What's New?

ON-LINE SUMMER SCHOOL
An Nawnjek Stap warn Ugans
Cornish through reading
Exploring audio book skills
Starting 27 June 2024
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CARA KERNOWEK 4
Tentative topic list
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FIVE PRINCIPLES
for revived Cornish applying
Tota Cornicitas
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THE FOUR FEATHERS
A.E.W. Mason
First Chapters of the Classics
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CEFR A1 AND A2 EXAMINATIONS
confirmed for June 2025
subject to demand / examiner availability
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ON-LINE CLASSES FROM SEPTEMBER 2024
Beginners (CEFR A1), Waystage (CEFR A2), Vantage (CEFR B2)
Subject to sufficient demand
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CORNISH FAMILY TREE
Updated in the light of the most recent scholarship
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CARA KERNOWEK 1
There has long been free on-line access to a conversational dictionary
Now you have free on-line access to a beginners coursebook as well
The coursebook may also be downloaded in pdf format
With on-line model answers for the exercises so you can check your own work
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Click or tap here for Dictionary

CARA KERNOWEK 2
For those progressing to
Common European Framework Level A2
The coursebook may also be downloaded in pdf format
With on-line model answers for the exercises so you can check your own work
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CARA KERNOWEK 3
For those progressing to
Common European Framework Level B1
This new book is available as a public beta version
The working draft may also be downloaded in pdf format
With on-line model answers for the exercises so you can check your own work
Scheduled for publication June 2024 once road-testing complete
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CARA KERNOWEK INDEX
Bilingual consolidated index to the first three coursebooks
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On this website you can now listen to more than
460 PODCAST ARTICLES
by Nicholas Williams
Each one accompanied by the full written text
Traditional Cornish, crystal-clear pronunciation
Professor Williams is one of the foremost teachers of the Cornish language
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THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT
Beatrix Potter
First Chapters of the Classics
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INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET
Entire vocabulary of Cara Kernowek 1 now available in IPA spellings
Plus reference guide summarizing effect of Prosodic Shift on pure vowels
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KESCOWS NEBES MOY
Cornish for Everyday Life
Supplementary to Gerlyver Kescows
On-line second edition now as far as Section 18-J Animals: Fish etc
More than 5,000 classified entries including
500 terms relating to Health
1,000 terms for Clothing and Food
300 terms for Sailing and Seafaring
800 terms relating to Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
Names for all British birds
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WORD BUILDING
Appendix to Kescows Nebes Moy Second Edition
How to employ compounding and affixation
Compound words and prefixes; suffixes still to be added
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There are now twenty one
FIRST CHAPTERS OF THE CLASSICS
to read in Cornish on this website
All with comprehensive glossary supplementing on-line
GERLYVER KESCOWS
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PASSIO CHRISTI
In Standard Cornish spelling
First 1850 lines
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Find direct links on this website
to every weekly Cornish language radio show
produced by
Matthi ab Dewi
in the past 12 months
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Altogether there are over 50 different works of literature
to read in Cornish on-line on this website
including a whole novel
An Nawnjek Stap warn Ugans
(John Buchan's The Thirty-nine Steps)
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