How To Recognize and Remember Welsh words: bee, butterfly

Bee. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Problem
How do you remember Welsh words?

Answer
Use the letters or hand gestures to create hooks for your memory.

Bee photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Welsh
gwenynen - bee (Visual aid: gwEnynEn)
pila-pala - butterfly

English
bee - gwenynen (It looks like: When in a glen Gwen has a yen for honey, no, nen.)
butterfly - pila-pala (A pillow for my pal and a a pila-pala)

Say the word in Welsh and make a humming sound with GWENNNNyNENNNN.

Make your hands into a butterflyby crossing your wrists and flap your fingertips up and down saying the Welsh words, pila-pala, pila-pala, pila-pala.

Butterfly at Changi Airport Butterfly Garden. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and other languages.