Hi Sandra ydw i. I am not a new learner. I joined Ssiw abiut 4 years ago and followed the 3 level courses from February.the difficulty was being deaf but SSIW was a springboard i to being able to hold conversations with ease and confidence. I took exam intermediate level and got a good pass and went on to study with Bangor University. I have never really worried about grammar but rather found i could trust what I learned with SSIW to guide me!
I often polished up using Ssiw. Why am i here then… well i have so enjoyed SSIW style of learning I decided to ‘start’ again. This will return some if the confidence i gained before and will say this stick with it because you will be amazed at the results. I look forward to the challenges on the 6 month course and CANT WAIT to start… hwyl pawb!
Hi Everyone
I moved to north wales with my wife about seven years ago to look after a chapel. Now welsh is my wife’s first language.which left me with somewhat of a disadvantage but living in an area where welsh is used daily by everyone i thought i would overcome this easily. How wrong was I now there is thought that when an English person walks into the room a welsh person will automatically start speaking welsh. now there’s my problem - they don’t infact around here they apologise and start speaking English when i walk in dispite my protests of carry on i need to learn.
so whilst I’m here one of the reasons i want to speak welsh is so people don’t need to say sorry
Hi, bit late introducing myself as I’m on week 3 of the course but hello!
Hmm struggling with this posting thing. I tried to post a new topic asking for an idiots guide to uploading my first 'word" on Soundcloud but where the post went I have no idea. Having re found this thread I shall try here if I may. I have downloaded Soundcloud on to my Mac book. My iPhone did not want to know and would not download it for some reason [I will be the reason] Can anyone explain if I need to do something to my Mac book to allow me to record my voice? I have only just finished week 4 so am a week behind and want to catch up.
Helo @greg-9! One of the administrators moved your post into the general thread where people ask for help with SoundCloud.
If you go to How to set up and record to an account in SoundCloud you will find quite a lot of advice there, but your post has been moved to Problems with Soundcloud. Have a look through there and see if it helps you.
thank you!!
Shwmae everyone!!
I’m Dan, an Englishman originally from Somerset. The only Welsh I knew before meeting my Welsh speaking other half was “twll din pob sais!!”
Basically, we’re planning on having children in the next five years or so and my other half wants to bring up our children as bilingual. So I’ve decided that I want to be part of this!
Looking forward to this journey ahead of me
Diolch yn fawr
Dan
Excellent! And in the meantime, enjoy your learning and let us know how you’re doing!
Hi everyone,
Although it appears this is an old thread, I thought I would introduce myself as feeling quite nervous!
Living in Gwynedd North Wales and grew up speaking welsh in school. The minute I did my A levels, the language was no longer compulsary and my brain shut off.
Now married and my husbands first language is Welsh. We have a 3 year old daughter and 8 week old son, so want to ensure the language lives on … so here I am! 
Hi @rhiannon-williams-2,
I’m new too, just starting this week. I’m an artist with ME and I live in West Yorkshire. A close friend of mine is welsh, from bangor, and another in Cardiff, I just really want to speak Welsh and maybe visit Wales again. Please let me know if you fancy being a buddy on here! 
Hello Rhiannon, I still feel like a new learner even though I’m coming up to the end of my 1st year… I’ve learnt a lot but am not really talking yet as I should be… haven’t pushed myself into taking advantage of all the SSIW opportnunities.
Good luck on your journey, hope you enjoy every week as much as I have! Mary
Welcome to the course, Rhiannon - you’ll probably find that you’ll surprise yourself with how quickly a lot of that old stuff comes back to life for you…
Hello everyone
I was born in Cardiff and learned a very little Welsh before we moved abroad. Now I’ve moved back into an area where there is a lot of Welsh spoken and I’d love to be able to speak and understand better. I did a year of evening classes, but for me, the evening is not a good time to engage my brain. I’ve really enjoyed the trial week and hope that I’ll keep it up this time!: smiley:
Hi Louise - I’m a new Welsh learner too. I live in North Wales and have been doing this for 5 days now. I love the sound of the Welsh language and really hope that this course helps me learn! 
hi everyone, I am just starting week 4 now and have really enjoyed the first 3 weeks of SSiW. I am from the south Wales valleys and sadly Welsh is not our first language although it was compulsory for us to learn it throughout our schooling until the age of 14. This way of learning is very different to the traditional way and i truly believe i am able to speak more useful Welsh now at the start of week 4 than i learnt in school. What i am struggling with is some of the pronunciation of the words. Where i grew up i was taught to pronounce them differently to what i am hearing on the SSiW course, words like Cymraeg and dechrau. But i have easily learnt to say them differently so it hasn’t presented too much of a problem. Anyway, nice to meet you all and good luck with the course.
I’m posting for my 82yr old mum, Gale, who has just completed challenge 5. She has some fairly incapacitating memory problems, but even so has just about managed one challenge a week. It appears she’s a Higher Repetition Learner as the daily 6 minutes takes us two separate hours each day. But she is so determined and very patient with herself, embracing and trusting in the learning process, even though we often go down the wrong path!
She has tried learning Welsh several times before without success, however SSIW makes it so easy.
I am very proud of her commitment and wanted to inspire others as they start their SSIW journey into the joys of siarad Cymraeg.
Trust the process and repeat phrases as often as you need, enjoying all the blips as much as you would finding the right word. We’re having so much fun with our Lockdown lessons
Branwen
MOR hyfryd!! (SO lovely!!) All the very best to you and your mum! 
That’s fantastic
Sch mae