#learnwelsh

[elen-aranel]

Dw i’n meddwl y dylai Llywodraeth Cymru wneud eu ap dysgu Cymraeg eu hunain. Maen nhw’n cael llawer o learning materials yn barod.

Dw i ddim yn gwybod pam wnaethon nhw ddim gwneud o maith yn ôl, dweud y gwyir

[rhywbethcymraeg]

A share from the r/learnwelsh subreddit.

[angiethewitch]

You mentioned how Duolingo's Welsh was facing challenges from the developers, so if someone still wants to learn Welsh but don't have Duolingo then this might help:

easy Welsh on YouTube

Reddit's community r/learnwelsh or r/languagelearning. Usually there is some sort of pinned post or sidebar containing resources.

awesome! diolch yn fawr iawn!

[rowynnellis]

The Cockatrice (or Ceiliog Neidr in Welsh) is akin to a bird or raptor. Similar to it’s larger cousin the Basilisk, the Cockatrice is able to kill its prey through eye contact. It also secretes poison from it’s skin and spits acid. - #mrnice #showjumping #dysgucymraeg #visitwales #thereplacements #theboatthatrocked #welshlanguage #berlinstation #equestrianlife #learnwelsh #london #walesonline #tokillamockingbird #singer #uk #musician #handmade #swansea #language #languages #wordoftheday #jumping #likeforlikes #gairydydd #williamshakespeare #like #dysgu #wotd #edwarddevere #rugby https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtEIeijayj/?igshid=g0fvkl3yywzw

[merchymynydd]

Blatant use of cute dog in a costume photo for site traffic

[dino-lingo]

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[fluentlanguage]

I shamefully admitted to my language exchange partner that I had not reviewed all the vocabulary from our most recent chat yet. About time! Sunshine study is the best study. Where is your favourite study place? #sunshine #study #languagelearning #langues #languagenerd #welsh #learnwelsh #dysgucymraeg #langspo #langblr

[meddwlyngymraeg]

I'm going to abuse this blog a bit this once, but it is related. They're getting rid of the Duolingo forum tomorrow, which is fairly shocking because there are too many good resources posted on there!

I'm trying to copy over some of them for reference, because there are things that maybe I'm not advanced enough to use right now, but I would like to be able to use once I'm a little more skilled at Welsh.

Copied below are all the resources, verbatim. (Some resources may be repeated because I'm just copying)

The two best, best resources for self-learning, apart from Duolingo itself, for visual learners, are the series of videos on pronunciation on youtube:- https://www.youtube.com/user/welshplus

and the Big Welsh Challenge course :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/bigwelshchallenge/ (click on 'enter course', then 'skip introduction'), the section 'practice with tutor' is particularly useful, especially the male South Wales presenter, who is a well know, very funny Welsh actor. (Ignore the 'archive notice' and click on 'enter course', it works fine.)

The book that we have linked to in the Welsh course on Duolingo is here https://cls.byu.edu/welsh/BYU_Cwrs_Mynediad.html

Hard copies are available through all the usual book sellers.

For auditory learners 'Say something in Welsh' is very good and has a wide network of supporters in particular its popular Facebook group. https://www.saysomethingin.com/welsh/course1

Finally don't forget to join our Facebook group where further discussion takes place and the writers respond to queries. https://www.facebook.com/groups/welshduolingo/

Also here is a link to an fairly good article about mutations:- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Welsh/Mutations#Soft_mutation

Here is a website which gives a daily crossword and also a range of 'her geirfa' vocabulary challenges:- http://www.happyhere.co.uk/

In addition for people not anywhere near a Welsh class, there are a number of people and places that offer online Skype lessons. Here is the link to the Skype courses of one of the Welsh centres in Wales:-http://www.coleggwent.ac.uk/welshcentre#.V1Zh_5PR-V5.

Below is the list of apps grouped into themes and in alphabetic order. Enjoy!

Complete courses:

Learn Cymraeg Mynediad Android, and iOS

Lovely free course for beginners, offers a variety of activities and contains plenty authentic audio recordings. A more advanced course from the same developer is available for purchase.

SSiWelsh Android and iOS

Say something in Welsh, a great Welsh course available from the website and via app. Users can choose between North/South Welsh pronunciation. The Challenges and Course 1 are for free and there’s more paid content. I highly recommend this app.

Grammar-specific:

Ap Treiglo Android and iOS

Another amazing app that teaches you how to use mutations properly. There is a list of words causing mutation, you can also look up grammar rules regarding prepositions, numbers, etc. Good to have it in your toolkit.

Welsh Number Whizz Android only

Welsh Number Whizz is an app designed to help you learn the traditional vigesimal number system. Could be useful especially for us Duolingers, as the Welsh course focuses on the decimal system.

Welsh Verb Blitz Android only

A fantastic tool to learn verbs and their conjugations. The app offers several mini-games to practice Welsh conjugation.

Vocabulary-specific

Anki Android and iOS, the iOS version is paid

I put Anki here as one of the two tools I know and use for flashcards. Anki is available both in a desktop and app version. There are a few big decks with Welsh flashcards, you can find them here: Dal Ati Android and iOS

For all those who have access to S4C this is a very useful app to learn vocabulary that is used in S4C programmes.

Dreigiau Dinas Emrys Android and iOS

I fell in love with this cute game from the first tap. Such a great idea to explain the legend of two dragons in Dinas Emrys and turn it into a Welsh learning app. Great music and sounds, try it out!

Gofalu Trwy’r Gymraeg Android and iOS

If you want to learn some medical Cymraeg, check out this one: nicely arranged topics with authentic recordings and English translations. Simple and intuitive, well worth taking a look.

Memrise Android and iOS

Many of you probably know Memrise, a popular website and app for learning languages and other subjects using flashcards. But do you know that there are many great decks (or courses, as they are called on Memrise) with Welsh vocabulary? Take a look here to see a list of Welsh flashcard courses on Memrise:

Vocab Game Welsh Cymraeg Geirfa Android only

Interesting vocabulary app for learning Welsh. 8,160 words structured in about 200 levels arranged by number of letters and alphabetic order. Each level contains about 20-25 words. The app is nicely designed and fun to play. Perhaps one downside is that many of these words are old or very specialised and I often have to look up the English translations to find out what something is. Nevertheless, you will surely get to know lots of vocab after completing all the levels, so give it a try.

Dictionaries

Ap Geiriaduron Android and iOS

A very nice Welsh-English and English-Welsh dictionary. Recognizes mutations, contains common phrases. And it works offline as well. A must-have.

GPC Geiriadur Prifysgol Android and iOSA monolingual dictionary of Welsh, less useful for beginners, but definitely something to have on your be-able-to-use wishlist. Great features: you can download the whole database to your memory card and there are language games.

Other:

Ap Beibl Android and iOS

This one is perhaps not for beginners, but it’s good to know about it for the future. Contains a number of different translations of the Bible into Welsh from different periods of history.

Ap Golwg Android and iOS

This app allows you to buy a digital edition of Lingo Newydd, a bi-monthly magazine for Welsh learners. Articles are colour-coded to mark difficulty and there are audio recordings of articles (which you wouldn’t get in the paper edition). You can either but a single issue for £1.49 or a subscription plan (Lingo Newydd costs £9.99 year). Ap Golwg also gives access to the Golwg360 website. It’s totally free and has a useful VOCAB button at the top that shows definitions of words in articles. You don’t need the app to access the website, but it’s nice to have a shortcut to news in Welsh on your mobile device.

Legends of the West Android only

Fabulous app about the history of Ceredigion and Wales. Contains text and recordings in Welsh and English.

There is a lot on the BBC Learn Welsh site, too - http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learning/learnwelsh/ Much of the site is archived now but much of it still works. There is a downloadable grammar guide here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/grammar/index.shtml - which you might find in book form, too, if it is still in print.

Dal Ati ('Stick At It') is a television programme on S4C for learners of Welsh. There is a Youtube channel for the programme here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSnqXodFrOCxTH2VRAeXIVQ

The recently revised DysguCymraeg/LearnWelsh course books are available for free download in pdf form on their website. This Duolingo course covers approximately the same ground as the Mynediad and Sylfaen books, and a little of Canolradd.The course books are available here - https://learnwelsh.cymru/learning/curriculum-and-course-books/ or try https://parallel.cymru/amdani/ or https://learnwelsh.cymru/

If you hunt around http://www.ybont.org there are a lot of supporting materials for learners of all levels.

For an online dictionary, https://www.gweiadur.com is very good (free registration to use its full range of information).

For a smartphone app, the free Ap Geiriaduron is good.An authoritative English to Welsh dictionary is https://geiriaduracademi.org, although many of its examples of usage use more formal Welsh than is taught on introductory courses such as this Duolingo one.

The National Centre for Learning Welsh has a web site including many materials for learners. Look around https://learnwelsh.cymru for materials supporting the national Mynediad and Sylfaen courses for adults.

A few more apps which I have found good are: Tywydd which gives you the weather forecast in Welsh and teaches you weather related vocabulary.

Gwlad Gwlad which teaches you to sing and pronounce the National Anthem of Wales.

The Magi Ann children's books apps which allow you to tap to hear the words spoken in Welsh or tap to see the English translation.

S4C programmes available to view outside the UK: http://www.s4c.cymru/clic/Categories/99

Stories: For entry (mynediad) and foundation (sylfaen) level stories, go to the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Amdani: Learn Welsh Festival of Reading (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNbPx7YxCU13oE6qCWs9hjP57ypKscCgR). The short stories are written for learners, and read by the authors, from the books 'Agor y Drws' (entry) and 'Ffenest' (Foundation). I was able to buy both books online from my local, Welsh bookshop in Llanrwst (https://www.bysabawd.cymru/en/products/books/welsh-books?search=cyfres%20amdani) and find it is really helpful to hear the author read the story out loud while reading the book myself.

The Dysgu Cymraeg course: https://dysgucymraeg.cymru/dysgu/cwricwlwm-a-chwrslyfrau/ Textbooks and mp3s. Is really good.

[elen-aranel]

I clicked on the Doctor Cymraeg limited offer, we don’t know when this will be available again, buy today it expires tomorrow course for beginners

There are 40 videos, which add up to 15 hours, but it costs £297?! Yes there’s a discord or forum and whatever and there are other materials

But the official LearnWelsh courses cost £90 for a year and you can sign up for £45 at certain times of the year?

I get that those are synchronous which is partly why I haven’t signed up but SaySomethingin Welsh is like £10 per month and there’s a forum and tutor led zoom sessions available in that?

Or you could get like 10 or more sessions with a personal one-to-one tutor for that much?

I would really need to see amazing testimonials for that price 🤷🏾‍♀️and they say if you do an hour a day you’d be done in around a month…

[ivyandbone]

I will say I like that Duolingo’s Welsh courses cover the Myndediad and Silfaen learning(entry and foundation) levels on LearnWelsh/DysguCymraeg, the government founded site for learning Welsh.

If anyone was using Duolingo previously for Welsh you might want to go back and check again because they updated the course in the last few months to better work with LearnWelsh/DysguCymraeg. New lessons have been added and some existing ones have been changed, so previous achievements for some of the lessons are gone and you’ll have to do them over again.

[russianwave]

Subreddits can be a great way of exchanging useful resources, methods, and ask questions about the language you’re learning. But not everyone knows how to easily find one dedicated to their target language/s. So I’ve created a directory of all the ones I could find under this read more.

Note: Whilst there are country-specific subreddits for a lot of these languages, unless they explicitly mentioned accepting language questions I left it out. I also used a subreddit’s list of languages, so please excuse any weird ordering.

If you have an active subreddit dedicated to learning a language/linguistics/translations please let me know and I’ll add it. This includes conlangs! If you think I’ve left out an active subreddit please let me know and I’ll add it!

Afrikaans

r/Afrikaans

r/LearnAfrikaans

Ainu (アィヌ)

r/Ainu 

American Sign Language (ASL)

r/ASL

Ancient languages

r/AncientGreek

r/Latin

r/LatinLanguage

r/Koine

r/Nahuatl

r/OldNorse

Arabic 

r/learn_arabic (Egyptian, MSA, Levantine, Khaliji, Classical)

Aramaic

r/Aramaic

Armenian

r/Hayeren

Basque

r/Basque 

Breton

r/Breton

Bulgarian

r/Bulgarian

Catalan

r/Catalan

Cherokee

r/Cherokee

Chinese 

r/Cantonese 

r/Chinese

r/Chineselanguage

r/ClassicalChinese

r/Hakka

r/ohtaigi

r/Shanghainese

Chinuk Wawa

r/Chinookjargon

Cornish

r/CornishLanguage

Croatian 

r/Croatian

Czech

r/LearnCzech

r/Czech (The board itself isn’t dedicated to learning the language but they do have a discord server and Reddit chatroom dedicated to learning it)

Danish

r/DanishLanguage

Dutch

r/LearnDutch

English (ESL)

r/EnglishLearning

r/Grammar

r/ENGLISH

Esperanto

r/Esperanto

Faroese

r/Faroese

Finnish

r/LearnFinnish

French

r/French

r/FrenchImmersion

r/FrenchHelp

r/LearnFrench

r/writestreak

Frisian 

r/Frysk (West Frisian)

German r/German

r/PAGerman (Pennsylvania German, must get invited by moderators to access)

Gothic

r/GothicLanguage

Greek 

r/Greek

Hawaii

r/olelohawaii

Hebrew

r/Hebrew

Hindi

r/Hindi

r/LearnHindi

Hungarian

r/Hungarian

Icelandic

r/LearnIcelandic

Inuktitut

r/Inuktitut

Indonesian

r/Indonesian

Irish

r/Gaeilge

Italian

r/Italianlearning

r/Italian

Japanese

r/LearnJapanese

r/Japanese

r/LearnKanji

r/JapaneseResources

r/SpeakJapanese

r/JapaneseInTheWild

r/Nihongo

r/NHKEasyNews

Kannada

r/Kannada

Khmer 

r/LearnKhmer

Korean

r/Korean

Kurdish 

r/Kurdish

Latvian

r/LearnLatvian

Luxembourgish

r/LearnLuxembourgish

Malayalam

r/Malayalam_Language

r/Malayalam

Malaysian

r/bahasamelayu

Maori 

r/ReoMaori

Mongolian

r/Mongolian

Norwegian

r/Norsk

Ojibwe

r/Ojibwemodaa

Persian (Farsi)

r/LearnFarsi

r/Farsi

Polish

r/LearnPolish

Portuguese

r/Portuguese

Quechua

r/LearnQuechua

Romanian

r/Romanian

Russian

r/Russian

Scottish Gaelic

r/gaidhlig

Serbian

r/Serbian

Somali

r/LearnSomali

Spanish 

r/Spanish

r/LearnSpanish

r/SpanishHelp

r/writestreakes

Swahili

r/Swahili

Swedish

r/Svenska

r/LearnSwedish

Tagalog 

r/Tagalog

Telugu

r/Telugu

Thai

r/LearnThai

Tibetan

r/TibetanLanguage

Turkish

r/TurkishLearning

r/Turkish

Ukrainian

r/Ukrainian

Urdu

r/Urdu

Vietnamese

r/LearnVietnamese

Welsh

r/LearnWelsh

Miscellaneous: Subreddits dedicated to learning languages in general, fantasy languages, conlangs, linguistics, or a range of languages

r/indigenous_languages

r/LanguageLearning

r/Linguistics

r/Conlangs

r/badlinguistics

r/asklinguistics

r/language

r/logophilia

r/etymology

r/language_exchange

r/doesnottranslate

r/fullforeignmovies

r/judgemyaccent

r/languagelearningjerk

r/translationstudies

r/translator

r/LearnDothraki

r/tlhInganHol (Klingon)

r/Lojban

r/Ido

r/Sindarin

r/tokipona

r/volapuk

[rhywbethcymraeg]

PDF yma - https://dysgucymraeg.cymru/media/10094/mynediad-y-de-2020.pdf

Ffeiliau sain yma - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z60sfotu2dmg2tn/AABvBI9tWfBB4GfXaBw1IRJTa?dl=0&lst=

Dadlwythwch bopeth tra ei fod yn rhad ac am ddim! Download everything while it's free!

[vielsprachig]

Diolch 😁 My plan was to start with Duolingo first to slowly ease into a routine of learning it. Then I want to get a textbook (I heard there is one by Gareth King that's highly recommended so I might grab that one) and I also want to check out some online resources like Say Something in Welsh. So basically a mixture of online and traditional methods! How are you studying Welsh?

Oh, I have not heard of Gareth King before, but I have a Routledge Intensive Dutch Course, which is very good. Routledge has a good reputation as far as I know. So far I have ‘Complete Welsh’ and ‘Welsh Grammar you really need to know’ from Christine Jones, which both are good, but the latter requires a fair amount of knowledge of Welsh in order to do the exercises. (So I just ignore them for know) I read the units several times, do the exercises (from Complete Welsh), and listen to the audio on CD. I also use Duolingo on a daily basis, which inspired me to write down some animal vocabulary.  I think a mix of online and traditional methods/resources is a very good way to go. 🙂 Here are some interesting sites, in case you don’t know them already: https://welearnwelsh.com https://learnwelsh.cymru http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learning/learnwelsh/ Verb conjugation: https://www.verbix.com/languages/welsh.html Dictionary: https://geiriadur.uwtsd.ac.uk

[dirgeofthecicadas]

Pob lwc gyda Cymraeg. Look into SaySomethingInWelsh and r/LearnWelsh on reddit has some resources including some discords people use for celtic language learning / Welsh language learning. S4C is the Welsh language channel, you can get videos online (and can use a vpn if necessary). If you're in Wales you can find free Welsh language meet ups or perhaps look into them if you can visit (Post pandemic, of course). Most speakers are happy to see learners and so are happy to help if you need it.

!!! Diolch!!! I’ll def look into this!!

[dino-lingo]

A GIFT 🎁 EXPERIENCE! #learnfrench #learning #giftexperience #languagelearning #speakspanish #speakgerman #dinolingo #learngerman #learningathome #giftsforkids #lastminutegifts #learnwelsh #welshforkids #irishgifts #germangifts #spanishgifts #frenchgifts #englishgifts #educationalgifts #educationalresources #schoolsupplies https://www.instagram.com/p/CJG7UO8sUXs/?igshid=1d7k75d112ijv

[fluentlanguage]

All of the A1 exam stuff is very straightforward when it comes to writing - I like being able to get a sense of my level this way, and in this section of the test I would’ve scored very well. If I keep it up with the speaking practice, I will feel confident to aim for level B1! #learnwelsh #achievements #writingpractice #studylanguages #education #languagelearning #langblr