Mair, twee-wch i fyny.

Nic, heh! It’s a definite category isn’t it – the learner who becomes language zealot.

Anna, Welsh is not based on Latin, but it has surprised me how many individual Welsh words are actually imports from Latin. Although historically it makes sense.

The language is loaded with clues about which ideas/things were in Britain already and which may have been brought in (or maybe popularised) during Roman times.

Hey, I’ll mention John Davies again. There’s a good bit in A History of Wales book where gives a glimpse of just how deep the twll cwningen goes.

The different culture/mentality thing is a biggie – it’s expressed through individual words and also sentence structures. See also: George Orwell’s Newspeak.

OK this is all firing many “potential blog post” alerts in my meddwl… Diolch am eich sylwadau chi. Thanks for the comments.

I’d love to learn Welsh properly; I’ve recently moved to Cardiff, so I’m exposed to but not exactly immersed in Welsh every day.

Glad I found your blog.

The lico/hoffi thing is a milestone on many a learner’s journey. Just about every year, someone will get a bit bardic and announce to the dosbarth that they are only going to use proper Welsh words, thankyouverymuch.

Looking forward to the mutations.

And I think “How to Learn Welsh” could be a great subject for your talk at Ignite…

http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=40343413831

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