Product Description

This grammar workbook is a challenging supplement to any course in modern Welsh language. The emphasis throughout is on colloquial, spoken Welsh used by modern day native speakers. This book combines grammar explanations with exercise work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #206010 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
Gareth King, an experienced teacher of Welsh to adults, has in the short space of three years published a comprehensive reference grammar of spoken Welsh; a lively, up-to-date introductory language course; and now two further 'grammar-workbooks'. This impressive opus constitutes a solid, much-needed and most welcome contribution to the descriptive grammar literature on modern colloquial Welsh and a considerable achievement....For more than one reason, both the beginner and the professional linguist alike who approaches spoken Welsh with books such as these to hand is a far luckier student than were those of my own generation, and Gareth King is to be thanked....I am sure that for many people these books will have had the effect of putting modern spoken Welsh firmly on the map; let no one underestimate the importance of that.

From the Back Cover
This book covering 40 grammar points is suitable for learners who already have a grasp of basic Welsh. This Grammar workbook:
* Explains grammar in clear language
* Contains answers and a full range of challenging exercises
* Contains a Welsh-English; English-Welsh glossary

Customer Reviews

Learning Welsh as an adult - get a further step-up with this book
I am learning Welsh, because my children are at Welsh school, and I want to be able to help them in their
homework. I also want to be able to speak to my husband and his family in their first language. Welsh
language courses today consist of learning patterns; grammar is rarely explained. The trouble is that I
can't learn all the 'patterns' without understanding the grammar; the patterns look like a sea of sentences
with very little to distinguish between them. I need to know about the grammar.
I can't recommend this book highly enough - a lot of the language has suddenly become clear to me. Each of
the 40 chapters in the book consists of 3 or 4 pages of explanation, followed by 3 or so excercises of
perhaps 20 or 30 questions. What really impresses me about this book is that the questions probe all
aspects of the grammar point, until you really understand it; its very skillfully done. Doing the excercises also took me further in my understanding of the grammar point than the explanation in the chapter, carefully and slowly by example.
If you are learning Welsh and have progressed at college on from the basic courses, buy this book - its worth every penny!