Mark H. Nodine enumerated in less than ten easy steps the painful process of going from English to Welsh. Yes, that's exactly what you must do. But the point is, it shouldn't be like that. Most dictionaries seemed designed for the Cymro/Cymraes who is already somewhat bilingual. Naturally, their only concern is translating Welsh to English... not! What we would all like is a dictionary for someone who is learning Welsh and intends to use it. Why not write to the editors/publishers of Y Geiriadur Mawr, Y.G. Newydd, & Collins-Spurrell etc? Especially in our learner's bad Welsh, saying, "think how a good dictionary might have kept us from butchering Yr Iaith quite so atrociously." All the English to Welsh sections ought to list (independently) verb stems, Welsh gender, plurals, and spoken variations. It would also be nice to have a couple of verb charts and idiomatic expressions. It shouldn't be too hard to modify an existing dictionary. Also, a mutations table would be nice: how else would a learner know to translate "Ga i fwyta dy jips?" as "May I eat your French fries?" A friend of mine had a devil of a time finding daethpwyd and parodd. I assumed this last was from Parhau, which incident- ally is not in Y Geiriadur Mawr's Welsh-English section, but it turns out to be from peri. I suppose what we really ought to do is convince a professional like Larousse or Langen-whosis to do this, but it'd be nice to have one published in Wales. --Antone