i hear the voices when I'm dreaming

Phrase: fy ngŵr (my husband)

Fy, separately, sounds as "fuh" but with a short vowel
Mgŵr, separately, sounds like "shoor"

Fy ngŵr as a phrase? "imoor" (or kind of like a Yorkshire accent saying th'moor but without the th sound, just the 'moor bit)

::insert "that's not how the force works" gif::

(Yes I know I have no room to complain because English is worse, but...)

(Ps 607 day streak, yo)

Non welsh stuff -- niecelet has learned to say "oops", but in a very Scandinavian way, more like øpps. It's freaking adorable.

Welsh word of the day: daearyddiaeth. (It means geography.)

Welsh/duolingo wtf of the day: why does "gwlad fawr ydy America" -- country big is America -- translate as "America is a big country"? Why isn't the verb first? Why isn't the subject first? I'm so confuuuuused.

( relevant pictures )

A) Remember parsnip-indecisive Owen?

( He showed up again. )

B) Welsh possessive confuses me. As far as I can tell, in a sentence "X has Y", Y is the grammatical subject -- I have an orange cat (yes, they gave me that sentence! ( proof )) is Mae gen i gath oren, where mae is third person and not first person -- but also things change; I also got ( this ) and I *think* fi glosses directly as me rather than I, which makes sense from the standpoint of the possessed being the grammatical subject -- Russian also does "at me is thing" rather than "I have a thing", so "is dragon black belonging me" works, but then why is it Mae gen i gath oren and wah -- unless gen and gyda actually belong to two different verbs -- *quiet sobbing*

C) I hit a pretty streak number today. ( Read more... ) Next major goal: 730 (hahaha yeah right)

Brecwast (breakfast) is frecwast in this sentence.

Also I still don't get why you say things like "mi ges i reis i swper" (translates as I had rice for supper) and not just "ges i reis i swper". Especially since it just gave me "ges i gyri a reis i ginio" (I had curry and rice for lunch).

In "words that are so hard to remember" category, welsh for salad is salad...

Remember when I was first learning welsh, and one of the words was "Plis" for please, and I speculated that it was a combination of welsh borrowing English loanwords, and duo starting with easy variants!

Today I got a phrase that duo glossed as "please".

"Os gwelwch chi'n dda"

O.o

I like plis better, lol

(i mean, it's not like English doesn't have complicated ways of saying please too -- "if it's not too much trouble" is a sort of indirect please -- but yikes. I'm never going to remember that!)

Today's duo lesson: place names!

Abergwaun = Fishguard
Caergybi = Holyhead
Drenewydd = Newtown (and I already know newydd/new)
Casnewydd = Newport
Pwllheli = Pwllheli

...

*squints at list*

*sings softly, "one of these things is not like the others..."*

When am I going to ever need to say "I want 91 apples"????

I mean, really.

(Dw I eisiau nau deg un afal)

Bacon = bacwn
Chocolate = siocled (shock led)
Potatoes = tatws (what's taters, precioussss?)
Pasta = pasta

Also I can now say (with probably a horrible accent) dw i eisiau dysgu Cymraeg (I want to learn welsh). Go me.

Also also I want a welshy icon, hmmm.

* Because I am a big dork, I decided to start learning Welsh on Duolingo. I am very amused that one of the sentences in the second lesson grouping is "I am a dragon" (draig dw i). I also got a Les Mis earworm with "pwy dw i" (who am I), which even scans. A welsh version of Les Mis would be awesome.

* my Inner Critic had a moment of "wtf why are you learning Welsh" -- the other languages I've done have made sense, because Spanish is useful in California, German and Russian are both languages I've learned previously (albeit to vastly different fluency levels), Russian has the additional benefit of being the native language of one of my aides, but Welsh??? -- but I was able to stifle that quickly. Can I use Welsh in my life? No, not really. But I like learning things, not just to be useful but purely for the sake of learning.

* I realized recently that a Mystery Knitting Object I've had for fifteen-odd years, which I got as part of an eBay purchase of yarn and knitting tools and so I thought was some weird large U-shaped stitch holder, is actually a look for hairpin crochet. Which I am utterly captivated by. (Summary version: the loom has parallel inflexible sides, and you hold the yarn behind and to one side. Flipping the loom over loops the yarn around one side; you crochet in the middle to stabilize it; flip the same direction to loop around the other side; crochet in the middle to stabilize; and you end up with a strip of crochet up the middle with loops on either side kind of like fringe.) I have, however, come to the conclusion that it requires three hands (one for yarn, one for hook, one for loom).

* Speaking of crochet, I made a video showing how I crochet (and babbling rather a lot). I will embed it here once I look up how to do that (I'm on my iPad, and I can't find embed code on the YouTube app) but for now here's a link: http://youtu.be/v4P2pK0joHk It's 16 minutes long, and fully captioned. I hope to make more videos showing other things. It's pretty basic and amateur-looking, but eh.

* Also speaking of crochet, I (re)discovered tonight that switching immediately from a project using thicker yarn and a 5.5mm hook to one with thinner yarn and a 4mm hook? Really throws off muscle memory for a bit.

* random icon ftw \o/