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ysabetwordsmith made me realise that I've never actually looked up a Swadesh list for Welsh before. I found this list on Wikipedia and before I started reading it I assumed that I would already know most of the words because I'm at a B2 level, but there were quite a few I didn't know! (In my defence, I only really use Welsh in an academic context)
Sai rîli yn neud New Year's Resolutions ond eleni fi moyn:
I only read five books in 2024, but that's probably more books than I finished in 2023 (I'm not sure if Llyfr Glas Nebo and Fierce Appetites should actually count since I started them in 2023/2022, and didn't read the entirety in 2024).
I don't really do New Year's resolutions, but I definitely want to try and read more this year. I really struggle with reading longer things, like books, because of concentration/comprehension issues caused by my autism and fibromyalgia, and although most of these books are very thin, I still think I did well to read them. My main goals are to read more in Welsh, and to read more of my Celtic studies books (which are mostly in English), and I want to try and read something in Irish. I have the Irish translation of The War of the Worlds which I'm considering, although I've had a flick through and I'm not sure if it would be too hard for me. I also have the Cornish translation, and, although my Cornish is worse than my Irish, I might find it easier to read in Cornish, due to Cornish's similarity to Welsh. Or at least to muddle my way through. I'm also doing a short Breton course in a couple of weeks, so maybe I'll look for something short in Breton to read as well.
Currently I'm mainly worried about all the snow and ice warnings, which might mean I can't travel back to university for my Irish exam next week. And also exams just make me stressed anyway. But at least it's a written exam this time, and not a spoken one which I struggle with a lot more.
Overview with where I am with my language books:
As you can see from this entry, I've only completed one more unit of Basic Irish and one more unit of Gaeilge Gan Stró this month.
Bora Brav has sort of been put on hold while I focus on my Welsh, Irish, and Chinese for university. I'll have my fourth (and final) Chinese exam in less than a week, so I'm going to mostly focus on that and Irish, as I have an Irish speaking exam in the next two weeks.
I had hoped to finish Basic Irish by the end of 2024, but I'm not sure how realistic that goal is now considering I've still got 10 units left, and the next two weeks at university are going to be spent focusing on my speaking exam, rather than a lot of grammar-based material. I suppose it depends how much I get done over the Christmas holiday. I have an Irish written exam in January to revise for, so maybe I can work on Basic Irish to help me revise for that. I could adjust my goal to finish Basic Irish by the time I start back in lessons at the end of January, rather than by the end of December.
I think our lecturer wanted to finish Gaeilge Gan Stró unit 7 before Christmas, but I think we'll only do maybe some of unit 6. I'm not doing (modern) Irish in university after Christmas so I'm not sure if I'll continue with the book on my own; it doesn't hold my attention as much as Basic Irish. But I might go and sit in on other Irish classes that are going on (depending on my energy levels), so it depends on what their progress is with the book.
Intermediate Welsh is also being put on hold for now, since I don't have any Welsh exams this semester to worry about, and I'm half way through my only home assignment.
For Chinese, I might start looking at my HSK1 workbooks, and/or maybe Chinese For Dummies. I'm hoping to do the Beginners Part 2 class next semester, so I don't want to forget it all over the holiday.
For Welsh and Irish, I'm going to focus on transferring my rough class notes from my notebooks into my neater, better-organised revision notebook. Especially for Irish, since that'll help with the written exam revision. I also want to make some sort of study challenge for over the holidays, since I won't have my usual university timetable to stick to, and I find it quite difficult to manage without some sort of schedule.
