> Can anyone tell me whether the Continuous Tense >'R wyf yn dysgu y Gymraeg is used in the same way >as In English??? Am interested in other Celtic languages too. I'm not a native Welsh speaker, nor an expert. But my impression is that this construction is NOT a continuous tense in Welsh - it's more general than the English equivalent and it's a mistake to think of it the same way. (Note that the content word - 'dysgu' in your example - is a verbal noun, whereas the English uses a participle, or verbal adjective. A literal translation would be 'I am at learning' or 'I am at study' rather than 'I am learning') So, for example you can say 'Rwi'n hoffi cwrw - I like beer. I believe that a similar construction is used in Gaelic, and I have certainly speculated that this may have had a substratum effect on English. But the constructions are not strictly parallel. Wel, dinistriwch fi, chwi sy'n Gymry brodorol! Colin Fine