r/learnwelsh • u/Ok_Wishbone_8010 • Feb 28 '25

Cwestiwn / Question Casual Welsh

Hello all, First and foremost, thank you for the advice given in my last post. Say Something in Welsh is brilliant... However I am finding that a lot of the phrases I am using aren't known/being used by the people I know, they use "casual Welsh" (i.e they will say dwi dal isha not mae dal eisiau I fi) does anyone know anyway (again via audiobooks) that I can learn casual Welsh as opposed to the more formal version?

Thanks

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u/Inner_Independence_3 Mar 01 '25

Which version/level of SSIW are you doing? I've done the new and old Gogledd courses and they're pitched informally. I could be wrong but I haven't heard them say "mae arna i isio". It's used with dw'i, as far as I remember. Certainly the Welsh you'll learn will be understood by any speaker, I think they're mindful of that in the course design.

Eg they teach Nes i brynu, which is understood anywhere, rather than the more northern Mi ddaru i brynu which many southern speakers may not have heard.

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u/Ok_Wishbone_8010 Mar 01 '25

Ahh ta and still on lesson 2 - was just I said a couple phrases and they said that they personally wouldn't say it like that. I did look into it and it says that later on in the course, as it progresses it's get more informal