🏴 Learn Welsh online
Learning Welsh online is easier than it used to be, but it's still patchy: Duolingo has a popular Welsh course, yet once you outgrow it there's a cliff. Intermediate learners struggle to find the steady stream of real, comprehensible Welsh that actually builds fluency.
Langadoo bridges that gap. Bring in S4C clips, Welsh-language YouTubers, music and podcasts, transcribe them, and watch with dual Welsh-and-English subtitles. Click any word for grammar and usage, save sentences into spaced repetition, and let AI generate Welsh stories at your level. It's built for the part of the journey after the beginner app — turning input you enjoy into vocabulary you keep.
- Native name
- Cymraeg
- Speakers
- ~750,000 speakers
- Spoken in
- Wales, Argentina (Y Wladfa, Patagonia)
- Writing system
- Latin (with digraphs like ll, dd, ch, ff treated as single letters)
- Difficulty
- Category II/III — the mutations and word order take real getting used to
Try reading a little Welsh
This is exactly how learning works inside Langadoo. Click any word in the Welsh text below to see what it means — the highlighted words also show a translation on hover.
A first taste of Welsh
Click on any word to see its meaning — highlighted words have translations on hover
Why learning Welsh is hard
- Initial consonant mutations change the first letter of a word depending on grammar (cath → fy nghath → ei gath) — unfamiliar and central to sounding natural.
- Verb-subject-object word order flips the default English pattern, so sentence-building feels back-to-front at first.
- Digraphs like ll, dd, ch and ff count as single letters, and ll in particular has no English equivalent sound.
- There's a real gap between formal/literary Welsh and the colloquial Welsh people actually speak, plus north–south dialect differences.
- Past the beginner stage, the bottleneck is finding enough engaging, level-appropriate listening — which is where transcribing real video pays off.
The honest gap: Duolingo covers Welsh basics well, but there's little supporting the jump to real native content. Most other big apps don't offer Welsh at all.
How Langadoo helps you learn Welsh
- Learn from Welsh YouTube videos — transcribe any video and watch with dual Welsh-and-English subtitles.
- AI-generated Welsh stories — comprehensible reading built from the words you already know (Krashen's i+1).
- Spaced repetition — save words and sentences into a true SM-2 review system with bidirectional cards.
- Sentence mining — capture real Welsh sentences and audio clips from content you actually enjoy.
- Instant word explanations — tap any word for grammar, usage and examples in context.
Welsh YouTube channels to learn from
- Dysgu Cymraeg (Learn Welsh) — The National Centre for Learning Welsh — lessons, interviews and cultural videos from absolute beginner upwards.
- SaySomethinginWelsh — Bite-sized spoken-Welsh lessons that prioritise listening and speaking over grammar drills.
- Learn Welsh Podcast — Simple words and phrases with clear pronunciation — beginner-friendly listening practice.
Drop any of these into Langadoo, transcribe a video, and start mining words straight into your review deck.
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