Anyone else signed up to a Mynediad course with Dysgu Cymraeg in Sept 2026?
I am and would love to have some ‘study buddies’. Im doing online classes because of the times but hoping as I get to learn more I can attend some Sadwrn Siarad sessions locally later on!
Anyone else finished Mynediad? Got any helpful tips or useful resources to share? (Resisting the urge to buy new stationery……for now lol)
Some people may not understand this urge, but I certainly do! 
Hi @sarah-k.
Yeah I’m signed up to do a course with Bangor University. It’s a combined Mynediad a Sylfaen course. It’s three mornings a week but I’ve got time with my employment right now so thought I’d try it. So far only three places are taken but really hoping they do run the course.
Who are you booked with?
(Apologies for the long reply)
Just finishing Mynediad now, and completed my exam 2 weeks ago. It was the best thing I could have done for my journey. Over the last year I’ve improved a lot (doing lots of study and conversation practice outside of class) and I’ve been recommended to skip Sylfaen to do Canolradd in September. I personally really enjoyed it, and more than anything, it gave me consistent exposure to learning Welsh.
My biggest issue with learning in the past was that I’d get extremely motivated for a few weeks, go hard, then get busy with other things, lose my progress, and feel demotivated when I get back to it as I would have forgotten things. Doing Mynediad meant that no matter what, unless unavoidable, I had to go to class each week. That meant that I was consistently improving and steadily motivated, because I wasn’t just in the mindset of getting fluent in 32.7 seconds or less. So I’d do my classes, and then also do further study on other things between classes.
Because I had already done SSiW level 1 and 2, and felt fairly comfortable with that content, I was on the upper-end experience-wise in the class, so I treated Mynediad as a way to solidify certain grammar rules that I didn’t fully understandd, clarify certain things, and I also made it my mission to learn every word in the vocab list each week, but it isn’t necessarily expected that you remember everything, I’m just a nerd. If you’re interested, I did this using Anki flashcards, which I’d recommend 1000 times over, although there’s a bit of a learning curve as it’s not the most user friendly software.
My class was very diverse experience-wise. Some coming in knowing quite a bit, some getting their first exposure to Welsh in lesson 1. The biggest thing I would say is NEVER compare yourself to the ability of those in your class or feel bad if your progress doesn’t line up with theirs, learning takes time.
If you have any background in Welsh, the first few lessons may feel slow and very basic. But don’t worry, they do pick up at quite a nice pace that is steady enough to not feel too much and fast enough that by the end of the course you’ll be able to speak, read, write and understand Welsh to a level that really sets you up nicely for the further Dysgu Cymraeg courses.
My recommendations:
Happy to answer any specific questions you may have.
So many helpful and brilliant points there! Thank you! Consistency is key with a language, but learning with a class like this is a new thing for me. I’m hoping it will keep me on track and if I miss a week, that I will get back on it. I am hoping the group dynamic of people wanting to learn will make it more fun.
Will have to google the flashcards thing too.
Well done on working so hard on your welsh!
It’s online with Bangor, on Thursday evenings.
I am hoping it will be a lot of fun and might even get to meet some classmates (if they aren’t all in other far flung interesting places!).