Being For the Benefit of Miss Cymru
Dec. 20th, 2006 05:50 pmSo, with this brilliantly explosive Welshman in the Order of Hermes (Mage 2nd ed.), House Flambeau (dear CHRIST couldn't they have come up with a better name than that? It sounds completely retarded), not only have I gone apeshit reading multiple translations of and interpretations of various aspects of Welsh mythology and deadly fascinating non-fiction on the state of mind of the archetypical Welsh nationalist, but--
--wait for it--
--I'm also making a concerted effort to actually learn Welsh.
I don't expect this to be actual real-life useful unless I *move to Wales* and try and impress some good-looking siaradwr Cymraeg (Welsh-speaker)...
...but God almighty it's fun so far!
Resources I've been using for language-learning:
Grammar and Vocabulary
Best tool thus far: http://www.geiriadur.net/index.php
Good dictionary: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconEW.html
Grammar PDFs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/grammar/index.shtml
BBC Cymru Vocab: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/vocab/
Alphabet: http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/gramadeg1.html
Alphabet ^2: http://www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk/cheat/cheat_alphabet.htm
ASCII/HTML Accents: http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/welsh.html
Audio/visual/pronunciation/accents
TV show in Welsh with subtitles: http://www.dramacaerdydd.com/default.asp?Locale=EN
More Welsh shows: http://www.s4c.co.uk/e_index.html
MP3 language lessons: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/
All-in-one lessons: http://www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk/index.htm
English dialects, N/S Wales: http://web.ku.edu/idea/europe/wales/wales.htm
Phrases and Vulgarities
Idioms: http://www.britannia.com/fame/fame.html
Cussin': http://mg.nac.net/~gina/mage/welshcussing.html
More idioms: http://www.siop-siarad.co.uk/phrases_mutations_verbs.htm
Still more: http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/gramadeg3.html
--wait for it--
--I'm also making a concerted effort to actually learn Welsh.
I don't expect this to be actual real-life useful unless I *move to Wales* and try and impress some good-looking siaradwr Cymraeg (Welsh-speaker)...
...but God almighty it's fun so far!
Resources I've been using for language-learning:
Grammar and Vocabulary
Best tool thus far: http://www.geiriadur.net/index.php
Good dictionary: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconEW.html
Grammar PDFs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/grammar/index.shtml
BBC Cymru Vocab: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/vocab/
Alphabet: http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/gramadeg1.html
Alphabet ^2: http://www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk/cheat/cheat_alphabet.htm
ASCII/HTML Accents: http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/welsh.html
Audio/visual/pronunciation/accents
TV show in Welsh with subtitles: http://www.dramacaerdydd.com/default.asp?Locale=EN
More Welsh shows: http://www.s4c.co.uk/e_index.html
MP3 language lessons: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/
All-in-one lessons: http://www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk/index.htm
English dialects, N/S Wales: http://web.ku.edu/idea/europe/wales/wales.htm
Phrases and Vulgarities
Idioms: http://www.britannia.com/fame/fame.html
Cussin': http://mg.nac.net/~gina/mage/welshcussing.html
More idioms: http://www.siop-siarad.co.uk/phrases_mutations_verbs.htm
Still more: http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/gramadeg3.html