Saturday 13 February 2016

Duolingo launches new beta Welsh Language for English speakers

Croeso! Helo, bore da, prynhawn da, nos da,

Duolingo now offers Welsh as a language to learn, for English speakers.

I've only had one intention of learning Welsh. There was a biology teacher who I found to be very inspiring. Biology was one of my favourite sciences and I like the human biology stuff which she seemed to be rather fond of. So this teacher had a terrific Welsh accent and was generally a great lady. I persuaded her to try and teach us some Welsh, which she did for a while. However I wasn't quite so fond of her when she decided to tell my mother I wasn't good enough in her class and a terrible student. It was mainly for the intense bullying that I didn't enjoy the classes so much, as it involved a lot of group work. I ended up studying the subject mostly by myself. (I got an A in the end, beat that Mrs R!)

Hwyl :)

Monday 18 January 2016

Many, many things

At least three times a week I think about subjects that would make a good blog post. I never tend to write them down unfortunately. I don't think I will be able to keep up regular updates for more than two months, but then again, perhaps that makes this blog very much akin to my nature. One project, then another, then another, and the piles on the desk crush the ceiling once more. A nice little paper tree, gliding along the pipes and fluttering loose leaves.

Lets try bullet points.

  • Went to Poland. That was really, really good.
  • Back home. Bit of the usual drama.
  • Went to the library yesterday, started reading again.
  • Have a 27k novel so far, good feedback, maybe there's hope
  • TEFL course seems like a good idea
  • Lots of fear.
  • Bonded very well with my rabbit.
  • Getting my cousin and brother through season 3. They haven't seen the red wedding yet.
  • New business phone.
  • Hard to understand what I can and can't do.
  • Would like to start cycling again.
  • Been working on Ancia quite a lot lately.
  • A small bit of drawing and painting.
  • More new music.
  • Learnt new recipe.
  • Trying to learn to deal with loss.
  • Explored faith and personal views.
  • Met with some friends, made strong effort to socialise more.
  • Going to bed far too late in the day
  • Have forgot a lot of my BSL, wasn't helpful when talking to someone recently
  • Been learning French and a little Mandarin Chinese
  • Feeling a bit lost, but shall try to break the cycle