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Simple Welsh in an Hour of Your Time: Kickstart Your Welsh Today
This short book gives you the basics of Welsh in an effective and efficient way, taking as little time as possible. You can use it if you’re a complete beginner, or as a revision aid if you’re already on the road to fluency. Or maybe if you just find yourself in a rut, and would like a bit of help moving on.
The idea is simple; by spending around an hour on this book, with breaks in between chapters, you should be able to master a very simple form of Welsh. A simple form that will let you say what you, or anyone else, is doing, has done, or is going to do, including the negative and question forms.
The book is broken down into six chapters, each taking around 10 minutes to complete and revise. Each chapter has exercises, together with answers at the back of the book.
'Simple Welsh in an Hour of Your Time' is written by professional Welsh-to-adults tutor Colin Jones, author of the epic home-study Welsh course 'Cadw Swn'.
This book is the distillation of years of teaching Welsh to adults, and should provide an essential introduction to the language.
The idea is simple; by spending around an hour on this book, with breaks in between chapters, you should be able to master a very simple form of Welsh. A simple form that will let you say what you, or anyone else, is doing, has done, or is going to do, including the negative and question forms.
The book is broken down into six chapters, each taking around 10 minutes to complete and revise. Each chapter has exercises, together with answers at the back of the book.
'Simple Welsh in an Hour of Your Time' is written by professional Welsh-to-adults tutor Colin Jones, author of the epic home-study Welsh course 'Cadw Swn'.
This book is the distillation of years of teaching Welsh to adults, and should provide an essential introduction to the language.
62 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 23, 2016
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Colin Jones
9 books4 followersAfter becoming a Welsh-to-adults tutor I began writing stories for Welsh learners to help accelerate the learning process. I combined this with classical music on my Cadw Swn home-study Welsh course.
The Aberarthur stories in Cadw Swn came out of this, and then the novel Coed y Brenin. I'd write a story each week and we'd read through it in class. People seemed to like them.
After a while another set of stories started to surface, around the strange, rather supernatural area of Cwm Gwrachod (Witches' Valley).
I seem to remember writing another half a novel of stories in each series. I wonder which will see the light of day first?
After a while I thought I'd record the four branches of the Mabinogion as an audio book. That in turn led to recording my other books as audio books, and then other authors started asking me to record audiobooks for them.
The Aberarthur stories in Cadw Swn came out of this, and then the novel Coed y Brenin. I'd write a story each week and we'd read through it in class. People seemed to like them.
After a while another set of stories started to surface, around the strange, rather supernatural area of Cwm Gwrachod (Witches' Valley).
I seem to remember writing another half a novel of stories in each series. I wonder which will see the light of day first?
After a while I thought I'd record the four branches of the Mabinogion as an audio book. That in turn led to recording my other books as audio books, and then other authors started asking me to record audiobooks for them.
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October 6, 2019
Very basic, little material, can be read in a flash. Only for absolute beginners. Not sure how this price is justified.
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January 5, 2022Quick and funny way to learn basic Welsh
You really can learn the basic grammar and a handful of words. It's short and sweet. I'd recommend this for getting your feet wet, then supplementing with a course or duolingo for more complicated things. The exercises are a mixture of lists to translate, and promoting you to just go look up words you'd like to know in a dictionary or practice writing anything you want. The latter will continue being relevant for as long as you're learning.
You really can learn the basic grammar and a handful of words. It's short and sweet. I'd recommend this for getting your feet wet, then supplementing with a course or duolingo for more complicated things. The exercises are a mixture of lists to translate, and promoting you to just go look up words you'd like to know in a dictionary or practice writing anything you want. The latter will continue being relevant for as long as you're learning.
October 22, 2023
Great first Welsh book
I read this book when I had less than 200 words in my vocabulary, and it was perfect for me - it helped me understand more fully aspects of the language I had come across previously on Duolingo as well as being a good introduction to mutations. The book explains everything in a clear and straight forward way. The book explains how to form simple sentences in the present, past and future tense.
Suitable for an absolute beginner and slightly above.
I read this book when I had less than 200 words in my vocabulary, and it was perfect for me - it helped me understand more fully aspects of the language I had come across previously on Duolingo as well as being a good introduction to mutations. The book explains everything in a clear and straight forward way. The book explains how to form simple sentences in the present, past and future tense.
Suitable for an absolute beginner and slightly above.
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