Beginner's Welsh with Online Audio

by Gruffud

Overview

Welsh is a Celtic language of the British Isles, spoken primarily in Wales. Beginner’s Welsh with Online Audio offers a fresh approach for students or travelers who wish to learn Welsh, and the lessons are specially designed to help visitors feel comfortable in Wales. Includes a brief introduction to Welsh history and culture; seventeen carefully-paced and practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and expressions; exercises for each lesson with answer key; Welsh-English and English-Welsh glossaries; and online MP3 audio files for download featuring pronunciation by native speakers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780781813679
Publisher:	Hippocrene Books, Inc.
Publication date:	09/15/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

A teacher and author, Heini Gruffudd has spent his life teaching Welsh to children and adults, and from 1990 to 2003, he was a lecturer in the University of Swansea's Department of Adult and Continuing Education. After taking early retirement from the department, he has continued to work as a translator and a language consultant.

Gruffudd was raised in the city, a son of the writers and Egyptologists Kate Bosse Griffiths, the first Curator of the University's Egyptian Centre collection, and J Gwyn Griffiths, who taught Classics and Egyptology in Swansea University for over thirty years.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Wales 1

Geography 1

Map 2

History and Politics 4

Economics 7

Literature and Arts 9

Fate of the Language 11

Tips for Socializing in Wales 14

The Welsh Language and Grammar 15

Welsh Grammar at a Glance 17

Pronunciation Guide 25

Lesson 1 Meeting 31

1st and 2nd person present tense ('I' and 'you')

Lesson 2 The Weather 39

3rd person present tense ('he', 'she' and 'it')

3rd person future tense

Lesson 3 At the Station 47

Questions using 3rd person present tense Numbers and time

Lesson 4 Introductions 55

All persons of present tense of verb 'to be' and other verbs

Lesson 5 Asking the Way 67

Question form of all persons of the verb, present tense

Lesson 6 What's On? 77

Negative forms of present tense Plurals; emphasis

Lesson 7 Staying the Night 87

Expressing possession

Lesson 8 In the Bar 95

Masculine and feminine nouns Soft mutations

Lesson 9 Breakfast Time 106

Adjectives

Lesson 10 Having Lunch 113

Past tense, 'have …' Aspirate mutations

Lesson 11 Shopping 121

Plurals of nouns

Lesson 12 At the Post Office 131

Expressions using prepositions

Lesson 13 In the Car 139

Imperfect tense, 'was', 'were'

Lesson 14 In the Country 149

Commands

Possessive pronouns

Nasal mutations

Lesson 15 At the Doctor's 157

Pronouns used as object of the verb Noun clauses

Lesson 16 Going to the Game 165

Past tense, short form

Lesson 17 At the Police Station 175

Passive voice of verbs Numbers: Ordinals

Useful Words and Phrases 185

Days, times of day, months, seasons, time, festivals countries, useful phrases

Key to the Exercises 191

Short Dictionary: Welsh-English 199

English-Welsh 211

Audio Track Lists 221