I started learning Cornish yesterday. Mainly because it’s the only Celtic language I haven’t studied yet, and I’m curious about it.

I’m using the course SaySomethingin Cornish, and am finding it very good. I like the way the course is put together – you learn a small number of words and structures in each lesson and learn how to put them together in various ways. You are promoted to practice a lot during the lessons, and to come up with new combinations of the words that you haven’t heard before.

Quite a few of the words are similar to Welsh, but the grammar is different – more like Breton or older forms of Welsh in fact, so to my ears it sounds like I imagine Middle Welsh sounded. A bit like Middle English might sound to speakers of modern English.

At the moment I’m listening to a podcast in Cornish on Radyo An Gernewegva. If I listen carefully I can get the gist of some bits, and can understand other odd words, but it will be a while before I can understand it all.