Speed reading exercises
I’ve uploaded speed reading exercises for every section now, having nailed down a faster workflow to produce them.
The idea behind speed reading is that you stop trying to translate in your head and instead try to think in Welsh itself. Speed reading doesn’t give you enough time to translate, forcing you to connect the word to the meaning without going via English.
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New ‘This, That, These, Those’ section
I’ve put together a whole new section on how to say ‘this man’, ‘that man’ etc, addressing both the yma/yna system and the ‘hwn/hon/hyn’ system.
As learners, we tend to default to the simpler yma/yna system. But if we flip it on its head, we can use the hwn/hon/hyn as a tool to help us learn noun gender. The benefit to this is that not only do we learn noun gender, which can be quite a challenge for English speakers, but we also become more comfortable with the hwn/hon/hyn system which is used more widely in written Welsh.
Y Gelli Gandryll’s famous bookshops
S4C have a short video about the bookshops of Y Gelli Gandryll (Hay-on-Wye) on their YouTube channel, so I’ve put together some vocab games and exercises to help you prepare. Once you’ve learnt the vocab, you’ll find the video much easier to watch! Log in to learn and watch!