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🏭 Hi, I’m very pleased to tell you I’ve finished working on two decks in my new Anki deck ‘factory’, which is a Git monorepo where the work on all of my new decks is done. Feel free to check it out here 🙂

- 😜 One deck is for Gitmoji, a more-or-less standardised emoji guide for commit messages.
- 🤏 The other one is a deck for structures and idioms involving prepositional phrases in Welsh. If you learn Welsh it might be quite useful for you; otherwise I guess it might… not.
- 🔊 In addition, my Tatoeba decks are also linked there. They are quite old (2019); there are languages which have many new sentences with audio since then. Sometime I will redo them all (although the process is automatic to a large degree, it’s still quite time consuming).

What’s next?

- A deck based on Thorne’s A Comprehensive Welsh grammar (Gramadeg Cymraeg cynhwysfawr). Tons of (Literary) Welsh sentences, many of which are taken from real native texts, with grammatical explanations. This is quite a massive project.
- Updating and sharing some decks I’ve worked on in the past (some are finished, some are not). This includes decks for Breton, Welsh, French, Old Norse, Sámi languages, toki pona and Middle Welsh.

What’s not?

- Any ‘AI’ nonsense 🤖

Everything will appear in the table in the above repository, and I will occasionally post announcements about new decks here 🗃

#Anki #anki_deck #anki_decks #ankideck #flashcards #Git #hg #SCM #Gitmoji #emoji #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welsh_language #prepositions #prepositionsareweird #Breton #French #Old_Norse #OldNorse #Sami #Saami #Sami_languages #Saami_languages #tokipona #toki_pona #Middle_Welsh #MiddleWelsh #Radicle

The next Celtic Studies Summer School at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies will be held July 14-25, 2025. Registration opens October 1, 2024. I attended the 2008 school and it was absolutely amazing. This will be a wonderful experience for anyone able to attend. #CelticStudies #OldIrish #MiddleWelsh #IrishLanguage #WelshLanguage #CelticLanguages #Academia #SummerSchool https://www.dias.ie/2024/07/05/celtic-studies-summer-school-2025/

A new, open access Introduction to Middle Welsh by Brent Miles! Very exciting! #OpenAccessBooks #CelticStudies #Welsh #MiddleWelsh #CelticLanguages #WelshLanguage https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/128582

If you already speak #Welsh how difficult is it to learn #MiddleWelsh ?

Kinda want to read the Mabinogion & Book of Taliesin in the original language …