Hi all
Having done all of the new course, I’m now getting towards the end of the old course. I’ve found that there is so much to be learned from doing both, which is great.
I’m very much enjoying getting stuck into the middle lessons of SSiW Old Course 3, with its focus on short form for past and future tenses of verbs. BUT…
I am very much a ‘visual’ learner - I benefit hugely from being able to ‘see’ the words as I am using them.
In these current lessons, it’s sometimes hard to hear the exact differences between words like wnaeth, gaeth, daeth, aeth etc. I am convinced that the instructors are saying aith e/hi every time for he/she will go, where as anywhere I look it up, it only ever spells it as aiff e/hi.
Obviously, I realise that many of these short form verbs have a number of versions and/or variations regionally (e.g. cafodd vs gaeth etc), but does anyone have any good online resources for how to navigate this area that is quite hard for those of us who have already got reasonably comfortable with the more rigidly structured/consistent long form?
As always, my apologies for asking a question that has doubtless been asked many, many times before and for which answers no doubt lie within the archive of the forum!
Thanks so much, all
Ben
:o)
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I love this: https://www.gweiadur.com/welsh-verbs
You have to sign up, which is a little odd. There’s no payment, no email list, just… they like to know how many people use the site, I guess?
Anyway, once you’re in, it is so useful!
Type mynd into the search bar, then check the future simple. It will tell you the informal inflected version for he/she is aiff or eith. It will also tell you the formal version is â, which will no doubt be useful to know if/when you start reading non-learner material.
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You might find the verb conjugator here https://www.gweiadur.com/welsh-verbs helpful - I think it’s probably the most comprehensive online resource for this.
Ha - Verity beat me to it!
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Amazing, thanks @verity-davey and @siaronjames so much!
And especially for the instant explanation for why I am hearing ‘aith’ which you’ve now shown me is them saying eith - so helpful!
I love the course and love learning my Welsh (we finally completed buying our new house in Wales on Friday, so hopefully soon I can start to use it everyday!), but having no written material is a both a good thing (forces you to listen carefully and to keep your learning momentum going in lessons) and a bad thing for me (as said, I do benefit from that, even subconscious, visualisation of the words, to emphasise the phonetics for me).
Thanks so much, once again
Ben
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