
Thatās the spirit! 
After all, what doesnāt kill you only makes you strongerā¦
[Do tell us if it doesnāt kill youā¦ ]
If it does he surely wonāt be able to tell us that.
I love that spirit though.