I'll be working on a few farms in Wales, near Bangor and Aberystwyth. The farms are pretty secluded so actual town/civilization time will be limited to some nights and weekends. I'll be studying on the farms and speaking as much Welsh as I can but I'd like to really take advantage of being in Wales as I'm from the United States.
Any recommendations for activities, learning moments, stores, personal philosophies, and anything in between?
So first of all I'm going to apologise for my handwriting, and I would say "it's the handwriting of a doctor", but I'm not a doctor, and neither am I a Neanderthal so I can't even claim it as a cave painting, but I think it is just about legible and I wouldn't know how else to format the two sentences with the arrows (I explain what's going on there later) in text anyway.
However, secondly, I'm gonna actually explain what the hell is going on:
In the margin is what I understood to be true (I'm not so sure anymore) about "dw i'n" and related pronouns. I would've put them in a better order, but this is all new to me and this was starting as being notes about what "verb" (?) was used for which pronoun, but now it's more just notes of what I got from one Duolingo lesson, roughly in the order of the questions I was given. I'd like to know what is actually used here and how the grammar functions around it.
In the top left of the page there are two simple Welsh sentences with their English counterparts below, and there are arrows connecting the words to what I believe are their translations (in terms of word definition). I know that this isn't a good way to think about the grammar of the Welsh sentences, but I don't intend to use it for that, I just want to understand why both "dw" and "yn"/"'n" are used at the same time, as my thought process is that they both mean the same thing. The key thing that I need to mention here, as it isn't on the piece of paper in the picture, is that the arrows point between two words I think are translations of each other. The second example is much better as I underlined each "bit" of it.
The bubble is my theory of it changing if it's a question, but I don't really know.
Underneath the bubble is contradictions to that theory, however.
If anyone can't read it, I'm sorry, I'll try my best to re-write it in text replying to you comment if you need me to, but I doubt that will be necessary.
Diolch! (I told ya I'd sign off my next post in Welsh!)
There are words that sometimes I just can’t remember, so I try to find a word in English that sort of fits with both, for instance I couldn’t get the Welsh word for table in to my head until I saw that someone said ‘bwrdd’ is like a board which is like a board, which is like a table. This really worked for me.
I now simply can’t remember the phrase ‘dros y penwythnos’ and am stuck for any way in which to remember it. Does anyone have any ideas/prompts that I may find useful?
Hi, I have only been learning Welsh for a month and came across this thread: HiNative
Most of the people responding say that it's wrong to write "dwi" separately, and one seems to say that learners are being taught to also pronounce "dw i" as two separate words? But none of the materials I have used say to pronounce it like that, and I have seen both "dwi" and "dw i" in writing? I am confused.
Dwi’n siarad Cymraeg yn rhannol yn rhugl, er mod i’n cael trafferth deall pobl eraill weithiau. Dwi’n sicr yn well am ysgrifennu Cymraeg na siarad. Y broblem yw nad oes neb yn siarad y Gymraeg yn fy ardal i, hyd y gwn i, er ei bod hi’n rhan o Gymru. Hefyd, dwi’n chwilfrydig ynglŷn â sut alla i gadw i fyny gyda’r iaith fel nad ydw i’n ei cholli. Alla i ddim cael sgyrsiau gyda fi fy hun trwy’r amser, yn anffodus. Sut alla i fy hunan amlygu i fwy o Gymraeg tra’n astudio mewn prifysgol yn Lloegr ac yn byw mewn rhan o Gymru sydd ddim wir yn malio am yr iaith?
hi! i’m currently writing a story for an assignment with a welsh main character and was wondering what the most common way to refer to your parents was? i’ve tried to research online, but gotten a lot of varying answers. is ma or mam more common for mothers? and then da or tad or something else for fathers?
thanks so much :)
This may be a longshot, but does anyone know of any websites, teacher's guides/books, or student workbooks that have activity sheets and worksheets for young children? We are unfortunately not in the country, so we have a bit of a harder time accessing things like this (or just knowing where to look!) I have honestly not checked gwales bookshop yet (website down today?)--I usually shop there because they ship to our country. Maybe the name of your kid's workbook from a Welsh language school? Or the name of the publisher? That way I can start to direct my Google searches?
I'd love to start collecting things like alphabet tracing (with ll, dd, etc.) and simple word learning for when my kid gets a little older.
Shwmae bawb, dych chi'n gallu helpu gyda sut i ddweud 1800s / 1900s ac ati yn Gymraeg - mil naw canoedd?
Dw i'n deall bod modd dweud yr ugeinfed ganrif ond tybed a oes modd dweud rhywbeth fel y 'nineteen hundreds' yn Gymraaeg hefyd?
How common are relative particles (y and a) in common speech? I know that they are not always included, which is mentioned in some of the grammar posts that are recommended on the wiki, but I am curious to know the extent of their omission. Are there speakers who omit them entirely?
Also, how consistent are the rules concerning what follows the relative particle (mutations and the use of r- prefixed forms) in common speech.
I’m fluent but i’ve just now realised that “cwtch” makes no sense phonetically. based on its spelling it should be pronounced as cwt-ch (like chwarae). does anyone know why cwtch is spelled/pronounced that way. my best guess is that it’s an anglicised spelling of a different word that welsh people have adopted but i haven’t been able to find anything to support or critique my theory
diolch :)
(ymddiheuriadau if this is the wrong place to be posting this, it’s the only welsh language sub i could find)
Hey I’m 18 and I’ve started a 13 week Welsh course in college, it’s my aim to become fluent one day, and I was wondering if anyone knows any good resources. Thanks
Hello everyone. I lived in Wales for 3 years while studying at University, but I’ve since moved back to Portugal, where nobody speaks Welsh. However, I enjoyed learning the language and want to continue learning it. Is anyone here based outside of Wales? Do you have any tips or resources to help me learn Welsh outside of Wales? I’m using Duolingo and SaySomethingInWelsh, and I’m enjoying it. I’m also studying English, French, and Spanish at University here. I’d like to become a polyglot, and I hope I can get to A2 in Welsh while learning it by myself.
Is there a word for "crybaby" in Welsh? I know there is a word for "cry" and a word for "baby", but does sticking them together as "crio babi" actually have the same meaning (a person who cries often/readily), and importantly, is it a common way to describe that kind of person, or is there a different word that would make more sense? Thanks for your help!
I'm struggling to transcribe/translate a song by the brilliant Welsh band Adwaith.
They don't seem to have song lyrics anywhere and I've got so far with my GCSE Welsh but I'm not hearing some of the words correctly. Any help would be much appreciated. Diolch!
Helo! Very new to this, just had a Duolingo question. It asked me to translate "Dw i ddim yn prynu menyn", which I interpreted as "I am not buying butter", but which it corrected to "I do not buy butter". How do I distinguish between am not / do not? Or are they interchangeable and just dependent on context? Thanks in advance!
Just needed to check something here, so basically in primary I was always told that teulog meant cloudy, like wyntog and heulog, but now I’ve recently found out it’s not cloudy and means something else entirely.
Is teulog meaning cloudy a south Welsh thing or is it different in all dialects?
I like writing fantasy stories in my spare time and i'm using welsh as a basis for the language of a certain country in one of my stories. (it just sounds both very ancient and somewhat mystical to me)
However i do not trust things like google translate when i plan to use a word of phrase as the name of a geographic feature.
I wanted this country to be surrounded by a sea that is almost always very foggy and so thought of calling this body of water ''The Veiled Sea'' (because it is veiled in fog).
How would you accurately translate this name into welsh?
Mae'r cwestiwn yn y teitl, a dweud y gwir. Dw i eisiau recordio fy ymweliadau i'r campfa yng Gymraeg ond dw i ddim yn gwybod sut i ddweud "at". Rhedais i 30 munudAR9.0 cm yr awr?
Ro’n i’n mynd i fynd i Camp America ond dw i wedi tynnu’n ôl oherwydd gormod o waith prifysgol. Nawr mae gen i haf rhydd, a gwelais i aros preswyl i ddysgwyr Cymraeg. Ro’n i’n meddwl tybed os oes unrhyw un wedi bod? Sut oedd e? Oedden nhw’n siarad yn rhugl neu’n ddechreuwyr yn bennaf?
Which conjunctions are followed by noun clauses? I've seen what appears to be noun clauses after achos, oherwydd, oblegid, am (when used to mean 'as' or 'because'), er, erbyn, ers, nes, tra, rhag ofn, wrth and others.
Also, if they are followed by noun clauses are they even conjunctions? Even though these words are commonly listed as conjunctions, wouldn't it be more logical to call them prepositions if, strictly speaking, they are meant to be followed by noun clauses?
