The Modules

Listed here are the modules for the whole of the Keskewsel course in Cornish Language. You can see a brief summary of what’s in each module.  If you’ve learned a bit of Cornish before and aren’t sure where you’d need to start, email for a free assessment to:

What It Costs

The cost of learning will depend on things like; whether you’re learning through Jaqi’s Adult Ed. arrangements or privately, and if you’re learning privately; whether you’re learning on your own or with a group.  The best thing to do is get in touch, let us know your particular circumstances and find out what your options are.  Learning online is supported through email, Zoom, Skype and Teams and there are occasional evening-sessions in pubs where you can meet-up with other learners and get some practice.

Where You’ll End-Up

By the time you get to the end of module 4C, you’ll know enough Cornish to be as eloquent in Cornish as you are in English, but of course fluency is more than just knowing about  a language, it’s about practice, and your teacher can guide you in finding the best ways for you to get that as well.

Try It Free-Of-Charge!

The first worksheet of module 1A is free, so if you’d like to have a go to see what it’s like to learn a bit of Cornish this way, click on the button under the description of worksheet 1; it’ll open as a pdf and you can save it and have a go at it. You can get a teacher to help coach you through it, also free of charge.  To get you started just send an informal email to discuss what you’d like to do.

Module 1A, which includes worksheets 1.1 to 1.5 is designed to introduce you to the basics of communicating in Cornish. It starts with greetings; how to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ and how to introduce yourself and others.  It teaches you how to ask and answer basic questions about things.

Once you’ve got a grasp of those basics you’ll be introduced to the ideas of what nouns and adjectives are and how to use them to describe things and people.

Module 1A concludes with a brief description of your first Cornish verb; ‘Bos’ - the verb ‘to be’.  

Module 2A: Kernewek for Improvers Part 1

Having learned the basics, Module 2 expands on them and shows you how to start moulding them together to make Cornish which you can use to make simple but spontaneous communication with others.  It starts with a look at what prepositions are, how they work in Cornish and the most common ones used in everyday speech.

There are sections to expand your experience with things like the most common question-phrases, different types of sentences and what to use them for, numbers and dates and expressing things in past-tense.   

Part 2 adds another two tenses to your resources; the Imperfect and Future tenses.  There’s an expansion of your knowledge of conjunctions which allows you to thread sentences together more effectively and more about how to make descriptions using adjectival phrases.

At this level you can start to use adverbs so there’s an introduction to what they are and how to use them.  Similarly, there’s a section about past-participles and how you can use them to describe actions in past-tense.

Expressing the idea of ‘because’ can be a little tricky in Cornish so there’s a section on how to do that well.

The end of Part 2 gets into a bit more technical language again and explains what a ‘relative clause’ is and how you can use them to add colour and life to your descriptions.     

        The end of the ‘Improvers’ section gets a little more technical again, explaining the concepts of Infixed Pronouns, Reflexives and Dependent Sentences.  It can start to feel a little overwhelming, but remember that these are all things you do every day in English without knowing or needing to know what they are; Cornish is no different, and with practice you’ll find using them in Cornish is almost as natural as using them in English.

        In 2C you’ll also look at how to say ‘if’, how to talk about proximity and expand your knowledge of possessive adjectives, the Imperfect tense, imperatives and expressions involving ‘because’.     

         By the end of the ‘Improvers’ course you have most of the tools you need to hold simple conversations in Cornish and read and write simple Cornish competently.  This intermediate module will give you the opportunity to expand your Cornish to a point where you can do most of things you do in everyday English in Cornish as well.

        Part 1 starts off with revision of adverbs and expands on use of possessive adjectives.  Further on there’s more expansion on exclamatives, descriptions and the Imperfect tense.  The new topics introduced are the Pluperfect tense and Relative Clauses.        

In Part 2 you’ll start to look at a lot of things in great detail to see how they work.  In this part that includes conjunctions ‘ha’ and ‘dell’, subjunctives and the pluperfect and imperfect tenses and how they relate to each-other, infixed pronouns, and all the various functions of ‘re’.

It concludes with the first of 3 sections explaining the concept of a subordinate sentence and how they’re used.     

The final part of the final module brings together everything you’ve learned and takes a good hard look at the various ways you can jam them all together to make the highest quality Cornish.

There’s the second and third sections about subordinate sentences, some expansion on indirect questions and the preposition ‘rag’, and then a final, detailed examination of sentence-structure overall, breaking sentence-types down into into ‘verbal’ and ‘nominal’ and then throwing everything together.

At the end of this module you have enough information to be as eloquent in Cornish as you can be in English. All that remains is getting enough practice to become fluent with it all!   

Klassow & Dyskansow - Classes & Lessons

Dhe woeles, y hyllir kavoes derivadow yn kever steusow.  Gradhow 1 ha 2 yw dyskys, dell vydh usys, gans Jaqi, hag yma moesenn a dhiskwedh manylyon a’y steusow dhe-woeles.  Gradhow 3 ha 4 yw dyskys, dell vydh usys, gans Jerry, hag yma moesenn-ragerghi rag dyskansow ganso ev dhe-woeles ynwedh.

Mara’th eus hwans a ordena dyskans, gwra ebostya mar pleg gans manylyon.

Below, you can find information about courses.  Grades 1 and 2 are usually taught by Jaqi, and there is a table which shows details of her courses below.  Grades 3 and 4 are usually taught by Jerry and there is a booking-table for lessons with him below as well.

If you’d like to arrange lessons, please email with details.

When downloading worksheet 1.1 above, please note that the version of the pdf reader which works through your browser may not be capable of interpreting some of the graphics, and may show them on the screen, and when printing, as a single black block.

If you find this problem, it can be solved by saving the worksheet as a file on your own computer and then opening it using your own updated pdf reader installed separately from the browser.

Module 1B includes worksheets 1.6 to 1.10 and starts off with that most British of topics; the weather, for which you’ll need to able to ask ‘What kind of…?’.  There’s a look at the concepts of grammatical gender and consonant- mutation, which play a big role in Cornish but aren’t as scary as they sound!

You’ll continue your journey through parts of the verb ‘Bos’ - ‘to be’, find out what a ‘continuing-action’ is and learn how to make your descriptions more interesting by stringing nouns together and a few different types of noun you can use.  There’s a look at expressions of ‘amounts’ and how to talk about possession and ownership of things.

You’ll look at that all-important ‘Bos’ verb in some more detail and learn how to tell the time in Cornish.  

Module 1D: Introduction to Kernewek Part 4

      By the last part of the Introduction to Kernewek you’ll find you can do a surprising amount with the basics you’ve learned.  To round things up there’s a look at how to talk about birthdays, which you’ll need to be able to do if you fancy taking an exam after this point (no pressure!), and a section about how to express ‘when’ things happen. There’s also some more about past tenses and how to change emphasis in sentences.

      There’s also some more technical information about how verbs work in sentences which will help make sure that you have the basic grammatical knowledge for the further, more complex stuff you’ll find in Module 2 as an ‘Improver!’     

        Part 2 introduces the verb ‘Y’m beus’ as an alternative for talking about possession and the various ways of expressing ‘through’.  It then expands on some specific conjunctions, infixed pronouns, the Pluperfect tense and dependent sentences.

        There’s some revision, as well, on things you’ve seen before like; relative clauses, the verbs ‘Godhvos’ & ‘Aswonn’ and emphasis.      

        The big new topic in Intermediate Kernewek Part 3 is the Subjunctive tense.  It’s often a tricky one to understand and even more tricky to use, so you’ll need a bit of practice with it!  But it does crop-up quite often so it’s worth taking some time to understand it and familiarise with it.

        There’s some new vocabulary that you can use to talk about importance, comparisons, choices, mathematical calculations and time ‘ago’.

        There’s also revision of things like the Imperfect tense, the verb ‘Gul’, conjunctions, ‘kyns’ & ‘wosa’, reflexives and passive sentences.

        By the end of Module 3 you’ll have practiced everything you need to be able to use everyday Cornish instead of everyday English.  There’s enough flexibility in the Intermediate stage to be able to find ways around what you don’t yet know.  Module 4; Advanced, is where you start to put the polish on your Cornish and look at all the subtleties and techniques of fine-tuning which will allow you to be as eloquent in Cornish as you’re capable of being in English.

        The three big issues of Part 1 are; indirect questions, the concept of ‘future in the past’ and indirect objects. There are detailed explanations of what these are, and how and why to use them.

        There’s expansion on ‘y’m beus’, the subjunctive tense, numbers and the ‘infinitive construction’.

        There are also tips on the best ways to talk about things like duty, intended actions and feelings.

The concept of position; talking about where things are, makes a big difference when you’re using Cornish, so Part 3 looks at the basics of how to do this.

Verbs can be a tricky subject, especially if you’ve not learned a new language before, so at this point you’ll get an introduction to what a verb is and some of the simpler ways they can be used in Cornish.  There’s a brief look at some of the more common verbs outside of ‘Bos’ and the ways they’re used in sentences.

Part 3 concludes with a look at how to express similarity between things.     

Module 1B: Introduction to Kernewek Part 2

Module 1C: Introduction to Kernewek Part 3

Module 2B: Kernewek for Improvers Part 2

Module 2C: Kernewek for Improvers Part 3

Module 3A: Intermediate Kernewek Part 1 Improvers Part 3

Module 3B: Intermediate Kernewek Part 2 Improvers Part 3

Module 3C: Intermediate Kernewek Part 3 Improvers Part 3

Module 4A: Advanced Kernewek Part 1 Improvers Part 3

Module 4B: Advanced Kernewek Part 2 Improvers Part 3

Module 4C: Advanced Kernewek Part 3 Improvers Part 3

Steusow Jaqi - Jaqi’s Courses

An voesenn a-woeles a dhiskwedh towlenn Jaqi rag Grades 1 ha 2.  Gwra ebost mar pleg rag manylyon moy po govynnow.

The table below shows Jaqi’s planned schedule for Grades 1 and 2.  Please email for further details or with any enquiries.

Moesenn-Ragerghi rag dyskansow gans Jerry  - Booking-Table for lessons with Jerry

An voesenn a-woeles a dhiskwedh prysow yw kavadow rag dyskansow gans Jerry.  Euryow oll yw gwrys yn po GMT po BST (Eur Hav Predennek); euryow kavadow yw gwyrdh, ankavadow yw rudh.  Gwra ebost mar pleg rag manylyon moy po gul govynnow.

The table below shows available times for lessons with Jerry.  All times are given in either GMT or BST (British Summer Time); available times are in green, unavailable in red.  Please email for further details or with any enquiries.

Tre - Home

Ragdresow - Projects

Kernewegorieth - Community

Module 1A: Introduction to Kernewek Part 1

•   1.1   Saying hello & goodbye, please & thank you, introducing yourself and others.  Asking and answering           the question; ‘How are you?’  

Open Worksheet 1.1 as pdf

THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

Email Jerry with booking requests or enquiries