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Joseff Jones (Joe) is a freelance Welsh and Japanese tutor from Aberystwyth. Graduating from Oxford with a BA in Japanese with Chinese, Joe is now a full-time language tutor and writer with interests in second-language acquisition, linguistics, psychology and AI.


Using Content Clauses in Welsh

Content clauses (previously called noun clauses) are a special type of dependent clause. In Welsh, they are called cymalau enwol. Content clauses often function as the object of a verb. This is usually a verb of communication or mental state such as know, think, say, believe, understand, acknowledge.  In English, such clauses are optionally linked …

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How to Use ‘Sydd’ in Welsh

Sydd can be a tricky concept to explain, and it takes a bit of practice to get really skilled at using it.  The key facts are: The present tense nature of sydd is important to remember. In other tenses, rather than sydd, we simply use the appropriate form of ‘bod’ in the required tense. So …

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