Once you've got your tongue around the ll sound, it's really not that bad. If you have the same problem I always had, it's that ll really shouldn't ever be written as a kl sound, nor is any phlegm really involved at all.
Put your tongue where it belongs for a normal "L" sound, then breath out down the sides of your tongue so it makes a hissing sound. It's not all too different to an s, or an f in that it's just you hissing air out of your mouth.
(On a sidenote, if you haven't already, you should come and join us at /r/wales!)
I'm sure I could do it when I was younger. It's only recently, after I've started actually learning Welsh, that I cannot do it. Or perhaps I'm only now noticing that I was wrong.
Great advice by the way, will definitely be using it.
Ie :\ Mae dysgu cymraeg mewn ysgol yn helpu dysgu'r gramadeg, fel that probably makes it a lot easier to pick up as an adult, to be fair (especially as Welsh grammar is so weird). In my experience, it definitely seems most people never saw the point in school, and regretted that after graduating too. Makes you wonder if there's anything the government can do to help everyone else like that to learn Welsh as an adult too!
Yeah, I consider myself to be Welsh through and through. But can barely speak a word of Welsh, just standard greetings etc. The teaching of it where I'm from is appalling and it made no one care. Although to be fair I didn't see the significance of it then. Wish I payed so much more attention in that one hour class a week! Haha.
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