There are a whole host of words that didn’t exist in Welsh (or in English either) when I started learning in the mid 1980s: “rhyngrwyd” (inter + net), “gwefan” (web + place = website), “hunlun” (self + picture = selfie). While there are tens or hundreds of teachers for “bigger” languages. Finally, some verbal constructions that abbreviated in the spoken language are often written in full in the literary language But, good news for beginner and intermediate learners! The Romance languages are easier: they don’t have Welsh’s alien vocabulary and more variable sentence structure. In addition, their writing sys… Most common today would be “naw deg naw”, literally nine ten nine. Do you want to learn? Since the start of SaySomethinginWelsh, there has been a growing realisation that the reason most people fail to learn Welsh is that the method they use isn;t suited to them, rather than that the language is intrinsically difficult. Once you get to intermediate level, you need to start recognising the literary forms and the more advanced you get, the more you’ll want to read a wide range of Welsh and start to get to know the wonders of the literary language.Here there’s good news. The basic rules as to whether a vowel is long and short is one of the tricker things you need to focus on at the beginning.

So, “dwi’n bwyta” is literally ‘am i “ing” eat’ for “I am eating” (can also mean I eat) or “mae hi’n dod” – ‘is she “-ing” come’ for “she is coming” (can also means she comes). For example, “rhwng” is the preposition “between”. Probably the biggest difficulty is the fact that written, traditional Welsh is very archaic and old-fashioned and even though you are a native speaker, you’ll find it tricky to learn the literary form of the language. Bienvenue ~ croeso ~добро пожаловать ~ herzlich wilkommen ~ benvenuto ~ tervetuloa ~ üdvözöljük ~ bem vindo ~ ongi etorri ~ selamat datang ~ velkominn!One vid to your mailbox daily (five parts) and then let's keep in touch by email.Welcome to the site!

If you live in Wales, I would recommend learning the dialect of your area.

I’ve also done it myself: this is how I learned both German and Dutch. In the same way, not getting your mutations right or not being able to pronounce ‘Ll’ isn’t going to lead to a huge misunderstanding amongst other Welsh speakers. That’s the “modern” system and it’s very simple: un deg tri (one ten three), dau gant tri deg pump (two hundred three ten five – 235).You’ll still need to recognised the traditional numbers as they are still in wide use, especially for talking about people’s ages. The main added difficulty of Welsh, though, in my experience comes from its minority status. It’s been completely lost in French or Spanish, just like in Welsh. If you’ve read this far, though, you’ll have seen that mutations can be kept in their place and, if you plan and make an effort, you can find more than enough people to practice with.

For example, if you can’t remember trwsio (to repair) say repairo. Modern course materials will teach you the conversational language first. Welsh is as easy and as difficult to learn as any other language. Read on, too, if you’re some way in to your Welsh journey and feeling frustrated. How to learn a foreign language. I’ll base it on my own experience studying languages in all five categories. Meanwhile, as a beginner, you’ll be glad to know that Welsh has also taken on many English idioms over the centuries, just as English has taken many idioms from other languages.

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So, it falls to me to attempt my own “FSI”-style classification at the end of this post.

The language certainly looks impenetrable. But in exactly the same circumstances in Welsh, I suspect that I would still be beating myself up about my lack of ability, and not really using my Welsh much, apart from “restaurant Welsh” because every conversation was poorer than it would be in English.So Welsh isn;t more difficult to learn than French (well, ok yes it is, but not the “impossibility difficult” that some people claim), but it’s more difficult to get to a position where your Welsh becomes the default language of speech in any given circumstance.

In Welsh, the endings usually indicate the tense (time of the state or action) and whether the actor is (me, you, he or she, us we or them). Bienvenue ~ croeso ~добро пожаловать ~ herzlich wilkommen ~ benvenuto ~ tervetuloa ~ üdvözöljük ~ bem vindo ~ ongi etorri ~ selamat datang ~ velkominn!An objective view of the relative difficulty of foreign languagesHow does Welsh sentence structure differ from English?The Welsh verb system.

You’re in the right place, so read on. If they are, nothing will stop you! An easy feature of Welsh it doesn’t have “cases”. In this post, we’ve asked ourselves “Is Welsh hard to learn?” But as we reach the end, let’s ask another question: does the answer even matter at all?

And don’t let Welsh speakers try to switch to English – they’re (: Yffaith gymraeg ydy ddim anodd ac hwyl hefyd!

To rephrase that: ‘Ydych chi wedi clywed sôn am yr holl eiriau Cymraeg am “yes”‘? That’s “rhwng” again, with “gweithredol” meaning active, from the common word “gwaith” – work). German and Icelandic still have four cases, though.

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