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To aid you in your quest to learn Welsh, I’m listing some Internet sites and offering a few resources for those of you who are more “technologically advanced” than some of us (my cell phone is equipped to only make and answer phone calls – I don’t even have the message service activated – no photos, no texting, no Internet access).
The WSCO email Inbox recently received a message from a man alerting us to programs for iPhones, but he also mentioned a web dictionary at www.geiriadur.net. It has some audio clips which I find very helpful.
It is one of a number of Welsh language web links you can access through the Welsh folk dancers’ website at www.welshcountrydancers.org. Click on Being Welsh and then on Language.
A site that has not yet been added to that language page is one that Tegwyn Lantz recently discovered – she and I have started working with Welsh lessons downloaded from www.saysomethinginwelsh.com.
As for your iPhone and iPod touch: there is now a Welsh Phrasebook application available – you can find it by searching “Welsh” in the iTunes Store (or App Store). I am told that such a search will also provide a link to “the excellent Learn Welsh podcast.”
I already told you about my cell phone – what I know about “pods” comes from that great movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (the original version, not the remake) and the bags in the produce section labeled “Sugar snap peas”.
I can handle Internet but, since the “iToys” escape me, Diolch yn fawr! to Teg who took pity on me and did a bit of research. Here are a few of the Welsh-language or Wales-related items you can get in that iTunes/App Store.
| For $.99 each: |
| --Welsh language lesson that includes “the basics” – greetings, common phrases, numbers, telling time, weather, etc. – can hear words and phrases pronounced |
| --English-Welsh dictionary with approximately 15,000 translations |
| --The Welsh Fairy Book – 84 stories, each 4-6 paragraphs long |
| --Celtic Fairy Tales – 26 stories from Welsh, Scottish and Irish sources |
| --King Arthur’s Knights |
| --Travel Wales -- what to see and where to stay and eat in 9 towns |
| For $1.99 each: |
| Two books by Arthur Machen, a leading Welsh author in the 1890s best known for supernatural fantasy and horror fiction – A Fragment of Life and The Terror. |
| And for $18.99 – Guinevere’s Gamble by Nancy McKenzie; 2nd book in the Chrysalis Queen Quartet, starring 13-year-old Guinevere. |
Or go “low tech” and visit your local public library for that last item. You can probably find the rest of the Quartet there also...
1. What is the oldest, continuously spoken language in Europe?
2. What is the newest capital in Europe?
3. We celebrate the birthday or deathday of St. David?
4. Within 100 years, what year did his death occur?
5. Who is the longest serving member of the WSCO board?
| 6. Who has not been an editor of Dragon Tales? | |
| a. Mary Ellen Morgan | |
| b. Peggy Morgan Speakman | |
| c. Marian Davis | |
| d. Donna Boyce | |
| e. Ronda Griffith-Grubb | |
7. What year did WSCO hold its first gymanfa at Central College Presbyterian Church?
| 8. Which of the following is not, or was not, a Welsh settlement in Ohio? | |
| a. Paddy's Run | |
| b. Welsh Hills | |
| c. Gomer | |
| d. Radnor | |
| e. Oak Hill | |
| f. Venedocia | |
| g. Wellsville
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| 9. How many members of WSCO have conducted at least one of our gymanfas within the past 15 years? | |
| a. 0 | |
| b. 1 | |
| c. 2 | |
| d. 4 | |
| e. 5 | |
| f. 6 | |
10. Name those members who have conducted at least one of our gymanfas within the past 15 years.
Bonus point: What was the name of the Choir of the World who sang for us during two cymanfoedd (gymanfas)?
Quiz constructed by M E Morgan, WSCO member
Answers are on page 16