{"id":12270,"date":"2016-04-18T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12270"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:24:16","slug":"kernewek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12270","title":{"rendered":"Kernewek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started learning Cornish yesterday. Mainly because it&#8217;s the only Celtic language I haven&#8217;t studied yet, and I&#8217;m curious about it. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saysomethingin.com\/cornish\/course1\">SaySomethingin Cornish<\/a>, and am finding it very good. I like the way the course is put together &#8211; 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&#8217;t heard before.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few of the words are similar to Welsh, but the grammar is different &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;m listening to a podcast in Cornish on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anradyo.com\/\">Radyo An Gernewegva<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started learning Cornish yesterday. Mainly because it&#8217;s the only Celtic language I haven&#8217;t studied yet, and I&#8217;m curious about it. I&#8217;m using the course SaySomethingin Cornish, and am finding it very good. I like the way the course is put together &#8211; you learn a small number of words and structures in each lesson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,104,10,13,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}