So true!
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When on the menu on a blackboard you read (in your mind) âone battered codâ and someone has to tell you that itâs actually âunbattered codâ 
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âŚyou start straining to decipher what the announcement over the shop loudspeaker was (because you swore you hear a âllâ) when it dawns on you that it was English and the speaker had a slight lisp. Me. Yesterday. In Australia.
Yep; really.
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When you come across new words while reading aloud in a job interview and pronounce the âllâ words the way you would yn Gymraeg! Luckily the two interviewers are learning welsh and said they do it as well!
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Oh yes. People now know SaiorseâŚbut try Caomh or (MicheĂĄl Meehawl) and people are all 
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Me too. I use it at work frequently. I also coined âperhapsolutelyâ myself for when you donât want to commit yourself but may not necessarily want the other party to understand that right away⌠
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When SSiW appears in your dreams.
To be fair, my dreams are often vivid, linked to stuff going on in my life, and a little mad.
I fall asleep on the sofa, and wake, having dreamt that I was in a supermarket. I am pootling around with my trolley, picking up stuff, and I glance at a a jar of coffee. As I do, Iestyn bellows across the tannoy "She moyns coffi ! " and then an echoey Cat voice says âShe moyns coffi !â
And as a good 6 month course person, I say it as well.
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âŚit takes you three goes to read the name âCynthiaâ in English.
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My grand daughter has recently started school (in England) and has just started reading English. It made me realise just how difficult even the simplest English words are, compared to Welsh. I tried to explain how to pronounce âareâ, but to be fair there isnât really any logic behind it.
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You are right. I had not noticed how illogical that one is.
Compare: âClareâ, âdareâ, or âfarâ, âcarâ, âcareâ.
âareâ might as well be pronounced â'Arryâ (as in Cockney âHarryâ).
(Then there is âAriadneâ, but I suppose that doesnât count as itâs âforeignâ. 
).
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Thatâs what makes English so hard for people to learn as a second language. No logic at all. You just have to learn what each word sounds like instead of sounding them out. And thatâs why I like Welsh so much! Sure there are places where the ârulesâ donât quite apply, but for the most part, you can figure out how a word should sound by looking at it!
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âŚand thus the value of lessons on the alphabet for beginners.
a e i o u w y
All have two sounds, watch for dipthongs (two together) and the circumflex which indicates long sound. Ta-da! Most everything covered..
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I might have posted this link before becauseâŚwell it seems so funny and trueâŚbut in case someone hasnât seen it 
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Yeah, thereâs a bit of difference in pronunciation of the same diphthong as you travel to the next motorway junction, and even at the same junction between Welsh speakers and English speakers. Perhaps just a South Wales thing, but its all good fun, really.
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As I had not. I am going to grab that and share it.
If anyone wasnât familiar with Shakspeare 
that would have been toof
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Naw oi beeg taw differâŚbâaint lahk that allus!
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@Sionned
I left out digraphs:
Ch dd ff ng ll ph rh th
Rh and ng seem to be my banesâŚ
You know youâre learning Welsh when ⌠you read this as pronounced âbannessâ and wonder âwhat the heck is a banness?!â for far too long.
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< cockney >
Strike a light guv, a baânness is a female occupant of one of the orders of the Pearly Queen aristocracy, innit?
< /cockney >
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âŚyou start mentally translating what you want to say to your husband into Welsh, even though he doesnât speak a word
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