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Is Welsh way too complicated?
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No, it is not inflected as much as Gaelic (e.g. it does not have the noun cases)
Yes, it does have masculine and feminine nouns
No, it does not have non-phonetic spelling (the spelling of both Welsh and Gaelic are very regular, although the pronuncialtion rules of Gaelic are more complicated due to the use of vowels to indicate the softness/hardness of the consonants)
It is quite easy to get used to most of the mutations fairly quickly.
If you go to the BBC web site, then Languages and find your way to Welsh, you will be able to follow a BBC Wales programme which was called "The Big Welsh Challenge". A group of Welsh people ("celebrities") were paired up so that there was one Welsh speaker and one non-Welsh speaker. The non-Welsh speaker had to learn to sing the Welsh National Anthem - in Welsh, of course! It's quite fun to watch the videos.
As far as learning Welsh is concerned, two of the main difficulties seem to be (a) learning the gender of a word (which is important for certain mutations) and (b) plurals (which seem to me to be arbitrary).
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