Jeremy

I’ve been learning Welsh with my partner for 3 months now using SSiW (we’re on level 13, course 1).

She’s from Swansea originally, but we both are based in London currently. We both love learning languages, and we hope that Welsh will be one of the languages of our home for years to come (and something to pass down if we have children).

Stumbled across SSiW after some online research, and we are loving it! We’re both working full time, so we’ve developed an easy way to do it consistently and incrementally. I’ve shared our programme below if anyone finds it helpful. We’re visiting Cardiff and Wales in September, so we are excited to use our newly formed Welsh language skills then.

• Do SSiW listening practice ～5 mins
• Do 6 minutes of SSiW
• Test each on vocab in the lesson and sentences ～2 mins
• Test each other on vocab (we use the same vocab for the week) and have taken it from – https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshvocabulary?topic=Body%20-%20parts%20of%20the%20body&level=primary. I added this so we can incrementally build up. We do x1 module, which is around 6-8 words a week.
• Listening to Radio Cymru or podcasts in the background (we’re currently listening to Beto George’s podcast after watching Cysgu o Gwmpas) ～ 15 mins. We don’t understand everything, of course, but it’s more ‘living our life in Welsh’ that feels right.

Good luck to everyone on this forum. We really wish success for everyone here who is passionate about the Welsh language!