{"id":10386,"date":"2021-09-09T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10386"},"modified":"2021-09-10T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:10:03","slug":"da-iawn-prof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10386","title":{"rendered":"Da iawn, Athro!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh schoolteacher Stephen Mason has set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLHox8if6VDSLGbLM0fKA_KNd7anKoIcZL\">YouTube channel<\/a> called <em>So You&#8217;ve Moved to Wales<\/em> (SYMTW) specifically for non-Welsh speaking schoolchildren moving to a Welsh school and having to catch up on Welsh language studies, <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/news\/so-youve-moved-to-wales-series-aims-to-stop-pupils-developing-negative-attitude-to-welsh\/\">Nation Cymru reports<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Mr Mason works at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qehs.carms.sch.uk\/\">Queen Elizabeth High School<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carmarthen\">Carmarthen<\/a> and has 25 years&#8217; service at the chalkface.<\/p>\r\n<p>Explaining his motive for setting up the SYMTW channel, Mr Mason told the paper:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>Moving home and changing schools when you are a teenager is a stressful time. A new country, a new school and a new language can easily become associated with an unhappy or stressful life episode.\r\nI therefore decided to make a series of videos for Welsh teachers to share with latecomers to their subject that would help them settle into their new surroundings more easily.<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>The first of Mr Mason&#8217;s videos is embedded below.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_72320\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZ-ww9S5kKg?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"So You&#039;ve Moved To Wales...Lesson 1 - The Basics\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh schoolteacher Stephen Mason has set up a YouTube channel called So You&#8217;ve Moved to Wales (SYMTW) specifically for non-Welsh speaking schoolchildren moving to a Welsh school and having to catch up on Welsh language studies, Nation Cymru reports. Mr Mason works at Queen Elizabeth High School in Carmarthen and has 25 years&#8217; service at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[22,33],"class_list":["post-10386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}