In my regular emails from the BBC learnwelsh website, I received one about the recent Welsh podcasts. So far, there aren’t too many: one which seems to be the equivalent of Radio 4’s Pick of the week (pretty good); another which is a nature programme (fine - another interest) and a third which is a very light magazine program with a bit too much focus on celebrities I have never heard of. Nevertheless, this looks like giving me, once again, a resource I can use whilst cycling, thus making good use of the 80 mins or so a day when I cycle in and out of work.
Interesting to reflect on how what I use to resource and support my Welsh activities is serendipitous – depending on what resources I have managed to procure recently or what new resources have come to my attention. What I am using changes my pattern of learning quite a lot. The podcasta are quite timely as I have just finished Hari Potter. Yes, it is spelt correctly - it is a Welsh version of Harry Potter, bought when in Abergavenny in March – and have found it, as with the BFG I read previously, to be a really motivating resource. Sad, you might think, but the fact is that the story is quite a page turner – and I can keep reading it in Welsh with only occasionally recourse to either the dictionary , or, better, the English version. So children’s books seem to be good (if well written) for extending vocabulary whilst maintaining a good narrative that pulls you along. (Though of course some of the language in Harry Potter is quite specialist – not sure how useful all the words involved in Quidditch will be, if I ever remember them)
Interesting to reflect on how what I use to resource and support my Welsh activities is serendipitous – depending on what resources I have managed to procure recently or what new resources have come to my attention. What I am using changes my pattern of learning quite a lot. The podcasta are quite timely as I have just finished Hari Potter. Yes, it is spelt correctly - it is a Welsh version of Harry Potter, bought when in Abergavenny in March – and have found it, as with the BFG I read previously, to be a really motivating resource. Sad, you might think, but the fact is that the story is quite a page turner – and I can keep reading it in Welsh with only occasionally recourse to either the dictionary , or, better, the English version. So children’s books seem to be good (if well written) for extending vocabulary whilst maintaining a good narrative that pulls you along. (Though of course some of the language in Harry Potter is quite specialist – not sure how useful all the words involved in Quidditch will be, if I ever remember them)
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Welsh Quidditch - Sounds like a fun challenge. Maybe we could integrate it into the move to the new JL building? Something we do in the Nexus maybe :-)
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