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I'm looking forward to my second class in the AmeriCymraeg term on Wednesday night. I am also looking forward to ridding myself of one particularly stale and irritating habit that I picked up years ago.

At a lunchtime Welsh course I attended in Caerdydd back in the 90's we students were tasked to respond to the question "Y dych chi'n siarad Cymraeg? " ( Do you speak Welsh? ) with an original Welsh sentence of our own device.

I was horrified! This involved a combination of grammar and creativity. The former was beyond me and I was in no mood for the latter on a wet Wednesday afternoon. So ... I resorted to ellipsis .

I wrote my 'sentence' as follows and enunciated accordingly:-

"Dwi'n dysgu Cymraeg nawr...ond yn araf....mae'n waith caled." ("I am learning Welsh now....but slowly....it's hard work")

To my shame I have been answering the same question with the same phrase, or phrases, ever since. BUT I am determined that 2014 will be the year when I finally abandon the three dots and learn to speak ( and write ) Welsh in whole joined up sentences.

Sound file:- dysgucymraeg.wav

N.B. It's still not too late to join the AmeriCymraeg 2014 online Welsh class on the site. Just click the text link or image below for instructions on how to enrol. We only covered basic pronunciation last week so it shouldn't be difficult to catch up.

Click here or below to for the 'How To Enrol For AmeriCymraeg 'page