>I apologize for the use of English, but there is no way that I could >write what follows in Welsh (at least not if I wanted to send this >message this year). Wel, meddwlwch: os oeddwch chi'n profi ysgrifennu'r Gymraeg, rydych chi'n dysgu. Mae e rhy-rwydd defnyddio'r Saesneg yn aml. A mae e'n gofyn: >Ble ydyn ni'n mynd i trafod y diwylliant ac hanes Cymru yn Saesoneg? Trafodwch diwylliant a hanes y Celtau ar CELTIC-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE yn Saesneg. Gofynnwch eich gofynnau yng Nghymraeg yma. Mae'r Cymraeg _cyfrwng_ y diwylliant Cymru! Meddai William Wright: >The official policy is no English where you can help it. So sorry, >learners, not even a rough translation. Doesn't this discourage you >a bit? That is certainly one way of looking at it. Ni gellir ddysgu iaith heb darllen, heb ysgrifennu, heb geriadur, heb profio! Iaith unrhyw. Look, Welsh is not without its difficulties, but what good is 400 words in English followed by a token gesture of 8 words in Welsh? If the learner would, as even I try to do with my poor Welsh, invest the time to write 100 words in Welsh painfully rather than 400 words on the fly, the learner would be a lot further along on the road to understanding Welsh, and Welsh would be 100 words richer for the learner's efforts. Cofion, Michael Everson