I believe what they are saying is “blaen sleis(en)” which would be the Welsh for forward slash. Blaen is front or fore, and sleisen is slice (the noun). I would guess that the latter is borrowed from English.
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indeed.
Slice of cake in Welsh may be closer to ‘tafell o gacen’
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To @aran I cannot remember how to switch from South to North in the new format! When I find the De version of a challenge oddly pronounced (to my ear) or using words I don’t know, I like to try Gog and usually end up using a mix!! I thought there was an easy switch, but I can’t seem to find it!! The more I do, by the way, the more Gog I seem to be!!! @tatjana can you help?
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I actually finally found the switch I wanted. I hadn’t scrolled down far enough!! Prize for biggest idiot goes to aged dragon!! 
Thanks for quick reply, by the way!!
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Can I try the new format, or is it only available to mods? If available how do I switch?
Good afternoon, I was just wondering, where could I find those free listening exercises, for the beginers Aran was mentioning. Or did I misunderstood something? Maybe I am not accurate enough to find it…
Helo!
If you’re talking about the weekly practices, they’re here https://www.saysomethingin.com/welsh/weekly
You might go here and drop Kinetic a note that you wish to have a switch to new layout there. I hope he’d do that for you.
Yes, I guess that’s what I meant. Thank you!
@tatjana When I log out now, I go to the old format Learn page with the lists of Lessons! Is this usual?
Yes. When you log out you don’t get new leyout anymore because it’s not available for every user yet. Those who applied have got it, the others have old format because the new one is still in kind of BETA testing (at least according to what I know).
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I feel I should be getting some sort of feel for when ‘i mi’ or ‘i fi’ is used. Sure, I can not worry about it, but what is the difference, what is the pattern?
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I always thought i mi was gog and i fi was de. I am probably quite wrong!!
There isn’t a difference - it’s personal taste… 
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Aha, my pattern recognition systems are not at fault So I can use mi or fi, depending on which I prefer in the sentence, I seem to be using both anyway, Great. Another long standing question done and dusted!
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If it gets easier, it’ll be because we’re not stretching you enough - building new synapses is hard work…
But everyone has ups and downs - some days you have less energy, and it all seems tougher - other days it doesn’t.
Keep on going, and you’ll keep on getting better at speaking Welsh…
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@aran & anyone else who can help - Is there a way to work out whether a word is masculine or feminine? Are there any general rules, guidelines or ways of telling? For example, id never have guessed in a million years that make up and perfume were masculine!?! Mezx
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This may help a bit (Gareth King “Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar”):
(If that link doesn’t work for you, try normal google search for
“gareth king gender of nouns” )
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