wowser! I love the welsh language...it's so prettiful and a bit like elvish and all the celtic roots=fab
Funny you should say that because the Welsh language was one of Tolkein favourite languages and used other languages for the basis of Elvish. Its a funny lasnguage with many rules .. if you know what I mean... one that used to get me confussed was mutations... were certain words change after other words. It's grand. vicarinatutu, Joel is from along that way and I think so is Fly
Wales is lovely place, it's cool the way all the signposts are in Welsh aswell as English, like over here in Ireland we have all the sign posts in Gaelige (Irish) aswell. Incidentally both Welsh & Irish are both Gaelic languages as it Scottish Gaelic aswell. Isn't Cymru the welsh for Wales?? What's the Welsh for Ireland, the Irish for Wales is 'Breatainn Beag'.
Thats rigth the Welsh for Wales is Cymru The Irish for Wales sounds loverly. Is it made up of two words? The Welsh for Ireland is 'Iwerddon'
Yeah 2 words Breatainn Beag, literally translated it means 'little britian', Breatainn being britian and beag meaning small. The irish for England is 'Sasana' and Scotland is 'Alban'.
Cool, big it up for the Gaelic languages!! Do many people in wales speak welsh in there everday life?? In Ireland there's only certain parts of the country where it's the first language and the amount of people who use it as there first is very small the brits all but killed the language which is a shame.
I guess here in Wales we do have areas that speak Welsh as their first language. I mean in North Wales they are dead Welsh and as you come down to the South it gets less and less Welsh. Here in West Wales we have a mixed Welsh language... cod English/Welsh which is groovy. There is only one more place in the world that speak Welsh and that is Patagonia. I agree that is a shame. I think the more people who will learn it the more it will keep survivng as it is our native language after-all Do they still teach Gaelic in schools? or is it just in the schools of those areas that speak it as their first language?
Off what Hippy lady was saying, but.. I am in Wales!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Sitting in Joel's room, feeling a little chilly waiting for him to come out of lecture...! I met Louise yesterday again, haven't seen her in a while and it was loooourveluy! Hope to be popping over to her little pink house, which i can see from the kitchen window weeee! I am so happy, its not to wet either... but flooded but yay,... so glad i am here! Wales is great! I can hear one of Joel's flat mates listening to, "everybody, needs some body" very loud.. hehee and singing lots aww... haha lively hall! *dances*
I read somewhere that all schools in Wales have to do Welsh up to GCSE level. Not sure if that's true
that is very true, i did it up to gcse, i was taught welsh from the first year of school....although, i cant remember that much! oops bore da, swm i ? thats about iT!
Heehee!!! Thats cool Joel!!! Yeah I was taught it throughout my school life up to GCSE. My mam's side of the family speak Welsh so I guess I've had to speak it all the time and Mam would speak to me in Welsh also It's grand! but as well as learning English and Welsh, French was also on offer.. so in a way you could come out of school with a GCSE in 3 languages! How COOL!
In Ireland everyone learns Irish all the way throughout school but most come out of school still knowing fuck all and those that do learn some like myself rarely get the opportunity to use it. Anyone know if any of the scots on the board can speak Scottish Gaelic? Also we have a welsh channel on Sky Digital, plus we have an Irish channel aswell. Also Patagonia is that not in Chile?
yeah, welsh channel...S4C thats what we get in wales as our forth channel, and patagonia is the bit right at the tip of chili and argentina, not sure which one its in tho...
Yeah that's true.. I think. S4C is grand though! We have a long running TV soap on it called Pobl Y Cwm and it is broacasted to Denmark and translated. How grand is that! And of course an example is what Joel has in his signature... Sali Mali gave us Welsh children a lot of fun back in the day... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Thanks Joel for a fantastic Signature Pic!
I'm welsh tooooooooooo!!!!! well half welsh. hahahahaha a dwin siarad Cymraeg fel iaith gynta. but i dont live there. never have actually. yes i am a rare and strange specimin. the welsh language is dying apparently but come out with me when i go up to that neck of the woods and you'd never guess it. actually if you came to my house you'd never guess it either and i live miles and miles from there. its my rooted family you see. hmmmmm i was in wales earlier this week staying with my nain oh and another thing about crazee welsh people, i'm SURE if some scientist dude was to do some chemical test on the welshies it would be found that the taffies have more testosterone than other nations. they are VERY friendly around there. but gwae you if you try and buy a summer house up there. i'll personally burn it down. Cymrwch ofal. hahahahahahahahaha
So in South-American they speak Welsh aswell!?!? That's fucking mental!!! The only thing remotely good on the TG4 (the irish tv station) apart from a few good documentaries is a travel show by this lad Hector, he's a big celeb in Ireland. Pity more people don't speak the gaelic languages it's one of the few things that seperate us from the Brits.
Yeah.. well I'm pretty sure it is in South AMerica. It's the same with the Welsh language. It's a pity people don't learn that more. Another piece of triva is that the Rum CAptain Morgan is name after a Welsh pirate who went on to become someone very important in Jamaica. The pirates used to pick up their loot at the docks of Pembrookeshire.
And for yet more trivia There's someone on the boards with the username Samhain which is to do with the pagan end of summer and all that and is the Irish for November (which is as you know the end of the summer) Here's a link about Wales South American connection http://www.patagonia-argentina.com/i/content/la_gente_galesa.htm
