Welsh course finished

It is finished! And I am a bit sad. I had really enjoyed this Welsh class. We learnt all sorts of grammatical subtleties that I'd been wondering about for years. It was very satisfying. And I also just liked the style of the tutor. And I had lovely fellow learners.

Finding a suitable course is not easy! I am pretty much at the end of what they teach. There is no further course I can advance to. And then you just have to hope that the courses at this level don't cover the same material. And when you try to select a course, you'll have to do that on the basis of very little information. It generally is just a sentence. They never tell you who teaches it. 

I already asked the teacher of this course, Gwen, if she also teaches something similar next year. She said she didn't know yet. But at least I have her contact details. I could ask her a bit later if she knows by now, and whether any courses she teaches next year might overlap too much with the one we had this year.

I sure want to keep doing a Welsh class. People are surprised by that; am I not fluent by now? After all, I have had my Welsh language teaching qualification for years now! But it is a case of use it or lose it. In daily life I don't get to speak much Welsh, and the Welsh I do speak generally isn't full of grammatical intricacies. I need to keep that at level through practice. And a class is good for that. So I hope I'll find something good. 

The last time I applied a bit late, and had to choose from courses delivered from South Wales. I did not intend to do that, but there was no choice anymore. I didn't know how well that would turn out! And such coincidences can just as well turn the other way next time. I will find out next academic year!

 

Excerpt from the last material we covered