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Welsh course now live on Duolingo

An Ciarraioch · 2016-01-28 13:30:51

Just as the Irish course became the first created by users in 2014, now Welsh has joined the list of English-language courses this week. Of course the major improvement on Memrise Welsh versions is that you can actually hear how the vocab is pronounced, which is essential for any Celtic language. Going by the first few…

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An Ciarraioch

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Just as the Irish course became the first created by users in 2014, now Welsh has joined the list of English-language courses this week. Of course the major improvement on Memrise Welsh versions is that you can actually hear how the vocab is pronounced, which is essential for any Celtic language. Going by the first few lessons, they seem to have far fewer loanwords from English than we do, evidently they're more inventive at coining phrases!

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