Author: suw

Today’s Ymestyn roadmap update

Recent changes include:

• New section covering the simple past (aka inflected preterite or inflected past) tense of what I think of as the Big Four, mynd (go), gwneud (do/make), dod (come) and cael (get).
• Improvements to the Putting It All Together practice sections has begun. I’ve started to add ‘type the answer’ quizzes to each section, to provide a slightly more challenging way to practice which depends more on recall than recognition.

Ymestyn in the news

Ymestyn was also featured in Nation.Cymru where Jules Millward wrote about my plan to help learners become fluent by providing the kind of support that I’ve always been desperate for myself.

There is an almost endless supply of Welsh grammar and vocab to get through, so you can expect the Ymestyn program to take a while to be fully built out. The next round of development will include (in no particular order!): 

Grammar

• Irregular inflected preterites: mynd (went), dod (came), gwneud (did), cael (got)
• The preterite using gwneud and ddaru
• Irregular inflected futures: mynd (go), dod (come), gwneud (do), cael (get)
• Present and imperfect of gwybod (to know)
• Prepositions with personal endings
• Using fod wedi (have been) with auxiliary verbs
• Phrases using verbnouns and prepositions
• Verbnouns that don’t use i (to)
• Making comparisons: Equative, comparative and superlative forms
• Numbers: The vigesimal system and ordinals. 
• If
• This, that, the other.
• That (bod, mai, taw, etc)
• The passive voice
• Impersonal forms

Vocabulary

I have another eleven chapters of Adar yr Ardd to convert into exercises, and have nearly finished writing Mamaliaid Prydain which will provide another twelve sections on British mammals. These will all follow the same structure as the section on Robin Goch. 

I am also planning to create vocab exercises focused on a variety of hobbies, pastimes and interests, so that there’ll be something of interest to everyone. And once I have enough subscribers, I’ll be able to commission original content from native Welsh speakers to provide some variety.

Timing

I hope to be able to release at least one new exercise per week over the next few months, circumstances allowing. Though again, that pace will speed up if I have the resources to hire in some help.

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