Heather Bennet wrote... > >I am hoping to attend the U. of Wales at Cardiff next fall for my PhD. in lite >rature. My main area of interest in Arthurian literature: more specifically, t >he character of Merlin/Myrddin; more specifically, his development in English l >iterature from the early Welsh stories, poems, etc. > >Now for the help part. I am desperately trying to learn Welsh, but as you ca >n imagine, without anyone to help, it is nearly impossible. And because of my >work schedule, every time I seem to get a chance to work on it, I end up droppi >ng it for a week or so because I just have no time. > You don't give an e-mail address, Heather, or say where you are posting from, but I assume (from your use of the word 'fall') that it's somewhere trans-Atlantic. In any case, if you're coming to Cardiff that soon, you're probably better off waiting for now and enrolling on a Welsh course here - after all, as you can imagine, there are a number of Welsh evening classes, morning classes, intensive courses of various kinds available etc. etc. I'd offer to help but, alas, I'm leaving Cardiff in September (well, maybe the 'alas' is uncalled for, as my reason for going is that I have a good job with a good company in the gorgeous Vale of Clwyd to go to...). Either way, if you really want to learn Welsh then it shouldn't be too hard to do in Cardiff. Best wishes, Steve Morris, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UWC Cardiff S.Morris@astronomy.cardiff.ac.uk