Dysgu yn Lerpwl

Due to training in Liverpool, I had to forgo fy un nosbarth Cymraeg i this week - and the same will sadly happen next week and the week after that too. Despite fears that I'd be back to square one at this rate, I was staying with the Caernarfon reporters; Dion Jones and the fantastically named Gwenno Gwilym, whose ears I have been abusing.

Before we had even met, I was being teased by Dion for e-mailing "mae o'n gwrando da" (listens good) instead of "mae o'n swnio da" (sounds good), with regards to travel arrangements. Be' sy'n bod? It's all the same sense anyway! However in the end, a 7am train from Bangor didn't sound, nor indeed listen, good at all!

I was also mercilessly mocked for apparently speaking Cymraeg with a German accent whilst subjecting Dion to my pained attempts at conversation. Danke schon has never been an acceptable response to offers in any Cymraeg class I've been to before! I gave as good as I got, however, ribbing him that his Cofi vernacular consisting mainly of "yeh" and "cont" hardly consisted fluency either!

I'll bring my textbook for the train next week and hopefully get some more constructive criticism!