I find the dialects really confusing. I wish they'd waited until further in the course before introducing them.
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Re: Dialects
I don't mind where they're at in the course, but the way they are combined together is a bit odd - I'd prefer seperate lessons for North and South, to make it more clear which was which (or maybe a toggle for you to manually switch between the two for the whole tree, so that you could learn the one most relevant to you - like SSiW)
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Re: Dialects
I find the dialects helpful and they don't give me a real problem, but I think it would be useful if it were indicated more clearly. So, for example, learning cacen and teisen in the same lesson, but being advised that the former is more common in the South and the latter in the North. I don't know whether this particular dialect pair is explained in the course anywhere, but I only discovered the difference when my Welsh friends told me ("don't say teisen, it's a Gog word!"). Which is great for me, but not everyone has the benefit of Welsh-speaking friends to get advice from.
I have noticed that there seems to be a fair bit of rivalry between speakers of different dialects, but it all seems good-natured. Sometimes when I practising with my South Wales friends, I deliberately mix dialects just to set their teeth on edge.
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Re: Dialects
Although I agree that it could be made a bit more obvious which form is used by simply adding (SW/NW) in brackets, I wouldn't worry too much. It will become fairly obvious before long that rwan and llefrith are used mainly in the North and nawr and llaeth in the South. As the majority of Welsh people live in the South anyway because of more and better job opportunities, you get a pretty good mix in Cardiff, Swansea and Llanelli anyway - if you can find native speakers of Welsh at all, that is...O
Re: Dialects
I am learning Cymraeg y Dde in classes, so I default to typing Hwnt (SW) words in Welsh, but I understand the Gog (NW) words. By contrast, I use Mae'n ddrwg gen i for "I'm sorry" since blin (yn flin) used in the Hwnt phrase Mae'n flin 'da fi is used to mean "angry" in Gog!! Mae'n ddrwg gen i is understood in the South.