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Originally Posted by ArcheM
Duolingo might actually be almost perfect if it's your first foreign language. But I've studied whole 3 languages with it and on the fourth its flaws became too glaring to be able to cope with...
Also the majority of courses is in English. The problem with this is that for me, being familiar with several different languages, it might be unnecessarily complicating my life by starting from English instead of another, more similar language. For example, my native language is Russian, and in grammar and vocabulary it's way closer to Polish than English is. And there's only an English-Polish course... And at this point I'm not 100% convinced that English is the best entry point into Welsh, either. They say there's a lot of similarities with Italic languages (such as Spanish)... Although, of course, there's almost no chance I'm finding Spanish-Welsh resources.
By the way, have you checked out Duolingo Flashcards? It should be somewhere in Labs (or just search for it).
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I've seen the app for the flashcards, but it seems that it is for other subjects and the only language subject it mentions is Spanish. I heard German is supposedly a good language for English speakers to learn because there are some similarities (though I'm only noticing a few mainly just words being either the same or similar). Because English is supposedly a Germanic language (though English also steals Latin and I think words from a few other languages too), but German is a tough language as I'm finding out, but there are books on Amazon that I've bookmarked to my web browser to buy for beginners.
I wish I could help you more with finding resources to learn Welsh though.