| Hello Mike,
I started learning Welsh about 4 or 5 years ago, with books and
cassettes too (I now do not remember whether it was Linguaphone
or some other), and got about as far as the end of the first cassette
tape (out of 4).
I then went to a Welsh summer course in Bangor University.
The very first day, the teacher has a chat with each
student, in order to evaluate what his/her level is. I had asked
to follow the beginners'course, and was surprised enough to be sent
to the second level, even though my knowledge of Welsh barely enables
me to understand what you wrote.
If you are interested in more info about the Welsh summer course
in Bangor, let me know, I can look it up and send it to you. I really
did enjoy the course, which was very lively and well-given. There
are evening activities too (we had an evening with Dafyd Iwan,
sing-along evenings, an evening with very short plays performed
by the students at the different levels of Welsh,...) We also had
some time left at the end of the afternoon to go and visit the
surroundings in small groups or in our own. I really was delighted!
Unfortunately, there are very few opportunities to practise Welsh
in Belgium (I am Belgian), and I completely dropped it the last 4
years, which I find a pity. Working life and family life also leave
me very little time left to work on my Welsh, and I have not been using
my cassette & books course for all that time.
However, would anybody be willing to give a bit of guidance through
this note, I would be glad to start learning again.
Anne
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| If anyone is interested in conducting conversations in Welsh over the net,
or in learning the language, could they contact Mark Nodine please. To
get to him from inside the easynet, you need to put the address in
quotes and append DECWRL:: to the start.
eg. to: decwrl::"man@cs.brown.edu"
Craig
Article 872 of soc.culture.celtic:
From: man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Welsh adherents
Reply-To: man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
The following are people who have expressed interest in the Welsh
language over the last couple of years:
Sebastian Trump <trump@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Guy Roberts <mcvax!datlog.co.uk!jgsr@uunet.UU.NET>
Robert Evans <robert%computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
* Steve Hosgood <iiit-sh%pyramid.swansea.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
* Ceri Hopkins <HopkinsCA%computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK>
Mark Shoulson <shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
The Anarch <anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu>
Maverick <shoopak@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Mark Eklof <mark@11srus.enet.dec.com>
* Geraint Jones <gae@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>
The *'s mark people with some advanced knowledge of the language.
Additionally, if anybody would like to start up a correspondence with
me in (or mostly in) Welsh, that would be welcome, too. Many of these
addresses may be out of date.
--Mark
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| Here's the address of a publisher of Welsh stuff incase anyone out there
is wanting to get Welsh material (books, greetings cards, games, poetry,
pop music, posters)
Y Lolfa
Talybont
Aberystwyth
Dyfed
Cymru
UK
SY24 5HE Tel: (097086) 304
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