I tried to make a comment on my grown up daughter’s frend’s FB in English. The usual smartphone typos made my intended witty comment look a bit wierd…
I changed to Welsh and she saw the funny side.
My smartphone interprets most of my typos as Welsh anyway…
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Today I had a mini conversation with the postman. Yay!
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Since moving to Cardiff I’ve been having small dribs of conversations - mostly diolchs/s’maes and ordering drinks and food etc. However, I got almost three hours of conversation in on Monday at two separate ‘clonc’ groups - everyone was so friendly and I learned so much. Despite finishing level three, I am still only really comfortable with the past and present tense when referencing myself, but I can see that the practice in the conversation groups really cements it in my peanut brain! This time some forms of “bod” got cemented too which feels like a mountain as its a tricky one!
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Hi Clare, I’m not very active on the forum and just come across your message about Nia in Llandudno. Is there any more info?
Diolch.
Hi Rohini
Nia is doing a day pit in Llandudno on Saturday starting at 10am meeting in the Causing Table at the Great Orme. This is a link to the timetable on the forum. Let me know if you find it or not and I’ll try to do it manually for you.
It should be a good day. There a few people coming already. I’m not sure if I need my bucket and spade though!
Great Clare, diolch yn fawr. I’ll try and make it and maybe bring a friend.
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Hope to are you there!
Wela i di yno gobeithio 
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Mae tywydd yn edrych yn dda 
I wish I was in Llandudno. The forecast where I’m at is predicting upper eighties to mid-nineties for this week. (30-34°C). We have 31% humidity right now, and it’s miserable outside.
This week’s challenge for me at Week 4 on the Deep End is to learn a song—by heart.
I know what it will be and so far can manage the first verse of a beautiful Plygain carol that I love. It’s long though. However, there are still 167 days to Christmas… maybe 166 where you are… just saying.
Now wouldn’t that be brilliant… a Slack Plygain session around the world with folk chiming in as tradition would have us do and local time zones allow.
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That sounds great. A 24 hour, online, Plygain. Count me in!
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Dw i ar y fford yn cerdedd o gorsaf tren.
Lle mae pawb? Mae’na tri o honnyn ni yn y bar.
I have so many!
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I had a joking/playful argument with my friend in Caernarfon about sports (started over him dismissing the US women’s FIFA victory because they’re women
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Accidentally understood a full line in Heno Yn Yr Anglesey once I learned the word “aros”
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Had a few drinks too many with friends, started speaking Cymraeg, someone took a video, and watching it back I saw that I was actually speaking clearly and correctly, and my tipsy Cymraeg was actually clearer than my tipsy English! Which is a good sign for when I start visiting pubs in and around Bangor
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Can sing/play Allwedd by Bwncath on guitar almost completely by heart and I understand 90% of it
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Can sing/play Drwy Dy Lygid Di by Yws Gwynedd on piano and I understand about 60-70% of this one
There’s a few others, and now that I’ve got this thread bookmarked, I’ll be sure to come back and add to my list 
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Doesn’t it feel great? I was just in Wales for a week and had warned myself (this is the kind of insanity that can set in when you live alone) that if I didn’t speak to someone in Welsh on my first day (and a whispered ‘diolch’ wouldn’t count), I wasn’t allowed a G&T in the evening. I was so nervous you’d have thought I’d been asked to sing Queen of the Night at the Carnegie Hall. But I found my victims, told them ‘dw i newydd dechrau dysgu’ and was rewarded with big smiles and ‘da iawn ti’. Little triumphs…
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Yes, I’m starting to say the wrong words. For instance talking on the hangout today I said 'chwarae" instead of 'chwaneg". I had no idea I had got it wrong. I know the two words since childhood, so I think it was more a slip of the tongue than a learners mistake, which I think shows that my brain is processing the language differently.
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