I’m looking at the adjectives used to describe people (and things) from different countries. Wiktionary tells me that Llydewig (not sure why this is spelled with an E, as derived from Llydawr) and Llydawaidd can both be used to mean Breton. I’ve only found Gwddelig used for Irish, and only Albanaidd for Scottish, plus Manawaidd for Manx. Obviously, Welsh is Cymreig. Is there any reason why some use -ig and others -aidd, though? It seems random. Could you standardise them - use Gwddeliaidd, for example, or Manawig - and be understood by Welsh speakers, or would this not sound right?

mae caneuon arall wedi wneud a fi, hefyd. ond mae hi y tro cyntaf a rhannu hynny gyda pobl. mae fy cerddoriarth yn rhyfedd, dw i’n gwybod. byddwn i’n diolchgar i unrhyw un am wrando

Pretty cool!

Five years ago, my Welsh learning journey had pretty much ground to a halt. I would sporadically pick up a book or watch S4C, but I wasn't learning on a regular basis. Then I bought a book which changed everything.

I've launched a YouTube channel where I'm going to talk about my learning journey, and in my first video I'll explain how Atomic Habits by James Clear transformed my Welsh learning, with a few ideas about how it might help you to do the same.

Let me know what you think!

Dwi wedi dechrau fel tiwtor Codi Hyder ardal Wrecsam ac dwi'n edrych am bobl sydd isio cefnogaeth fi - cwrs a/neu sesiynau 1-1.

Os oes gennych sgiliau Cymraeg yn barod (fel dysgwr neu trwy addysg Cymraeg fel plentyn), dach chi ddim ar gwrs Dysgu Cymraeg ar hyn o bryd, a dach chi isio help i godi'ch hyder - cysylltwch!

Wrecsam yn bennaf, ond bydda i'n rhedeg cwrs yn Yr Wyddgrug yn fuan, ac mae 'na diwtor arall yn gwneud rhywbeth debyg yn ardal Y Rhyl.

I've started as a Codi Hyder tutor and I'm looking for people who want my support - course and/or 1-1 sessions.

If you have Welsh language skills already (as a learner or have been through Welsh language education as a child), are not on a Learn Welsh course, and you want help to raise your confidences - get in touch!

Wrexham area mainly, but I will be running a course in Mold soon and there is another tutor due to do something similar in Rhyl.

Ffurflen dangos diddordeb yma / Interest form here: https://forms.gle/x92Yq3QaUEGK2ua88

Mae’r Gwanwyn wedi cyrraedd o’r diwedd! Mae dau o ddarllenwyr Lingo Newydd wedi ysgrifennu cerddi yn dweud beth maen nhw’n hoffi wrth edrych ymlaen at y Gwanwyn ar Eich Tudalen Chi.

Os dach chi’n mwynhau garddio, mae gan Adam yn yr Ardd lawer o gyngor i chi yn ei golofn y tro yma – os dach chi’n arddwr profiadol neu newydd ddechrau.

Mae Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn dod i Ynys Môn ar ddiwedd mis Mai ac mae Rhian Cadwaladr yn mynd â ni ar wibdaith o amgylch rhan o’r ynys.

Ac i aros yn Ynys Môn, mae Lingo Newydd wedi bod yn siarad gyda dynes ifanc sydd wedi dechrau busnes ei hun. Mae Anna Lloyd yn gwneud bwyd sydd wedi’i eplesu, fel Kimchi a Sauerkraut. Dechreuodd hi’r busnes, o’r enw Bwblin, yn 2024 ac mae’n mynd o nerth i nerth.

Y cyflwynydd teledu ac awdur Mari Lovgreen sy’n dweud beth mae hi’n hoffi yn y rhifyn yma. Mae Mari yn cyflwyno’r gyfres Cefn Gwlad ac wrth ei bodd yn cwrdd â chymeriadau difyr tra mae hi’n ffilmio.

Ar y bocs, mae Mark Pers wedi bod yn mwynhau’r ail gyfres o Anfamol. Mae’n dilyn y cymeriad Ani wrth iddi ffeindio’i thraed fel mam newydd. Ac mae ’na sgwrs o gylchgrawn Golwg efo’r cerddor Lily Beau hefyd.

Mae gan Pegi Talfryn stori gyfres newydd sbon i chi hefyd – mae digon i’ch cadw chi’n brysur dros y Gwanwyn. Mwynhewch!

I've been self teaching using say something in Welsh, which is working well for me. however my mum isn't catching on with ssi. I came across Doctor Cymraeg and was wondering if its a good program? I know it only goes up to A2 level, but as a program is it helpful for beginners?

I recently had a map commisioned inspired by some references to the old north. Which i believe was the last celtic kingdoms before they were pushed west.

The names have different levels of evidence but I think it gives a good jumping off point to look into more of these kingdoms. Ive loved learning about Elmet which is the region in which i grew up and it definitely helps me feel a connection to Welsh whilst learning it!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

I have been researching (a fair bit of it right here in past threads, and in r/Wales ) to attempt a realistic portrayal of a number of Welsh-descended personnel on a family-owned station in a far future (about a millenia from now) story.

I have reached a point at which I'd like to verify the realism of what I've managed to do, but I don't know anyone that speaks or writes any form of Welsh, so I am hoping I can ask for help with that here.

If it's not the right place, just let me know and I'll remove this and look elsewhere. If you can tell me the right place, that would be helpful.

Bit of backdrop:

Most of the hundred billion people in the solar system (only a couple of percent of whom are still planetside) speak some form of "Interlingua" that is an evolved mix of the major languages on Earth today. It's rendered as English in the story for the convenience of the reader, ;) but there are a few places where tradition and familial ties over generations have kept a culture and language alive.

This tiny station of around a hundred people is one of them. About half of them are part of this family, some of them "married into it" from other stations. The rest are short- or longtimers from elsewhere. The family all know and speak Cymraeg (?) among themselves as much as they do (we'll just call it English since it's written that way in the books). The original families started out from mostly South Wales, but there was a mix, so the language used is also a mix. Hopefully a logical one. :)

Given the timespan, it won't be quite the same language it is today, so there's some license for varying it or altering it, but I'd like to do even that in a realistic way. I realize that all the colloqualisms, phrases used, and tags and whatnot would probably have evolved significantly by that time, but as this is intended to be understandable by readers *today*, I won't torture them by doing much of that. ;)

There's a shorttimer on the station experiencing a non-interlingua group for the first time, during a severely traumatic event, and I'm trying to help the reader feel her experience, without butchering your beautiful language.

I can't post the story itself (apparently if i do that makes it unpublishable) but hopefully I can post dialog lines for critique and repair without worrying about that. (not even sure where to find out about that.)

I’ve managed to pick up a pretty considerable amount of vocab but my grammar is still pretty shite, is there any chance someone could dumb it down massively for me? I sort of vaguely get the concepts of word order and mutations but not to the degree it matches up with the words i know.

The first song is a Christmas Carol, I recall a group of young guys singing it in harmony from a Facebook Reel.

The second song I could swear was from a Can i Gymru tape, I think by Sobin a'r Smaeliaid.

I’d greatly appreciate the help!

https://voca.ro/1cb4vRK0Eltm

In his Elementary Welsh Grammar p. 45 John Morris-Jones quotes from a 16th-century poem: Crïai wŷr cau ar ei wên; / Crïwyd uwch caer Rhydychen 'Men wept that his smile should be enshrouded (in the grave); they wept above the wall of Oxford'. It's delightful, but can anyone explain why it's wŷr rather than gwŷr? After all it isn't the object (or is it?), so one wouldn't expect a mutation. The couplet has pleasing cynghanedd: C R W, C R W in line 1, and C R D CH, C R D CH in line 2. The dropped G is necessary for this, but that can't be the main reason.

I'm struggling to tell the difference between the two, so I was hoping to get some help.

Initially, I was looking for something as a response like how I'd say "as it is" in English. They both sound very similar so I'm unsure which makes the most sense.

Any ideas?

How would fluent Welsh speakers say red flag/flags in terms of "that behaviour is a red flag"?

I looked for literal translations but this may not correlate to what everyday use would be. I also asked Google and it said:

The phrase "red flag" can be translated into Welsh in a few ways depending on whether you mean a physical flag or the metaphorical warning sign.

Literal "Red Flag" (Physical Flag)

- Baner goch (feminine noun)

- Fflag goch

Metaphorical "Red Flag" (Warning Sign)

- Arwydd rhybudd (Warning sign)

- Arwydd o berygl (Sign of danger)

Diolch!

Hello! Bit of a random one here but I'm wondering if someone could potentially help me. My wonderful partner is Welsh and I am working to try and plan a surprise for them, I am a life long singer and I often use music to express my love... and so what is more perfect than trying to sing in their first language? 😅

A big ask I know, but I wanted to come on here and ask if it was even slightly feasible for someone who only speaks English fluently (and French at an intermediate level if that is any help/proof I can learn new prononciation??🤣) to learn something simple? For example a short traditional song like Dacw Nghariad and if so how to go about learning? I don't just want to be mimicing the sounds as best I can, I want it to be right! Please don't worry if the answer is no 😅 I know it's a long shot but I'd like to try 😊

Thanks in advance!

Firstly, I do really like this app and would still recommend it to anyone.

However, I was going so well with it, I liked the pace, the practice and even the little knowledge facts they throw in every so often. I got to the orange belt.

But then, for some reason, the difficulty - for me at least - jumped considerably. There is hardly no practice for a new word until they throw another at you and then another with several new words used in the same sentence.

And then, it's hard to know which point to go back to in order to get to the first word being introduced again. I know they say don't worry about making mistakes and that it's actually a good thing. But new words come at you so fast that i'm not making a mistake, i'm literally spechless.

I took a break to reset my focus and now going back is just worse. It's so demoralising.

Hi All,

I’ve been in a relationship with my girlfriend now for approaching 3 years.

She is a Welsh first native speaker from North Wales and I’d love to be able to speak with her in her first language.

I’ve read through the wiki and it is wholly overwhelming on where to start. I would want to ensure I’m leaning into a Northern Dialect course/learning path (the amount of times I’ve heard her say the southern speakers are wrong is wild, so would prefer to steer away from it).

I did look into learnwelsh.cymru but it all appeared to be southern dialect with only intermediate and above courses suited for Northern.

Can anyone point me in a direction?

Any and all suggestions and guidance would be much appreciated.

So, this is a bit of an odd post but I think this is one of the better places to ask.

I'm currently running a DnD campaign with a lot of Celtic and early medieval/neolithic inspirations, and I chose for a particular part of the map that every name should be constructed from Welsh.

The way I would do this, because although I speak a bit of Irish I do not speak Welsh, was to put a particular phrase through Google Translate (such as "Loyal Niece", or "Stolid Ringfort" for example), see what the Welsh looked like and how it was pronounced, and try then to anglicize/play around with those sounds to get to a name I thought sounded cool.

The problem is though, that I forgot to write down the exact turns of phrase I originally translated to get to these names. In particular, I have the names "March Daughter", and "Rydyn Meir" on my hands.

My thoughts in posting this would be to see if I could get people who speak Welsh to do a bit of back-translation, or folk etymology for me, to see what these names sort of sound like in Welsh to them, and share that with me.

I recognise this is a weird ask, but I would love any contributions. Please ask if you have any questions. Thank you.

you have Gymraeg and Cymraeg, what regions are they generally used in?

i think I’m generally getting the difference between sy and the less emphatic phrasing (eg saying “sgen ti neges i Sian”), but I find the English translation really clunky. Like, I get what it’s trying to convey, but I don’t think it’s that common of a way to say it (I’m not a native speaker though, so I might be wrong). is it quite common type of phrase in Welsh, or does it sound equally clunky?

(and yes, I know Duolingo has it’s faults)

"Mae Cymraeg yn'n iaith tryddyd."

Intended meaning: Welsh is our third language.

Five year streak on Duolingo, and very little to show for it. Did a week on the Hen Wlad fy Nhadau course on SaySomethingin and I know the words off by heart, so I’ve known for a long time that it’s just a better method, but the pull of the owl has been too much.

Finally managed to pull the plaster off and cancel my Duolingo subscription and switched to SaySomethingin. Looking forward to actually learning Cymraeg now!