Learn Welsh Fast With Cadw Swn

by Colin Jones, William Brown (Illustrator)

Cadw Swn is a complete Welsh course for adults which teaches Welsh as it is spoken in South Wales. It's suitable for complete beginners or as a revision aid. The course uses music and stories to ease and speed the learning process, and covers all the major tenses in an entertaining and pleasurable way. Some grammar is explained along the way, but only for those with an interest. Each lesson contains an episode of a story, printed side-by-side in both Welsh and English, so that the vocabulary is always to hand. The stories follow the lives of the inhabitants of Aberarthur, a sleepy Welsh village in the South. A printed course book contains 20 full lessons, and the accompanying disc contains 10 CDs worth of audio. This computer DVD edition contains the book and a data DVD for use on your computer or transfer to MP3 player, CD etc.

116 pages, Paperback

About the author

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 recording my other books as audio books, and then other authors started asking me to record audiobooks for them.