I wrote on a Duolingo forum that I wanted translations for some words and got the following translations which I am putting in alphabetical order in both directions from English to Welsh and Welsh to English.
Welsh - English
Welsh - English
afon (river)
allanfa - (exit)
Ble mae'r . . . ffôn (Where is the . . . phone)
brechdan (sandwich)
bwyd (food)
bws (bus)
Faint ydy'r . . . . . tocyn (How much is the . . . . . ticket)
gwesty (hotel)
paned o goffi (cup of coffee)
tacsi (taxi)
trên (train)
tŷ bach - (toilet)
tŷ bwyta (restaurant)
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English - Welsh
Bus - b w s (spaces inserted to evade automatic spell checker converting the Welsh word back into English)
cup of coffee - paned o g o f f i (spell checker wanted to insert goofy - I suppose I could use that as a memory aid - a goofy g o f f i cup of coffee
exit - allanfa
food - bwyd
hotel - gwesty
How much is the . . . ticket? - Faint ydy'r . . . tocyn ?
restaurant - tŷ bwyta
river - a f o n (Watch out - spell checker turns this into anon)
sandwich - brechdan
taxi - tacsi
toilet - tŷ bach
train - trên
Where is the - phone? - Ble mae'r - ffôn?
If you can only remember words which are almost the same, here they are
Words which are almost the same
bus - b w s
taxi - tacsi
train - t r ê n (spell checker changed this to trine )
Memory Aids
The river Avon (Stratford on Avon) if Shakespeare had been on the river Avon he would have been in Wales on the Afon. Just look at a map of Wales issued in Wales and see the word Afon and think river Avon.
Take a taxi (t a c s i) or a bus (b w s ) or train (t r ê n) to the river Avon (which in Welsh is a f o n).
Pronunciation aids (I'll add these later in another post).
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, teacher of English language and literature, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English as a second language (ESL)
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