Thread:MaggieSN/@comment-44123106-20200209214249/@comment-44123106-20200211010003

Parking: Yes, I've been there 2 years and we've had to "buy" 40 extra spaces from the company next door. Before the recent extra area, I had to park in IKEA, only a 5 minute walk away, but it seems a long way after a long day at work, and sometimes I don't leave until 2000.

Lessons going well - 5 years now and not entirely fluent - at the stage where I've moved beyond saying the standard things and now more worried about getting ideas across. One of the lesson, we often spend a lot of time just talking around a subject, rather than doing book learning - we had a mad half hour or so reminising about Children's TV programmes - much to the bemusement of our 30 year class "baby" (who has a PhD!!). Comparing it to my Italian learning, I'd we're about A-level standard.

Radio: Radio 4 is in English, as it Radio Wales. Radio Cymru is in Welsh and I often listen to it in the car - rarely in the house, sometimes at work. I've listened to it in the car since I started, when I understood nothing! Funny thing: traffis and weather reports sound the same in all languages - I found the same thing in German...about three weeks in, I caught myself thinking "Running late today, I'm usually at the roundabout before the traffic comes on" then realised that it was odd knowing that's what was on when I didn't speak German!! When we learnt the Welsh numbers, I spotted the phone number in the stream of random noises!! Now I can hear where all the words are and get about half of them - and I understand most of the traffic/weather reports - when I can hear what they're saying!!

I love that sign!! Some of the tutors have libraries of those sort of photos - they stop and take them! - and put them up in class for us to spot the mistakes!!

Lots of regional accents on R4 these days...

Planet Rock is DAB only - or online. I find "Internet Radio" a useful site/app, especially at work as it doesn't trigger the blocking software, which the PR website does.