SaySomethinginWelsh

best welsh learning resource out there.... diolch! xx

I’ve been using this app for nearly two years. I don’t often rate apps, but when I saw this has less than 20 reviews, I was shocked. If you’re wondering whether or not to get it, just do it! They have a forum and community that are beginners or experienced. Everyone’s so helpful and are willing to help you!

The lessons are similar to old school language tapes: listen and repeat. They go at a nice pace with two speakers saying the words. You build a large working vocab pretty quickly, with a large number of free lessons. Definitely download it if you want to speak welsh

This is hands down the best app I've come across for learning to speak a language. Duolingo and others are great for building vocabulary, but SSiW forces you to think on your feet and actually speak the language in real time. After each challenge, the progress you've made feels substantial. There's also a great forum of fellow learners and mentors as an additional resource. If you download this app, I highly encourage you to rate and review it everywhere possible, so the developers can continue their phenomenal work with more languages (fingers crossed for Swedish).

I'm surprised how few ratings this app has. This high intensity language learning app makes learning Welsh feel actually possible! It's exciting, fun and thoroughly supported by a huge and friendly community in their forum and various programs. There is PLENTY of free material to get you started, and courses for very reasonable prices, if you want to dive in deeper. There are also tons of resources to expand further if you lurk around the forum enough. Hint: ask about the free Welsh Speaking Practice group, that meets in online hangouts and online one on one chats!! I'm feeling very grateful to have found this supportive community. The amazing app is just the tip of the ice berg.

Can go at my own pace. Really feel like I’m learning a lot. Will definitely continue using.

Learning a language, especially as an adult, is not just being able to read it. Understanding native speakers and being able to speak the language oneself is crucial. Welsh, at least for this native American-English speaker in the beginning phases of learning, is difficult to speak and to pronounce, even harder to understand. This app makes all those difficulties seem much, much easier, and I am very appreciative of the way the developers constructed the lessons. Diolch!

Unlike other apps I’ve tried, Say Something in Welsh, approaches teaching the language in an immersive style. Its all audio, so listening during a commute or walking the dog is a convenient way to learn for me. It’s a speak and repeat. You learn the infrastructure necessary allowing new words to be easily augmented. Starting off with “I,” a transition to “you,” “he/she” sentences are added in subsequent challenges. The app remembers where you stopped in each challenge to begin when you return. Every five challenges a new recorded Welsh dialog is presented to challenge your listening skills. Practical sentences are taught from the beginning and each challenge adds to the previous. You won’t hear sentences like, “the cat is black,” rather you learn, “I speak Welsh,” and “I’ve been learning for about a month.” By the 18th challenge I can say, “I went out last weekend with a few friends and had a good time. And I met someone who told me something interesting.” You will learn different tenses (present, past, future, plus the others I can’t remember,) without being told as in a traditional language class. Because of the structure of the challenges, the words and phrases you learn can be combined/mixed to create new sentences not taught. You are not stuck with learning phrases specific to one situation. This app makes learning Welsh fun. Also, there is an online forum where you can ask questions and learn further. So much effort has been placed into this app, it’s really difficult to fail and it’s FREE! Amazing. As it’s free, I won’t complain but I do suggest adding additional resources to supplement the app. I purchased an English to Welsh dictionary by Heinl Gruffudd. My only criticism to this app is no sentences covering greetings. At least by the 18th challenge there are none. The best I could say would be to interject with, “Could you say it again?” There are plenty of online resources to learn basic greetings as well as Welsh sentence structure. Welsh is verb-subject-object. English is subject-verb-object. For me this app coupled with online resources for sentence structure, basic greetings and purchasing a dictionary, I’ve learned more Welsh in 3 months then I would have learned in a year’s worth of classes in an educational setting. To the creator of the app, I say, “Diolch yn fawr iawn,” Thank you very much.

The material seems to be related to Duolingo, so it's a great accompaniment to it, but it's greatly improved my listening ability and getting the Welsh accent down.

I love this app. I'm amazed by the amount of material covered, especially by a free app. The challenges are fun and the language content and forms targeted are functional things you'll actually want to say. The order things are presented and reviewed in is excellent. I also love that it automatically downloads the next challenge when you finish one.