Problem
How do you reocognize and remember the spelling and pronunciation of Welsh words?
Answers
(Spaces inserted to thwart the automatic spell checker and to help you to see the differences between Welsh and English.
Welsh - English
b a r a - bread
c o f f i - coffee
bwyta - eat (the last two letters are the same reversed bwyTA - eAT; I remember BolT your food=eaT)
oren - orange
pannas - parsnips (first two letters and last letters are the same, so is the N in the middle PAnNas - PArsNipS
reis - rice
te - eat
treiffl - trifle
English - Welsh
bread - b a r a
coffee - c o f f i
eat - bwyta
orange - oren
parsnips - pannas
rice - reis
te - tea
trifle - treiffl
Tips
1 Photograph menus
Photograph a menu at a coffee bar on a Welsh station or in a Welsh high street. Look at it on the train home. Look at the website of a Welsh restaurant or café. (Americans say Main street. In England people say high street.)
2 duolingo.com
(Free on line learning website for many languages from English and from several languages to learn English)
3 Translate using Google
google translate
4 Translate using second source
http://mymemory.translated.net/en/Welsh/English/
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages. You will find several more posts on learning Welsh and other languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.
How do you reocognize and remember the spelling and pronunciation of Welsh words?
Answers
(Spaces inserted to thwart the automatic spell checker and to help you to see the differences between Welsh and English.
Welsh - English
b a r a - bread
c o f f i - coffee
bwyta - eat (the last two letters are the same reversed bwyTA - eAT; I remember BolT your food=eaT)
oren - orange
pannas - parsnips (first two letters and last letters are the same, so is the N in the middle PAnNas - PArsNipS
reis - rice
te - eat
treiffl - trifle
English - Welsh
bread - b a r a
coffee - c o f f i
eat - bwyta
orange - oren
parsnips - pannas
rice - reis
te - tea
trifle - treiffl
Tips
1 Photograph menus
Photograph a menu at a coffee bar on a Welsh station or in a Welsh high street. Look at it on the train home. Look at the website of a Welsh restaurant or café. (Americans say Main street. In England people say high street.)
2 duolingo.com
(Free on line learning website for many languages from English and from several languages to learn English)
3 Translate using Google
google translate
4 Translate using second source
http://mymemory.translated.net/en/Welsh/English/
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages. You will find several more posts on learning Welsh and other languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.
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