Intermediate Welsh: A Grammar and Workbook (Grammar Workbooks) [Paperback]

Gareth King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 20, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0415120977 | ISBN-13: 978-0415120975 | Edition: 1

This grammar workbook is a challenging supplement to any course in modern Welsh language. The emphasis throughout is on colloquial, spoken Welsh used by modern day native speakers. This book combines grammar explanations with exercise work.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Gareth King, an experienced teacher of Welsh to adults, has in the short space of three years published a comprehensive reference grammar of spoken Welsh; a lively, up-to-date introductory language course; and now two further 'grammar-workbooks'. This impressive opus constitutes a solid, much-needed and most welcome contribution to the descriptive grammar literature on modern colloquial Welsh and a considerable achievement....For more than one reason, both the beginner and the professional linguist alike who approaches spoken Welsh with books such as these to hand is a far luckier student than were those of my own generation, and Gareth King is to be thanked....I am sure that for many people these books will have had the effect of putting modern spoken Welsh firmly on the map; let no one underestimate the importance of that.
–Alan R. King, LINGUIST

About the Author

Gareth King teaches Welsh to adults in Dyfed, Wales. He is the author of Modern Welsh, Basic Welsh and Colloquial Welsh, all available from Routledge.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 20, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415120977
• ISBN-13: 978-0415120975
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,805,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gareth King is the author of numerous books on language, including a range of well-known and popular titles written for learners of Welsh, language of the future. His latest book, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in December 2010, is an extensive revision and expansion of George Campbell's well-known Concise Compendium of the World's Languages, and he is now working on a similar updating of the original 2-volume edition. In addition, after a pause of some years, he has finally bowed to public clamour and has embarked on the writing of a new book on Welsh, scheduled for publication in 2013.
Away from the writing shed, he acts as Series Advisor and linguistic consultant for Routledge's Colloquial... range of language learning titles (now extending to over sixty languages of the world), all of which are easy to find and purchase on Amazon. Two of them were actually written by him, and are consequently especially sought after by connoisseurs, with first editions commanding frankly absurd prices on "e-Bay" and across the modern marvel that is the electrical interweb.
He did his first degree during the Cold War, emerging from Cambridge University with a useful degree in Slavonic (involving some of the most dangerous languages known to modern science), and sensibly went on some years later to do an MA in Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic at Aberystwyth, learning Welsh in the process by the simple but effective expedient of sharing a flat with a bunch of girls from North Wales - this, perhaps, was the fateful turn in his life that was to bring about the publishing sensation that his books on Welsh were to become in Wales, and which propelled him inexorably on the road to legendary status in that small but perfectly-formed land. He is markedly less well-known in Scandinavia and the Caribbean, and maintains residences there for this very reason.