For those thinking Shwmai is odd spelling. It isn’t really. It’s a contraction of Sut+mae+hi i.e How is it? A variant of it (Sumai?) is used in North Wales. Gogs don’t always say “Sut dach chi?”
I learnt Welsh in mid Wales and the prof chose south, as she was based in Aberystwyth university, but even we taught ydy'chi not simply dych. Some of the things you were commenting on would have blown her mind too. A teaching app is no place to teach short cuts.
I'm using DuoLingo, it wont make you fluent but it's one of the only apps that teaches Welsh, and it's free. The Welsh government does online classes but it costs money to sign up.
I use Duolingo and trust me, you will get nowhere if you compare that app to other sources of language material. Plus, you're criticising a TV programme from the late 80's! LOL!
@@robpickles3736 Duolingo's the reason I'm doing Welsh in the first place. I started it idly and have unaccountably become hooked. But I don't think you can learn a language from Duolingo. I plan to complete it to give myself a taste of the basics, then do the Linguophone course to broaden my grammatical understanding, then get an Italki tutor. As for the age of the program, yes, what of it? Doubtless that's the reason it's slow, but it's still slow.
@@kingbolo4579 Excellent! Just like Duolingo opened the pathway for you to learn Welsh, the 'Now You're Talking' TV series probably did the same for many Welsh people. Either way is great considering the moronic English men in power tried to kill off the Welsh language in the 19th century. (I'm English)
Diolch yn fawr! Mae'n bendigedig!
For those thinking Shwmai is odd spelling. It isn’t really. It’s a contraction of Sut+mae+hi
i.e How is it?
A variant of it (Sumai?) is used in North Wales. Gogs don’t always say “Sut dach chi?”
Sut dach chi? in the North is the same as Shwd ych chi? in the South, not Shwmai.
shwmae not shwmai
@@TwpsynMawr Sounds like Chinese pork dumplings.
@sthenotheG this is incorrect also,
It's Sut dych chi for formal and informal is Sut wyt ti that's not south vs North
@@kingbolo4579 🤣🤣🤙🏻 it does
Excellent introduction. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Very good 👍
I learnt Welsh in mid Wales and the prof chose south, as she was based in Aberystwyth university, but even we taught ydy'chi not simply dych. Some of the things you were commenting on would have blown her mind too. A teaching app is no place to teach short cuts.
Helo, shwmai.
Mae'n braf today!
Mae'n great!
Thank you
Diolch!❤🃏💖
Can anyone recommend other learning resources?
Just look up on TH-cam how to learn welsh.
I'm using DuoLingo, it wont make you fluent but it's one of the only apps that teaches Welsh, and it's free. The Welsh government does online classes but it costs money to sign up.
Shwmai? never seen it spelled that way before. I have seen the spelling "sut mae".
Sut mae it's like "how are your deal?"
I believe shwmae is S.Wales and sut mae is more formal and more common in N.Wales
shwdi bychan!
I've seen all sorts: Siwmae, shwmae, s'mae, sut mae, sut dych chi, sut dach chi
Siw'mae in Pembrokeshire
the spelling in this video looks a bit f?cked up
It does tbf like why tf is shwmae spelt like “shwmai” ai ai ai
It's so slow! I can do 4 Duolingo lessons in the time it takes to watch this.
But this is real people ,u need both if u want to succeed
I use Duolingo and trust me, you will get nowhere if you compare that app to other sources of language material. Plus, you're criticising a TV programme from the late 80's! LOL!
@@robpickles3736 Duolingo's the reason I'm doing Welsh in the first place. I started it idly and have unaccountably become hooked. But I don't think you can learn a language from Duolingo. I plan to complete it to give myself a taste of the basics, then do the Linguophone course to broaden my grammatical understanding, then get an Italki tutor.
As for the age of the program, yes, what of it? Doubtless that's the reason it's slow, but it's still slow.
@@kingbolo4579 Excellent! Just like Duolingo opened the pathway for you to learn Welsh, the 'Now You're Talking' TV series probably did the same for many Welsh people. Either way is great considering the moronic English men in power tried to kill off the Welsh language in the 19th century. (I'm English)
Not the same at all ,u need both