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@procrastinatingdumpling
📚｡･ﾟﾟ･Welcome to my blog･ﾟﾟ･｡📚
Blog focused mostly on my studies and cooking!
I am a Canadian university student in my twenties, and studying languages for fun (currently learning Welsh ✨) I will post about my language learning journey, uni, food, and maybe art! Hoping to make friends who speak/are learning Welsh too (✿ ♡‿♡) or love the same things I do!
Currently fluent in English and Canadian French, and I understand some Spanish
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(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN
(I'r un alaw â Rasputin): BLA BLA DRACIWLA, BRENIN TRANSYLFANIA, MAE E'N YSTLUM AC HEFYD YN DDYN
My parents having been doing Welsh on Duolingo so they’ll understand me better. I really appreciate it and it’s awesome, but…
The ‘ti’/‘chi’ issue. I don’t know how many times I’ve explained the diffference but they can’t seem to grasp that ‘chi’ is plural and/or formal. I didn’t realise it would be so devastating to hear a loving parent end a phone call with ‘Caru chi’ and feeling like they’ve just referred to you as a stranger.
They’ve heard me say ‘Caru ti’ enough that they’ve adjusted it and know that i have an issue when they use ‘chi’. But they seem to think its northern or a mistake on the Duolingo course despite the fact I’ve told them otherwise (so they still get confused or call out my ‘bad’ grammar or ‘hyprocrisy’ when I say ‘Caru chi’ to refer to both of them, despite all my explanations)
It’s the ‘sut dych chi’s driving me mad now. I am not plural. I’m so single that I turned out aro/ace.
Maybe I should pretend we’re northern and introduce them to ‘chdi’… or would that make it worse?
Anyway there’s no question here I just wanted to rant about Duolingo’s Welsh course. Not that’s it’s fully awful, it’s lead to some… interesting Welsh language fanfiction on ao3
(Also congratulations to my mam. She’s English and well past the ideal age for learning a new language but she can almost hold conversations with me from Duolingo alone, and whenever she hears a phrase she thinks she could say in Welsh on TV she’ll repeat it to me and go ‘is that right?’)
This post is for your parents, in which I give full permission as Official-Wales for you to show them:
You've heard of the French tu and vous....
You've heard of the Italian tu and lei....
You've heard of all the Spanish ones that I do not understand yet, I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish....
Now get ready for the Welsh you......
Ti is singular and informal.
I'm talking to my good friend Dafydd. He is just one man. He is okay with this. I say "Sut wyt ti, Dafydd?" He does not respond, because I just made him up.
Chi is p l u r a l and formal.
I'm talking to my bosses. There are many of them, and I want to show them respect so that I can continue earning minimum wage. I say "Sut ydych chi, pawb?" They do not respond, because they do not care about employee welfare. When I return home, I ask my many cats "Sut ydych chi, pawb?" They do not respond, because they are cats and cannot speak Welsh.
This has been your Welsh pronoun lesson for today.
Thought I would share my main resource for welsh grammar!
Currently working my way through the Welsh 101 textbook, it's been really great and paired with learning more vocab elsewhere, I think I am progressing at a satisfying pace!
I am not following any classes, just using the course material and I feel like it is sufficient for now. There seems to be a ton more after this textbook on the same website, definitly a great option (and it's free!)
personally, i don’t like it when someone says “oh don’t learn that language bc it’s useless. they only speak it in one country, you should learn *insert on with a lot of speakers internationally* instead!”
isn’t the fact that someone speaks that language enough? is it so “useless” to learn about a lesser known country’s history and culture?
to me, there’s no such thing as a “useless language”
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Monolingual people are wild about how they think language learning works. Learning a language isn't just a magical word for word plug and play. Gotta restructure sentences, account for cultural differences, as well as just translating everything first, and making sure you're using the correct accent. Not to mention nuance differences. And things that don't directly translate, but have a similar vibe and meaning to something else you'd use in a different language. There are whole swaths of words in both my native language and 2nd languages where i know the general vibe and meaning, but couldn't pull that meaning to explain it to someone else.
Oh the pain of having most of the interesting shows in your target language be unavailable in your country
Don't get me wrong I love S4C clic but all the shows I think would be fun to watch I can't 😭 There are a few that are okay and that I like but I want more choice 😭
The fastest way to discover what you don't know in a language is to start writing in it.
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You know I will actually
YEAHHHHHH, WALES MENTIONED!!!!
The intersex flag is so fucking good
BI HYDRA!!!
BI-DRA!!!
YAAAAAAYYY!!!!
Learning a language is hard because if you go like a week without practicing you forget almost everything and now the only full sentences you remember are “I want tea” and “help me”
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Today I learned that in 1985 they made a Welsh dubbed version of Scooby Doo- and I desperately want to watch it but apparently it's "lost media" 😭😭😭
Scooby Doo was my favorite kids show growing up and I'm searching for cartoons to watch in Welsh to improve my listening comprehension.
So if anyone here knows of any place to find it, or any other cool Welsh cartoons, let me know. (I know there's also SpongeBob in Welsh but I can't find that either- BBC iPlayer won't let me access it from the US 😥)
I'm about to create my own Welsh cartoon at this point 😅
☆○o Baking bread o○☆
And learning some vocabulary related to baking bread in my target language (Welsh) Vocab list at the end! (One day I will be proficient enough to make my posts in both english and welsh, but that day is far from now)
So, I made bread in my rice cooker! So soft, the texture is PERFECT and I ate it with a bit of cream cheese it was so good! Making it in the rice cooker prevents it from forming a hard crust, so it stays very soft, I recommend trying it!
An other advantage of this method, if you are currently experiencing a heatwave like me, is that the rice cooker doesn't heat up the house nearly as much as an oven, so you can have bread even if turning the oven on sounds like torture and certain death haha
Now for the Welsh vocab!
Bread: Bara
Crust: Crwst
To bake: Pobi
Flour: Blawd
To rise: Codi
To eat: Bwyta
I am baking bread: Dw i'n pobi bara
Let the bread rise before baking it: Gadewch i'r bara godi cyn ei bobi
There seems to be a few different words for "dough", I am still unsure which one to use in this situation! Also note in the last sentence I translated in welsh, there are quite a few mutations!
What are those words in YOUR target language? And if your TL is also welsh, do you have more words you think I should know? Questions, comments, corrections?
"learners with super duolingo are (#) times more likely to finish their courses than regular learners"
of course they are! you can only answer 25 questions on the normal plan! a free version can do maybe three lessons a day, and that's IF they get every answer correct. and duolingo pretends their mission is accessible language learning. bastard capitalist owl.
Duolingo thinking that the most important words in welsh are "terrible" (Ofnadwy) and "parsnips" (Pannas) might drive me insane
The insistence on those two words is so strong it's almost comical
Anyway I'm deleting the app, I'm done supporting a plateform that uses that much AI, and keeps getting more difficult to use without paying. Anyone know better alternatives?
.・゜-: ✧☾My favorite album by my favorite singer☽✧ :-゜・.
Keeping me motivated to learn Welsh and training my ear, even if I can only understand a few words
✧☾ ✧ Vocabulary ✧ ☽✧
Music: Cerddoriaeth
To sing: Canu
Song: Cân
To listen: Gwrando
I like to listen to music: Dw i'n hoffi gwrando ar gerddoriaeth ✨ the first letter of cerddoriaeth mutates in this situation!
If anyone has more words related to music, let me know! I want to expand my vocabulary as much as I can ✨
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Nothing can prepare you for welsh plurals
Apple? Afal. Apples? Afalau. Two Apples? Dau Afal. Many apples? Llawer o afalau.
Ah okay so you add '-au' to the end unless there's a number since obviously 'two' is plural so you don't need to mark it. But 'many'? Nah you have to mark it then... that's learnable.
A school? Ysgol. Schools? Ysgolion.
Ah... okay sometimes the plural ending it '-ion' not '-au'.
A cat? Cath. Cats? Cathod.
Ah so '-od' is also an ending...
A star? Seren. Stars? Sêr.
A carrot? Moronen. Carrots? Moron
Ah so sometimes the plural is shorter and removes an '-en'... (typically with nouns that are more commonly said in plural)
A dog? Ci. Dogs? Cŵn.
A leek? Cenhinen. Leeks: Cennin
What the hell are we doing now guys?
Learning a language by playing Pokemon? Yes yes yes yes yes
Playing Pokemon Red in Welsh and learning along the way! The dialogue is very repetitive so it's good practice even if it's limited
My in game name is Twmplen :-) Meaning Dumpling in Welsh
