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After becoming a Welsh-to-adults tutor I began writing stories for Welsh learners to help accelerate the learning process. I combined this with classical music on my Cadw Swn home-study Welsh course.

The Aberarthur stories in Cadw Swn came out of this, and then the novel Coed y Brenin. I'd write a story each week and we'd read through it in class. People seemed to like them.

After a while another set of stories started to surface, around the strange, rather supernatural area of Cwm Gwrachod (Witches' Valley).

I seem to remember writing another half a novel of stories in each series. I wonder which will see the light of day first?

After a while I thought I'd record the four branches of the Mabinogion as an audio book. That in turn led to recordi ...more

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	Mabinogion, the Four Branches: The Ancient Celtic Epic by Unknown ., Charlotte Guest (Translator), Colin Jones (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.92 avg rating — 8,873 ratings — published 1200 — 452 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coed y Brenin: A novel for Welsh learners 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simple Welsh in an Hour of Your Time: Kickstart Your Welsh Today 4.37 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cwm Gwrachod: A novel for Welsh learners 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rarebits for Welsh Learners: A Miscellany for Adults Learning Welsh 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learn Welsh Fast With Cadw Swn by Colin Jones (Goodreads Author), William Brown (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of Slightly Magic: The story of the trainee wizard Slightly; how he came to be, how he almost disappeared forever, and how he returned to computer games after 25 years by Colin Jones (Goodreads Author), Chris Graham (Illustrations) did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cadw Swn Complete Welsh Course by Colin Jones (Goodreads Author), William Brown (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elastic Black Dog: An Oddity of Delights 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Oral Tradition of Storytelling

Some while ago I spent a lot of time recording 'Mabinogion, the Four Branches' as an audio book. One of the reasons for that is the long tradition of oral storytelling in Wales...

The Mabinogion is the product of the Welsh storytelling tradition, whereby a series of storytellers re-forged the tales over the years, editing and improving as they went along, embroidering, seeing what worked, seeing wh Read more of this blog post »

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