The new and improved Ymestyn is here!
Over the last couple of months, I have been beavering away moving the Ymestyn course over here from Payhip, which it had outgrown. I have also rearranged it into modules to make it easier for you to choose what you want to focus on.
What’s more, I’ve developed a Canolradd companion course to help you do you homework more easily. Suitable for everyone doing Canolradd 1 or Canolradd 1&2, it will add units as term goes on, so that you can catch up on missed lessons or improve your understanding of grammatical concepts you’ve covered in class.
Students on Canolradd 2 will be able to take this course from September 2027 at the latest.
Ymestyn also caters to independent learners and there are plenty of resources for you to expand your vocabulary and polish up your grammar.
If that sounds good to you, sign up now for just £10 per month!
If you subscribed to the Payhip version, you can log in here and will find instructions on how to switch to the new platform as a new lesson at the top of the course page. Every new subscriber here gets a week free, so you will have time to kick the tyres.
Roadmap
The new site is launching with the following modules:
- Canolradd — Homework support for Canolradd 1 and 1&2 students
- Unit 1 — Revision unit using a variety of grammatical constructions and a wide range of vocabulary from the Sylfaen course.
- Unit 2 – Byth ac Erioed
- Unit 3 – Dw i’n meddwl bod…
- Auxiliary and Inflected Verbs — Learn the three patterns for creating auxiliary (helper or periphrastic) verbs and inflected verbs.
- Stems — The different stems used for common auxiliary verbs.
- Pattern 1 — Will, can, & the inflected future.
- Talking about sports — Vocabulary builder & practicing will, can and the inflected future.
- Pattern 2 — Was, could, would, would like, should/ought to, if (I) were to.
- Things To Do In The Garden — Vocabulary builder & practicing was, could and would.
- Things To Do Around The House — Vocabulary builder & practicing would like, should/ought to.
- Things We Know Aren’t True — Vocabulary builder & practicing if (I) were to.
- Pattern 3 — Simple past & have been to.
- Talking About Travel — Vocabulary builder and practicing the simple past & have been to.
- Simple past tense of Mynd, Gwneud, Dod and Cael — Overview of how these verbnouns form the inflected past tense.
- Simple past of Mynd — Practice, vocabulary, listening and reading.
- Simple past of Dod — Practice, vocabulary, listening and reading.
- Simple past of Gwneud — Three version of gwneud, practice, vocabulary, listening and reading.
- Simple past of Cael — Three regional versions of cael, practice, vocabulary, listening and reading.
- Simple past using Gwneud — How to use the inflected past of gwneud to create the simple past tense of other verbnouns.
- Simple past using Ddaru — How to use ddaru to create the simple past of other verbnouns.
- Reading
- Adar yr Ardd — Short articles about twelve common (and not so common) garden birds, with annotated illustrations and vocab list.
- Mamaliaid Prydain (Reading) — Short articles about twelve British mammals, with annotated illustrations and vocab list.
- Mae Rhiannon yn Mynd i Ynys y Barri — Vocabulary builder for the interactive fiction game.
- Video/Audio comprehension
- S4C: Shop Lyfrau’r Gelli Gandryll — Vocabulary builder.
- S4C: Matthew Rhys on Widow’s Bay — Vocabulary builder.
- This, That, These, Those — How to use the more formal hwn/hon/hyn system to say ‘this thing’, ‘that thing’, ‘these things’ and ‘those things’.
- Idioms 1 — Five idioms that people really use in everyday speech.
I still have a few modules to move over, or new ones to create, including:
- Modules to move:
- Adar yr Ardd (Vocabulary) — Vocabulary builder for the Adar yr Ardd module, chapters 1-2.
- Auxiliary Verb Pop Quiz — North and South.
- Modules under development:
- Canolradd — Units 4 to 20.
- Simple past using Ddaru — How to use ddaru to create the simple past of other verbnouns.
- Adar yr Ardd (Vocabulary) — Chapters 3-12
- Mamaliaid Prydain (Vocabulary) — Vocabulary builder for the Mamaliaid Pryain module.
I’m very excited to be re-launching Ymestyn and developing a better and more usable Welsh language resource for you all!