What's Typical Welsh? | Easy Welsh 7 

every language is language of colonizers. even welsh bro

@@kkuf75 Welsh is Brythonic. The language of the native Britons.

I want them to pass down this language to pakistanis

A culture, ethnicity and a people is based on ancestry but equally on language and shared histories. This is where the Welsh for me are more of a people than the Irish or Scots because they actively use their language in everyday life. I watched an Irish program No Bearla where an Irishman tried to be a uniquely Gaelophone but wasn’t able to seamlessly continue due to the population’s “lack of the Irish”. These two groups should copy the Welsh and pursue those goals of maternal language usage and reproductive strategies to ensure their unique peoples.

I think this is North Wales they speak alot of Welsh there I'm from the south we speak more English

@@bretwein3793 I thought the opposite; that celtic languages are more popular in Scotland & Ireland rather Wales.

@@occihum9115 The original person was right, Welsh is the strongest Celtic language

@@kushcloud420 Interesting, and can you you speak welsh fluently?

@@JenXOfficialEDM Good to hear, Chwarae Teg.

Agreed

No thanks!

@@gazza2933 Why??

@@PHSM147 probably because he's An Anglo Supremacist who thinks its his peoples destiny to see the world speak only English. Even if its by Force! Look up the "Welsh not" his ancestors would beat little children when they were caught speaking Welsh. Thats the reason why it declined.

😄😄😄 Thanks for the laugh. The same thing happened to me years ago, but mine involved two mothers arguing over children. I have very little Welsh but enough to realise what the argument was about. Hilarious. One of the mothers could have been my mother.

I love the Irish. Very beautiful culture and kind people. We should all be very proud to be Celtic.

Ah you came to Bangor it is just typical to see people arguing on the streets

The Welsh should declare independence. And I have never understood why the English still own the annexed northern part of Ireland.

@@g.f.w.6402 Th English do not own Northern Irleand, Scotland or Wales you clown

If you need a practice partner ill help (try) lol

I say the same!

@@pauldavies9360 still looking to help someone?

How are you learning? Any specific recommendations courses or apps? 🙏🏼

@@jowyjozef Duolingo, then RU-vid videos and books from the series Cyfres Amdani. Look at the colour code (background around the letter A) on the cover showing the level - yellow (Mynediad/Entry), green (Sylfaen/Foundation), blue (Canolradd/Intermediate) and red (Uwch/Advanced).

Thank goodness, it is a fib. I just had a lovely getaway in Blaenau Ffestiniog for a week, and everyone here is speaking Welsh

That's amazing! I've just started, so I'm a beginner. I felt terrible that I'm Welsh (born & bred in Cardiff) yet didn't know anything beyond a few greetings from school days, so I decided to start a fresh. I will say that in all my 35 years in Cardiff I've only ever heard Welsh being spoken once during a grocery trip. Even through Cardiff has the highest number of Welsh speakers (approx 101,000) you just don't hear it much, sadly. It does depend on which part of Wales you go to whether you're more likely to hear Welsh being spoken. Even though Cardiff has the highest numbers of 101,000, by percentage its only 28%. Whereas Gwynedd has 90,000 speaker which works out to approx 64%. So more chance of hearing Welsh than English in Gwynedd compared to Cardiff. How hard/easy did you find it to learn?

Chwarae teg

American, with Welsh ancestry.

Can you rewrite this in welsh?

What’s your advice to learning a language in 3-4 months I’m sarting with Spanish but next an African language

Too bad the royal family doesn't share that same sentiment. I think Chuck did just a lil bit better than his son William in speaking Welsh but Willyboy is horrendous. Why have such a title as Duke but no real connection to its' people or community?

Why 1.5 drive? Drive to Wrecsam! Y Tafarn Saith Seren ffordd Caer yn Wrecsam. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

Da iawn ti Laura. Pob lwc efo'r dysgu :)

WONDERFUL!!

Well done 👍

Ни фига себе. Что же вас привело к изучению валлийского?!

​@@AndreiBerezinобщий пункт в истории, колонизация. В их случаи англичане в нашем руzzzкие

@@EughhBrothereughh что за странная коннотация? Вас чем-то не устроил переход от кочевой жизни благодаря русским? Вы всегда можете вернуться в юрту и срать в поле

@@AndreiBerezin ОК, господа! Пожалуйста, проявите некоторое уважение к культурам друг друга.

Croeso i chdi ddod, os gwelwch yn dda nei di ddod i'r gogledd. Tyd draw am panad bach.

If you have any questions I'd be more than happy to help!

Diolch! Looking forward to sharing more Welsh culture with the Easy Languages followers :) Marian

​@@galesconmarian I had recently found your Spanish based lessons and was glad to recognise you here. I was able to make sense of quite a bit thanks to you. Hope we see more soon

Paid a anghofio RYGBI!!!😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Diolch! I'm sure you'll find some similarities in structure and vocabulary :)

@@tcrown3333 ydy!! rwy'n hoffi rygbi, sut wyt ti?

@@9SRR Dwi'n iawn Sophie. O pa ran o Gymru wyt ti'n dod?

@@tcrown3333 did you grow up with Welsh or learn it later on?

I hear similarities to Hebrew

@@taffyducks544 wow, didn’t think Hebrew but interesting you say that, I immediately thought Danish or Norwegian or Swedish

@@conorsmith8551 I say that also because apparently alot of people from the middle east are often intrigued when they hear it. There is, like the Irish, a legend surrounding them and the middle east. The Welsh have often claimed they originally came from the middle east. Mainly parts of Western Turkey, Assyria, and Egypt. Its eerily similar to Irish claims. Around 1200BCE, so 3000 odd years ago.

i think that's just the way some people from the North sound, i do get the similarities with the Norwegian but people from the South sound a lot more different than the North

@@taffyducks544 mad that, well there is ulster historians that claim they date back to the israelites, dal riada, look it up

No. No you cannot.

@@kevinchamberlain7928 ?

@@kevinchamberlain7928 ? Interesting comment for someone you have never met and do not know.

Oh the fun of the internet.!

Shwmae! Are you learning Welsh now?

It's not your language, Welsh is a mix of Latin, German and English. You're a latino González. Don't flatter yourself.

@@Arena-nv2ul Welsh isn't a mix of Latin German and English. Welsh is purely Celtic/Gaelic.

@@EriPages not as purely, but yeah it is Celtic

@@Arena-nv2ulStupidest comment I've seen thus far. 😂

Which area of Wales?

DuoLingo Welsh has been great for me in sparking memories of the language from childhood! Might be worth checking out if you want to refresh. I was surprised how many words I remembered upon seeing/hearing them in the app, compared to if you’d asked me verbally, “How do you say [word] in Welsh?” (which I would likely forget).

Can you understand?

Dysga fe eto. Rydw i'n dwy ti ddim wedi ei golli yn llwyr!

Mynd nol i siarad gymraeg 😉

One of Tolkien's favorite languages was welsh

Yeah! It's interesting, right? A lot of research is done at the university here in Bangor on code-switching and bilingualism. Marian (Easy Welsh)

Japanese, Welsh, and Germans seem particularly fond of English words as a kind of italics, to add a cool factor (instead of "yn anhygoel" a young person might prefer a "flippin' amazin'"). Sad that too many English mistake this for missing vocabulary, laziness, or lack of pride in Welsh. I've heard this code switching frequently even from fluent Welsh speakers.

@@DanWestonX It happens everywhere. For example, here in Catalonia, a lot of Catalan's switch to Spanish (Castellano) in order to swear, because Spanish swearwords are a lot more forceful in comparison to the fairly mild Catalan swearwords. Even in English, we use plenty of French or other foreign language words when we want to appear more cultured, or simply if the foreign word fills a function we don't otherwise have (for example the German word "schadenfreude" has basically been fully adopted by the English language)

Sad… it’s the same as becoming mute…

@@Durgesuth ?

@@edj4833 Never mind 😂

@@edj4833 ignore him, he's just your average Anglo Supremacist that the Welsh, Irish and Scots have had to put up with. They see it as their destiny to make the world bow down to everything English. Thankfully not too many of them around nowadays.

@@taffyducks544 ha ha yes, hopefully they are a dying breed. I'm English too and love the fact that Welsh is still so alive in North Wales.

i studied cantonese for a semester in the 70s. conversational cantonese is pretty easy! no conjugation, every syllable is a word and compound words are straightforward with no combining forms. even learning all the specific category-related articles is pretty easy if you just think of them as prefixes.

Is Welsh language close to German؟

@@khalid-io6bq not at all

There have been two teams working on easy Cantonese! But it's a shame they couldn't go on. It'd be cool if you could find a team to do it!

Helo! Croeso i'r sianel :) Looking forward to creating more Easy Welsh videos! Marian (Easy Welsh)

That was 20 years ago 😉

Diolch James! This is so nice to hear. Looking forward to bringing more Easy Welsh videos out here very soon :)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇸

You might be happy to hear that Welsh is rising in Wales and has not featured on the languages that will go extinct in the next 100 years list.

Supporting the language is just as good as speaking it.

Da iawn! Mwynhewch y dysgu :) Marian (Easy Welsh)

Try at least Duolingo.

Not…

@@Durgesuth Just go away. You're outnumbered.🙄

@@iriscollins7583 It’s easy to be outnumbered by hillbillies on a hillbillies thread… No loss will speak a language everyone on earth knows… not an extinct drivel drone😂👍

Did some research and finally found it: Criccieth, North Wales

Yes, you're right, this was Criccieth. We're looking forward to showing you more of the beautiful scenery here in Wales! :) Marian (Easy Welsh)

Its somewhere in north wales, i live in mid wales and theres not much scenery lol

Cornwall…

@@Durgesuth Wales had its coastline voted 2nd best on the planet, and several of its beaches regularly feature in the top 10. Try again! I will admit Cornwall is also nice.

Thanks Mena! 😁

You’ll always be Welsh. It never leaves you where ever you are in the world. One day and I guarantee this, you will get a calling to come home. Even if it’s to visit.

They used to call welsh the language of heaven apparently by welsh historian Alan Wilson

I agree. In Welsh if you were introducing yourself you’d say for example “ Alyn ydw i” which in English translates to “Alyn I am” which non Welsh speakers will say . Eg “ going the shop i am” the “I am” being what’s been brought over from Welsh

Da iawn Jo! :)

Diolch!

Ymarfer Ymarfer bob dydd. ❤️

Da iawn!

Thats because its hidden behind the political entity known as the UK. Ask an American to name a Celtic nation, they'll say Ireland, ask them to name a British country, and they'll look confused as to them they think England and Britian is the same thing and Scotland and Wales were some how forced to Be British. When as we know, The Welsh are the Native British and its the English who adopted the term British.

I like Wales…. Moby Dick was my favourite….

For me it was something super similar! Tolkien plus the folk song Suo Gan which is also really beautiful!!! I totally agree that if fairies and elves existed they would speak Welsh. It's so pretty and magical! 💛

@@peachysparkles A very beautiful lullaby, that one, for sure, thanks for the recommendation! I think Tolkien is quite often to "blame" for many folks out there falling in love with, or at least becoming interested in, Welsh, but also Icelandic and Old English. 😉

Welsh mythology actually inspired lotr King Arthur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 King aragorn Excalibur Anduril Wizard Merlin - Arthur's mentor Wizard Gandalf - Aragorn's mentor Welsh dragon Smaug Brythonic Elvish Lord Leodegrance of Cameliard Lord elrond of rivendell Mordred evil sorcerer Arthur's nemesis Sauron evil sorcerer Aragorns nemisis Crickhowell Crickhollow Guinevere - Arthur's wife lord Leodegrance daughter Arwin- Aragorn's wife lord Elrond's daughter Tolkien studied the Mabinogion, a collection of Celtic myths and Arthurian legends from medieval Welsh manuscripts, and wove some of their themes into his works. In fact, he claimed that The Lord of the Rings was his own translation of the mythical ‘Red Book of Westmarch’ - based on the real-life Red Book of Hergest, one of the oldest and most important Welsh manuscripts.

@@welsh-cymru1588 Tolkien’s main inspiration was Beowulf. He was a professor of Anglo Saxon culture and history 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Criccieth, North West Wales :)

Hope you relearn!! GOOD LUCK

Please learn a little bit of Welsh. As the saying goes. A little bit of Welsh is better than no Welsh at all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

@@alynwillams4297 I want to. ♡ Someday I will visit and test out what I've learned, I need to make some welsh cakes too ♡

Thanks Easy Kurdish :) Many more to come hopefully!

Speak turkish mountain Turk

As some who speaks Welsh I’ve never understood the comparison but it’s interesting to hear outsiders say it, as I’ve heard it a few times around my travels

There are quite a lot of Latin words in Welsh from when it was part of the Empire. Pont, Ffenestre, Braich are three that immediately come to mind and about a thousand more words will be similar to modern Italian

Wales has never been a nation that’s invaded. It’s always been the one that’s been invaded. From the Romans, Anglos Saxon, Jutes, Normans and then the English.

That's so interesting! Well in the 1850s-1860s there were small contingents of Welsh immigration to Rio Grande do Sul and Patagonia so that could explain it.

But then that would force the English to ask why they speak English if Welsh is a native Briton language. Which then they will realise English is invasive.

Zaun is in Wales?

What part of Wales are you from?

@@annabellewallis291 Im from Gwynedd, right on the furthest north-west peak. (one below Angelsey)

Yes! It is :)

English isn’t related to Welsh. English is Germanic where as Welsh is Brythonic.

One of my biggest criticism of the English education. The government always seem able to find the funds to teach immigrants English in Schools, but not to teach a second language to British children. Resulting in indigenous children being immediately put at a disadvantage. Learning another language helps the brain to cope with learning other subjects. Let's be honest, generally children are not even taught about their own language. Lose lose situation.

@@iriscollins7583 My school was quite disorganised on that - learnt spanish as main language though it was optional for GCSEs so most dodged that(one problem for us Anglos - lack of enthusiasm to learn other languages/laziness which is one reason I dislike English being dominant language globally). Didn't help we had teachers coming and going to the point they scrapped spanish so I couldn't do spanish in A levels and no one wanted to do French(understandably given we spent yrs 7-11 learning Spanish not French). I mean I'd have Old English and Welsh be a GCSE subject for English schools given they're languages we spoke prior to Normans messing it all up. TLDR - lack of enthusiasm is main reason English people don't learn other languages - if people were less chauvinistic vis a vis our language being dominant globally and being more confident when let's face it, us Anglos are not great at pronunciation for say French, Spanish or Russian for example(latter I found out the hard way).

I worked as a languages teacher in England for many years. I'm afraid the problem has always been lack of joined up thinking at government level. Kids need to start learning a language in primary school and many do. The problem is that they will do whatever language any of their teachers is capable of teaching and also the teachers may not even have any training in teaching that language. Second problem is that they may then go to a high school where the language taught is different so they have to start from scratch again. A huge problem is that people leaving university with a languages degree nowadays just don't want to go into teaching anymore. In former years it was common to just do a degree in languages. Nowadays university students tend to do a degree in a language combined with something like business studies, economics etc so had off to use their languages in a job not go into teaching it. You can't get all kids doing a language if there's nobody to teach them. Next problem is the structure of exams in languages at A level makes it harder to get good grades so kids are put off doing A levels. The tasks and topics they have to cover are so complex that even native speakers struggle with parts of it. I know this because I have helped native speakers to take A levels in their own language and they find it hard. Final problem in terms of being equal to kids learning English abroad is the out of school experience ie. the contact they have with the language outside of lessons. Languages are a skill like playing a sport or a musical instrument. You only learn them by repeated practice. Dutch, Swedish etc kids don't really learn their excellent level of English in school. It helps, but they really learn English from the multiple English language TV programmes they see, the films, the music, the online games they play in English and the predominance of English on social media. English kids might do an hour of French in school and then not hear another word of French until their next French lesson. It's an uphill battle.

@@blotski Yes, there is so much in your excellent reply! As you say, youngsters learn languages, largely through a prism of other vocational courses. There are very few dedicated teachers of languages because, I guess, there is more money elsewhere. My general view is that the intellectual level of students in the UK is abysmal, few have even a notion of what critical thinking is, and decades of remedial leftist ideology has inbred an utter contempt for memory learning which in IMHO is utterly essential in language learning. (I call UK universities marxist brainwashing compounds).And because they are not taught how to be serious students, then they go through life robbed of all sense of achievement and purpose - and however much dough they may (or may not) make.