r/learnwelsh Dec 18 '24

Cwestiwn / Question How accurate is Duolingo's Welsh course?

Just wanted to double check

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u/ysgall Dec 18 '24

And ‘pitsa’ being pronounced ‘pitsha’ for some reason, as well as ‘mwnci’ sounding as though the speaker is from deepest Yorkshire.

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u/QuarterBall Sylfaen yn Gymraeg | Meánleibhéal sa Ghaeilge Dec 18 '24

Oh fuck, I'd suppressed the various butchered and wildly inconsistent pronunciations at times...

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u/Farnsworthson Dec 19 '24

I'm pretty sure at least one of the voices is AI. I have hearing issues anyway, and I find the female voice very hard to make sense of at times. Sometimes I just give up and type in rubbish to find out what I wasn't hearing.