So... I thought to myself ... hey, what about Welsh books !?
Or more accurately ... what about books for when you're learning Welsh.
Or maybe ..... the best books to read once you've got going ?
Or .... most of them might be old favourites you'd like to read again.
I suppose, it being a much more restricted field of knowledge compared to the whole of world literature, we would have to have a smaller shelf ...
So, dear readers ..... if you had only 1 foot (30cm) of shelf space, which Welsh books would you choose to fill it ?
If you're getting started, you might prefer a basic course book or two, plus a dictionary, and then a range of children's books to give you an entertaining start. You could get loads of them on your one-foot-shelf .
If you were a bit more more advanced you might like to have a mix of learning-books and novels.
Or, if you're quite advanced, you might want mostly more challenging works.
I think it's an interesting task, to make your own personal selection .......
Come to think of it, it's a bit like that Desert Island Disc thing ... they get given the bible ( or equivalent) and just 1 other book. BUT .... you're getting a whole FOOT of shelf, you jammy devils.
Anyway, I'm going to assemble my own foots-worth ... but it might take me a while to actually find the books I have chosen in my rather shambolic ( siambolyg?) house .... and then I'll put it on here and you can have a laugh at my choices.
.... but while I'm doing that, why not have a go yourself.(?)
Then you could send it in to me ... and I could put yours on here and we could all admire it.
Just to give you the idea , here's my German selection .... first, the " long list" ...much too long actually ....
There's those big cartoon books, there's lots of story-books, from juvenile to ancient, there's slang books, there's a dual-language book, of which there are hardly any for Welsh ( grrrrr), and also the same book in German and English, partly because it's a book full of odd words, jumbled-up/mixed-together-words and suchlike. There's another reason too ... which I'll talk about later. There's a dinky but crammed-with-words dictionary ...why isn't there a dictionary that's tall and thin, so it would have loads of words but wouldn't take up much shelf space ... like the Beano Annual ??? I don't know. There's a book of silly poems, and there would have been more if I could find them.
So ... I slung some out, mainly ones that I'd already read, like Pu der Bär.
And here's the final selection .. slightly under 12" actually, in case I found one or two of the ones I didn't find.....
.. I've nearly made my final Welsh pick, but think about what I said .. .it would be smashing to see what your choices would be. I'm sure we'd all learn something from it, and get some new ideas about what to read.
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