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Welsh For Beginners (Internet Linked with Audio CD) Audio CD – 31 Aug. 2001

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Humorous illustrations demonstrate hundreds of everyday phrases with tips on pronunciation and grammar. Arranged by topic from introducing yourself to asking directions and eating out. Ideal for complete beginners and includes internet links to websites with video clips, activities and downloadable puzzles. Also available with an audio CD of recordings of all the words and phrases.

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0746046448
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978-0746046449
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2nd
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Usborne Publishing Ltd
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31 Aug. 2001
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English
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25.6 x 0.3 x 19.4 cm
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48 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Usborne Publishing Ltd; 2nd edition (31 Aug. 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0746046448
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0746046449
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 25.6 x 0.3 x 19.4 cm

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Adam Edwards

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 August 2022

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Good for beginners but depends where you live in wales not the best for the north

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 August 2022

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Good book and includes a cd.

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D. Jones

This is a great starter book if you want to learn Welsh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 February 2012

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My husband is from North Wales and his first language is Welsh. I've promised him throughout our marriage that I would learn to speak at least some Welsh so that when we visit his family they don't have to revert to English just for me. However, I have tried many times (and failed) over the years.

I've bought a lot of the 'learn to speak Welsh' books on the market and have just found them to be coming in at too high a level for someone who can't even say 'hello'. When I came across this book I thought that I would give it one last go before admitting defeat.

I have to say how surprised I have been at how well targeted this book actually is for a complete beginner to the language. Yes, on first glance it does look childish and cartoony but don't let that put you off. It is a fabulous book.

It literally starts off at the beginning teaching you how to say hello and goodbye. It moves onto 'how are you'. It covers many other very basic things such as numbers, colours, time, how to ask for things in shops etc. Without these basics it is just impossible to move onto some of the other books on the market which seem to assume that you already have this basic knowledge in place.

The one big problem with trying to learn Welsh from a book is that many of the letters that we say in English sound very different in Welsh. For example, F is pronounced as V, W and Y are vowels and sound nothing like you would expect. Thus, if you only try to learn from the book you are going to end up saying things that sound very strange.

This is where the audio CD comes into its own. It follows the exact order of things in the book and native Welsh speakers pronounce the phrases that you can see on the page. They repeat them again and give you a chance to have a go at copying them. I do find that they speak a little fast for me to really understand how the letters on the page translate into spoken Welsh and I find I often have to play them a few times before I really 'get' the pronunciation. I'm also lucky as I have my Welsh speaking husband to correct me when I get into too much of a muddle.

I am slowly picking up some of the more common phrases and can hold a very basic conversation. However, this has required that I have read, copied down and listened to the CD many times over.

Unless you are a natural at learning languages I don't think it is realistic to expect to pick up this book and learn how to speak Welsh after looking at the phrases a couple of times. However, I think this is a fantastic way of starting to learn the basics of the language and I'm extremely glad that I purchased it.

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Angela Thompson

Excellent for beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 May 2021

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Brilliant book. Teaches you all the basics in order to get you started and as the book states you can then go onto further study and practice. The idea of the book is to get you speaking a few everyday phrases and questions in order to hold basic conversations and it does that perfectly.
The CD is brilliant in helping with pronunciation. I used this book as a complete beginner and then went onto a Welsh speaking course at Aberystwyth Uni to then get to grips with vowels and all the technical aspects of Welsh, so yes you start simple with this book,, get to grips with the basics and comfortable with using the language in everyday settings and this is what this book gets you doing from scratch!
Then the Welsh Government have classes all over Wales you go join one and then further your Welsh speaking and vocabulary. There are TV progs and lots of books and phrase books out there, you can learn as much or as little as you want.

Brilliant, excellent beginners book. I highly recommend it for people new to Welsh speaking and learning for the first time. Enjoy, have fun.

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J. M. C

Good value

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 7 May 2022

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Ordered the Usborne Welsh for beginners and came with audio CD too. for around £3.50 - a real bargain!

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reviewer63

brilliant for COMPLETE beginners!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 March 2012

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I bought this book in good faith that it would set me off to a good start in learning the Welsh language as I had seen the previous reviews and 'by golly' it has completely started from the beginning so I would definetly recommend this for a complete beginner but as you progress through the book you start to learn longer sentences and as a new starter you want to know why for example when 'Wales = Cymru' once it is put into a sentence it changes to 'Gymru' for example, I come from Wales = Rydw i dod o Gymru! However I think it is brilliant for a complete beginner and the Audio CD is an assett to this package. So if you are a complete beginner, buy this book - but I also recommend to buy a Welsh Dictionary as this book has a dictionary but only with the words that are learnt in the book, and a grammatical book for help from maybe Heini Grufudd's shop 'Y Lolfa'! Buy this book!

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Sewaddicted

fun and easy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 December 2019

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A nice, easy introfuvtion to Welsh. Lots of bright fun graphics. speech speed could be a little slower to help you understand and repeat and to follow in thr book. I like listening to the CD and often play it at night or in the car on a long journey

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Mr. Bryn Sadler

Just about OK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 July 2017

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Whether you like this book will depend on what you want to achieve. It has the feel of a book for children and a valiant attempt is made to make the content interesting and entertaining but any attempt to teach the fundamentals of the language are squeezed into a half hearted few pages at the end. If you want to learn a few useful phrases or increase your awareness of the language it is OK but it is not aimed at anyone wanting to learn Welsh properly. Mutations come and go without explanation and I don't know how someone trying to learn vocabulary would cope with this. As a phrase book for someone wanting to enhance a holiday in darkest Wales, it might be worth buying. Otherwise, no. I bought two copies of the same book thinking one, which include a CD and had a different cover, was an entirely different book. Very confusing!

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