Mi es i fynd i ddosbarth dau

After feeling somewhat overwhelmed in my first week of classes at Coleg Menai, I transferred last night to a class last night that I think is closer to my ability.

We had a revision lesson which was very useful as I discovered how meagre my grasp of the past tenses actually was. I have previously just used mi wnes i (I did) for everything:
Mi wnes i fynd (I did go)
Mi wnes i fod (I did come)
Mi wnes i gael (I did have) etc
- all the time thinking what an awkward, clumsy way this was of speaking. Only for my new athrawes (teacher), Non, to make me realise that it was actually I, and not the Welsh language, that was stupid.

I can now say these phrases in much fewer words to a much more natural effect:
Mi es i (I went)
Mi ddes i (I came)
Mi ges i (I had)
and, my old favourite, all by itself, mi wnes i (I did).
Of course, there is just one problem with learning all these new phrases: I'll have to try to remember them all!

I felt rather smug then that, as I arrived at my boyfriend's, I was able to say: mi es i i'r dosbarth Cymraeg heno a mi ges i lifft yn ol efo fy athrawes i (I went to Welsh class tonight and I had a lift back with my teacher) - in my head at any rate, because, bechod, he wouldn't have had the foggiest as to what I was on about.

I won't be able to do an update next week as I shall joyfully be miles away from my desk on a surf trip. I shall do my best to glance over my textbook in between fulfilling my duties as chief map reader and might
even run a few phrases past his nibs. He could certainly do with knowing how to say more than just paned? and wyt ti isio mynd i'r gwely? (I'll let you translate that one for yourself.)