Archive for March 9th, 2007

Mae’r defaid wedi bwyta fy brechdanau! * (Actually, not true… we had a lovely lunch!)

A really fun day at St Roberts Catholic School, Aberkenfig, Bridgend, South Wales, today.

This is a school that “glows”: The children arrived into the class with huge, warm and friendly smiles, completely un-thrown by the many adults sat around the edge of the class observing the lessons. They responded in an equally impressive fashion, writing at pace and in notably neat, and increasingly imaginative ways. We explored many ways of developing their writing, including simile (cyffelybiaeth) and metaphor (trosiad)

I loved the carefully restored old school desks. These are reserved as a privilege of being in year six.

I enjoy (Dw i’n mwynhau) this kind of day: a mixture of presentation, lessons and discussion with colleagues. I would hardly call this “going to work” (mynd i’r gwaith) as I, too, learn a lot from the process.
Llongyfarchiadau (congratulations) to Mrs Took, the staff and children of St Roberts and the visiting teachers, for a thoroughly rewarding visit.

Diolch yn fawr

Pob lwc!
Pob dymuniad da!

Mae’n braf i’ch gweld chi (It was nice to meet you)

Impressed? Well here are a few more versions of that last phrase:

(I am missing a few recordings (Welsh being one of them, sadly) so would welcome any more help in trying to make the remaining few)
Thank you to Jerry, Ahmul, and Jeroel for your contributions already!
The power of Audacity! – the best FREE audio recorder. Well, except for one…
Click the links to hear how it should sound:

Afrikaans	Aangename kennis.
Albanian	Më bëhet qejfi që u njohëm.
Amharic	Siletewawekin Des Beelognal.
Arabic	Sorirart Biro’aitak
Armenian	Ourakh em kezi Hantibelov.
Asturian	Prestosu de conocelu.
Azerbaijani	– Çox s,adam.
Basque	Pozten nau zu ezagutzeak
Bengali	Porichito hoye valo laglo.
Bosnian	Drago mi je sxto smo se upoznali.
Breton	Plijet bras on
Bulgarian	Priatno mi e.
Cantonese	Rho go hing ying sik lei.
Catalan	Encantat de conèixe’r-te.
Chipewyan	Seeneey see neyghan neeneeyah
Cornish	Da yw genev metya genes
Creole	Kontan.
Croatian	Drago mi je.
Czech	Te^s^í me^.
Dagaare	N poO pElEE la ne n nang nyE fo.
Danish	Rart at møde dig/Dem.
Dutch	Leuk je te ontmoeten.
English	Nice to meet you.
Esperanto	Plezure
Estonian	Väga rõõmustav.
Eurish	Suava t’occurre. / Suava v’occurre.
Farsi	Khosh’halam Az Di’dane Sho’ma.
Finnish	Mukava tavata sinut.
French	Enchanté (de faire votre connaissance).
Frisian	Yn ‘t wolnimmen.
Galician	Moito gosto
Georgian	sasiamovnoa
German	Sehr erfreut. Freut mich (, Sie kennen zu lernen.)
Greek	He’ro poli’
Gujarati	maLine aanand thayo
Hawaiian	??
Hebrew	na’im le’hakir otcha (m), otach (f)
Hindi	aapse milkar khushii huyii
Holooe	Ë-tàng sék-säi lí, chin hoan-hí.
Hungarian	Örvendek
Icelandic	Gaman að kynnast þér.
Ido	Me joyas renkontrar vu.
Indonesian	Senang berkenalan dengan anda
Interlingua	Il es un placer facer vostre cognoscentia.
Irish	Tá áthas orm bualadh leat.
Italian	Felice di conoscerla. Felice di conoscerti. Piacere.
Japanese	O-ai dekite ureshii desu.
Korean	Man-na-so Pan-kap-sum-ni-da
Latin	Suave est tibi occurere. Suave te cognòscere est.
Latvian	Jauki ar Jums tikties.
Lithuanian	Malonu Jus matyti.
Luganda	[Nice to meet you]
Malaysian	Seronok berjumpa dengan anda
Mandarin	henv gao- xìng yù jiàn niv.
Marshallese	Iakwe
Mazahua	arupahnkáh
Norwegian	Hyggelig å treffe deg.
Occitan	Encantat!
Polish	Mil/o mi cie, Pana Pania, poznac’
Portuguese	Muito gosto.
Brazilian Portuguese	Prazer em conhecê-lo(a)
Quechua	??
Romanian	Imi pare bine de cunos’tint’ã.
Russian	Ochen priyatno.
Serbian	Drago mi je da smo se upoznali.
Sesotho	Ke thabile ho kopana le wena.
Sinhala	Hambu Una Eka Loku Sathutak
Slovak	Tes^í ma.
Slovenian	Lepo, da sva se spoznala.
Spanish	Encantado de conocerle.
Swahili	Nafurahi kukuona
Swedish	Trevligt att råkas.
Tagalog	Ikinagagalak kong makilala kayo.
Thai	dee-jai-tee-dai-pob-khun
Tswana	Ke itumetsi go go itse
Turkish	Tani,stž-gžmžza memnun oldum.
Ukrainian	pryyemno z vamy zapiznatysya
Vietnamese	, Râ’t hân ha.nh
Welsh	Mae’n braf i’ch gweld chi.
Xhosa	Kumnandi ukudibana nawe/ukukukwazi
Yiddish	zeyer ayngenem aych tsu trefn
Zulu	ngiyathokoza ukukwazi

Thank you too, to travlang.com

* A sheep has eaten my sandwiches!

Hi Tim,

Thank you for such a fantastic day! My colleagues and I have gained so much from watching you in action today. The pupils had a great time and the quality of their written work was brilliant.

I really feel that this day, followed on well from the initial training I had at Bryngarw. I was able to see what you were talking about on that day, in action, and identify ways in which this “game” can be presented and used with the children. For me, it is much more important to actually see you demonstrating a session, than to just listen to how you would carry out a lesson with pupils. I was able to see how you would deal with any issues that arose and how you further develop pupils work. Today, I was able to see how this would link in with other areas of the curriculum, as well as cluster projects such as the Hull Talk Project. This, I feel is essential, as it ensures that it is not felt as an “add on” or an extra thing to do. It can be incorporated into what is already taking place in our schools.

I hope you have a good weekend. Thanks again,

Barbara Harris