Am amazed to find that it is a month since the last blog - and indeed in the absence of new books, courses or anyone to talk - and the need to get my French back in gear a bit for a holiday in France, the lack of motivation continued. And any time on languages was spent on French (not that it seemed to make much difference...........)However, I went to Conwy last week to do a bit of walking with a friend Conwy and Llandudno and to buy a couple of new books -not that I could get many given that they were all being carried in the rucksack. The weather came good and we had a lovely walk on the Great Orme and another on Conwy mountain.
And then the day after returning I did a day's course at the London Welsh Centre. I have done one of these before and it was excellent - as was this one. It really makes me realise the need for practice talking. Reading is great (once I can get the books) as is listening to the radio and watching Welsh television but it is only in spontaneous conversation that I realise I am still struggling to think of the words that I need - though writing might also help.
I am now going to the highest level classes when I book the courses. This means that some of it is quite hard - especially the grammar - for me at least, but it also means that there tends to be quite an emphasis on conversation. On this course, on Saturday, we had a North Wales tutor which was great for me as I have struggled with the South Wales dialect. However, of course the Abergavenny courses have been in South Wales Welsh so I have also learnt some of this and am probably now using some weird mixture of the two and not always sure which is which. Determined to try to keep it going a bit more now - so need to think of some tasks to set myself I think. I will also try to find out about future events at the Welsh Centre and try to get to some.
