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Yeah Pog mo thòin essentially meaning kiss my * lol, is also where The Pogues name comes from sort of. Pogue Mahone is the anglicisation of the expression.
I was so happy when you said you understood the lassie speaking in Auld Scots which is still mainly spoken in Ayrshire and the North East around the Aberdeen areas.
Yeah with Old English what the Anglo-Saxons spoke is essentially what that was. Is a fair amount of it remaining in the Geordie dialect like the word gan meaning go or run, are kind of a few others one being hyem means home. Gan (or ganning rather) being in the Blaydon Races the as such anthem of the Geordie nation ruclips.net/video/iFSdm5y6dps/видео.html lol
You asked about forms of transport, there are the horse drawn trams and the Victorian electric tramway in Douglas Isle of Man, there is the Sea Tractor used to reach the island of Burgh in Devon, and there is the shortest commercial flight - between Papa Westray and Westray in the Orkney islands, takes 80-90 seconds and covers about 2km.
Nice that you reacted to my video - glad people are still watching it, and nice for me to see how people react to what I make - even if this one was back when I had just started out making videos! I notice you enjoyed some of the music I played in the video; they're all listed in the description of the video should you be interested. Take care!
@@ellenwatts4809 I married a Welsh man from north Wales we now live in South-east Wales. His first language is Welsh and he and my two (now adult) children speak Welsh every day. I can't speak the language but I do understand a fair bit, but after over 35 years of marriage I'm just proud that I've helped to raise 2 more Welsh speakers.
Well you'll be arguing all day alone. The language is English end of. If you insist on speaking gibberish do it in your own hovels away from the adults.
Next time you`re in Glasgow listen carefully to the accent and the spoken word. The best place would be any pub in Glasgow to pick up some words spoken in Auld Scots mixed in with Glasgow slang, remembering that what sounds like sarcasm in Glasgow is usually not. It just comes across that way and depends of what way the conversation is going.
Yes the Lizard is an area of Cornwall 😊 The half naked guy is from a popular British TV series called Poldark, he is named Aiden Turner, the series was set in Cornwall in the 1780's and features the tin mines which were once a hive of industry, many still stand as relics of that time. I think you'd both really enjoy the series as he is a soldier who returns from the war of independence to try and salvage his late father's business...lots of romance and beautiful scenery and of course superb acting.😊👍🇬🇧
He was also Kili the dwarf who was in love with Tauriel the elf in The Hobbit. She loved him so much she became the lone rider and never loves again. 😢
Hi there! I used to live down in Newlyn and then Mousehole ok! Please correct me if I am wrong? I thought the Lizard was near to the point of land that sticks out not in the middle so to speak? P.S! I put Mousehole for those, that did not live down there and understand it is said mouzehole ok 🙂😉
@@margaretnicol3423 I agree as I used two sail around it but please! 🙂 Look at the map they have and it shows the lizard inland that is all I am getting At ok 🙂😉I used to live down at Newlyn 49 years ago ok I cannot believe it Is that long ago either!
@@margaretnicol3423 I know! I used to sail around it ok but please! Look at the map they have and just look at where the Lizard is shown that is all I am trying to say ok! I lived down in Newlyn 49 years ago ok 🙂
I'm English and study old English . I believe It's important all these languages are given official status in the UK, preserved and taught in their respective regions. To quote Tolkien: 'Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; Welsh is beautiful'.
Agreed, both my parents are Welsh but I didn't get taught it growing up since they moved to England, so I'm trying to learn. My grandmother lived in North Wales though and was a neighbour to one of the top experts on English linguistics. I've got little Highland Scottish in me so I've been meaning to take up Scottish Gaelic too, we can't loose these lovely languages, even though the convenience of English for world communication is so great.
should Hilbert have covered the ?Dialect? of Northumberland/Newcastle on Tyne - it is probably the most distinctive - and into Yorkshire, with the Danish/Norse roots with totally different words compared to "Home Counties" English.
As a born and bred Cornishman it kind of upsets me that when I was in a school I had to learn French with Cornish being our local language which is dying out. I have no intention of ever going to France and now I can only remember certain words, I would have much rather learned Cornish in school.
I think you are right our native languages should be taught however I have issue with the cornish claiming that as purely thier own language , as a native British language it was still spoken in much of Devon as far as Exeter, it died out as in Cornwall, the industrial revolution brought people from around the land to work in the mines and industries of the South West which helped its decline, the Devon dialect although seldom heard is full of words derived from so called cornish, you guys may still speak the pure form but in my eyes it's true British language not exclusively cornish, also interestingly the ice cream advert has English words as those would not have been in the so called cornish vocabulary.
Living in Brittany France, they have the Breton language, and we had a Welsh friend who could actually communicate not in French but in Welsh as its very close to Breton, here in Brittany you find a lot of place names beginning with Ker meaning village or Loc meaning holy place.
Yes my grandfather was from Brittany, spoke welsh easily when he moved to newport in Wales. He married my grandma from west wales who also spoke welsh and English.
My wife was born & brought up in Wales. Her father's family were Welsh-speaking down to her father's generation. My parents had a small farm in the west of Wales; I used to work in the local motel, where most of the staff spoke Welsh. I used to go to the parish priest for Welsh lessons. Welsh is a beautiful language and I love to hear it spoken.
My father was Welsh and his first language was Welsh. He was brought up in a village in North Wales where virtually no English was spoken. However, when he went to school, he was forced to speak English only. In fact, any child caught speaking Welsh was punished. He said that he could understand some words in Cornish, Manx & Breton. He was a radio operator during WW2 in the RAF. They used Welsh speakers quite often as there was absolutely no chance of the Germans being able to understand the language. He often told a story of being on holiday in Italy & speaking to his brother-in-law in Welsh and the manager of the hotel trying to guess what language they were speaking and failing. One of my biggest regrets is not learning the language as a child.
It's good that you're surprised by some content, you ask questions, and you genuinely enjoy the differences you see in these videos. If shows you are sincere and are taking things seriously rather than it just be something to post for the sake of it(and for ratings). It's very entertaining for us here and it makes us proud that we have all this to share.
I think the castle is Eilean Donan castle in the western highlands. Its extremely scenic and has been used in many films over the years including Highlander and Entrapment to name a couple. I'm sure it can also be seen on many a tin of old Scottish shortbread too.
@@philwill0123 BBC licence Needs to go. they became so anti British over the a very short period of time, for starters news very one sided, and any dig to put country down they jump at it, plus all the cover ups child abuse. cannot remember the last time i watched the bbc, all my tv through the internet and been like that for years so why should be be forced to pay tax on something i do not watch, and have no interest going back to watch. im not the only one 1000's monthly are turning away from bbc.
@@stevekenilworth anti British? Blame the Tories, who went full snowflake over any criticism of them and installed their cronies on board to censor the news. As for cover ups over child abuse, why not blame the newspapers? You think they didn't know? Especially Jimmy savile? They just didn't want to lose access to conservative contacts and royal family since savile was protected by them. And as for putting the country down, no doubt you support a party and politicians who repeatedly tell you you are living in a hellhole, but it's ok when they criticise the country. So basically you want the BBC to report the bad stuff without reporting the really bad stuff that make the country bad. So you want a sanitised BBC telling you what you want to hear. Got it.
Great video.... It's fairly rare these days, but i'm first language Welsh, meaning I grew up with Welsh only, only learnt english once i got a few years into school... The language is doing super well, which is an amazing feat given the deliberate attempts to cull the people and particularly the language over the years and thoughout history.... Which by the way, is well worth looking into and reacting to
I live in Wales. Many of the people I work with are first language Welsh. Our neighbours are first language Welsh. My father-in-law is first language Welsh. Cymraeg is very much alive.
Cornish ice cream is THE BEST ever..the man at the beginning of the Cornwall piece is an actor called Aidan Turner and he portrayed a landowner in the 1800's called Ross Poldark..it was a tv series originally in the 70's and remade starting around 2017..from the brilliant books by Winston Graham..the series was brilliant and a mega hit here and in the USA too..my mom was born in Caerphilly..she knew a bit of the language but not enough to teach me ..shame as I'd love to have spoken it..🇬🇧💞🙏✝️🐾🐾🐕👍🇺🇸
Yes, The Lizard really is a place. The name is probably an anglicising of its Cornish name, Lys Ardh which translates as High Court. The area is owned by The National Trust, an incredible organisation which like English Heritage looks to preserve the countryside and historic buildings for future generations.
My father was born on The Black Lesley and spoke what he called THE Gaelic. When he was working in Wales a man came into his office and addressed him in Welsh. This was a power-play as he assumed that my father did not speak Welsh. My father replied in The Gaelic which caused the man to be taken aback. My father then said, in English, “Now shall we continue in a language we both understand?”
I'm Irish,so I grew up with English and Gaeilge(not "gaelige" as written in the video).My dad was from Glasgow,so I also grew up with a lot of Glasgow and Scottish slang.The guy in the video said that "wha" means why,but it actually means "who". Ps: The guy on the Cornish part of the video is Aidan Turner,an Irish actor who starred in Poldark,a TV series set in Cornwall.
Ulster is the medieval name for one of the 4 provinces of Ireland, Northern Ireland is a 20th Century political area that remained part of the UK when Ireland gained independence - Northern Ireland includes most of Ulster but not all, some parts of Ulster are in the republic. Ulster is often used as short hand for Northern Ireland but its not accurate
You haven’t had ice cream until you’ve had clotted cream ice cream! I’m Devonian and was raised on clotted cream ice cream. I now live up in Lincolnshire and the ice cream up here isn’t the same league at all. When I was a teenager, I worked in an ice cream parlor for a summer. We were allowed to eat all we wanted. As there were over 30 flavours, I was very happy! I reckon Debbie should open an ice cream parlor on The Lizard.
My family is Welsh, though I was brought up in England - my father was fluent because they spoke both Welsh and English at home and my mother was from a predominantly English speaking home but could get by in Welsh. When they wanted to talk about something that they didn’t want my brother and I to hear, they would switch to Welsh ! I didn’t learn the language but there were words used at home that I assumed were English until later. My uncle married someone from a predominantly Welsh speaking home. They moved to London when they were in their 20s, spoke Welsh at home but worked and managed their lives for decades speaking English. She was a maths teacher in a secondary ( high) school He died before her and she sadly developed early onset dementia, with other frailties, and moved into a nice care home where she had been happy but began to get very unsettled. My cousin, her daughter, visited from her home abroad and quickly realised that the reason for her distress was that her understanding of English had completely vanished and she was baffled by everything everyone was saying to her. It must have been terrifying 😕 She was moved to a home in Wales, where she still had family who could visit, and was so much happier.
The Welsh song (in Welsh, not Men of Harlech that was sung first in English) is the folk song Dacw Nghariad (Nghariad / Cariad is Welsh for ‘sweetheart / my love ‘ essentially) - so the title is ‘There is my sweetheart’ That version is by Eve Goodman, her live Sofar one on RUclips is one of my all-time favourites
I'm from Jersey, which is also part of the British Isles. There is a sister island called Guernsey too. Our two islands speak other dying languages called Jèrriais and Guernésiais which are derived from the Norman languages. Sounds like a rougher French.
I hope nobody minds me adding this, i've loved it for years, old French, the language of the Channel Islands, and England many centuries ago because of the Normans, ruclips.net/video/qPy_AWNtlU0/видео.html
Perhaps it should be made clearer to our American friends that Jersey, Guernsey and the smaller Islands are actually self- governing and along with the Isle of Man are British Protectorates rather than "British Isles " although we are pleased to think them so. Although the Channel Islands are actually closer to France than to England, they have never been French but were in fact the property of the Duke of Normandy. The last owner who inherited the Islands and the Title was Queen Elizabeth 11- now we presume it to be King Charles 111.
The Welsh song that you said is beautiful is called "Dacw 'Nghariad" (There is my love). It is a lovely song. The earliest known record of it being sang was in the 1800's. A woman heard a travelling merchant singing it, the song was carried on from there over the centuries. We have no idea how old the song is because the merchant probably heard the song from somebody else as well. The song is on youtube sang by quite a lot of different people, some of them not even Welsh people.
The random dude was Aidan Turner the Irish actor who played Ross Poldark in the tv series. Poldark is a famous Cornish character from the books by Winston Graham.
Very interesting. The bit that some would argue was missing was the languages from the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm). The Channel Islands are "possessions of the Crown". They are self-governing islands but very much align to the Crown. They are very near France and were part of Normandy when Williams conquered in 1066. They speak a Norman-French dialect. They are tiny islands and easily missed but have a rich history that may be worth reacting to at some time. And yes, you might well recognise the name Jersey for it gave its name to New Jersey in the 18th century!
@@Bob-pu2bu Exactly. My mother was from Jersey (Grouville) and you are so right about the history. And for Natasha, some very nice castles too! À bétôt
I extra appreciate that you're both genuinely keen to learn (and remember what you're learning!). Too many other channels are purely reaction and have no real interest in building knowledge but I love the genuine work you put into learning more. You're fantastic 👏
My partner is Welsh speaking having grown up in North Wales. There is a significant difference in pronunciation in north and South Wales. This had an impact on me when I worked for a water company. The water company took over a North Wales water company and renamed it ‘Hafren Dyfrdwy’. The management went to great lengths to train everyone how to pronounce this… unfortunately they went to language experts from the university of Cardiff, which is in South Wales. When I pronounced the name to my partner, she said it was meaningless and the first time I spoke to a Welsh customer, I put into practice the pronunciation I had been taught by the company, only for the customer to tell me I was saying it wrong. I spent some time with the customer to learn the correct north Wales pronunciation.
I was born in the Angus County but grew up in Australia. Both my parents had their strong accent to the days they passed, I miss hearing it and every now and then I hear myself saying a phrase they would use. When I am angry or with other Scots my accent gets stronger.
The guy with his shirt off is Aiden Turner (Irish actor) who played Ross Poldark in the series Poldark. The sea looks so blue because Cornwall is on the Atlantic Ocean, it has a much warmer climate similar to the South of France. Debbie you cannot beat a cornish ice cream cone with a blob of clotted cream on top. Quite a few small dairies have their own ice cream shop.
@@alvaromarianocarpio965 And here it is for you in Welsh, Alvaro, though it doesn't use the modern lyrics that are better known. ruclips.net/video/WO45JqE2HXI/видео.html
Glad he included Cornish, it's a beautiful language. I have tried to learn it but I'm hopeless at languages, but there are more and more people becoming fluent.
Hi Ladies, That Cornish ice cream cart is not a million miles from a real experience my husband and I had touring Cornwall. We were out for a drive along the empty coastal road, we rounded a hill and in a small layby was a little snack trailer with tables outside. It was the local dairy farms home made Cornish ice-cream cart. They could even point out the cows on the hill the cream came from and name them. It was the best Ice cream I ever had.
Please take a listen to the Welsh song ''Yma o Hyd'' by Dafydd Iwan. It took 40 years to become an overnight success (!) and is played at football matches. It's available with the English lyrics but I guarantee you'll join in the Welsh chorus. 😀
I have learnt more about the British Isles from watching your videos than I have done from living in and being educated here. This stuff is not taught in schools and should be. Thank you for this.
Great video, I live in north Aberdeenshire but I have lived in various places around Scotland when I was small so really don't speak the local Scots or Doric all the time, but everyone around me does and it can be sooooo Quickly spoken it can be tricky to figure out some of the words even after nearly 40 years living here haha! .. also my Name EILIDH is Gaelic for Helen and pronounced Ay-Ley, incase anyone wondered lol
Being English I already knew some of the history of Scotland and Ireland , Welsh speaking, but it was a new lesson to me to hear about the Cornish and Manx. It does explain in many ways the diverse different dialects that have been watered down over centuries and given our towns and counties different accents, loved the video and the lesson, good on ya lady's
Ulster is sometimes used as a convenient, unofficial synonym for the UK province of Northern Ireland. Ulster was a historic kingdom/province in Ireland whose borders are not the same as present day 6 counties of Northern Ireland which only form a part of the historic province. I should imagine people living in those parts of historic Ulster that are in the Republic get a bit irritated by this usage or maybe they are just used to it by now.
Hi ladies ... very interesting video , these are beautiful languages... I love hearing them spoken. I can definitely hear Debbie saying that phrase 🤣 All joking aside ladies this was a fantastic video as always ❤
You guys are awesome. Watching the channel a while now. So great to see Americans interested in learning more about the British isles and our shared ancestral history. Love from Scotland 🏴 🇺🇸❤️
The song you hear at the beginning of the section on Scots Gaelic is called "Fear a' Bhàta" . There are several versions of it on RUclips, but I think the best version is by the group Capercaillie. Enjoy!
Good morning ladies, from the Isle of Fred. An interesting watch, as always, and I learned a few things I didn't know. I love Hilbert's videos. He has a light, chatty style but manages to teach me something new each time. Silly side note - the band The Pogues take their name from Pog ma hoin.
Anyone else thinks the UK looks like a witch ridding a pig ? It was how my geography teacher told us how to draw it . Great bloke x Royal Navy , unfortunately he was one of the sailors that had to stand on deck when we did the atomic bomb test and he died early from leukaemia
It's been suggested that The Lizard is an anglicised form of the Cornish "Lys Ardh" meaning "High Court". There are a lot of unusual placenames in Cornwall and West Devon that are thought be also be anglicised Cornish. Just across the border in Plymouth, there's an area called Pennycomequick which is thought to come from "Pen y cum qwik" meaning "At the head of the valley of the creek". The highest point in Cornwall is called Brown Willy and is thought to be derived from "Bronn Wennili" meaning "the hill of Swallows".
That's interesting Chris. I'm Welsh but not a Welsh speaker but it doesn't mean I don't know anything. Llys is Welsh for court, Pen y cwm is head of the valley and bron is the female form of bryn which is hill. When I asked a friend why bron was female because he said a bron is more shapely. Don't know if it's true and if I'm wrong on anything I am open to correction.😆
It's interesting about the "dead" languages at the end. Cumbric/cambric/"north welsh" has certainly left its mark on place names in the Pennines and the Lake District. Close to me we have Pen-y-ghent (a big hill!) and up in the lakes there are place names like Blencathra. But there are at least as many Scandinavian-origin words here too. Some old farmers carry out certain activities in another language, but there's a bit of a debate about whether it's some version of Cumbric or old norse (the most famous is counting sheep: yan, tan, tethera, etc.)
Just to disagree with the video a little bit, Scots is spoken more in the Central Belt, which is, as the name suggests, is across the more populated areas around Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the North East, Aberdeenshire mainly, locals tend to speak Doric, which can be debated is either a language or dialect. I fall on the side of it being a language due to its very divergent vocabulary. :)
This was really a great video. I have watched other Americans reaction videos, but they do not research before so sound quite silly in their remarks. I thank you for being true reactionist (if that is a word, well it is now). As a truck driver in England I have been to Belfast, Scotland, Cornwall and Wales. One time in Wales I asked a local how to get to this town, I was pointing at the town name on my paperwork. He said he knew how but said, "I will tell you if you can say the name first". I tried, he laughed and said close enough, he did give me the directions. But it was all done in fun.
The ice cream cart is real and they are used on the seafront and at many events. Yes corniche ice cream is gorgeous, smooth and creamy like you'll never believe
The half naked man is the Irish actor Aiden Turner, he is the star of the TV series "Poldark" set in 18th century Cornwall. The Lizard is a real part of Cornwall.
Hi guys 👋 Another great reaction. I live in England and still love learning about the British isles. My favourite language is Welsh . Tried learning but gee it’s hard.
Crikey I had no idea. it's really fun learning these things with you 2 beauties so thank you. I was thinking about learning a new language, might have to be Cornish now, I'm from england and not even sure if the language is called Cornish how embarrassing. Welsh is lovely on the ears. Tbh I love all our home nations and proud to be their neighbours and family and friends. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Cornish is the name, or rather the English name for it. Unfortunately lots of the vocabulary was entirely lost, which makes it rather hard to become fluent in. Chunks have been recreated, and it's an ongoing project, but it's basically filling in the missing pieces with educated guesswork from painstaking research. The problem with recreating a language using logical extrapolation from things you know is that living languages are very often inconsistent and appear illogical because of influences that you had no way of knowing.
love your vid's , my first Language is Welsh , back in the day 60's , prime language Taught in schools was English , but things have changed , and it so nice to hear welsh being taught today
I'm a Canadian that has been trying to learn Irish or Gaeilge through Dulingp for nearly a year now - 308 days exactly. Both Irish and Scottish Gaelic are beautiful languages. If you'd like to react to some music as Gaeilge (n Irish) look up the band Seo Linn - pronounced 'Shaw Linn:
They are very close... when you learn one you'll be able to pick up the other in the drop of a hat.. some older folk here don't even see them a seperate languages but rather dialects.. their reasoning is that irish Gaelic has like 5 different recognised dialects itself: Gaolainn, Gaelainn, Uladh Gaeilge and Gaeilge I don't remember the 5th... but some of them are as different from eachother as they are from Scots Gaelic. Same with Manx Gaelg. I would agree this was the case back in the older folks days maybe... but with radio and TV pushing the revived standardised leinster dialect or "Irish" (mockingly called 'book-irish' sometimes) as the official language of the country the other dialects are lost their personality and uniqueness so modern Standard "Irish" and Scottish Gaidhlig I would say have grown much further apart in recent times.
@@Dracorientalis I think the other Irish dialect you're lookin for might be Connacht or Munster? I'm still goin strong every day on Duolingo.. 540 days now. I haven't even begun Scottish Gaelic yet because I've been occupied with Irish but maybe one day I will. I think the pronunciation of certain things in Scottish Gaelic might be slightly more difficult than Irish, but I'm no where near fluent in either yet
Nice one, ladies. FYI, at one time, way back, when Cornish fisherman were in the middle of the English Channel they would meet boats of Breton fishermen from north-west France. Their respective languages are so closely related that they could talk to each other without using either English or French. Just a fun fact. Keep up the good work............the ancient Englishman from Sussex (sud-saexe = south Saxons).
The English guy without a shirt is Poldark - a character from a British Historical Drama set in Cornwall. Brilliant review and so great to hear all these languages. Over the last 40 years we have started to really protect our old Languages. My son has just moved to Wales where all children learn welsh at school, if I understand correctly Ireland (both North and Rep) and the Isles also teach their languages as compulsory subject at school.. As the BBC is paid for by the public part of it's licence agreement is that it provides programs (TV, Radio, Online) that are in these languages.
Y Hen Ogledd...."the old North",where the extinct language Cumbric was spoken until the Middle Ages.It harks back to the Tribes present when the Romans arrived.Anglo Saxon was much slower to make progress in the West
If you went back in time just 300 to 400 years. A modern day person would struggle to understand every day chit chat. The lizard is a real place & home to the Earth station, Goonhilly down, well worth a look as the land of the lizard is steeped in history.
Hello Natasha & Debbie. Nice to hear you learning about our languages here. I live in South Wales and unfortunately I am not a Welsh speaker. The part of Wales I live in is predominately English speaking. Welsh was a subject I took throughout my school life, not all on the language. A lot of the time on the history, geography, singing and folk lore. The only people in my family who are fluent are my middle brother and his wife. They moved into rural north Wales in the Bala area. His son is called Huw, his wife is Ceri and they have a son called Osian and a daughter called Beca. They are all Welsh speakers. Huw was 2 when he moved to Llanuwchllyn, near Bala and was speaking Welsh within a couple of months. The nursery (Kindergarten) he went to was a Welsh only school and called Ysgol Feithrin in Welsh. In secondary school he took all subjects in Welsh. English was a foreign language in his curriculum. When I go to his local pub I get asked what I want in Welsh first. The Pub is called Yr Eryr, The Eagles. In a national survey about 20 years ago there were still some people who only spoke Welsh! Much shouting in the public over the last few years has resulted in TV Channel 4 becoming a Welsh channel (also get an English version). All road signs, official documents must be bilingual. My phone bill is twice the length of an English one. Many shops have bilingual signage on the product aisles. Wales has it’s own parliament called Y Senedd, The Senate, and has a Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay. The lady singing is Cerys Mathews, she was the vocal member of the rock group Catatonia. She has also sung and recorded many Welsh songs including “Calon Lan” a Welsh hymn meaning a Pure Heart. Try and find this on You Tube. ruclips.net/video/m5rX6s6StxQ/видео.html She is singing here with the Fron Male Voice Choir. Fron is that very high and long aqueduct in North Wales.
I believe everyone in Britain should be taught welsh,Scottish,and Irish has their second languages I’m English and I’ve always said that we should learn languages closer to home first
Great video as always. As a Scottish person I think the ‘Scot’s’ we heard here I would associate with Aberdeen. I’m from the central east coast so we don’t speak quite the same way. An interesting fact, during our census last year we were asked if we could speak English, Gaelic or Scots. I actually had to listen to a guide to know if I actual spoke Scots or not lol. 😂. I thought how I spoke was more slang than a language but apparently I’m wrong.
@Jason Smart - I’m from Lanarkshire, and I think Doric and Shetlandic are far enough away from Lallan Scots to qualify as different languages. The reading from Peter Rabbit was definitely more like Doric than Scots. When I was young Scots was Not To Be Used in School. I was always puzzled how Robert Burns, whose poems and songs were mostly in Scots, and we had to learn them - for school!
@@AylaOlivieri I stay in Aberdeen and it’s definitely Doric sounding. I don’t speak it but obviously understand it, seems to be fowk fae the broch that spik it. Mainly 😂 They write in it too which is interesting.
This was a great video, two of my nephews went to a Scottish Gaelic school so they are fluent in that now. I speak a lot of Scots English and quite often put Scottish words in my comments without thinking . The castle was Eilean Donan Castle
That’s brilliant . My nephew is at a Manx speaking school. They don’t learn English until they’re 7 there. I’m so glad the effort is going In to preserve these languages!!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow , come on girls are you saying that you don't know that male body , it's a BBC series based in Cornwall over a 100 years ago and of course it's called Poldark , and was a big hit in the USA as well as other places in the world.
@@littlemy1773 my sister can speak it a little too, we’re not in an area where it is generally spoken but a few primary schools have it now in our area
There is one other living language in the British Isles that he missed: the Norman language spoken on the Channel Islands, known as Jèrriais in Jersey, Guernésiais in Guernsey, Auregnais in Alderney and Sercquiais in Sark. The islands are the last remnants of the old Duchy of Normandy that are still under British control (the British royals being, of course, descended from Dukes of Normandy). Because they were always independent of France, they never had standardised (Parisian) French imposed on them through schools, so the French spoken on the islands is much more distinctively Norman than that spoken on mainland Normandy. The islands now mostly speak English and the Norman languages are dying out - partly because of mass education in English starting in the nineteenth century, but compounded by WWII, when all the children were evacuated from the islands for five years, while their parents remained on the islands under German occupation; so the parents were unable to pass on the language to their children. It's far from the worst crime committed in those years, of course, but just another tragedy among the many others. Jersey is making strenuous efforts to preserve Jèrrais; the other (smaller islands) are struggling to match those efforts, and Auregnais is extinct as a native language, though some of the children and grandchildren of the last generation of speakers are still alive and remember some words and phrases, sadly not enough to reconstruct the whole language for a revival. Jèrrais is starting to become fashionable to learn among young Jèrriais; whether it will do so fast enough to replace the older generation of native speakers who are dying out is another question, but there's a chance that they will learn it from their grandparents to keep it as a truly living language. Guernésiais and Sercquiais are almost exclusively spoken by older generations; they are sufficiently well-recorded that they could be revived, but it's liable to be a revival rather than a true survival.
There's a Scottish island called Rum. And another called Horse. But no Bob. But then again Bob only means Robert anway (The Bruce) so it could have been true :)
Let's be honest, for what could be a very dry subject - that was very interesting. I think following the same vein it would be interesting to look at what regional dialects are still spoken in the UK (not accents). I grew up in Lincolnshire and can remember my grandmother and older relatives speaking what sounded like a different language and I believe other counties were just as unique.
I love this. So many people thing English is the only language in the UK, or they might know something about Irish and Scots, but this really goes into detail about all the different languages. It's a shame they only looked at surviving language, because the linguistic history of the British Isles, including languages like Bryttonic, Cumbric, Pictish, Breton, and so on, is really fascinating.
Natasha and Debbie, wish we had been taught Gaelic in school back in the 60s and 70s instead of French, never used French in my life apart for school. Maybe just me, but Scottish Gaelic should be taught in school before other languages.
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Yeah Pog mo thòin essentially meaning kiss my * lol, is also where The Pogues name comes from sort of. Pogue Mahone is the anglicisation of the expression.
21:22 🤭 im too mature and i definitely didn’t snigger
I was so happy when you said you understood the lassie speaking in Auld Scots which is still mainly spoken in Ayrshire and the North East around the Aberdeen areas.
Yeah with Old English what the Anglo-Saxons spoke is essentially what that was. Is a fair amount of it remaining in the Geordie dialect like the word gan meaning go or run, are kind of a few others one being hyem means home.
Gan (or ganning rather) being in the Blaydon Races the as such anthem of the Geordie nation ruclips.net/video/iFSdm5y6dps/видео.html lol
You asked about forms of transport, there are the horse drawn trams and the Victorian electric tramway in Douglas Isle of Man, there is the Sea Tractor used to reach the island of Burgh in Devon, and there is the shortest commercial flight - between Papa Westray and Westray in the Orkney islands, takes 80-90 seconds and covers about 2km.
Nice that you reacted to my video - glad people are still watching it, and nice for me to see how people react to what I make - even if this one was back when I had just started out making videos! I notice you enjoyed some of the music I played in the video; they're all listed in the description of the video should you be interested. Take care!
As a resident of Wales, I can confirm that the Welsh language is alive and very much in use!
Every sign in Wales has bilingual information.
Very true 👍 I speak it. Not as often as I did though because I married an English man and moved to South wales where it isn't spoken as much.
@@ellenwatts4809 I moved from England to Pembrokeshire and married a local lady who doesn't speak any Welsh, even though I do speak a little!
@@ellenwatts4809 I married a Welsh man from north Wales we now live in South-east Wales. His first language is Welsh and he and my two (now adult) children speak Welsh every day. I can't speak the language but I do understand a fair bit, but after over 35 years of marriage I'm just proud that I've helped to raise 2 more Welsh speakers.
@@annelewis7531 i love that. Does your husband speak Northern Welsh?
I'm British. English speaking, But I will Argue all day Long, For the old Languages.
We'll assist you!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Well I DON'T know. How you can, Achieve that Summt .But I wish you a Fair wind and Calm Sea .
Well you'll be arguing all day alone. The language is English end of. If you insist on speaking gibberish do it in your own hovels away from the adults.
@@davidhanson3174unnecessary comment from yourself sir . Gaelic languages are valid and they are on the rise whether you like it or not!!!!
Next time you`re in Glasgow listen carefully to the accent and the spoken word. The best place would be any pub in Glasgow to pick up some words spoken in Auld Scots mixed in with Glasgow slang, remembering that what sounds like sarcasm in Glasgow is usually not. It just comes across that way and depends of what way the conversation is going.
Yes the Lizard is an area of Cornwall 😊 The half naked guy is from a popular British TV series called Poldark, he is named Aiden Turner, the series was set in Cornwall in the 1780's and features the tin mines which were once a hive of industry, many still stand as relics of that time. I think you'd both really enjoy the series as he is a soldier who returns from the war of independence to try and salvage his late father's business...lots of romance and beautiful scenery and of course superb acting.😊👍🇬🇧
He was also Kili the dwarf who was in love with Tauriel the elf in The Hobbit. She loved him so much she became the lone rider and never loves again. 😢
Hi there! I used to live down in Newlyn and then Mousehole ok! Please correct me if I am wrong? I thought the Lizard was near to the point of land that sticks out not in the middle so to speak? P.S! I put Mousehole for those, that did not live down there and understand it is said mouzehole ok 🙂😉
@@nigeldewallens1115 Maybe that's why it's called Lizard Point? 🤔🤣
@@margaretnicol3423 I agree as I used two sail around it but please! 🙂 Look at the map they have and it shows the lizard inland that is all I am getting At ok 🙂😉I used to live down at Newlyn 49 years ago ok I cannot believe it Is that long ago either!
@@margaretnicol3423 I know! I used to sail around it ok but please! Look at the map they have and just look at where the Lizard is shown that is all I am trying to say ok! I lived down in Newlyn 49 years ago ok 🙂
I'm English and study old English . I believe It's important all these languages are given official status in the UK, preserved and taught in their respective regions. To quote Tolkien: 'Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; Welsh is beautiful'.
The Welsh genes have been here the longest also.
Agreed, both my parents are Welsh but I didn't get taught it growing up since they moved to England, so I'm trying to learn. My grandmother lived in North Wales though and was a neighbour to one of the top experts on English linguistics.
I've got little Highland Scottish in me so I've been meaning to take up Scottish Gaelic too, we can't loose these lovely languages, even though the convenience of English for world communication is so great.
should Hilbert have covered the ?Dialect? of Northumberland/Newcastle on Tyne - it is probably the most distinctive - and into Yorkshire, with the Danish/Norse roots with totally different words compared to "Home Counties" English.
@@hardywatkins7737 Noway ! The Scot’s have been in Scotland since forever.
@@janice506 Forever? Could you be a bit more specific? And what's that about Norway?
As a born and bred Cornishman it kind of upsets me that when I was in a school I had to learn French with Cornish being our local language which is dying out. I have no intention of ever going to France and now I can only remember certain words, I would have much rather learned Cornish in school.
I think you are right our native languages should be taught however I have issue with the cornish claiming that as purely thier own language , as a native British language it was still spoken in much of Devon as far as Exeter, it died out as in Cornwall, the industrial revolution brought people from around the land to work in the mines and industries of the South West which helped its decline, the Devon dialect although seldom heard is full of words derived from so called cornish, you guys may still speak the pure form but in my eyes it's true British language not exclusively cornish, also interestingly the ice cream advert has English words as those would not have been in the so called cornish vocabulary.
I'm a cornishman and the Cornish language is making a resurgence 🎉
Living in Brittany France, they have the Breton language, and we had a Welsh friend who could actually communicate not in French but in Welsh as its very close to Breton, here in Brittany you find a lot of place names beginning with Ker meaning village or Loc meaning holy place.
Yes my grandfather was from Brittany, spoke welsh easily when he moved to newport in Wales. He married my grandma from west wales who also spoke welsh and English.
I believe Gareth Edwards used to holiday there for that reason
Does ker mean village or does it mean fort. It sounds like it has the same root as Caer,
I think Cornish is closer to Breton than Welsh but all three are close
@@molybdomancer195 yeah they are Brythonic after all
My wife was born & brought up in Wales. Her father's family were Welsh-speaking down to her father's generation. My parents had a small farm in the west of Wales; I used to work in the local motel, where most of the staff spoke Welsh. I used to go to the parish priest for Welsh lessons. Welsh is a beautiful language and I love to hear it spoken.
My father was Welsh and his first language was Welsh. He was brought up in a village in North Wales where virtually no English was spoken. However, when he went to school, he was forced to speak English only. In fact, any child caught speaking Welsh was punished. He said that he could understand some words in Cornish, Manx & Breton.
He was a radio operator during WW2 in the RAF. They used Welsh speakers quite often as there was absolutely no chance of the Germans being able to understand the language.
He often told a story of being on holiday in Italy & speaking to his brother-in-law in Welsh and the manager of the hotel trying to guess what language they were speaking and failing.
One of my biggest regrets is not learning the language as a child.
It's good that you're surprised by some content, you ask questions, and you genuinely enjoy the differences you see in these videos. If shows you are sincere and are taking things seriously rather than it just be something to post for the sake of it(and for ratings). It's very entertaining for us here and it makes us proud that we have all this to share.
We appreciate that! Thank you for understanding that we do take all of this seriously and genuinely love learning ❤️
I'm Scottish, from the north east, I speak English, Gaelic and Doric.
What's Doric? I never heard of it? Is it a dialect?
@@hardywatkins7737 No it is what is spoeken in North East Aberdeenshire
@@alejandrayalanbowman367 This doesn't tell me hardy anything about Doric. I'm going to assume it's a dialect of Scots gaelic for now.
@@hardywatkins7737it’s a dialect of Scots
@@hardywatkins7737 it’s a language I dare you to try to translate it I bet you can’t.
I think the castle is Eilean Donan castle in the western highlands. Its extremely scenic and has been used in many films over the years including Highlander and Entrapment to name a couple. I'm sure it can also be seen on many a tin of old Scottish shortbread too.
You are correct!😊
people in the UK need to remember that the reason they is a Gaelic speaking languages on the BBC is 100% down to the BBC TV Licence free
Unfortunately, I'm sure (ironically) catering to Gaelic speaking language is seen by those wanting to get rid of the BBC licence fee is "woke"
@@philwill0123 BBC licence Needs to go. they became so anti British over the a very short period of time, for starters news very one sided, and any dig to put country down they jump at it, plus all the cover ups child abuse. cannot remember the last time i watched the bbc, all my tv through the internet and been like that for years so why should be be forced to pay tax on something i do not watch, and have no interest going back to watch. im not the only one 1000's monthly are turning away from bbc.
@@stevekenilworth anti British? Blame the Tories, who went full snowflake over any criticism of them and installed their cronies on board to censor the news.
As for cover ups over child abuse, why not blame the newspapers? You think they didn't know? Especially Jimmy savile? They just didn't want to lose access to conservative contacts and royal family since savile was protected by them.
And as for putting the country down, no doubt you support a party and politicians who repeatedly tell you you are living in a hellhole, but it's ok when they criticise the country. So basically you want the BBC to report the bad stuff without reporting the really bad stuff that make the country bad. So you want a sanitised BBC telling you what you want to hear. Got it.
What language are you speaking? “ they is a Gaelic speaking language” BBC TV licence free? Get off your high horse without tripping.
Great video....
It's fairly rare these days, but i'm first language Welsh, meaning I grew up with Welsh only, only learnt english once i got a few years into school...
The language is doing super well, which is an amazing feat given the deliberate attempts to cull the people and particularly the language over the years and thoughout history....
Which by the way, is well worth looking into and reacting to
I live in Wales. Many of the people I work with are first language Welsh. Our neighbours are first language Welsh. My father-in-law is first language Welsh. Cymraeg is very much alive.
I love videos like this. English is always the assumed language when the world thinks of our little collection of lands, but we are so much more
If I win the Lottery, I'll buy a wee Scottish Isle and rename it "Bob" in your honour, Ladies! Great video as always.
Cornish ice cream is THE BEST ever..the man at the beginning of the Cornwall piece is an actor called Aidan Turner and he portrayed a landowner in the 1800's called Ross Poldark..it was a tv series originally in the 70's and remade starting around 2017..from the brilliant books by Winston Graham..the series was brilliant and a mega hit here and in the USA too..my mom was born in Caerphilly..she knew a bit of the language but not enough to teach me ..shame as I'd love to have spoken it..🇬🇧💞🙏✝️🐾🐾🐕👍🇺🇸
Have a look at the Isles of Scilly. Often overlooked but worth exploring.
Such beautiful islands. Been going there since the early sixties and as soon as the Scillonian docks or the plane lands, I feel I am 'home.'
Yes, The Lizard really is a place. The name is probably an anglicising of its Cornish name, Lys Ardh which translates as High Court. The area is owned by The National Trust, an incredible organisation which like English Heritage looks to preserve the countryside and historic buildings for future generations.
My father was born on The Black Lesley and spoke what he called THE Gaelic. When he was working in Wales a man came into his office and addressed him in Welsh. This was a power-play as he assumed that my father did not speak Welsh. My father replied in The Gaelic which caused the man to be taken aback. My father then said, in English, “Now shall we continue in a language we both understand?”
Isle, not Lesley. Autocorrect!
@@lizbignell7813 Perhaps the Black Lesley is next door to Bob Island.
@ftunscthtk, could be!
Respects to your Dad 🏴😉
@DraidLwyd, thank you
I'm Irish,so I grew up with English and Gaeilge(not "gaelige" as written in the video).My dad was from Glasgow,so I also grew up with a lot of Glasgow and Scottish slang.The guy in the video said that "wha" means why,but it actually means "who".
Ps: The guy on the Cornish part of the video is Aidan Turner,an Irish actor who starred in Poldark,a TV series set in Cornwall.
Ulster is the medieval name for one of the 4 provinces of Ireland, Northern Ireland is a 20th Century political area that remained part of the UK when Ireland gained independence - Northern Ireland includes most of Ulster but not all, some parts of Ulster are in the republic.
Ulster is often used as short hand for Northern Ireland but its not accurate
Thanks for educating us
You haven’t had ice cream until you’ve had clotted cream ice cream! I’m Devonian and was raised on clotted cream ice cream. I now live up in Lincolnshire and the ice cream up here isn’t the same league at all.
When I was a teenager, I worked in an ice cream parlor for a summer. We were allowed to eat all we wanted. As there were over 30 flavours, I was very happy!
I reckon Debbie should open an ice cream parlor on The Lizard.
I've been to Devon numerous times and never had clotted cream ice cream. Love clotted cream though, so I'll give it a try next time I'm down there.
I do like Daisy Made in Lincolnshire though… but definitely there’s no other ice cream like it
My family is Welsh, though I was brought up in England - my father was fluent because they spoke both Welsh and English at home and my mother was from a predominantly English speaking home but could get by in Welsh. When they wanted to talk about something that they didn’t want my brother and I to hear, they would switch to Welsh ! I didn’t learn the language but there were words used at home that I assumed were English until later.
My uncle married someone from a predominantly Welsh speaking home. They moved to London when they were in their 20s, spoke Welsh at home but worked and managed their lives for decades speaking English. She was a maths teacher in a secondary ( high) school He died before her and she sadly developed early onset dementia, with other frailties, and moved into a nice care home where she had been happy but began to get very unsettled. My cousin, her daughter, visited from her home abroad and quickly realised that the reason for her distress was that her understanding of English had completely vanished and she was baffled by everything everyone was saying to her. It must have been terrifying 😕
She was moved to a home in Wales, where she still had family who could visit, and was so much happier.
The Welsh song (in Welsh, not Men of Harlech that was sung first in English) is the folk song Dacw Nghariad (Nghariad / Cariad is Welsh for ‘sweetheart / my love ‘ essentially) - so the title is ‘There is my sweetheart’
That version is by Eve Goodman, her live Sofar one on RUclips is one of my all-time favourites
I'm from Jersey, which is also part of the British Isles. There is a sister island called Guernsey too. Our two islands speak other dying languages called Jèrriais and Guernésiais which are derived from the Norman languages. Sounds like a rougher French.
I hope nobody minds me adding this, i've loved it for years, old French, the language of the Channel Islands, and England many centuries ago because of the Normans, ruclips.net/video/qPy_AWNtlU0/видео.html
Perhaps it should be made clearer to our American friends that Jersey, Guernsey and the smaller Islands are actually self- governing and along with the Isle of Man are British Protectorates rather than "British Isles " although we are pleased to think them so. Although the Channel Islands are actually closer to France than to England, they have never been French but were in fact the property of the Duke of Normandy. The last owner who inherited the Islands and the Title was Queen Elizabeth 11- now we presume it to be King Charles 111.
The Welsh song that you said is beautiful is called "Dacw 'Nghariad" (There is my love). It is a lovely song. The earliest known record of it being sang was in the 1800's. A woman heard a travelling merchant singing it, the song was carried on from there over the centuries. We have no idea how old the song is because the merchant probably heard the song from somebody else as well. The song is on youtube sang by quite a lot of different people, some of them not even Welsh people.
The random dude was Aidan Turner the Irish actor who played Ross Poldark in the tv series. Poldark is a famous Cornish character from the books by Winston Graham.
Very interesting. The bit that some would argue was missing was the languages from the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm). The Channel Islands are "possessions of the Crown". They are self-governing islands but very much align to the Crown. They are very near France and were part of Normandy when Williams conquered in 1066. They speak a Norman-French dialect. They are tiny islands and easily missed but have a rich history that may be worth reacting to at some time. And yes, you might well recognise the name Jersey for it gave its name to New Jersey in the 18th century!
Well said! I am from Jersey and the Channel Islands have their own languages (jersey Norman French) have tons of history.
@@Bob-pu2bu Exactly. My mother was from Jersey (Grouville) and you are so right about the history. And for Natasha, some very nice castles too! À bétôt
I extra appreciate that you're both genuinely keen to learn (and remember what you're learning!). Too many other channels are purely reaction and have no real interest in building knowledge but I love the genuine work you put into learning more. You're fantastic 👏
My partner is Welsh speaking having grown up in North Wales. There is a significant difference in pronunciation in north and South Wales. This had an impact on me when I worked for a water company. The water company took over a North Wales water company and renamed it ‘Hafren Dyfrdwy’. The management went to great lengths to train everyone how to pronounce this… unfortunately they went to language experts from the university of Cardiff, which is in South Wales. When I pronounced the name to my partner, she said it was meaningless and the first time I spoke to a Welsh customer, I put into practice the pronunciation I had been taught by the company, only for the customer to tell me I was saying it wrong. I spent some time with the customer to learn the correct north Wales pronunciation.
I was born in the Angus County but grew up in Australia. Both my parents had their strong accent to the days they passed, I miss hearing it and every now and then I hear myself saying a phrase they would use. When I am angry or with other Scots my accent gets stronger.
The guy with his shirt off is Aiden Turner (Irish actor) who played Ross Poldark in the series Poldark. The sea looks so blue because Cornwall is on the Atlantic Ocean, it has a much warmer climate similar to the South of France. Debbie you cannot beat a cornish ice cream cone with a blob of clotted cream on top. Quite a few small dairies have their own ice cream shop.
Hearing Men of Harlech was my favorite part of this
That was the Welsh song, correct?
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow yes it is
@@alvaromarianocarpio965 And here it is for you in Welsh, Alvaro, though it doesn't use the modern lyrics that are better known.
ruclips.net/video/WO45JqE2HXI/видео.html
Bore da ladies!/Good morning ladies! from cloudy South Wales.
Howdy! 👋
The Cornish guy with his shirt off is Aiden Turner and that's a shot from the Cornwall based TV series Poldark. He's my pick to be the new James Bond.
Mine too!
Glad he included Cornish, it's a beautiful language. I have tried to learn it but I'm hopeless at languages, but there are more and more people becoming fluent.
Hi Ladies,
That Cornish ice cream cart is not a million miles from a real experience my husband and I had touring Cornwall. We were out for a drive along the empty coastal road, we rounded a hill and in a small layby was a little snack trailer with tables outside. It was the local dairy farms home made Cornish ice-cream cart. They could even point out the cows on the hill the cream came from and name them. It was the best Ice cream I ever had.
Please take a listen to the Welsh song ''Yma o Hyd'' by Dafydd Iwan. It took 40 years to become an overnight success (!) and is played at football matches. It's available with the English lyrics but I guarantee you'll join in the Welsh chorus. 😀
It’s brilliant 🤩
You've got me singing it now 😅
Absolutely awesome vid, loved it. 😍
I absolutely loved this video, well done ladies, this was so interesting.
Thank you so much!
I have learnt more about the British Isles from watching your videos than I have done from living in and being educated here. This stuff is not taught in schools and should be. Thank you for this.
Welsh is a bit on the rise, thanks to the Honorary Welsh Rob Mcelhenney, Ryan Reynolds and the entire "welcome to Wrexham" thing.
I have learned a lot from this video. Thanks
This is brilliant I'm learning so so much thankyou girl your the best god bless you abundantly xx🙏🤗🤗
Thank you! ❤️
Great video, I live in north Aberdeenshire but I have lived in various places around Scotland when I was small so really don't speak the local Scots or Doric all the time, but everyone around me does and it can be sooooo Quickly spoken it can be tricky to figure out some of the words even after nearly 40 years living here haha! .. also my Name EILIDH is Gaelic for Helen and pronounced Ay-Ley, incase anyone wondered lol
Outstanding video by you 2 amazing ladies. Was brilliant as always. Very informative
Thank you, Loved the video. You show real espect.
Appreciate that! Thank you! ❤️
Being English I already knew some of the history of Scotland and Ireland , Welsh speaking, but it was a new lesson to me to hear about the Cornish and Manx. It does explain in many ways the diverse different dialects that have been watered down over centuries and given our towns and counties different accents, loved the video and the lesson, good on ya lady's
Thanks ladies, this one was exceptional.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another awesome video ladies. I definitely learned some new information too. P.S. found your sneaky duck Debbie, sitting in the trailing plant 😁
Ulster is sometimes used as a convenient, unofficial synonym for the UK province of Northern Ireland. Ulster was a historic kingdom/province in Ireland whose borders are not the same as present day 6 counties of Northern Ireland which only form a part of the historic province. I should imagine people living in those parts of historic Ulster that are in the Republic get a bit irritated by this usage or maybe they are just used to it by now.
Enjoyed the video.
Glad to hear it!
Hi ladies ... very interesting video , these are beautiful languages... I love hearing them spoken. I can definitely hear Debbie saying that phrase 🤣
All joking aside ladies this was a fantastic video as always ❤
Thank you so much 🤗
You guys are awesome. Watching the channel a while now. So great to see Americans interested in learning more about the British isles and our shared ancestral history. Love from Scotland 🏴 🇺🇸❤️
Two that he missed are Zetlandic in Shetlands which is related to Norwegian and arrived via the Vikings and French in the Channel Islands,
The song you hear at the beginning of the section on Scots Gaelic is called "Fear a' Bhàta" . There are several versions of it on RUclips, but I think the best version is by the group Capercaillie. Enjoy!
Good morning ladies, from the Isle of Fred. An interesting watch, as always, and I learned a few things I didn't know. I love Hilbert's videos. He has a light, chatty style but manages to teach me something new each time. Silly side note - the band The Pogues take their name from Pog ma hoin.
Isle of Fred 😆😆 Debbie's going to move there!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Then we'll be neighbours! How simply spiffing, my dears! 😄😄😘
Michael, we on the Isle of Tim don't recognise your independence, as you well know.
@Graham Stubbs I see. Negotiations for part shares in the currently uninhabited Isle of Bert would be rejected, would you say? 😄😄
@@michaelstamper5604 Our diplomatic corps are currently down the pub.
They'll get back to you.
Anyone else thinks the UK looks like a witch ridding a pig ?
It was how my geography teacher told us how to draw it . Great bloke x Royal Navy , unfortunately he was one of the sailors that had to stand on deck when we did the atomic bomb test and he died early from leukaemia
Great video loved the history on it love to learn the language
It's been suggested that The Lizard is an anglicised form of the Cornish "Lys Ardh" meaning "High Court". There are a lot of unusual placenames in Cornwall and West Devon that are thought be also be anglicised Cornish.
Just across the border in Plymouth, there's an area called Pennycomequick which is thought to come from "Pen y cum qwik" meaning "At the head of the valley of the creek". The highest point in Cornwall is called Brown Willy and is thought to be derived from "Bronn Wennili" meaning "the hill of Swallows".
That's interesting Chris. I'm Welsh but not a Welsh speaker but it doesn't mean I don't know anything. Llys is Welsh for court, Pen y cwm is head of the valley and bron is the female form of bryn which is hill. When I asked a friend why bron was female because he said a bron is more shapely. Don't know if it's true and if I'm wrong on anything I am open to correction.😆
It's interesting about the "dead" languages at the end. Cumbric/cambric/"north welsh" has certainly left its mark on place names in the Pennines and the Lake District. Close to me we have Pen-y-ghent (a big hill!) and up in the lakes there are place names like Blencathra. But there are at least as many Scandinavian-origin words here too. Some old farmers carry out certain activities in another language, but there's a bit of a debate about whether it's some version of Cumbric or old norse (the most famous is counting sheep: yan, tan, tethera, etc.)
Just to disagree with the video a little bit, Scots is spoken more in the Central Belt, which is, as the name suggests, is across the more populated areas around Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the North East, Aberdeenshire mainly, locals tend to speak Doric, which can be debated is either a language or dialect. I fall on the side of it being a language due to its very divergent vocabulary. :)
This was really a great video. I have watched other Americans reaction videos, but they do not research before so sound quite silly in their remarks. I thank you for being true reactionist (if that is a word, well it is now). As a truck driver in England I have been to Belfast, Scotland, Cornwall and Wales. One time in Wales I asked a local how to get to this town, I was pointing at the town name on my paperwork. He said he knew how but said, "I will tell you if you can say the name first". I tried, he laughed and said close enough, he did give me the directions. But it was all done in fun.
Thank you 😊
The ice cream cart is real and they are used on the seafront and at many events. Yes corniche ice cream is gorgeous, smooth and creamy like you'll never believe
Cornish, Corniche is a road.
@@applecider7307 Bloody auto correct
27:19 “I can’t tell when this guys messing with us” that’s just us English acting normal.
Great video. Thanks ladies
Thank you for watching ❤️
I learnt something new, I never knew about the Manx language. Really enjoyed this one.
I love the Welsh accent! its great how they have kept the language alive x
That was really interesting!And yes,Corniche ice-cream is to die for xx
Cornish, Corniche is a road.
Don't be a dick.Obviously it was auto correct
Patience is a great virtue as they say xx
The half naked man is the Irish actor Aiden Turner, he is the star of the TV series "Poldark" set in 18th century Cornwall. The Lizard is a real part of Cornwall.
Hi guys 👋
Another great reaction.
I live in England and still love learning about the British isles.
My favourite language is Welsh . Tried learning but gee it’s hard.
They are all hard!! Keep trying though!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow I will. It’s easier when you are younger I think.
@@andreww3225 everything is!
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It is hard but it is an easy way into other Gaelic languages.
Gaelic is coming back into popularity, especially with the youth who are learning it
Lmao no it’s not. Stop it 😂. Arabic is sprawling
Loving your work 👊😉❤️
Really enjoying your videos. You seem like really nice people with inquisitive, open minds.
We appreciate that!
Just a bit of info Ireland discourages the use of British Isles due to its colonial connotations also Naomh is also pronounced "Neev"
Ireland can discourage all it likes we are the British isles like it or not .
Crikey I had no idea. it's really fun learning these things with you 2 beauties so thank you. I was thinking about learning a new language, might have to be Cornish now, I'm from england and not even sure if the language is called Cornish how embarrassing. Welsh is lovely on the ears. Tbh I love all our home nations and proud to be their neighbours and family and friends. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Cornish is the name, or rather the English name for it. Unfortunately lots of the vocabulary was entirely lost, which makes it rather hard to become fluent in. Chunks have been recreated, and it's an ongoing project, but it's basically filling in the missing pieces with educated guesswork from painstaking research. The problem with recreating a language using logical extrapolation from things you know is that living languages are very often inconsistent and appear illogical because of influences that you had no way of knowing.
love your vid's , my first Language is Welsh , back in the day 60's , prime language Taught in schools was English , but things have changed , and it so nice to hear welsh being taught today
yyour making us glasga folk feel grand , appreciated very much x
Great video ladies! Bless you Debbie, there should be an island called Bob 😂
Yes! I agree, let's all move there and start our own country of Bob!! It can be The United Bobs! 🤣🤣
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow 😂🤣
I'm a Canadian that has been trying to learn Irish or Gaeilge through Dulingp for nearly a year now - 308 days exactly. Both Irish and Scottish Gaelic are beautiful languages. If you'd like to react to some music as Gaeilge (n Irish) look up the band Seo Linn - pronounced 'Shaw Linn:
Clannad are another amazing Irish band that are definitely worth a listen. I saw them live in my home city of Liverpool, they were superb 👍
Seo Linn are fantastic
They are very close... when you learn one you'll be able to pick up the other in the drop of a hat.. some older folk here don't even see them a seperate languages but rather dialects.. their reasoning is that irish Gaelic has like 5 different recognised dialects itself: Gaolainn, Gaelainn, Uladh Gaeilge and Gaeilge I don't remember the 5th... but some of them are as different from eachother as they are from Scots Gaelic. Same with Manx Gaelg. I would agree this was the case back in the older folks days maybe... but with radio and TV pushing the revived standardised leinster dialect or "Irish" (mockingly called 'book-irish' sometimes) as the official language of the country the other dialects are lost their personality and uniqueness so modern Standard "Irish" and Scottish Gaidhlig I would say have grown much further apart in recent times.
@@Dracorientalis I think the other Irish dialect you're lookin for might be Connacht or Munster? I'm still goin strong every day on Duolingo.. 540 days now. I haven't even begun Scottish Gaelic yet because I've been occupied with Irish but maybe one day I will. I think the pronunciation of certain things in Scottish Gaelic might be slightly more difficult than Irish, but I'm no where near fluent in either yet
Nice one, ladies. FYI, at one time, way back, when Cornish fisherman were in the middle of the English Channel they would meet boats of Breton
fishermen from north-west France. Their respective languages are so closely related that they could talk to each other without using either
English or French. Just a fun fact. Keep up the good work............the ancient Englishman from Sussex (sud-saexe = south Saxons).
The English guy without a shirt is Poldark - a character from a British Historical Drama set in Cornwall. Brilliant review and so great to hear all these languages. Over the last 40 years we have started to really protect our old Languages. My son has just moved to Wales where all children learn welsh at school, if I understand correctly Ireland (both North and Rep) and the Isles also teach their languages as compulsory subject at school.. As the BBC is paid for by the public part of it's licence agreement is that it provides programs (TV, Radio, Online) that are in these languages.
I think there's a celtic tribe link between yorkshire and Wales. Many places in yorkshire, mountains etc have very Welsh sounding names
Y Hen Ogledd...."the old North",where the extinct language Cumbric was spoken until the Middle Ages.It harks back to the Tribes present when the Romans arrived.Anglo Saxon was much slower to make progress in the West
The place names are probably a hangover from the British "kingdoms" of Rheged and Elmet which covered most of what is now northern England.
If you went back in time just 300 to 400 years. A modern day person would struggle to understand every day chit chat. The lizard is a real place & home to the Earth station, Goonhilly down, well worth a look as the land of the lizard is steeped in history.
Now we gotta try to find a video on it!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow To start you off, 'The Lizard' is in all probability a corruption of the Cornish, 'Lys Ardh', meaning, 'high court'.
Hello Natasha & Debbie. Nice to hear you learning about our languages here. I live in South Wales and unfortunately I am not a Welsh speaker. The part of Wales I live in is predominately English speaking. Welsh was a subject I took throughout my school life, not all on the language. A lot of the time on the history, geography, singing and folk lore.
The only people in my family who are fluent are my middle brother and his wife. They moved into rural north Wales in the Bala area. His son is called Huw, his wife is Ceri and they have a son called Osian and a daughter called Beca. They are all Welsh speakers. Huw was 2 when he moved to Llanuwchllyn, near Bala and was speaking Welsh within a couple of months. The nursery (Kindergarten) he went to was a Welsh only school and called Ysgol Feithrin in Welsh. In secondary school he took all subjects in Welsh. English was a foreign language in his curriculum. When I go to his local pub I get asked what I want in Welsh first. The Pub is called Yr Eryr, The Eagles. In a national survey about 20 years ago there were still some people who only spoke Welsh!
Much shouting in the public over the last few years has resulted in TV Channel 4 becoming a Welsh channel (also get an English version). All road signs, official documents must be bilingual. My phone bill is twice the length of an English one. Many shops have bilingual signage on the product aisles. Wales has it’s own parliament called Y Senedd, The Senate, and has a Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay.
The lady singing is Cerys Mathews, she was the vocal member of the rock group Catatonia. She has also sung and recorded many Welsh songs including “Calon Lan” a Welsh hymn meaning a Pure Heart. Try and find this on You Tube. ruclips.net/video/m5rX6s6StxQ/видео.html She is singing here with the Fron Male Voice Choir. Fron is that very high and long aqueduct in North Wales.
I believe everyone in Britain should be taught welsh,Scottish,and Irish has their second languages I’m English and I’ve always said that we should learn languages closer to home first
I’m all for learning British languages but that doesn’t include Ireland who aren’t part of GB . 🇬🇧
Great video as always. As a Scottish person I think the ‘Scot’s’ we heard here I would associate with Aberdeen. I’m from the central east coast so we don’t speak quite the same way. An interesting fact, during our census last year we were asked if we could speak English, Gaelic or Scots. I actually had to listen to a guide to know if I actual spoke Scots or not lol. 😂. I thought how I spoke was more slang than a language but apparently I’m wrong.
Is Doric the same as Scottish? remember seeing this was a common language/dialect in Aberdeenshire.
@@jasonsmart3482 I would say Doric sounds like what this video says is Scots.
@Jason Smart - I’m from Lanarkshire, and I think Doric and Shetlandic are far enough away from Lallan Scots to qualify as different languages. The reading from Peter Rabbit was definitely more like Doric than Scots. When I was young Scots was Not To Be Used in School. I was always puzzled how Robert Burns, whose poems and songs were mostly in Scots, and we had to learn them - for school!
There`s also Doric which is spoken around the Aberdeen area.
@@AylaOlivieri I stay in Aberdeen and it’s definitely Doric sounding. I don’t speak it but obviously understand it, seems to be fowk fae the broch that spik it. Mainly 😂 They write in it too which is interesting.
This was a great video, two of my nephews went to a Scottish Gaelic school so they are fluent in that now. I speak a lot of Scots English and quite often put Scottish words in my comments without thinking . The castle was Eilean Donan Castle
New it was Eilean Donan!!! Everytime! They always show it from different angles!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow it’s my favourite castle it’s so beautiful and the scenery around it is stunning
That’s brilliant . My nephew is at a Manx speaking school. They don’t learn English until they’re 7 there. I’m so glad the effort is going In to preserve these languages!!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow , come on girls are you saying that you don't know that male body , it's a BBC series based in Cornwall over a 100 years ago and of course it's called Poldark , and was a big hit in the USA as well as other places in the world.
@@littlemy1773 my sister can speak it a little too, we’re not in an area where it is generally spoken but a few primary schools have it now in our area
There is one other living language in the British Isles that he missed: the Norman language spoken on the Channel Islands, known as Jèrriais in Jersey, Guernésiais in Guernsey, Auregnais in Alderney and Sercquiais in Sark. The islands are the last remnants of the old Duchy of Normandy that are still under British control (the British royals being, of course, descended from Dukes of Normandy). Because they were always independent of France, they never had standardised (Parisian) French imposed on them through schools, so the French spoken on the islands is much more distinctively Norman than that spoken on mainland Normandy.
The islands now mostly speak English and the Norman languages are dying out - partly because of mass education in English starting in the nineteenth century, but compounded by WWII, when all the children were evacuated from the islands for five years, while their parents remained on the islands under German occupation; so the parents were unable to pass on the language to their children. It's far from the worst crime committed in those years, of course, but just another tragedy among the many others.
Jersey is making strenuous efforts to preserve Jèrrais; the other (smaller islands) are struggling to match those efforts, and Auregnais is extinct as a native language, though some of the children and grandchildren of the last generation of speakers are still alive and remember some words and phrases, sadly not enough to reconstruct the whole language for a revival. Jèrrais is starting to become fashionable to learn among young Jèrriais; whether it will do so fast enough to replace the older generation of native speakers who are dying out is another question, but there's a chance that they will learn it from their grandparents to keep it as a truly living language. Guernésiais and Sercquiais are almost exclusively spoken by older generations; they are sufficiently well-recorded that they could be revived, but it's liable to be a revival rather than a true survival.
Very interesting comment, thank you.
There's a Scottish island called Rum. And another called Horse. But no Bob. But then again Bob only means Robert anway (The Bruce) so it could have been true :)
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Let's be honest, for what could be a very dry subject - that was very interesting. I think following the same vein it would be interesting to look at what regional dialects are still spoken in the UK (not accents). I grew up in Lincolnshire and can remember my grandmother and older relatives speaking what sounded like a different language and I believe other counties were just as unique.
We did a dialect video back over a year ago. Go have a look 👀
I love this. So many people thing English is the only language in the UK, or they might know something about Irish and Scots, but this really goes into detail about all the different languages. It's a shame they only looked at surviving language, because the linguistic history of the British Isles, including languages like Bryttonic, Cumbric, Pictish, Breton, and so on, is really fascinating.
would you consider reacting to a video about Indigenous Australian languages?
Absolutely
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow wonderful! This video is especially good. ruclips.net/video/BGrD77Olk7E/видео.html About 5 minutes long
Natasha and Debbie, wish we had been taught Gaelic in school back in the 60s and 70s instead of French, never used French in my life apart for school. Maybe just me, but Scottish Gaelic should be taught in school before other languages.
I so love you two,you could make anything sound good keep it up,I'm from Royal leamington spa in the Midlands of England
Big hug to my best historians and mujeres mas hermosas de RUclips
Gracias!