Awesome! 
It would be so cool if he did end up here (but even if we donāt see him in the forum, he still might end up using the lessonsā¦ 
On a flying forum because I was rambling about communications with the Space Station which somehow wandered into talking about Welshā¦
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Guy with Welsh accent delivering chemicals. ādo you speak welsh?ā, āno, but Iāve always thought I should.ā SSiW lecture given.
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Seriously got to love you guysā¦
āChemicals, eh? Thereās an online Welsh course you shouldā¦ā
āYou like flying? Thereās an online Welsh course you shouldā¦ā
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The phrase āThe Welsh language is really difficultā is usually my cue to launch into how I had various unsuccessful attempts to learn Welsh over the years, but now Iām doing this really straightforward SSiW way which gets you speaking straight away without worrying too much about all the grammar etc. This is particularly gratifying when Welsh speakers seem to be impressed by my actual speech as a beginner.
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That sounds as though you must be on almost permanent alert!..
Diolch o galon i ti, Howard, and huge congratulations on your own achievementsā¦
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Yes, the flying one was a comment along the lines of "now imagine having to do that in Welsh " - which given that we were talking at the time about the INTERNATIONAL space station where everyone who flies to it has to learn Russian and English on top of whatever their many and varied first languages might be, seemed a tiny bit beyond the pale to me!
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Today, library, lady behind the counter said sheās been learning Welsh since September but disappointed how little she had learned up to this point. She got SSiWād.
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Itās like a permanent St Valentineās Day massacre but with mutationsā¦
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[quote=āaran, post:69, topic:7758, full:trueā]
Itās like a permanent St Valentineās Day massacre but with mutations
[/quote]Thereās the new motto.
SSiW - āIām going to teach you a (Welsh) lesson youāll never forget!ā
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Iām so tempted to try and find a way to use that.
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On a personal note, Iāve just passed details on to a good friend, who is into Spanish. Heās giving it a go now
PS: Is the first level free as it is in Welsh?
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Just the first 5 sessions for Spanishā¦ the first level was free at one stage a few years ago, but we never saw much word-of-mouth spread on itā¦
Thatās great, thanks, Aran. Iāll let him know. Iām tempted to go for it myself now as I have some Spanish colleagues, one of who is very nervous at speaking English. Iāve managed the first sentence already. I never thought that Iād manage that.
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Well done! Enhorabuena/llongyfarchiadauā¦
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I went to a different Paned a Sgwrs today and was talking to a lady who is doing 2 hours a week of Welsh in work (I think sheās finding it slow going). She hadnāt got into the habit of using SSIW. So she got SSIW-ified 
The lady who runs the shop (in which Paned a Sgwrs is held) also agreed with me that SSIW is the best Welsh course, far better than the evening courses people (including me) go to.
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What a superb turn of phrase you haveā¦
And what a lovely shop-running lady tooā¦
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Iām coming to the Parti Penblwydd this year and booked a space on a small camp-site 10 mins from Caernarfon a couple of days ago. The guy I spoke to is married to a Welsh speaker (I asked āDach chiān siarad y Gymraeg?ā) and he replied āNoā so I naturally went into evangelist mode - second nature to mention SSiW at every opportunity I can!!
Would not like to think about how many conversations Iāve had of a similar ilkā¦ Always a pleasure, never a chore!!
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Just thought, whenever I am the Swindon hub whilst working (driving an artic on a night-shift), I generally find thereās a South Walian driver to natter with. Quite a few āspoke Welsh as a boyā so I encourage them to have a look onlineā¦
At SSIW, just in case you were thinkingā¦ oh never mindā¦
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Had a patient whoās Mum and Mumās side spoke Welsh, but dad doesnāt. He wasnāt there, but I suggested it to Mam and Tad-Cu.
One of our friends is from Swansea, English speaking family. Sheās also a physio. Gave her the shpiel. Sheās keen, downloading the lessons last i spoke to her.
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