There are lots of resources online to help you learn/practice:
- SaySomethingInWelsh is a good audio course which will help with pronunciation but won’t teach you grammar: https://app.saysomethingin.com/
- LearnWelsh has lots of online or in-person courses, many of them free, (all of them free if you’re under 25): https://learnwelsh.cymru/
- ClwbMaluCachu is my other website and it’s a basic grammar reference resource with tables of conjugations of helper verbs, etc: https://clwbmalucachu.co.uk/
- The old BBC Catchphrase course is still available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/catchphrase1/lessons1.shtml
There are some great books, if you can get hold of them at a reasonable price, that will help:
- Colloquial Welsh, by Gareth King (can be expensive but look for it second hand)
- Learner’s Dictionary, by Gareth King is really good because it explains usage in more detail.Â
- Modern Welsh, by Gareth King absolute stonker of a reference book.Â
- BBC Learn Welsh is a really good, if short, grammar book for looking up basics
- Welsh Rules, by Heini Gruffudd is pretty good too
There are loads of YouTube channels, and I listed them here:Â
There are two Discord servers that I know of:
And the SaySomethingInWelsh forum:
Plus the Siarad program where learners are matched with speakers for a regular call:
Various Reddit subs here:
Depending on where you are, there might be a Welsh meet-up near you. Check this map from the Paned website https://paned.cymru/:
Welsh TV, ie S4C, is available from their website or via iPlayer, and almost always has English subtitles, and Welsh subtitles only slightly less often. Some programs are available internationally, the rest just in the UK:Â
- All: https://www.s4c.cymru/clic/
- Internationally available: https://www.s4c.cymru/clic/Categories/99
There are various Welsh tutors who do free/cheap courses online or have online resources.:Â
- Richard Morse: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/richard-morse-17295683185
- Doctor Cymraeg aka Stephen Rule: https://doctorcymraeg.wales/
There are lots of podcasts in Welsh, though the best two for Welsh learners imho are Sgwrsio and Hefyd. Also lots of stuff on BBC Sounds (UK-only), and, of course, BBC Radio Cymru:Â
- Podcast directory: https://ypod.cymru/
- Sgwrsio: https://ypod.cymru/pods/podlediad/sgwrsio
- Hefyd: https://richardnosworthy.wales/podcast/
- BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=cymraeg
- BBC Radio Cymru: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_cymru
- BBC Radio Cymru 2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_cymru_2
