As a start, I'm going to ask you to pronounce out loud a few ordinary English words... BUT ... and it's a big BUT ... pronounce them as if they were Welsh words !
crate
prude
arch
great
mullet
style
doddle
preach
fall
ballet
beach
Well, that's quite amusing isn't it ! Imagine reading an entire newspaper article ( article!) as if it were in Welsh! Never mind imagining ... let's do it ... you've had a bit of practice after all ..
CHURCH BALLET CRISIS !
There was chaos last Thursday when two crates of ballet shoes were filched from a nearby church by the arch-preacher of Chester and dumped by prudes on a nearby beach amongst a great number of mouldy mullets and whale blubber. " It was a doddle" yelled style guru Biddy Fallon of Anarcho- Musicians The Fall.
Well boys and girls .. how did you get on with that little task! Isn't it odd how strange English can sound when pronounced as if it were Welsh . Words like church, nearby, doddle, filched, there, crate .... I hope you remembered to soften the "f" in "fall."
Now here's the odd thought .... when I'm reading Welsh ( or for that matter, French or German or Spanish etc..) what is going on in my brain when I switch automatically into the new set of "rules" about how to pronounce a sequence of letters ? It seems pretty effortless .. it might not even occur to you until you think about it that your brain is doing something extraordinary. But surely it is !
OK ... here's a bit of fun ... it's Cor Meibion Morlais singing in English for a change ... but the song they are singing is " That's Not My Name" by The Ting Tings .. it won't be Terrific For Your Welsh but it will be Terrific For Your Appreciation Of The Welsh Sense Of Humour .. stick with it till the end, by the way, it has a poignant and funny finish...