I work in a shop and I would like to learn more Welsh that I can use with my customers. I’m doing the deep end atm. But I’d like to learn more sentences that I can in work, especially as some people do siariad cymraeg gyda fi
Trying to think of things I say everyday, learning the numbers for money would be good I know counting but not the female counting for money.
Things I say in work:
Do you need a bag? ( is it oes bag gyda chi?)
This card machine here.
Do you have a loyalty card (it doesn’t matter about this one really as the explanation is too long)
Any resources to help me? Work Welsh online doesn’t have basic retail stuff sadly. If I learn a few more sentences it might help my confidence using Welsh a little bit more in work. Or half ways there rather than a diolch and a brain freeze
Well, Oes bag gyda chi means Do you have a bag. If you want to ask if they need (or want) a bag, you could say any of these: Dych chi angen bag? Dach chi isho bag? ’ych chi’n moyn bag?
If you say that while pointing at the card machine you could just get away with Y peiriant’ma (This machine here)
My go-to dictionary app translates “loyalty card” as cerdyn ffyddlondeb, so that would give you the question Oes gyda chi gerdyn ffyddlondeb? (which you could nicely contract to 'sdachi gerdyn ffyddlondeb?)
I identify with this feeling so much. It really made me chuckle.
There have been so many words I thought I’d never say and now they just roll off my tongue but, there’s always new ones, which is GREAT!!
If we’re going to discuss difficult words and phrases, what about “Oer yw’r eira ar Eryri”? There’s a tongue twister you have to practise a bit.
Or when you’re still working on ‘LL’, and the Welsh language is like, “Sefyllfa. Lleill.”
I still struggle with LL when it’s not at the start of a word. I’m fine with Lloegr, Llaeth and Llefrith, but I stuggle with sefyllfa, gwella, etc. I just can’t seem to move my tongue quickly enough.
rather than a diolch and a brain freeze
