Events

The National Centre for Learning Welsh and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

As Storm Debi threw rain, wind and freezing cold at all of us this week, The National Centre for Learning Welsh held an event that warmed all who attended. The Norwegian Church Arts Centre, on the banks of Cardiff Bay, ...

Nick Prichard

17th Tach 2023

Course development

Taith Fasnach i Japan Hydref 2023 | Trade Mission to Japan October 2023

Llywodraeth Cymru Rhyngwladol | Welsh Government International  SaySomethingin participated in the recent trade mission to Tokyo, Japan, organised by the Welsh Government. We wanted to investigate potential uses for ...

Nick Prichard

31st Hyd 2023

Events

The Corn is Green

In 2022, I had one of the more unexpected and entertaining experiences to bubble up out of working for SaySomethinginWelsh. One of our Iaith ar Daith graduates, Joanna Scanlan (who won a best actress BAFTA for her ...

Aran Jones

12th Hyd 2023

Community

Eisteddfod 2023 Blog

Some say that we shouldn’t look back, that it’s healthier to set our sights forward, embracing newness and progress. But sitting in the sun on the Eisteddfod Maes, a pint of something cold and golden in hand, in the ...

Catrin Lliar Jones

06th Medi 2023

The Future of Welsh

The future of Iaith ar Daith

I don’t think I’ve ever been on a panel at the Eisteddfod before – not that I can remember, anyway. I’ve done other things – reenacted Merched Beca smashing tollbooths (in a very fetching dress), ...

Aran Jones

14th Awst 2023

Partnerships

Revolutionising Language Teaching in South Asia: The “Anyone Can Teach” Approach

Education.SouthAsia is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and University College London that invites original and analytic pieces that make interdisciplinary contributions to the issue of education in ...

Nick Prichard

19th Gor 2023

Course Development Guangzhou skyline

The story behind AutoMagic (and the most dramatic change in SaySomethingin so far)

In 2019, four of us went to visit a company in Guangzhou in the south of China that we had been told might be interested in an English course for Mandarin speakers. We had a fascinating time, and we really liked some of ...

Aran Jones

04th Gor 2023

Events edtechX booklet

EdtechX Event

The great and the good of the global EdTech sector were joined by Tom and Nick of SSi at London’s Tobacco Dock for the 10th edtechX conference towards the end of June. What an event! Many of the leading lights who are ...

Nick Prichard

28th Meh 2023

Events Some of the team celebrating at the Wales Business Awards

Wales Business Awards

Way back in its infancy in 2011, SSi was nominated for an Inspire Wales Award and won the Global Wales category. For a company so young it was an overwhelming experience, but also an incredible boost to keep going ...

Catrin Lliar Jones

23rd Mai 2023

Partnerships Two people discussing something

Global Welsh – Business Spotlight

SSi is proud to have a long-standing relationship with Global Welsh – a superb initiative devoted to creating a global Welsh community.  Established in 2015, their aim, based on the belief that being Welsh is ...

Catrin Lliar Jones

21st Ebr 2023