i love welsh! i've been learning for a couple of years and have had a ton of wonderful (and even painful) experiences because of it. last night at work (in the united states - i should clarify that) a man came up to the register wearing a t-shirt with the red dragon on it. i made some comment about it and called it "y ddraig goch." he told me he grew up there, we conversed in welsh for a bit, and he told me that in the eleven years he'd been living in the states, i was the first person who'd spoken the language to him since he left wales. i cried! haha
I'm Brazilian but I've always been interested in the UK and different cultures! I hope to learn Welsh. I didn't know they spoke Welsh in Argentina until 2 days ago I hope Welsh never dies off.
I live in Canada, and on my father's side, it was long thought that my family hailed from Ireland (and we did, sort of) but actually, we came from Wales. The man in my family last born in Ireland was brought to Wales to be christened in the old country, and then only weeks after his birth, arrived in Canada. Because my mother is only first generation Canadian hailing from Scotland, my Welsh heritage is often overlooked, even though my last name is a Welsh name! So for these reasons, I'm trying to learn Welsh -- not just because it's an undead language in its renaissance, but because it's important to me to learn and connect with ALL of my heritage, even more subtle, overshadowed heritage. ❤
Welsh has a special place in my heart. I’m learning it bc my mum grew up in Wales but was never taught the language and neither did her mum, it’s quite sad that not many people speak it and I feel closer to my ancestry as I learn it
I know somebody who wants to work in caring for the Elderly, so she’s studying Welsh and Gaelic to communicate with 1st language older speakers of those languages.
Da iawn, dw i’n hoffi cymraeg. Dw i ddim siarat very well but I’m learning (God my welsh is bad) my reason for learning it is because I have a lot of welsh ancestry and I would love to go to Wales and really learn more about my heritage.
Great vid, as always! I live in the US and I have a small bit of Welsh in me. I am currently learning Welsh, but be warned, I'm at a very, VERY basic level. Da dych chi!
I'm Brazilian (Portuguese Speaker) and begin learn welsh in last week. I can say that have relative facility in my learning. By the way, the welsh language is a very interesting. Greetings from RJ, Brazil, 👍😊
I love you! This is really good! People who speaks a popular (english, spanish, french) language should learn another one from their same country (welsh, scottish g, occitan, catalan...)
DO CORNISH I BEG OF YOU loving these celtic language videos. despite all the confusion of what it means to be from these isles, these languages are concrete. can you really say you’re from the british isles, if you can’t speak the languages? english is basically a creole, and hardly our culture
Thank you! I have discovered that I am over 60% of Welch/English and had no idea! I have been trying to learn as much as I can and learning the language and culture of my family is something I aim to do well. Thank you for the encouragement!
I'm Welsh and I feel like I don't know anything, but when I see these videos, things come back. I know how to read Welsh and I can pronounce most words and I can count to ten at least lol.
I want to learn a language used in my background but everyone in my ancestry speaks English but my Grandma is half Welsh (making me 12.5% Welsh) but she speaks English so Welsh is the closest thing
Been learning for two years initially because the language sounded beautiful and stuck in a special place in my brain. Have tried Spanish, French, German, Japanese... but none of those felt like what happened when I heard Welsh for the first time. I found out the screensaver picture of a lake in the mountains I had up for years was a place in Wales... Snowdonia. Then I found ancestry going back to to immigrants who left Wales in 1645., and they were from a place not far from where the screenshot pic was taken! I think I'm hooked now, after all that 'coincidence'. Llyfrgell is definitely spoken differently! 'sheff-urr-gesh'
Been trying to learn it.... Wow.....what a challenge!!! Hope I can get there someday, too. Actually have a friend that lives in Cardiff who visited me Easter Sunday 2005, and gave me the national flag, Still treasure that gift! Hoping to have more time to work on learning the language, just not as easy to set aside time to do it when it's not quiet in the house. Thanks for sharing though! It gives me more "impetus" to work on it, again. Hope to hear more from you, in the future. Working slowly on it through the "Learn Welsh" videos.....
One of my coworkers is learning Welsh! I keep telling him I will too but I have only done a couple of DuoLingo lessons and I can't get it too stick! It's been about a month though. I took a break from studying because I was super stressed out. I'll have to take it up again soon to see if I can make it stick now though!
I shared this video with him and he enjoyed it. Haha. He is Welsh. Like he was born and raised here in the US I believe but it's not far back this his family was from Wales. Perhaps his grandma? Pretty sure he said his last name means unicorn in Welsh. haha
Just a tip: if you want to say Glasgow in Scots, it's (glez-ga'). Your intonation wasn't too bad, just dial it back a bit and get the pronounciation right :)
I am one-quarter Welsh on my father's side, and am very interested in the language. That said, when I told an Englishman about this, he said, "I can't see that," because I look more "Nordic." Is the stereotype of Welsh people being dark-compelxioned really true--or is this just another stereotype? *Thank You in Advance!*
The 9th reason reminds me of a geography lesson I had in high school. My teacher was Welsh and he spent the entire lesson teaching us all how to spell and say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
I remeber hearing a story about the leek and the welsh. During a battle, the welsh pined leeks to their armor to show they were not english soldiers. Kinda like thw flag patches on soldiers of the modern day, or unique uniforms of the 1700s and 1800s. Thats why the leek is so important to them. Or at least i think so.
Eyyyy Welsh is awesome! Thanks for this video! You were pretty off on the reason why leeks are a national symbol, though, heheh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leek#Cultural_significance MUTATIONS. That made me laugh out loud. They're really unnecessary but you really do get used to them...
I see you're wanting language revival! I'm currently learning Welsh, but I've learnt A LOT of Cornish - a language that really needs help! Thank you if you can help. Reading the comments, I see that you're very persuasive!
i saw a video about dutch and I saw that you know what Frisian is. I would give you more informatie about frisian an the culture. (sorry for my bad spelled english. i can't spell it good but i can speak it very good) you can contact me greats from Fryslân,nederland
Can anyone help me check the grammar of this quote? It is to be painted on a gift for a Welsh friend and I just want to make sure it makes sense since it's a google translation...thank you "Cerddoriaeth yw calon bywyd." Mae hi'n siarad cariad; "hebddo, nid oes unrhyw beth da a chyda mae popeth yn hyfryd."
My fathers family were all from South Wakes but only on of them spoke Welsh, the last census showed that 19% of people who live in Wales speak welsh regularly, I'm not knocking it, I spent a year - from 7 to 8 years old, living in South Wales back in the 1950's...
As a Welsh person, I've noticed one of the things non-natives have trouble with is pronunciation because they're so used to english pronunciations. When in reality - it's actually pretty simple (granted I don't really have an outside perspective). If you can memorize the welsh alphabet (really similar to the english one. In case you were wondering it's: A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G Ng H I J M N O P Ph R Rh S T Th U W Y) If you can memorize the sounds of each letter, Welsh is basically 'read it how it looks'. Like when she said 'eisteddfod' she pronounced it 'aisteddfud', I'm guessing du to the english connotation of 'ei'. Also this is purely educational, not meant to be angry. Croeso!
Old Welsh was spoken as far north as Glasgow? Actually, more like Proto-Brythonic, which gave rise to Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Or should we say Cumbric, a now-extinct Brythonic language?
I thought welsh, scottish, etc were english dialects. Not languages. And I didn't know welsh was spoken in my country xD. It's good to know it. I'm not an ignorant anymore. I don't like to be that. But I don't know everything. Thank you :)
There are almost as many Welsh people in that little country as Finland. Also, Welsh seems similar to most Germanic languages and has similar root words.
Welsh has only been spoken in Wales. You mean Brithonic (was spoken to Glasgow). That's almost like saying Welsh was spoken in Germany (which it wasn't but Proto-Celtic was)... - just fyi
My native language is English but I have also studied, in order of how much, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch, Mandarin, Korean.I’ve also studied various languages for travel at certain points in the past. :)
i love welsh! i've been learning for a couple of years and have had a ton of wonderful (and even painful) experiences because of it.
last night at work (in the united states - i should clarify that) a man came up to the register wearing a t-shirt with the red dragon on it. i made some comment about it and called it "y ddraig goch." he told me he grew up there, we conversed in welsh for a bit, and he told me that in the eleven years he'd been living in the states, i was the first person who'd spoken the language to him since he left wales. i cried! haha
Oh wow, that's SO COOL!!! Stories like that are exactly why I learn languages. You just never know when that connection will happen :)
"You speak Welsh? Go on, say that long place name".
If I had a £ for each time I've been asked to do that.
It was the first Welsh word I learnt
Welsh is my first language and you don’t know how special it makes us welsh feel when people as talented as you can agree so #Cwtch(hug)
I'm Brazilian but I've always been interested in the UK and different cultures! I hope to learn Welsh. I didn't know they spoke Welsh in Argentina until 2 days ago
I hope Welsh never dies off.
prynhawn da (Good afternoon) I just started learning Welsh and it's really fun. I'm learning it via Duolingo. Hwyl!!!!!! (goodbye!!!!)
I live in Canada, and on my father's side, it was long thought that my family hailed from Ireland (and we did, sort of) but actually, we came from Wales. The man in my family last born in Ireland was brought to Wales to be christened in the old country, and then only weeks after his birth, arrived in Canada. Because my mother is only first generation Canadian hailing from Scotland, my Welsh heritage is often overlooked, even though my last name is a Welsh name! So for these reasons, I'm trying to learn Welsh -- not just because it's an undead language in its renaissance, but because it's important to me to learn and connect with ALL of my heritage, even more subtle, overshadowed heritage. ❤
Welsh has a special place in my heart. I’m learning it bc my mum grew up in Wales but was never taught the language and neither did her mum, it’s quite sad that not many people speak it and I feel closer to my ancestry as I learn it
I know somebody who wants to work in caring for the Elderly, so she’s studying Welsh and Gaelic to communicate with 1st language older speakers of those languages.
I’m a fluent welsh speaker and I loved your welsh pronunciation it was off but still good for somebody who doesn’t speak welsh
Reason deg - to fully appreciate Welsh mythology and devise your own elvish language! 😊
Da iawn, dw i’n hoffi cymraeg. Dw i ddim siarat very well but I’m learning (God my welsh is bad) my reason for learning it is because I have a lot of welsh ancestry and I would love to go to Wales and really learn more about my heritage.
Great vid, as always! I live in the US and I have a small bit of Welsh in me. I am currently learning Welsh, but be warned, I'm at a very, VERY basic level. Da dych chi!
Thank you! So cool to hear from someone learning Welsh on the other side of the world! :)
Aww, thanks!
Daffodil in Welsh is 'cennin Pedr', literally 'Peter's leek'.
I'm Brazilian (Portuguese Speaker) and begin learn welsh in last week. I can say that have relative facility in my learning. By the way, the welsh language is a very interesting. Greetings from RJ, Brazil, 👍😊
I love you! This is really good! People who speaks a popular (english, spanish, french) language should learn another one from their same country (welsh, scottish g, occitan, catalan...)
Thanks for your comment! :)
Breton? (Sort of Welsh with a terrible French accent -- lol!) Basque -- weirdest language in W. Europe, there from the beginning of time ;-)
DO CORNISH I BEG OF YOU
loving these celtic language videos. despite all the confusion of what it means to be from these isles, these languages are concrete. can you really say you’re from the british isles, if you can’t speak the languages? english is basically a creole, and hardly our culture
Frankie Logue Dydh da! My a dhysk kernewek rag klub rag an yeth.
i.e
Hint, do u want me to teach you Cornish? :)
Thank you! I have discovered that I am over 60% of Welch/English and had no idea! I have been trying to learn as much as I can and learning the language and culture of my family is something I aim to do well. Thank you for the encouragement!
I'm Welsh and I feel like I don't know anything, but when I see these videos, things come back. I know how to read Welsh and I can pronounce most words and I can count to ten at least lol.
I want to learn a language used in my background but everyone in my ancestry speaks English but my Grandma is half Welsh (making me 12.5% Welsh) but she speaks English so Welsh is the closest thing
Cymraeg a balch! 🏴
Well...Welsh American. 🇺🇸❤🏴
Been learning for two years initially because the language sounded beautiful and stuck in a special place in my brain. Have tried Spanish, French, German, Japanese... but none of those felt like what happened when I heard Welsh for the first time. I found out the screensaver picture of a lake in the mountains I had up for years was a place in Wales... Snowdonia. Then I found ancestry going back to to immigrants who left Wales in 1645., and they were from a place not far from where the screenshot pic was taken! I think I'm hooked now, after all that 'coincidence'. Llyfrgell is definitely spoken differently! 'sheff-urr-gesh'
Saludos desde el sur de Argentina !!!
That last part made me laugh out loud!! 😂 Thanks for that!
Been trying to learn it.... Wow.....what a challenge!!! Hope I can get there someday, too. Actually have a friend that lives in Cardiff who visited me Easter Sunday 2005, and gave me the national flag, Still treasure that gift! Hoping to have more time to work on learning the language, just not as easy to set aside time to do it when it's not quiet in the house. Thanks for sharing though! It gives me more "impetus" to work on it, again. Hope to hear more from you, in the future. Working slowly on it through the "Learn Welsh" videos.....
I love in Wales and I speak fluent welsh, Da iawn, new ti job ardderchog!!!! 😉 xxxx
saludos dede patagonia Argentina !!!!
reason number 10: Will Herondale is from Wales. ♥
One of my coworkers is learning Welsh! I keep telling him I will too but I have only done a couple of DuoLingo lessons and I can't get it too stick! It's been about a month though. I took a break from studying because I was super stressed out. I'll have to take it up again soon to see if I can make it stick now though!
Ooo, you should do it - nothing like a study buddy to help you along! ;)
I shared this video with him and he enjoyed it. Haha. He is Welsh. Like he was born and raised here in the US I believe but it's not far back this his family was from Wales. Perhaps his grandma? Pretty sure he said his last name means unicorn in Welsh. haha
Diolch, i love Welsh its a beautiful language Thanks for sharing. I d like to find Welsh friends
Wow, that's so interesting! Welsh is a crazy language to pronounce!
Just a tip: if you want to say Glasgow in Scots, it's (glez-ga'). Your intonation wasn't too bad, just dial it back a bit and get the pronounciation right :)
Well , i would love to see your reasons about Turkish. please make a video
Aw the way you count the number is so cute
hehe! :p
I've just started relearning Welsh (I studied it in School) for the Add1Challenge. I love the Video
I'm going to learn Welsh 🏴 on next year.
All sets of my great grandparents are Welsh, always been fascinated by the language!
You were so off on pronunciation on those words 😂
Doesn't surprise me! Ha! :p
I am one-quarter Welsh on my father's side, and am very interested in the language. That said, when I told an Englishman about this, he said, "I can't see that," because I look more "Nordic." Is the stereotype of Welsh people being dark-compelxioned really true--or is this just another stereotype? *Thank You in Advance!*
The 9th reason reminds me of a geography lesson I had in high school. My teacher was Welsh and he spent the entire lesson teaching us all how to spell and say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
I remeber hearing a story about the leek and the welsh. During a battle, the welsh pined leeks to their armor to show they were not english soldiers. Kinda like thw flag patches on soldiers of the modern day, or unique uniforms of the 1700s and 1800s. Thats why the leek is so important to them. Or at least i think so.
I'm trying to learn it and a dabbling in a couple other Celtic languages
Eisteddfod = [eiˈstɛðvɔd]. In Welsh, f = [v] and dd = [ð] (initial sound of English this).
What RUclips channels do you recommend to start learning the welsh language?
Im from Argentina and I found this very piola. Saludos!
That long word - diolch fawr for having a go! Ll is like l with air through it.
Can you make 9 Reasons to Learn Greek and To learn Czech and Norwegian
Hi!!! interesting video, thanks! By the way Cawl is pronounced like Cow and add an L on the end. Cowl.
How much Indonesian can you speak? :)
Just saw your Indonesian video 👍
Eyyyy Welsh is awesome! Thanks for this video! You were pretty off on the reason why leeks are a national symbol, though, heheh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leek#Cultural_significance
MUTATIONS. That made me laugh out loud. They're really unnecessary but you really do get used to them...
I see you're wanting language revival! I'm currently learning Welsh, but I've learnt A LOT of Cornish - a language that really needs help! Thank you if you can help. Reading the comments, I see that you're very persuasive!
That's awesome! Do you know Say Something In...? I think they also have Cornish (and Manx maybe too!) :)
I can contact them if you wish, but I'm not fully affiliated with them. Also, success! I've been able to start a course in Cornish in my area!
For Manx resources :
www.learnmanx.com/
Nynz ov sur y'n eur-ma a dro dhe Gerneweg.
They also use welsh! Dw i wedi bod yn dysgu sut i siarad Cymraeg efo SSiW
Frankie Logue The Cornish...or say something in?
i saw a video about dutch and I saw that you know what Frisian is. I would give you more informatie about frisian an the culture. (sorry for my bad spelled english. i can't spell it good but i can speak it very good) you can contact me
greats from Fryslân,nederland
9 reasons to learn Latin?
Can anyone help me check the grammar of this quote? It is to be painted on a gift for a Welsh friend and I just want to make sure it makes sense since it's a google translation...thank you
"Cerddoriaeth yw calon bywyd." Mae hi'n siarad cariad; "hebddo, nid oes unrhyw beth da a chyda mae popeth yn hyfryd."
Can you make a 9 reasons to Learn Turkish video? Thank you ^^
Noted! ;)
My fathers family were all from South Wakes but only on of them spoke Welsh, the last census showed that 19% of people who live in Wales speak welsh regularly, I'm not knocking it, I spent a year - from 7 to 8 years old, living in South Wales back in the 1950's...
It is still spoken in Chubut, south Argentina. We love the Welsh. Also the English and all the Brits. I don't care about the Falklands.
As a Welsh person, I've noticed one of the things non-natives have trouble with is pronunciation because they're so used to english pronunciations. When in reality - it's actually pretty simple (granted I don't really have an outside perspective). If you can memorize the welsh alphabet (really similar to the english one. In case you were wondering it's: A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G Ng H I J M N O P Ph R Rh S T Th U W Y) If you can memorize the sounds of each letter, Welsh is basically 'read it how it looks'. Like when she said 'eisteddfod' she pronounced it 'aisteddfud', I'm guessing du to the english connotation of 'ei'. Also this is purely educational, not meant to be angry. Croeso!
Thanks for sharing! :)
Old Welsh was spoken as far north as Glasgow? Actually, more like Proto-Brythonic, which gave rise to Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Or should we say Cumbric, a now-extinct Brythonic language?
Llongyfarchiadau mawr am ddysgu'r iaith, ac am wneud fideo mor dda! Diolch!
My mum taught me to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliogogogoch. She was from Llansomethingydd near Pontypridd. CYMRU AM BYTH!
I'm welsh
Good at Rugby!!! we aren't anymore 😢
Oh no! :(
dude, this is cool
I thought welsh, scottish, etc were english dialects. Not languages. And I didn't know welsh was spoken in my country xD. It's good to know it. I'm not an ignorant anymore. I don't like to be that. But I don't know everything. Thank you :)
Dw i'n gallu siarad tipyn bach o Gymraeg.
I can speak a little bit of welsh
Shwmae, dw i byw yn Gymru. Hello, I live in Wales. Dw i’n hoffi gymraeg a Cymru. I like welsh and Wales 🏴
Im welsh!!
1:46 it's pronounced A-steTH-vod
I mean technically you tried so well done?
do a video on turkish!!!
9 reasons to learn Greek?
Do 9 reasons to learn Serbian
eye sted vod
Gwnaethoch hynny yn dda!
Im Japanese and it's really hard to learn Kanji :(
I know how to pronounce all words
There are almost as many Welsh people in that little country as Finland. Also, Welsh seems similar to most Germanic languages and has similar root words.
theacp127 Finland has like 5.7 million citizens
Someday, Welsh. Someday...
LL = Sid the Sloth.
1:15 this is an easy joke tbh (also I'm Welsh)
Welsh has only been spoken in Wales. You mean Brithonic (was spoken to Glasgow). That's almost like saying Welsh was spoken in Germany (which it wasn't but Proto-Celtic was)... - just fyi
AHHH I'M EARLY YAY
haha! ;)
What other languages are you fluent in ?
My native language is English but I have also studied, in order of how much, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch, Mandarin, Korean.I’ve also studied various languages for travel at certain points in the past. :)
How about Turkish ? It's a really cool language with the most regular grammatical structure of all the world's languages . No irregular verbs !
9 reasons to learn Finnish
Dwin gwybod cymreag
Eisteddfod = Istethfod
Dwin gwybod dipyn o cymreag..
Do Russian
wwow
Dw i'n dod o'r Ariannin a dw i newydd dechrau ddysgu Cymraeg 😀