From my albeit limited experience using welsh, I would have to say that weithiau mae’n anodd i gadw y Cymry ar dasg (treigliad cywir?) o ddefnyddio iaeth. Perhaps, because they are worried about making you feel uncomfortable or yn wir, y dau ohonochi’n sylweddoli bod saesneg yw’n iaeth chi’n wir rhannu. So it just may seems odd from a Cymro’s perspective to watch you struggle.
Funny as it sounds, starting a friendship/ acquaintance in a particular language is pwysig iawn yn fy marn I. O fy safbwynt i, how you start may determine how you move on together from then on… I have come to associate welsh speaking ( or my attempts at it) with individual people. Ac wi’n credu fod y un peth yn wir amdanon nhw hefyd.
SSiw is a relationship of sorts too. You come to associate your time with it as welsh time…rwy’n ei garu hynny!.. Shame we do not see more attempts to use it in these posts… Efallai orherwydd yr un rheswmau we so often see welsh conversations revert quickly back to English. Hynny, ac y faith fod yn ystod ein holl gyrfa ysgol, ni’n wedi Cael ein dysgu i ddatblygu ofn o fediant. Someone said earlier in the post that mistakes should be embraced/laughed off… Who gives a flying bats anyway…
It’s not a test, it’s a conversation!
Cyngor felly?
Pick specific people who have some welsh and start off speaking welsh with them and don’t look back… Ever.
Train welsh speakers to stick with you and your welsh during conversation, Try not to let them off the hook for any reason.keep coming back to Cymraeg.
Use your welsh daily during a specific activity (running, breakfast,walking your dog whatever)
When you think you are at the top of your game don’t be afraid to press reset and go back 1 whole SSiw course and start over. Babies spend years picking up a language…SSiw fast forwards this process. Accepting this is tough, but we have become largely a diaspora in our own country, let alone outside. Practice will become your end. Hoping for more maybe worth thinking about but what does that reality really look like( outside some parts of gwynedd).
Forget learning vocab lists and complex phraseology…pick words up one at a time as you need them.
Don’t beat yourself up over mutations symleiddio dy iaeth.
Figure out why you are doing this and do not let anyone pass judgement on that motive.
With our monoglot population gone (apart from babies I guess) the very future of our language may depend on the efforts of our learning community to support native speakers.( ironic maybe, but worth thinking about)…that is what is so awesome about SSiw…it keeps the spoken language alive! Dalwch ati gyfeichion!
Wow, I said way too much here… Apologies!
