Learning Welsh

[Canton Kev]

Re: Learning Welsh

From my experience with Italian and French, Duolingo is a good accompaniment to learning a language.

It’s a simple tool that on its own doesn’t teach you much except static phrases without much real world use.

But if you use Duolingo alongside podcasts, textbooks, tutors, YouTube, etc it’s a good tool for better understanding tenses, sentence structures and grammar.

Duolingo will reward you for memorising a sentence like “the black dog is eating the red carpet” but it isn’t something you’re likely to use ever in your life. But that sentence shows you how to say something in the present tense, the correct order of adjectives and nouns and (if applicable for that language) what objects/actions are masculine or feminine.

So with a little bit of thinking you can then create new sentences with more real world application using the memorised phrases as a building block.

[ToTaL ITK]

Re: Learning Welsh

Justyll add å comboyll off anyll ofdd these letterys andyth you'll be'thy laugingthydd

[bobh]

Re: Learning Welsh

Justyll add å comboyll off anyll ofdd these letterys andyth you'll be'thy laugingthydd

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[El Horno]

Re: Learning Welsh

Depends where you live. Most places have free Welsh courses. Contact your local Council Offices for details of classes. There are lots in RCT area. Check out S4C for online courses. Also check out Garth Olwg Centre for lessons in your area. I think you will get a lot more from learning in a group than from something like Duolingo. Pob Lwc.

This. My missus has been doing it for a year now, through work (she works for Newport CC). She's come on really well and it's mostly because she learns in a group and has me to practise with.

[Jeff Mansfield]

Re: Learning Welsh

The Welsh Universities offer online and face-to-face courses for adults at different levels at very reasonable prices, eg 100 quid for 2.5hrs a week for 30+weeks. You get a wealth of resources, friendly groups and lots of extras. The levels are geared to European standards, A1 up to C2. You can take exams if you really want to. You can even attend residential courses at Nant Gwrtheryn in the North if you are really keen. You can choose North or South variants. The tutors are great. All done on Zoom or Teams. Check it out at learnwelsh.cymru.

Language is a social activity: you can't have a chat and a laugh with an app but you can on learnwelsh.cymru.

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: Learning Welsh

The Welsh Universities offer online and face-to-face courses for adults at different levels at very reasonable prices, eg 100 quid for 2.5hrs a week for 30+weeks. You get a wealth of resources, friendly groups and lots of extras. The levels are geared to European standards, A1 up to C2. You can take exams if you really want to. You can even attend residential courses at Nant Gwrtheryn in the North if you are really keen. You can choose North or South variants. The tutors are great. All done on Zoom or Teams. Check it out at learnwelsh.cymru.

Language is a social activity: you can't have a chat and a laugh with an app but you can on learnwelsh.cymru.

That sounds great