Late update!

Sllooww on updates for a while now, but there really has been sooo much revision at the start of the Sylfaen course, then Christmas then two weeks of Y Coleg Yn Cau Achos Y Eira that there hasn’t been much too report.

Am looking forward to tomorrow night’s class, hoping I haven’t forgotten too much.  Suspect the Treigledau will have offskied for a start — we’d begun on “I think that…” and it was full of them.

We’ll see.

Dw i wedi siarad Cymraeg yn y Senedd!

…Wel tipyn bach ondefe

Es i i’r lawsiad o ‘Say Something In Welsh‘ yr wythnos diwetha.  Roedd e’n gwych.  Aeth llawer o ddysgwyr i’r Senedd am y lawnsiad.  Wedyn, aethon ni i’r dafarn i fywta a chanu!

Dyma ni’n canu.  (Beth yw ‘flipping embarassing’ yn Cymraeg?)

Starting fights!

And so we launched from loads of revision to two  new “patterns” in seven pages and 2 lessons.  Argh!

Anyway, we can now starts rows in Welsh…

A unit on problems and complaining!

Now I’m sure the reason it’s arrived at this point in the syllabus is that the pattern for “There’s something the matter” and “It’s your fault” (his fault, my fault, their fault, the grocers fault etc…) is similar to the one we already learned last year for talking about illness.

“Something’s the matter with you” – Mae rhywbeth yn bod arnat ti” is not so very different from “You’ve got a cold” – Mae annwyd arnat ti”.

We’re back to the strange and bizarre Running Of The Prepositions which turn a nice simple ‘ar’ into one of…

• arna i
• arnat ti
• arno fe
• arni hi
• arnon ni
• arnoch chi
• arnyn nhw

…depending who’s got the problem in question “on them”.

Well it turns out that hurling accusations follows a vaguely (but not really) similar pattern.  “It’s your fault” is “Arnat ti mae’r bai” (On you is the blame…)

Fair enough.  At least we’ve learned and practised the preposition, but something in the choice of ordering of the syllabus doesn’t sit well with me.  It’s easy to learn this way maybe.  Easy to teach?  Perhaps.

But are we really going to go and use our fledging Welsh to march out there and start whining and moaning at people?  Doubtful…

The chances for earning a smack in the chops from any passing fluent speakers we pluck up the courage to address was increased as we also learned the new idiom “Mae hen bryd…” – (It’s about time…!)

Fab.  “There’s nothing the matter, it’s’ your fault and it’s about time you did something.”

We’re going to be popular!

Oes rhwybeth yn bod arna i?  Dw i ddim yn deall y cwrs.  Ond… Mae’n neis iawn i ddysgu rhywbeth newydd.  Dw i wedi cael digon o adolygu nawr.

Adolygu

And plenty of it.  Three weeks into Sylfaen 1 now and we’re still recapping over last year’s work.  Lots of familiar faces from last year and quite a few new one as we’re apparently the only Sylfaen 1 in the area this term and they’ve combined Myndediad classess from all over to make the numbers.

All going well though.  Most of the stuff has stuck reasonably well since I’ve had better chances than many to practise over the summer, even without the revision courses I’d planned on.

One new feature has been the parking of a student at the front of the room for everyone else to fire questions at.  In Welsh of course.  Only stuff we’ve done, because it’s other students doing the firing but good practice in thinking on your feet.  Everyone is to have a turn by the end of the class, and it’s a free for all with minimal correction of people’s grammar.  Practice at speaking without “rehearsal” rather than with hugely proper Welsh.

Next week is at the Learning Resource Centre to look at the Welsh resources, and then it’s half term!  Hopefully we’ll be on to new stuff by then.

Amser coleg eto…

….Well almost.  Tomorrow in point of fact.

I haven’t written as much here as I intended over the summer., though I have spent a fair amount of time on “Say Something in Welsh” and attended a “Taith Iaith” at the Waterfront Museum, where I had some wobbly Welsh conversations with learners at a variety of levels.

So I don’t actually feel rusty at all.  I’m sort of wondering if I’ll find this year a bit slow.  I considered leaping straight in with Sylfaen 2 but the courses weren’t in a very easy time and place, and anyway I liked last year’s group and tutor.

There does seem to be a lot of revision at the start of the new textbooks tohugh.  We’ll see.

Gwyliau Haf!

Beth yw “transcript” yn Gymraeg…?

Wel, here it is anyway

Dyma fi yn mynd ar fy ngwyliau haf gyda fy nghyfnither.  Mae pabell yn y awyren gyda ni a dyn i mynd i Dyfnaint.

Dyma maes awyr Bolt Head.  Mae’n hen orsaf RADAR o’r amser ryfel.  Nawr mae awyrennau bach yn glanio ar y cae.

Arhoson ni yma y nos cyntaf.  Coffi roedd y tasg bwysig ar ôl glanio!

Ar ôl goffi, aethon ni am dro o gwmpas y creigiau.  Roedd e’n cefn gwlad hyfryd iawn.  Roedd y tywydd yn gwych hefyd.

Y dydd nesa, ro’n ni hedfan i Land’s End.  Dyma fi a fy nghyfnither yn hedfan.  Dw i’n caru hedfan — mae’n mwyaf hwyl yn y byd!

Dyn ni wedi dod i Land’s End!  Mae’n wir!  Ar bwys y creigiau perygl… Ac y Tŷ cyntaf ac yn olaf…

Dw i ddim yn gwybod pam dyn ni rhoi popeth yn y awyren fach hynny.  Dim ots, pabell mas eto…

Dydd tri, roedd y tywydd ddim yn dda iawn.  Bwyton ni yn y cafe maes awyr ac arhoson ni yn gobeithiol.  Ar ôl gino roedd hi’n well a roedd hi’n bosib i hedfan.

Y Isles of Scilly roedd y ymweliad yn olaf.  Yn olaf ac yn mwyaf hardd.  Roedd e’n fel “The Med” ond yn Brydain!

Gwyliau gwych!  Nawr… Ble wyt ti’n mynd y haf nesa…?

Another year

Well there’s another year of classes finished, and the end of Mynediad.  The exam went well (although I drank gormod o goffi before going in and was rather anxious for the end after three papers…)

Had a moment startlement on reading the speaking/listening examiners name on the door and discovering it matched the one of the textbook.  Eek!

Still she was very friendly and the speaking went well.  She even said I was closer to Sylfaen than Mynediad which was a nice little boost to the ego — that for next year!

Over the summer there’s a lot of revision sessions which I’d planned to go to but may now need to save the pennies instead, after discovering the camshaft in the poor old shareoplane’s engine is on it’s last legs.  Since the repair, along with several other parts which will soon need replacing would cost something close to the price of a whole new engine, which itself would be worth as much or more than the whole aircraft, this presents something of a financial dilemma, and non-essentials have all been dropped pretty damn quick!

There’s plenty of free online material I can use along with “siop siarad” the walks for learners and the learner days down the maritime museum that I can keep my hand (and ear and voice!) in.

Penwythnos hir

Ges i hwyl, dros y gwyliau banc. Es i i ymweld â fy nheulu yn Sir Benfro.

Gaethon ni BBQ Nos Sadwrn, yn yr ardd. Bwytais i gormod o selsig!

Mae’r ci yn hoffi BBQ hefyd!

Dydd Sul, cerddais i yn y coedwig gyda fy nai bach. Wedyn, es i i weld Castell Manobŷr gyda fy chwaer a fy nai.

Mae nai yn pump oed ac mae e’n caru mynd i’r coedwig a cestyll i chwarae a rhedeg o gwmpas a dringo ar pethau!

Ar ôl fynd i’r castell, cerddon ni ar bwys y traeth i chwilio am cromlech

Y “King’s Coit”. Mae e’n hen iawn!

Ar y cromlech – hyfryd!

Es i i’r Ardd Botaneg Cenedlaethol Dydd Llun, gyda fy mam. Roedd e’n hyfryd iawn.

Es i ar trên bach a welon ni llawer o blodau lliwgar

Ar ôl i waith Dydd Mercher…

Ffotograffau gan fy chwaer a ffotograffau o’d ardd gan Rogue Soul a Ganders (Dyn ni wedi anghofio y camera!)

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