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You don't need to read or write or do any revision - you just start speaking normally and naturally from the very beginning.
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Listen to the first lesson right here, right now - either the northern or the southern version - and if you like it, you can access another 25 half-hour lessons for free by filling in the form below.
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Our Patrons:
We are very grateful indeed to some of the most prominent public figures in Welsh life for their support and encouragement as our Patrons.
Lord Elis-Thomas, Presiding Officer of the National AssemblyNick Bourne, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives
Helen Mary Jones, AM for Llanelli
Robin McBryde, forwards coach for the Welsh rugby team
Aled Edwards, OBE, Human Rights and Equalities Campaigner
Rhys Mwyn, Anhrefn Records, 'A benign rebel'
John Rostron, co-founder of SWN Festival
Leanne Wood, AM for South Wales Central
Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats
What other learners are saying:
I think the course is brilliant. I started trying to learn Welsh years ago, and took to it like a duck to nuclear physics. But I've learnt more in the last few weeks than I've managed to retain in years of trying with other courses! And I PAID for those!
Edward Evans, Prescot, Lancashire
This is the best site I have ever found for learning Welsh - SSIW appear to have cracked that 'wall' which was between the internet and language learners: I mean, I subscribed to the BBC Learn Welsh site several years ago, which was filled with cool graphics, games and all sorts, but - with all due respect - it took me nowhere. SSIW Lesson One has me speaking Welsh and listening to real Welsh - it's great! ;)
Kris Das, London Click here to read more...
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Press releases
(That’s Saturday’s 21:00 hrs New Zealand time, for the kick off of Wales’ semi-final showdown with France). “We are all Welsh now,” read the headlines on Sunday when the Welsh rugby team became the last British side remaining in this year’s World Cup. It’s true – many British rugby fans will now support Wales for
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In America and Argentina, New Zealand and China, Germany and Finland, Welsh learners are celebrating the award given by the Institute of Welsh Affairs to the world’s largest Welsh class, internet-based SaySomethinginWelsh.com, for promoting Wales to the rest of the world. Over 15,000 people have accessed the free mp3 lessons on the website, and a
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At a time when tourism from America has been in decline, a new kind of intensive Welsh course has shown that tourist experts are right to predict the rising importance of cultural attractions to American tourists. The SaySomethinginWelsh.com Bootcamp is a week in Tresaith, Ceredigion where participants are not allowed to speak ANY English for
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The British Library in London is not the most obvious place to look for anything to do with Wales – but from this week onwards, it will play host to a new group of enthusiastic Welsh learners. They are keen to make it possible for all Welsh learners in London to practice speaking the language
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Say Something in Welsh is just a MIRACLE!
When I found this site, I thought that the course was not worthy: no writing? no book? but seeing that 1st lesson was available to download… “Maybe I shall learn a couple of words and a little pronunciation”, I thought. But after finishing the lesson I saw myself SPEAKING Cymraeg!!! “Incredible”, I thought; “I have
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I particularly like the almost laughing session…
I’ve finished the beginners course. Hwre! I downloaded the lessons onto my puter then put them onto CD and listened to them in the car on my drive to Cardiff in the morning. Love the course, and put at least 3 welsh learners onto it, who say they’ve learned more about how to use the
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…’my Welsh has improved beyond recognition’.
I thought it was only fair that I posted some comments about my progress having silently worked on this course over the last 8 months or so… I have been learning Welsh for 5 years in evening classes before discovering this course and was starting to feel demoralised by my lack of progress. I stumbled
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Learning with SSiW has been easy and fun…
I am Welsh but left Wales to go to University (I won’t say how long ago) and then settled in England with no realistic chance of moving back. It has always bugged me that I can’t speak Welsh but I have always known that someday I would learn. Like everyone else in Wales at the
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‘Without a doubt, the best foreign language course I’ve ever done’.
This is without a doubt, the best foreign language course I’ve ever done (even though I’m still only on the Introductory/Beginner Course). Especially when the Spanish and Italian classes I took in High School, made me completely terrified of ever learning another language – talk about tricky. But these lessons are wonderful, both entertaining and
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To rework a line by Caesar:
To rework a line by Caesar: Gwnes i weld e, gwnes i hoffi fe, gwnes i siarad e! Yesterday I did lesson 3 and I’ve just finished lesson 4. I think it’s going swell, so much so that I can’t believe it. I’ve never learned a language this fast before, and all from just 4
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