I also want to thank everyone who helped make the party weekend so great for me, from everyone I spoke with before getting to the Galeri, everyone at the party itself and those I shared a breakfast with in the Morrison’s cafe. I don’t think I could realistically list everyone.
Thank you all so much, what a great weekend.
And Wednesday, the time for new Diolch post for me is here again.
This one migt seam cheesy or a bit stupid to you, but despite they directly did actually nothing and are not aware of the impact of what they’re doing - yah, only playing rugby what it is - they had huge impact on me regarding learning Welsh.
Now you all probably already know that my seventh thank you goes to the Welsh rugby team, especially to that one who played inbetween 2010 and 2014 in particular because these men are indirectly (sorry guys you’re not aware of that) the most guilty I started actually learning Welsh of all! (o, ja, guilty in deed … 
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Those teen brothers, mentioned before in previous posts, were the ones who left me alone on the forum I’ve worked for right in the middle of British and Irish Lions Tour 2009 to South Africa and they discussed just good portion of rugby before that as well, just enough to get me interested into that field of Welsh life aswell. Not educated about rugby at all I started to follow that Lions tour and fell in love with rugby. What this all has to do with learning Welsh you’ll probably ask? For ordinary person who is just sane enough not to do silly stuff and promisses, probably nothing at all but for me the events which occured to the need of learning Welsh have yet to come and the guilt of Welsh rugby team with that aswell.
It was after the Lions tour when I finally tried to search for some live streams from the rugby games, whatever games which involved Cardiff blues, Welsh rugby union team, Ospreys, Dragons or Scarlets, just that it would be rugby game which I could watch or at least listen to the comentary. What actually I could (only) find was live audio comentary of one game Scarlets (if I’m correct) played against someone (don’t remember who though) in Welsh!
I was already challenged to learn by those two teen brothers and well accepted by those 4 men I’ve written about in previous post in joining live blogs, so I just somehow thought I’d understand at least some of that comentary too. I don’t remember the comentary of the game though but I know that standard words were more or less said in English (like try and similar stuff) but I do remember the interview with George North afterwards which I just wanted to understand but I found out I actually don’t have a clue what he’s talking about. He talked fast, this is all I can remember. So the time of searching for something perfect to learn Welsh actually began. Yes, I’ve learnt some little portion of Welsh by 2012 but as you know I didn’t find SSiW yet.
The boys won 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2012 and as I’ve promissed to myself that if they win it I’ll learn Welsh and I tend to keep promisses I make I was determined to keep this one too. Not much to thank you’d say … but this win and my conscience that I have to keep that promise now, propelled me far ahead in learning Welsh.
So thank you boys who played in those 2 or 3 years (some are playing even now) because you did something great for Welsh language and you don’t even know that!
Diolch yn fawr iawn!
To be continued next week …
What time? Might, probably won’t, be able to get it on catch up.
I think it was around 9:45am ish . He mentioned that @tatjana who lived in Slovenia was learning Welsh , played a request for her , thanked her for listening . I was being distracted at the time so didn’t catch it all properly
Phiew! Diolch.
I didn’t even pay attention that I’d be mentioned. I’ve just written on Facebook that I’m alone at home so I can listen Radio Cymru too loud if I want and then it all started. Well I did tagged them though as I always do if I mention someone somewhere in my tweet or post on Facebook. I won’t lie though, it was great to hear mention of me several times.
Well, this can happen if you’re at home on a sick-leave and you must rest and not work too much.
Here’s the link @margaretnock and all the rest http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n5ngl and he first mentions me at 58:40 (ish).
Found you, heard all about you! Although nothing I didn’t know already. I hope you get better very soon @tatjana.
Thank you. After some treatment and a bit of rest at home it’s much better now and I believe I’d go back to work on Monday.
I’ve heard that bit where he surprised put the question why I’m learning Welsh at all only when listening to it one more time as I was distracted with something and not in the same place as my computer is. Poor guy, he just couldn’t quite understand why I’d learn Welsh at all but he was certainly happy about that. And, yes, of course you’ve heard nothing what you wouldn’t know already. There’s not much new to tell about me anyway.
Sorry to hear that you haven’t been well, but happy that things are improving. Brysia wella! I listened to you being mentioned on Radio Cymru - very cool
Thank you.
Yah, these are those “silly” things I do when I get into the mood. And listening to Radio Cymru always makes me tweeting something although as I was mentioned so much I (wps - this time really) feared he might ask me to call in … To be honest both of presenters speak too fast for me although if listening for a while you get used to it and get the gist of what is said.
Each time I come back to the ‘Diolch’ thread, I have a moment of thinking ‘argh, can’t think of…’ - and then I realise that I’ve got enough Diolchs to keep me going for the rest of my life…
So today, extremely belatedly, it’s diolch to @CatrinLliarJones - who took me from being a ‘get by okay’ kind of Welsh speaker and made me someone who lives his entire life (this forum excepted!) in the medium of Welsh.
She’s given me back the heritage I’d lost, given me children growing up with that heritage as a birthright, given me a home where the language is woven into the very air itself.
It’s always hugely emotional for me when learners tell us that the language has changed their lives.
For me, it was a combination of the language and Catrin Lliar - changing and improving my life beyond any recognition.
Diolch o galon i ti, cyw 
How about you? Anyone helped you recently? Give them a diolch and let them know…
Although this thread is actually on the “Welsh side” of the forum, a huge thanks to @nalismalark who helped me fix a very subtle, but nasty bug in the SSiSpanish app that affected in app purchases. Muchas Gracias!
This is totally (and I mean really totally) offtopic but every time I read about SSi apps I come to the very same idea (and that’s many times though). How about building an app which would unite all languages into one little nice thingy on which you could learn whatever SSi produced language. Remember, we’re about to roll out as many languages as possible in the (not so distant as @aran says) future and are you really about to build so many apps as languages? You’re hardworking people, but I can hardly imagine having 100+ languages out and as many apps too.
(Just a thought).
And on the diolch topic: Reading your book Aran and this little Diolch post here and hearing you speaking Welsh @CatrinLliarJones really made wonders already in just Welsh part of things because if I listen to you speaking, I’d never even think of that you once lost the language and just got it back again after years. This is amazing! She must be amazing in deed!
Yup - that’s certainly a good idea! There were good reasons at the time why it made sense to proceed with separate Welsh and Spanish apps. But going forward, a single app to rule them all makes all kinds of sense.
Precioussssssss…I shall await the beta testing 
Ooo, ja … so shall I!
I’m going to add to my first. Another thing I should add about Emma helping me and why it means so much, is that, although fluent, Emma has always had a complex about her Welsh. Feeling much more comfortable in English (her Dad is not a Welsh speaker so the family language was English) it has been an effort to return to Welsh. She went to Glantaf, a Welsh school, but has often felt uncomfortable with her standard of Welsh. She herself calls it “chav Welsh”.
Despite all of the above she has been extremely helpful and supportive to me. We haven’t yet changed the language of sitting on the sofa to Welsh. We have largely changed our language outside of the house to Welsh and most communication (text) is in Welsh.
So I would like to strengthen the diolch. Emma has pushed herself out of her comfort zone to help me.
Awwwwwwwwww, diolch! Caru chdi. 
Except for the ‘multiple points of contact’ thing…
Maybe we can figure out some clever way to have a ‘rule them all’ app which is fed into by individual apps… hmmm… maybe it’s as simple as one ‘rule them all’, but published separately for each language…
100(0)+??? I’m not sure …
I had in mind 1 app where you can just choose a language which you want to learn. Something like “DuoLingo” way or so (not like flashcards but the way how you can have all languages in one profile and choose among them which you will be into learning “today”)
I’m sure you all understand what I think.
Well … what about using our profiles on the page (not forum) a bit more efficiently for the purpose of app?
(I think we need app brainstorm topic )