It often helps to get a few basic pointers when learning a language. Since most people learning Welsh speak English the following might be of use:

1 - Things in Welsh are often the other way around to English.
There's a tendency for English speakers to say that things in Welsh are the 'wrong way round'. One could argue that since Welsh is the older of the two languages we should say English is the wrong way round but hey. (Hollti blew - to split hairs)
So a red book is 'llyfr coch' - the book (thing/noun) comes first then the description.
Likewise - car glas, dyn tal, ci bach

2 - We start statements in Welsh with a verb.
Mae hi'n braf. - mae is from the verb bod, to be.
Roedd hi'n braf - roedd is from bod, to be.

Cerddais i - I walked
Cerddais is from 'cerdded' to walk.

and so on.

3 - Welsh is easy to pronounce.
Most letters in Welsh are only pronounced one way. So 'c' is always a hard c sound as in call. If we need the soft sound (like center) we'd use an 's'.

Hwyl am y tro,

Colin

www.colin-jones.com

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