No.
It is indeed a rocky road. I have calculated by incredibly Scientific Methods that Welsh is about 6 times harder to learn than French or Spanish. Probably a lot more.
So, what us Learners Of Welsh need is some inkling, some little sign or portent that we are in fact, actually really making some progress, however dinky.
Here's what you will probably find .... you will be able to read most of it almost without a thought. BUT ... you will remember what it was like to read it the first time.... dictionaries were consulted, verbs ending were looked up, question marks were liberally scattered around .... crumbs ! It was a real slog!
I tried this with one of my first reads ... Sam Tân.. Ffynnon Y Parc ... what a brilliant book! Looking inside, I found literally scores of scribblings on every page ! Words that now don't even require a passing thought or a furrowed brow are underlined, pondered upon, forgotten again on the next page and underlined again, along with 11 others, and forgotten again on page 27 .... cripes ! Loads and loads of them I actually didn't find the meaning of until ages after I'd read it !!!!! All you Welsh learners will know how that can happen*, and you will also know that it doesn't happen with French, Spanish etc. Grrrr !
Looking through it again made me feel like a bloody genius !
A rare feeling indeed these days.
Try it ... it's brilliant, and it will cheer you up, and you will skip around the house singing merry tunes to yourself all day.
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Key themes for today's post were.....
[a] Dancing is all very well, but there are limits.
[b] Scribbling in books is a bit of a contentious issue.
[c] But I do it anyway.
[d] Don't go looking on the map for that Rocky Road. It's not a real road. I made it up.