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You know that thing I believe where sometimes it's only the future that explains the stuff that's happened in the past? And you know how I have this thing where my entire life tends to be governed by a really peculiar and relentless sort of serendipity?

Okay, so, get this:

So despite thinking there was just a very slim change of this happening (I know I've made vague noise about it to a few of you) it's now pretty much a done deal that Patty's next bit of international academic travel means she's going to be spending 10 or so weeks in Cardiff this fall.

Yeah, what are the odds of that, right?

We cannot stop laughing (and everything we find in random books about Cardiff, I'm like, "I think I used that in a story"), and we're going to have to learn how to pronounce things and OH GOD, I really need a winter coat that's not Jack's.

Also, to totally round this out for Torchtasticness -- Patty'll be in India for about the same period of time in early 2011, and I can visit her there too if we can make $$ and time work. Fandom, say it with me: Cardiff, Switzerland, India. This is my life.

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[firefly124.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Not who you offered to, but I would love to hear them. Been trying with a "teach yourself Welsh" book and CD set, and so far I can pretty much say good morning/afternoon/evening and count to ten. *facepalm*

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I have the same book and I like it, but it can be a bit intense.

Check out any/all of the following.

200 Words a Day - Welsh - great for building vocab and pretty cheap and almost fun.

www.saysomethinginwelsh.com - I love this site because it gets you talking in Welsh right away and feeling like you're actually GETTING somewhere

And the BBC Wales site has a LOT of stuff for Welsh learners - of particular use, I've enjoyed the old version of Catchphrase (although the new one is pretty good too, but in other ways - much more about native Welsh speakers talking at a native speed than some poor English shmuck trying to learn the language) and the online grammar reference. The Colin and Cumberland games are, imho, creepy.

I also have Rosetta Stone but, really, aside from the vocab-power of it, I don't really recommend it for Welsh, as it can leave you banging your head against the keyboard when you start running into mutations.

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! *bookmarks*

Ah, yes, mutations. *shudders* They do to me what irregular verbs used to do to my classmates in Spanish, which is to say reduce me to a quivering blob of confusion. I shall avoid Rosetta Stone then, for sure.