This is how Bedtime Welsh began
Over the years, we’ve had many requests from parents using our Welsh course to provide them with a way to share their learning journey with their children, helping them to make Welsh one of the languages of the home.
During the first lockdown of 2020, Aran (author of the SSiW methodology) started creating daily video lessons to help families learn Welsh together at home. He hoped to help families stem the boredom of being stuck at home by having fun learning Welsh together.
Growing in popularity
This daily series of short videos, which he recorded with his children Angharad and Beuno, used off-the-cuff bits of the SaySomethinginWelsh method and were designed to be used with children at bedtime.
What started as a small project soon became very popular and ran for almost the whole of 2020, amounting to 100 Bedtime Welsh videos, which are available for you to watch with your children absolutely free!
Introduction Video
The first two videos in the playlist are introductory videos. The first tells you what the video lessons are all about, and the second tells you how to use the lessons with your children.
We hope you have as much fun using them as Aran did creating them.
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What others are saying
SSi is an excellent way to build confidence. It gets you speaking and really works! I’m very grateful to them.
Leanne Wood Former
Leader of Plaid Cymru
I’m on a four-month trip to Central America and about 95% of the Spanish I’m using here came from SSi.
Rachel Healy
Costa Rica
The SSi approach flies in the face of established language learning theory and method – and yet, it works!
Tess Fitzpatrick
Head of Applied Linguistics Swansea University
