So, if youāve noticed that your speech bubble has gone an (elegant) salmon pink kind of colourā¦
Youāre ready for the next challenge - gaining a red badge!
To gain a bright shiny red badge, just post a recording of you saying the SENTENCES using the Recording Tool from your email, then post a link to your recording in this threadā¦
The thread is checked every Monday, and when we see a PINK post a recording of SENTENCES here, weāll upgrade them to RED.
But if you post your SENTENCES and you donāt get upgraded, just let @Novem know in this thread by tagging him.
Oh how sneaky! I was finally going to capitulate and do it this lunchtime, but donāt feel like entertaining the office so I guess it will wait a bit longer.
I donāt have to listen to it do I? I sound like Margot McGinty when she was five. (Sorry Margot, youāve probably moved on vocally, as it were, but I donāt think I have!)
Do I have to use SoundCloud? I tried it but it doesnāt match my interest.
Couldnāt I just phone you instead?
Actually, cancel that - my granddaughter and I love pink.
Absolutely not! Just know that it WILL inspire othersā¦
The more people who are willing to grit their teeth and take this step, the more other people will follow, and the more people will succeed with SSiW - so this really is a call to the barricades, capitanoā¦
Haha! How i knew this will happen and I actually wanted to do this in the first place but just didnāt as nobody did. Well, it might happen from me however not just now ā¦ a bit later ā¦
Iāve done it! With lots of ums and ers while I tried to think what to say. The scuffling sound is me flipping through flashcards for inspiration for the rest of the sentences.
And hereās a quick warning nod to everyone elseā¦ You will get MORE out of this exercise by doing it WITHOUT flashcards - itās fair enough to have a list of the sentence starters in English, of course, but avoid anything beyond thatā¦
No, I donāt think so And Angharad recognised your voice straight away
Butā¦ butā¦ my mind goes blank if I donāt have some random words to give me inspiration for the ends of the sentences! The alternative is to prepare ideas, but that seems to be going against the idea of the challenge, which I assume is to get us to speak spontaneously.
When I say I was using flashcards, I mean that I had the sentence starters in English and a bunch of cards, English side up that said things like: baby, bridge, brother, building, bananas etc. So Iād pick up āI want toā and the random word ābabyā and then form the sentence.
I have recorded and put on sound cloud but canāt find it? It appears to be above a picture of Catrinwith a sound file called Y GĆ“g aār afon ar fore braf o Fai?
I think I have done something wrong here help! Never used Sound Cloud.
Actually, I think it might be in a Soundcloud account I have created. I logged in with my google account and it appears I am following Catrin, Aran and Maynardā¦ if I click the link above I get this and canāt do anything with itā¦
Andy, you need to go into SoundCloud (in a separate tab probably easiest) and then click on āShareā on your recording - underneath your clip, where it says Like and Repost. Then, in the little window that opens up, at the bottom youāll see a url in a box - click on that to highlight it, copy it, paste it in here exactly like thatā¦
Exactly so - and in conversation, you wonāt have flashcards handy - so this is designed PRECISELY to get you rummaging through your neural networks in the same way youāll need to do in conversations. Itās tougher than a conversation - because thereās nothing handy leading into it - but thatās exactly the kind of effort that will give you the best resultsā¦
Edit: Oops, I have uploaded the wrong file, I had another with the sentence Beth amdanati after the sentence Dw i angen ymarfer. Promise! Does this count or do I have to upload againā¦
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