Mastering the basics of foreign language conversation is easier than you think. In this fast paced intensive course, you will learn how to ask simple questions, talk about yourself, make enquiries and socialise. By the end of the course, with proper application and home practise, you will have a basic understanding of Welsh Grammar and Conversation. Tutor Veronica Calarco is visiting us from Wales.

Your Tutor is Dr. Veronica Calarco.

Dr Veronica Calarco has been teaching at WEA since 2010. 

Veronica grew up in a small country town in Victoria and fulfilled an early aim of living in every state in Australia. 

In the 1990s, Veronica completed a degree in printmaking and a postgraduate degree in weaving at the Institute of Arts, Australia National University. After university, she ran a graphic design business and worked as a community artist in Canberra and then worked in the remote areas of Australia such as the Kimberleys, north Western and central Australia.

Veronica now lives in Wales. She first visited Wales in 2004 and began living between Wales and Australia, before finally settling permanently in Wales in 2012. She received an A level in Welsh in 2013 and the Dan Lynn James Scholarship to study Welsh in 2014. She loves learning languages and is obsessed with buying language books and doing the exercises. In 2021, Veronica completed a PhD in printmaking looking at Indigenous languages at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. 

She is the founder of Stiwdio Maelor, an artist in residence program, where she has created a print studio. She is a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers. Veronica teaches all printmaking techniques and was a lecturer in Printmaking at Aberwystwyth University and now runs workshops in her studio.