Is the Everyday Spoken Welsh course free?

Yes. Everyday Spoken Welsh is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

What does the Everyday Spoken Welsh course cover?

Everyday Spoken Welsh runs across 3 sections: Breaking Past the Present Tense, The Working Mechanics of Spoken Welsh, Authentic Welsh in Context. Each is a handful of bite-size levels you play as a game, so you cover the whole topic a few minutes at a time.

How long does it take to learn Everyday Spoken Welsh on Tomo?

Everyday Spoken Welsh is 25 levels across 3 sections, about 50m of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

Do I need any background to start Everyday Spoken Welsh?

No. It's pitched at a intermediate level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

How is this different from just reading about Everyday Spoken Welsh online?

Articles and videos you read once and forget. Tomo turns Everyday Spoken Welsh into a game with levels, streaks, and quick quizzes, so it actually sticks. Same idea as Duolingo, just pointed at Everyday Spoken Welsh instead of Spanish.

What's the best way to learn Everyday Spoken Welsh?

Pick a format you'll actually come back to. Tomo turns Everyday Spoken Welsh into a gamified course you play five minutes a day, with quizzes that make it stick, so you finish it instead of bookmarking it. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

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Everyday Spoken Welsh

Bridge the gap between textbook exercises and natural conversation. Move beyond basic present-tense sentences to recount past events, handle mutations with confidence, and navigate North and South Welsh regional dialects.

Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Spoken Welsh. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

25 levels across 3 sections, about 50 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Breaking Past the Present Tense, The Working Mechanics of Spoken Welsh, and Authentic Welsh in Context. It assumes you already know the basics.

25 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Everyday Spoken Welsh

with Dafydd the Dragon

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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Everyday Spoken Welsh

'Er hynny' marks a concession or contrast, functioning like 'even so' or 'nevertheless'.
'Felly' expresses a consequence or conclusion, translating to 'so' or 'therefore'.
Conjunctions like 'er hynny' join contrasting clauses into a single cohesive thought.
'Te' (or 'ta' in the north) acts as a tag meaning 'then', often rounding off an agreement.
Ŵyr dyn' or 'pwy a ŵyr' inserts a casual conversational pause meaning 'who knows'.
'Ta beth' serves as a classic conversational pivot roughly meaning 'anyway' or 'regardless'.
'Sy'n' (contracted from 'sydd yn') links a definite subject directly to a verbnoun in the present tense.
Using 'sy'n' avoids restarting a new clause with 'mae hi'n' when describing a subject's action.
'Sydd' acts as the relative form of 'bod' specifically when the subject is the focus of the relative clause.
A positive statement using 'mae' takes the contracted negative tag 'on'd ydy?' ('isn't he/she/it?').
'Ydy?' on its own asks a genuine question rather than expecting agreement like 'isn't she?'.
The tag must echo the main verb 'bod' ('mae' pairs with 'ydy', not with 'oes').
In natural speech, the perfect aspect marker 'wedi' routinely contracts to ''di'.
The demonstrative 'yma' ('here/this') regularly reduces to ''ma' after nouns in everyday dialogue.
Using uncontracted 'wedi' and 'yma' in fast spoken Welsh often sounds overly formal or bookish.
'Roedd' sets ongoing background conditions or states in a narrative.

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Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Everyday Spoken Welsh the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Natural Welsh Connectors and Fillers

You want to say 'It started raining, so we stayed inside.' Which word expresses that 'so'?

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Where Everyday Spoken Welsh takes you

1
Breaking Past the Present Tense
- Connecting Thoughts with Conversational Markers
- Storytelling with the Narrative Past
- Expressing Wants, Needs, and Ownership
2
The Working Mechanics of Spoken Welsh
- Applying Mutations in Everyday Speech
- Mastering Inflected Prepositions
- Hypotheticals and Future Horizons
3
Authentic Welsh in Context
- Navigating Northern and Southern Dialects
- Idiomatic Framing and Real Cadence

3 sections · 8 units · 25 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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Where it goes: No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.

How it's taught

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