He also put me right and gave me a good tip about Welsh words. Split the words and then you will hear the pronunciation ei: Di-olch
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Helo again.
I finished 5 sentences on Wednesday i believe and canāt wait for the next email.
Iām a bit worried as every email says that itās designed to be very difficult and I shall not worry, making mistakes is perfect, my brain is making new synapses etc. What if it wasnāt so difficult at all? Am I doing something wrong? I remember every sentence and could write it here from my memory, (dwi isio dysgu siariad Cymraeg achos dwin caru Cymru a dwi isio yr iaith Cymraeg par hau.) and i donāt think Iām Good with languages. I donāt remember anything apart from a few sentences in Spanish, and canāt say any sentence in Russian although can read it in Cyrillic letters and understand a bit. English has been a long long road for me, and I still donāt feel confident.
So why I remember everything from all those 5 practice sessions?
Well. It makes me a bit happier of course.
Really canāt wait for whatās next. Iām totally in love.
At work there was a new supporting girl (nursery) and the manager said very excited that I have to have a chat with her as sheās Polish and for sure Iām missing my language ( 
well, having phone calls with my family almost every day i am not really) and I said something about learning Welsh now (i was very excited) and my manager changed her face instantly from excitement to shock and a bit of disappointment and said āwhy? Do you have anyone to speak to in Welsh?ā Me"no, itās just a beautiful language i want to learn ".
Love to you all,
Nat x
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Hi Michael.
Glad you want to visit Poland again. yes, GdaÅsk absolutely worth seeing. I love it so much I wanted to live there (Iām absolute sea lover too). GdaÅsk is also a capital of tricity (GdaÅsk, Sopot and Gdynia). I love Gdynia too but itās completely different from GdaÅsk.
I would pronounce diolch: [dyolh] or [dee olh]if I had to do it by looking at the word. But have no idea 
Nat x
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No, definitely not - if youāre remembering it, youāre doing fine! (and your English looks pretty good to me) 
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Hello! My name is Ashley Morris and I would love to learn Welsh for a couple of reasons:
- It sounds amazing to listen to people speaking itāit gives me ASMR tingles and makes me happy.
- Living in America I feel very separated from my ancestry and ancestral culture. Polish is too difficult right now so I am trying Welsh first.
- I want to attend an eisteddfod (Welsh festival) and feel comfortable walking around.
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My name is Caroline,
After visit wales last year I wanted to learn welsh, as on any holiday I try to learn a few words.
Also I would like to retire in that area as itās so beautiful and peaceful.
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Hello, my name is Katrin and I live in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
I became inspired to seek out Welsh lessons online during CoViD-19 quarantine when I subscribed to the Acorn streaming platform on my television.
I have been enchanted by the S4C productions Iāve been watching on Acorn and by the sublime Eve Myles in the series āKeeping Faithā.
I read an interview with her about the making of the show, and she talked all about how sheād had to learn Welsh because S4C has a mission of filming every production in both Welsh and English.
Well, I love the S4C shows I have seen so much that Iāve begun to have a quirky little dream that perhaps if I learn Welsh I could one day play the role of someoneās American cousin! 
Also I have heard for years that Welsh is a language that is losing speakers, and I suppose that appeals to the social justice warrior-ess in me.
Failing all else, Welsh is such a different language than any other Iāve ever tried to speak, I figure at the very least itās excellent exercise for my brain.
As for my experience in the 1 sentence five day course, strangely enough the longer sentences have been easier for me than the fragments- go figure!
Thank you so much for this site, Iām excited to see if I can actually do this! 
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Bore da! Iāve been learning Welsh via Duolingo, which has been good for seeing the words, but less so for hearing and understanding the rhythms of the language, which I hope this course can help me with.
I actually read āSome Sex and a Hillā a while ago when I first started learning Welsh, and really enjoyed it.
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Hi,
New here, from Sweden. Studied Welsh 30 years ago for a year at Uppsala university. But never did anything with it and never visited Wales. So most of itās forgotten.
Thought I might give it a try again.
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Welcome! Thatās really great. Iām sure that it will come back to you though you may find it less formal than you learned before.
One day you might even be able to visit Wales.
Enjoy it!
Sue
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hi there , im honestly just taking this as a hobby right now but i do have plans of someday go to live in wales soā¦ dreams are free i guess , im actually from Peru and my natal lenguaje is spanish , so i thought this would be WAY harder to learn ( You know , since welsh and spanish arent exactly related in any form whatsoever-) but it was really fun to do and it was surprisingly easy for me , as for how did i get here i literaly just googled āwelsh coursesā and here i am xd , so in short ā¦ im learning welsh achos dwi isio !
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Helo!!! Iām MartĆn from BahĆa Blanca Argentina. Iāve never imagine that Iād try to learn Welsh in my life. Iām 48 years old and this is a nice challenge to start with.
Questions, yes a lot!!! But I guess they are going to be answered within the lessons or daily practices.
Itās going fine so far, thou the ārā endings are quite hard to pronounce.
So cheers for now, and looking forward for new sentences in Yr iaith cymraeg!!!
Bye
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Theyāre only distantly related, but Welsh borrowed so much vocabulary from Latin that thereās actually quite a lot you might recognise:
Ceffyl, pont, eglwys, braich, ysgol, ysgol, ysgrifennu, dydd Llun, dydd Mawrth, dydd Mercher, dydd Iau, dydd Gwenerā¦
Caballo, puente, iglesia, brazo, escala, escuela, escribir, lunes, martes, miĆ©rcoles, jueves, viernesā¦
I donāt know any Spanish, but what about diwrnod (Welsh)/jornada (Spanish) meaning ādayā? Just occurred to me yesterday that ādiwrnodā is probably of Latin origin?
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Absolutely - in French it went via journede (the -d- was pronounced like -dd-, so jwrnedda in Welsh spelling) to journĆ©e and English ājourneyā.
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Where in Kansas do you live? I live in Leawood Kansas and am a Welsh learner also. - Bob
Hello - I am a New Zealander living in Australia for last eight years. I Learned Some Latin at school a long time ago - Maori is NZās 2nd official language so put effort into that and love that language Then Spanish on and off most recently with Duolingo where I discovered Welsh and cannot for the life of me write it. My Grandfather - John Owen- emigrated to this part of the world after WW1 and died when I was too young to know him. But I feel a kinship with that part of the world and want to learn more. This one sentence a day challenge is fun !! I canāt help but think how easy it would be for children at school to learn in this way - make as many mistakes as you need - just do it!! Listening and repeating is such a relief and so good for our brains 
And can anyone tell me more about the beautiful song and singer that leads into each lesson? Iād love any suggestions about artists to listen to and info about folk music in Wales. Thanks so much
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Welcome Carolyne!
Have a look at this thread to start with - The intro song - 'Wela i efo llygad bach i' and there are various threads about music (folk and otherwise!) but this is the main (huge) one - Welsh Music Videos and Audio Files
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Thank you Siaron - Iāve been haunted by that little earworm , canāt wait to hear moreā¦
C
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Just a quick message to say hello to this community - which already feels, just from reading through some of the postings, a good place to be!
Iām 47, a psychotherapist living in Cornwall with my two children, but all of my family on my motherās side come from South Wales (Resolven and later Llanelli) and for me, this has always been āhomeā even though I was raised in England. They were and those still with us are all first language Welsh speakers but somehow I dipped out as a child and have felt slightly cheated ever sinceā¦ sounds odd, perhaps, but not being able to use the words and phrases that feel and sound like āhomeā has always made me feel as if something is missing. So. Iāve decided the time has come to put that right and after several valiant but ultimately doomed attempts over the years back before the wonders of the internet where a learn Welsh book in the middle of a Cornish village didnāt get me very far Iām determined now to make some real progress. Just one question; Iāve been using Duolingo for the last couple of weeks and seem to be making good progress But now that Iāve found this website and all its resources my questions are as follows:
- does duolingo work well with the work on this site? I am enjoying the way itās structured but just want a bit more of the āsay somethingā side of things which is how I found this - Iām really looking forward to being able to speak with other beginners in the Slack whatever it is ā¦
- is south or north on this site more compatible with Duolingo? Iām De Cymraeg at heart for sure but at the moment I just want to begin being able to communicate and it is very likely that I will end up living up in the mountains of North Wales in the joy too distant future as that is where my mother is now based, right at the foot of Snowdonā¦
I am finding this all really stupidly exciting - it feels like a piece of the jigsaw beginning to be out into place ā¦
Diolch in advance,
Ros
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