Has any one got any recommendations for welsh beginners language courses?

[Overrun]

I am in Cardiff. It must be part time, either in the eveing, but preferably one in the middle of the day (while ds is a nusery).
I am going to aks rl friends as well, but want to make as informed a decision as I can

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Oh, there must be some one who can give me a recommendation

Hiya

Cardiff eh? Well I'm near Newport (Caerleon) and the Uni does some, have you tried your 2 local ones? Might be an easy solution. The Welsh school will also know- I don't use it, but SallyStrawberry will know the details.

Also, apparently some American chap learned Welsh from the BBc Welsh site to a standard he started a degree in Welsh at Cardiff Uni last September, might also be worth a gander.

HTH

thanks peachy - I have looked online and there certainly seem to be a lot of courses around, I don't think I will have trouble finding one , I am almost a bit too spoilt for choice, so thats why I was after recommendations iyswim
I do visit a couple of online sites, but my motivation keeps slipping
Do you speak Welsh?

No I can't speak Welsh, its something I would like to do but not a priority atm- we moved from Somerset 18 months ago you see, so I have no idea. The boys like doing it at school though.

I would try with the BBC on line one TBH, see how it goes.

Hi Overrun.
Good for you!
Welcome to the fold.
I am a Welsh speaker and have lots of friends who have learnt very successfully as adults.
Your best bet is to enquire at your local uni/higher education facility.
There will me masses of different courses running.
The 'Wlpan' one is considered very highly. (It is based on the model used in Israel for people to become fluent in Hebrew when starting from scratch.)
I think a class has to be the answer.It's very very hard to motivate yourself alone.
'Twf' an organisation that encourages families to be bilingual,often runs very basic mother & baby ones.
They will be a fount of very helpful knowledge if you contact them. Hang on,I'll do a link.......

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I'd be happy to practice with you if you see me on MN.

thanks Moondog, my ds1 gets a twf magazine from school, which I try and read to him, and translate Mr men stories with my pocket dictionary.
I have heard good things about wilpan too. Obviously as a mother of young dc I can't go on a residential course but will try and do a weekly one to start.
Hopefully my school welsh will come flooding back to me
Thanks for your offer, thats really kind, and Diane dioch (sp)

Hi Overrun - try also the WEA - they're quite active in Cardiff and the Vale - in fact I've just come back from my class tonight! caourse pages for cardiff are here

There's also acen - they have an online course which is good, but not free acen

Good luck!

ejt

Hi ejt, thanks for that, I have looked at the WEA site, and emailed them, the Acen one didn't work, maybe its my pc, but I will look them up.
I am going to go to some to a friends house next week, she is a welsh speaker and is having a lunchtime meet up for people who want to speak welsh.
I am anxious as every one else will probably be better than me, but at least its a start

It will be great.