New website aims to bridge the gap for intermediate Welsh learners

Delighted to see Nation.Cymru cover my new website for intermediate learners!

If you’re a Canolradd, or maybe a brave Sylfaen, learner take a look - there’s a 7 day free trial so you can have a poke about and see if it’s for you. I’ve also made a few more of the pages available for the free trial, so you can get more of a taste of what it’s like. Current curriculum is:

  • Auxiliary verbs: Stems — The different stems used for common auxiliary verbs
  • Auxiliary verbs: Pattern 1 — will, can, and the inflected future
  • Talking about sports — Vocabulary builder and practicing will, can and the inflected future
  • Adar yr Ardd: Robin Goch — Vocabulary builder and reading/listening exercise
  • Auxiliary verbs: Pattern 2 — Was, could, would, would like, should/ought to, if (I) were to
  • Things To Do In The Garden — Vocabulary builder and practicing was, could and would
  • Things To Do Around The House — Vocabulary builder and practicing would like, should/ought to
  • Things We Know Aren’t True — Vocabulary builder and practicing if (I) were to
  • Auxiliary verbs: Pattern 3 — Inflected past and have been to
  • Talking About Travel — Vocabulary builder and practicing the inflected past and have been to
  • Adar yr Ardd: Titw Tomos Las — Vocabulary builder and reading/listening exercise
  • Irregular Preterites — Mynd (go), gwneud (do/make), dod (come) and cael (get) in the simple past

I’m adding new stuff every week (even though I’ve been sick as a dog the last two weeks, which is just my luck!), and have a huge list of grammar stuff that I’ll be adding.

So pop over to https://ymestyn.cymru/ and take a look!

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S’mae pawb! Just a wee reminder that the EarlyBird code, which gives you 50% off, runs out in two weeks at the end of March. There is a seven day free trial, so you can log in and poke about with no commitment at all.

I’ve been improving some of the exercises, and am just working on a section on idioms (which will become a regular feature). I’m also working to add more audio, but that’s going to take a minute or two.

Ymestyn is the perfect follow-on to SSiW, so if you’re at a canolradd level and want to practice, Ymestyn is for you!

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The 7-day trial and weekly updates sound great, especially the idioms section. For expanding your audience, I recently started using Outreach Guest Posting & Niche Edit Service by Crowdo for backlinks, and it helped drive more targeted visitors to my own project without dealing with spammy link networks. Might help get the word out about your site while you focus on content.

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Thank you!

There’s one idioms section already, but I have another one that I’m working on.

I’m actually going to move the course to a new platform as it has out-grown Payhip and I need a bit more flexibility, so I’ll be on to that as soon as I’m back from my hols. There’ll be much more intermediate reading coming, and I’m planning a Canolradd companion course to help people with their homework.

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