(It’s not the beginning of the month, but I’m at a significant point, I think)

I just checked my web history, and the first time I ever visited this site was on Saturday 3rd April (at 21:59, to be precise )

Since then, I’ve done 8 lessons and am about halfway into my 9th (I don’t generally stop in the middle of lessons, but I got a phone call and then got sidetracked into coming onto the forum) – and boy, am I impressed with the effectiveness of these lessons!!

About a year ago I thought ‘I know, I’ll learn Welsh’ (as you do), so I went online and tried to find some resources. I had a poke around the BBC website but found it overcomplicated – it’s split into many different sections with God-knows-how-many games and activities – which is all very well, but I wanted to learn! I found some other site, I’m not sure which one, but it had no pronunciation whatsoever – and I was faces with tables of pronouns, memorising genders, and mutations in lesson 1. So I was kind of put off.

Anyway, I decided a couple of weeks ago (one week and a day, by the looks of it) that I did indeed want to learn Welsh. It could have been because Swansea University is one of the universities that I plan to apply to (it has an excellent languages department), but more likely because I just felt like learning it for fun

I typed ‘Learn Welsh’ into Google, and this was the 4th site on the list – so I clicked on it, signed up, downloaded lesson 1 and was hooked from then on. It took me some time to choose what version to do – Northern or Southern – Swansea is in the south, but there are more speakers in the north – I mentally flipped a coin and decided that I may as well learn the version which has more easy to find speakers, so I chose northern Welsh.

8 days ago, I think I knew the word ‘Cymraeg’ – now I can interrogate people at length about the age of their cats, buy beer, get quite moody if people try to speak to me in English and buy dog meat – the course seriously couldn’t be better! You’ve got it just right: it’s not too grammar / vocab intensive, but you don’t just memorise phrases either. It’s not unlike the Michel Thomas method, but way more interactive and effective.

Diolch yn fawr!!!

Caspian Merlin, South Molton, Devon