#general:resources

Okay, I will say that SSiW is by far my top recommendation, at least for getting started. Yes it's annoying to have to do those drills, no it's probably not perfect, but it does exactly what's on the label: teaches you to be able to say things in Welsh. That being said, it shouldn't be the only thing you use, and if you can't handle it then I totally understand. Here are some other resources I quite like:

Language Resources:

The Welsh government has a website for Welsh learners, it might take some digging but there's a lot of things there, even if you're not located in Wales

BBC Wales' Welsh at Home is deprecated but is still available in an archive version, and has lots of vocab and grammar (plus it's divided North/South, which is always good)

Clwb Malu Cachu is also very old but has lots and lots of good stuff

You can look at the BBC's WJEC Welsh as a Second Language review page if you need more materials to study from, although this isn't really a good way to learn the language

Reference Resources:

Geiriadur Bangor is the best online dictionary, it's very helpful and can unconjugate verbs and unmutate words to figure out what the dictionary root is if you're stuck. Also, if you look at the bottom left of the homepage there's a list of links to other dictionaries and resources, in case you want them.

Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar & Modern Welsh Dictionary by Gareth King are both excellent resources if you can get your hands on them (by any means necessary, I Do Not See). The dictionary is the cheaper of the two and I would highly recommend it because it has phrases in it as well, which is pretty much the only thing it has that the Geiriadur Bangor doesn't.

Listening/Reading Practice:

It has gone by many names but I think S4C Dysgu Cymraeg is the current one, you can also look at Hwb and there's a couple more in between as well, but this is basically Welsh television's learners program, and has media in Welsh that's been designed for learners.

Pigion: Highlights for Welsh Learners is a podcast with a similar purpose, it takes clips from Radio Cymru for learners and they also have vocab and little summaries for each clip on their website. This one is really a good way to get in your listening practice.

If you live in Wales (or the UK in general??) you can watch S4C. If you don't you can't, which is where I am suffering rn ahaha.

You can read the news on Golwg360 or BBC Cymru, Welsh followers let me know if you have other recommendations.

You can listen to BBC Radio Cymru live online, and you can also browse their listing of podcasts (fingers crossed that's the right link).

Hansh makes a ton of pop-culture-y internet content for teens/young adults, if you want something not too serious to watch.

General Websites:

Readlang actually has very good Welsh support, if you're serious and can afford it then getting pro might be worth it, but the free version also works perfectly well! You can also add it as a browser extension which is very useful for reading news sites.

Memrise courses: I like the 150 Welsh Verbs, 150 Welsh Adjectives, and All Around Confidence for a longer course if you'd like

I will say that Duolingo is one of my least favorite Welsh resources, if it's what you like then go for it but I'd recommend SSiW much more.

I was asked by @portugue for some dictionaries/terminology lists in different languages, but I realized when I checked that I actually only have them for 2 of the languages I study. If people have more minoritized language resources for LGBTQIA+ terminology, please add them on here! Let’s try to get as many as we can.

TERMCAT - Diccionari LGBT (Catalan): https://www.termcat.cat/ca/diccionaris-en-linia/256

Stonewall Cymru - Geirfa (Welsh): https://www.stonewallcymru.org.uk/cy/cymorth-chyngor/geirfa -UPDATE: This Google doc has corrections/improvements on the Stonewall Cymru list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bE8oVmZEhl6Wxqk6EEiEkv8z5xxq-cyQYjjigQPYKO0/edit

An Foclóir Aiteach (Irish): https://usi.ie/focloir-aiteach/

Celtic Students Blog - LGBTQ Terminology in the Celtic Languages (Welsh, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Breton): https://celticstudents.blogspot.com/2021/02/lgbtq-terminology-in-celtic-languages.html?m=1

Geidh.uk - Briathrachas LGDTCE+ (Scottish Gaelic): https://geidh.uk/briathrachas-lcdt/

I see a lot of posts going around on here about great new resources that people have found for their target languages, but most of the time when I look at them, they don't have any of the languages that I'm learning. For people learning lesser-studied languages (which includes languages that have lots of speakers, like Hausa or Telugu for example, but aren't commonly taught in places where they aren't spoken by most of the population) finding resources can be a headache. While the best route is definitely to try to find classes or native speakers to help, that can be expensive, inaccessible, and sometimes anxiety-inducing. Language platforms are a great resource for building a base or learning grammar, and they should be available for a lot more languages than they are. Still, some are better about including a variety of languages than others, and so I decided to do the work and present you all with a (not-at-all-comprehensive) guide to what resources are pulling their weight in language diversity. Here are the areas that I scored them on:

Asian Languages (not including the Big Three of Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, because these are already pretty well represented)

African Languages

Oceanian Languages

American Languages (indigenous to the Americas)

Minoritized & Endangered Languages

Usability

Grammar

Vocabulary

Interactivity

Depth

Overall

** DISCLAIMER: I didn't check all the course for every single language on these websites, so some languages may have better content than others. However, I did check for all the languages that I'm learning, which should cover most of these areas to some degree.**

Hello everyone! I have a thing that I have created that I think is now ready to be shared and it is *drumroll*.......a vocablist maker!

It’s on my desktop blog or at this link, and it is still very much in beta so if it doesn’t work please send me an ask or a message and I’ll try to figure out what the problem is.

Basically, what this lets you enter in your vocab, click a couple of checkboxes for the formatting you want, and it’ll format all the lines for you so you can have a nice list to post on here. In addition, it takes in vocab from a spreadsheet in a format which can also be used to mass-add vocab items on Quizlet and Memrise (and probably most similar apps), which means that you can easily have a set of flashcards to study from. How do you do all of this? Let me show you!

Step 1: Type up your vocab!

This is the most intensive step, and yes, you do actually have to type up and look up your vocab words, but it’s in a spreadsheet, which is kind of easier than on a document?? idk I don’t really have a selling point for this

Here’s an example with 2 columns:

Here’s an example with many columns:

Step 2: Copy into vocab list maker

So now that we’ve got all of our words typed up, we can have some fun! I’m going to go through all the sections of the list maker just to clarify what they mean:

Select the section of your table with your words in it and copy it all into the box labeled “Vocab Items” towards the bottom of the page. Then make sure to enter the number of columns in the box under “Number of Columns” if it’s something besides 2. After that, you can feel free to mess around with the various checkboxes until you get a result you like.

The color boxes take a 6-character hex code. If you look up “color picker” or something in your browser it should give you something so you can choose a color that you like. Then look for the sequence of 6 characters (a combination numbers 0-9 and letters a-f), often with a # in front of it, and copy that in.

The header part lets you put something in front of a line to signal that it’s a header. You can make it be it’s own thing, like this (typing in ##Primary Colors):

Primary Colors

or you can make it match the vocab in the list, like this (typing in ##el color(tab)color):

el color - color

There’s a preview in the right panel so you can get an idea of what things look like better there (and it updates as you go).

Step 3: Copy your code into a Tumblr post

If you know how to do HTML stuff in Tumblr, you can skip this section, the tl;dr is that you copy the stuff under “HTML Code” into an HTML Tumblr post and that’s basically it.

If you don’t know how to do HTML stuff in Tumblr, don’t worry! This step is really simple actually.

First of all, click on the post type that you want to make (this works with images/audio/video/etc as well). Then, especially if you are using color, make sure to add any images/GIFs/commentary that you want into your post first. This is super important because with color, you can’t leave HTML mode afterwards to change anything, and you can’t upload images to your post in HTML mode.

Once that’s done, click the little gear at the very top right-hand side of your post. Change Text editor from “Rich text” to “HTML,” and copy in the code from the HTML code box on the vocab list maker. You can click on “Preview” if you want to check over your post one last time, but besides that you’re good to go!

Bonus: Make flashcards!

Now that you have all of your words typed up in a spreadsheet, you can do some more nifty things with them: you can mass import them into your favorite study app to make flashcards. I’ve only used Memrise and Quizlet, but I believe Anki also has this feature. For Quizlet, when creating a list, click on “+ Import from Word, Excel, Google Docs, etc.” (right under the description) and copy your spreadsheet into the box. For Memrise, click on “Advanced” (to the right near the top) and select “Bulk add words”, then copy in from your spreadsheet.

Disclaimer

Hi @unicorns-eat-pizza​, I was your @langblrsecretsanta​ for this year! I saw that you were interested in learning Kimbundu but that you also felt like you didn’t have enough time to study it, so I thought I’d give you a list of low-effort and easy to access resources to get you started (hopefully you haven’t used all of these already). Best of luck with your studies, Kimbundu seems like a really interesting language!

(also I saw in your bio that you speak Portuguese, so I’m hoping it’s okay that some of these are only in Portuguese)

Music

A playlist of music in Kimbundu (Spotify)

A Youtube playlist which has a lot of songs in Kimbundu subtitled with a Portuguese translation

Basics/Grammar/Vocab

Greetings & Basic Phrases

To Be

To Do

Pronunciation & Prefixes

Plural formation (Explanation & Exercises)

Articles & Prepositions

Proverbs

Channel with more introductory lessons

Kimbundu sets on Quizlet (all very short)

Because Romani verb stems and oblique noun stems are probably one of the hardest things to learn in the language (athematic nouns will be the death of me ;;-;;), I made some practice sheets for verb conjugations and noun declensions. They have two sides, and the idea would be that you would copy all the correct information onto one side, then fold it over and try to recall it all yourself. You can also ignore that and just get two verbs/nouns for the price of one sheet! I also include a double-sided verb/noun version so that you can print out one sheet per day, which is what I’m planning to do. They’re intended to be used with Das-dúma Rromanes by Ronald Lee, which is what the specific terminology refers to; if you’re not using that book, then feel free to ignore anything that you aren’t familiar with.