i love welsh! i've been learning for a couple of years and have had a ton of wonderful (and even painful) experiences because of it. last night at work (in the united states - i should clarify that) a man came up to the register wearing a t-shirt with the red dragon on it. i made some comment about it and called it "y ddraig goch." he told me he grew up there, we conversed in welsh for a bit, and he told me that in the eleven years he'd been living in the states, i was the first person who'd spoken the language to him since he left wales. i cried! haha
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, that's SO COOL!!! Stories like that are exactly why I learn languages. You just never know when that connection will happen :)
@mazzbar91844 жыл бұрын
Welsh is my first language and you don’t know how special it makes us welsh feel when people as talented as you can agree so #Cwtch(hug)
@angharadhafod7 жыл бұрын
"You speak Welsh? Go on, say that long place name". If I had a £ for each time I've been asked to do that.
@ZomeDash6 жыл бұрын
It was the first Welsh word I learnt
@theweirdo86225 жыл бұрын
I'm Brazilian but I've always been interested in the UK and different cultures! I hope to learn Welsh. I didn't know they spoke Welsh in Argentina until 2 days ago I hope Welsh never dies off.
@rolleypolley08946 жыл бұрын
prynhawn da (Good afternoon) I just started learning Welsh and it's really fun. I'm learning it via Duolingo. Hwyl!!!!!! (goodbye!!!!)
@gracepayne58444 жыл бұрын
Welsh has a special place in my heart. I’m learning it bc my mum grew up in Wales but was never taught the language and neither did her mum, it’s quite sad that not many people speak it and I feel closer to my ancestry as I learn it
@mawgans74706 жыл бұрын
I know somebody who wants to work in caring for the Elderly, so she’s studying Welsh and Gaelic to communicate with 1st language older speakers of those languages.
@ifandafydd74327 жыл бұрын
Daffodil in Welsh is 'cennin Pedr', literally 'Peter's leek'.
@iijasii5 жыл бұрын
I’m a fluent welsh speaker and I loved your welsh pronunciation it was off but still good for somebody who doesn’t speak welsh
@Archiveofobscurity4 жыл бұрын
Reason deg - to fully appreciate Welsh mythology and devise your own elvish language! 😊
@timmmmmm2747 жыл бұрын
Great vid, as always! I live in the US and I have a small bit of Welsh in me. I am currently learning Welsh, but be warned, I'm at a very, VERY basic level. Da dych chi!
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! So cool to hear from someone learning Welsh on the other side of the world! :)
@timmmmmm2747 жыл бұрын
Aww, thanks!
@frankielogue46497 жыл бұрын
DO CORNISH I BEG OF YOU loving these celtic language videos. despite all the confusion of what it means to be from these isles, these languages are concrete. can you really say you’re from the british isles, if you can’t speak the languages? english is basically a creole, and hardly our culture
@mawgans74706 жыл бұрын
Frankie Logue Dydh da! My a dhysk kernewek rag klub rag an yeth. i.e Hint, do u want me to teach you Cornish? :)
@YaboiFoon6 жыл бұрын
Da iawn, dw i’n hoffi cymraeg. Dw i ddim siarat very well but I’m learning (God my welsh is bad) my reason for learning it is because I have a lot of welsh ancestry and I would love to go to Wales and really learn more about my heritage.
@vitorferreirapecanha17675 жыл бұрын
I'm Brazilian (Portuguese Speaker) and begin learn welsh in last week. I can say that have relative facility in my learning. By the way, the welsh language is a very interesting. Greetings from RJ, Brazil, 👍😊
@jinengi7 жыл бұрын
I love you! This is really good! People who speaks a popular (english, spanish, french) language should learn another one from their same country (welsh, scottish g, occitan, catalan...)
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment! :)
@marconatrix7 жыл бұрын
Breton? (Sort of Welsh with a terrible French accent -- lol!) Basque -- weirdest language in W. Europe, there from the beginning of time ;-)
@m3talhe4d7210 ай бұрын
I live in Canada, and on my father's side, it was long thought that my family hailed from Ireland (and we did, sort of) but actually, we came from Wales. The man in my family last born in Ireland was brought to Wales to be christened in the old country, and then only weeks after his birth, arrived in Canada. Because my mother is only first generation Canadian hailing from Scotland, my Welsh heritage is often overlooked, even though my last name is a Welsh name! So for these reasons, I'm trying to learn Welsh -- not just because it's an undead language in its renaissance, but because it's important to me to learn and connect with ALL of my heritage, even more subtle, overshadowed heritage. ❤
@Hannah5916 жыл бұрын
I'm Welsh and I feel like I don't know anything, but when I see these videos, things come back. I know how to read Welsh and I can pronounce most words and I can count to ten at least lol.
@ThePumpingiron274 жыл бұрын
Cymraeg a balch! 🏴 Well...Welsh American. 🇺🇸❤🏴
@IronToDiamond7 жыл бұрын
I want to learn a language used in my background but everyone in my ancestry speaks English but my Grandma is half Welsh (making me 12.5% Welsh) but she speaks English so Welsh is the closest thing
@courtneycarroll42945 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I have discovered that I am over 60% of Welch/English and had no idea! I have been trying to learn as much as I can and learning the language and culture of my family is something I aim to do well. Thank you for the encouragement!
@DakotaAbroad7 жыл бұрын
One of my coworkers is learning Welsh! I keep telling him I will too but I have only done a couple of DuoLingo lessons and I can't get it too stick! It's been about a month though. I took a break from studying because I was super stressed out. I'll have to take it up again soon to see if I can make it stick now though!
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Ooo, you should do it - nothing like a study buddy to help you along! ;)
@DakotaAbroad7 жыл бұрын
I shared this video with him and he enjoyed it. Haha. He is Welsh. Like he was born and raised here in the US I believe but it's not far back this his family was from Wales. Perhaps his grandma? Pretty sure he said his last name means unicorn in Welsh. haha
@a.i.l10744 жыл бұрын
Just a tip: if you want to say Glasgow in Scots, it's (glez-ga'). Your intonation wasn't too bad, just dial it back a bit and get the pronounciation right :)
@sovereignit5 жыл бұрын
Been learning for two years initially because the language sounded beautiful and stuck in a special place in my brain. Have tried Spanish, French, German, Japanese... but none of those felt like what happened when I heard Welsh for the first time. I found out the screensaver picture of a lake in the mountains I had up for years was a place in Wales... Snowdonia. Then I found ancestry going back to to immigrants who left Wales in 1645., and they were from a place not far from where the screenshot pic was taken! I think I'm hooked now, after all that 'coincidence'. Llyfrgell is definitely spoken differently! 'sheff-urr-gesh'
@osmandacik48297 жыл бұрын
Well , i would love to see your reasons about Turkish. please make a video
@Usikkert1117 жыл бұрын
You were so off on pronunciation on those words 😂
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Doesn't surprise me! Ha! :p
@ela68446 жыл бұрын
I love in Wales and I speak fluent welsh, Da iawn, new ti job ardderchog!!!! 😉 xxxx
@gerardosagastume1960Ай бұрын
I'm going to learn Welsh 🏴 on next year.
@hufflepuffkiwi8047 жыл бұрын
reason number 10: Will Herondale is from Wales. ♥
@519djw66 жыл бұрын
I am one-quarter Welsh on my father's side, and am very interested in the language. That said, when I told an Englishman about this, he said, "I can't see that," because I look more "Nordic." Is the stereotype of Welsh people being dark-compelxioned really true--or is this just another stereotype? *Thank You in Advance!*
@lidiaelizabethdavieswillia64514 жыл бұрын
Saludos desde el sur de Argentina !!!
@lidiaelizabethdavieswillia64514 жыл бұрын
saludos dede patagonia Argentina !!!!
@irvingmarquez11062 ай бұрын
Diolch, i love Welsh its a beautiful language Thanks for sharing. I d like to find Welsh friends
@foreignersspeakslovene56597 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's so interesting! Welsh is a crazy language to pronounce!
@billguill18595 жыл бұрын
Been trying to learn it.... Wow.....what a challenge!!! Hope I can get there someday, too. Actually have a friend that lives in Cardiff who visited me Easter Sunday 2005, and gave me the national flag, Still treasure that gift! Hoping to have more time to work on learning the language, just not as easy to set aside time to do it when it's not quiet in the house. Thanks for sharing though! It gives me more "impetus" to work on it, again. Hope to hear more from you, in the future. Working slowly on it through the "Learn Welsh" videos.....
@macasiskaishak28086 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to learn it and a dabbling in a couple other Celtic languages
@iagoofdraiggwyn985 жыл бұрын
I remeber hearing a story about the leek and the welsh. During a battle, the welsh pined leeks to their armor to show they were not english soldiers. Kinda like thw flag patches on soldiers of the modern day, or unique uniforms of the 1700s and 1800s. Thats why the leek is so important to them. Or at least i think so.
@louke81477 жыл бұрын
i saw a video about dutch and I saw that you know what Frisian is. I would give you more informatie about frisian an the culture. (sorry for my bad spelled english. i can't spell it good but i can speak it very good) you can contact me greats from Fryslân,nederland
@justushall96345 жыл бұрын
Eisteddfod = [eiˈstɛðvɔd]. In Welsh, f = [v] and dd = [ð] (initial sound of English this).
@RobertHeslop7 жыл бұрын
The 9th reason reminds me of a geography lesson I had in high school. My teacher was Welsh and he spent the entire lesson teaching us all how to spell and say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
@marko-zd9rv7 жыл бұрын
Aw the way you count the number is so cute
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
hehe! :p
@pabloquinteros-meza15335 жыл бұрын
Can anyone help me check the grammar of this quote? It is to be painted on a gift for a Welsh friend and I just want to make sure it makes sense since it's a google translation...thank you "Cerddoriaeth yw calon bywyd." Mae hi'n siarad cariad; "hebddo, nid oes unrhyw beth da a chyda mae popeth yn hyfryd."
@SoloTravel1016 жыл бұрын
I've just started relearning Welsh (I studied it in School) for the Add1Challenge. I love the Video
@jakubsajko17097 жыл бұрын
9 reasons to learn Latin?
@garethifan10346 жыл бұрын
Llongyfarchiadau mawr am ddysgu'r iaith, ac am wneud fideo mor dda! Diolch!
@paulwilliamdixon36744 жыл бұрын
My mum taught me to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliogogogoch. She was from Llansomethingydd near Pontypridd. CYMRU AM BYTH!
@batraciocascarudo10866 жыл бұрын
It is still spoken in Chubut, south Argentina. We love the Welsh. Also the English and all the Brits. I don't care about the Falklands.
@Katherine-vf9cx7 жыл бұрын
All sets of my great grandparents are Welsh, always been fascinated by the language!
@salvatore8q7 жыл бұрын
Can you make 9 Reasons to Learn Greek and To learn Czech and Norwegian
@zyliaw4 жыл бұрын
That last part made me laugh out loud!! 😂 Thanks for that!
@francoquintana61256 жыл бұрын
Im from Argentina and I found this very piola. Saludos!
@Ravencl4w135 жыл бұрын
What KZbin channels do you recommend to start learning the welsh language?
@hannah-mayteeson38805 жыл бұрын
Dw i'n gallu siarad tipyn bach o Gymraeg. I can speak a little bit of welsh
@mawgans.96467 жыл бұрын
That long word - diolch fawr for having a go! Ll is like l with air through it.
@cermanskaja35047 жыл бұрын
Can you make a 9 reasons to Learn Turkish video? Thank you ^^
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Noted! ;)
@zab35187 жыл бұрын
Hi!!! interesting video, thanks! By the way Cawl is pronounced like Cow and add an L on the end. Cowl. How much Indonesian can you speak? :)
@zab35187 жыл бұрын
Just saw your Indonesian video 👍
@mawgans.96467 жыл бұрын
I see you're wanting language revival! I'm currently learning Welsh, but I've learnt A LOT of Cornish - a language that really needs help! Thank you if you can help. Reading the comments, I see that you're very persuasive!
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! Do you know Say Something In...? I think they also have Cornish (and Manx maybe too!) :)
@mawgans.96467 жыл бұрын
I can contact them if you wish, but I'm not fully affiliated with them. Also, success! I've been able to start a course in Cornish in my area!
@marconatrix7 жыл бұрын
For Manx resources : www.learnmanx.com/ Nynz ov sur y'n eur-ma a dro dhe Gerneweg.
@frankielogue46497 жыл бұрын
They also use welsh! Dw i wedi bod yn dysgu sut i siarad Cymraeg efo SSiW
@mawgans.96467 жыл бұрын
Frankie Logue The Cornish...or say something in?
@MorbyLol5 жыл бұрын
1:46 it's pronounced A-steTH-vod
@Penguins19996 жыл бұрын
Shwmae, dw i byw yn Gymru. Hello, I live in Wales. Dw i’n hoffi gymraeg a Cymru. I like welsh and Wales 🏴
@voidbeetles7 жыл бұрын
Eyyyy Welsh is awesome! Thanks for this video! You were pretty off on the reason why leeks are a national symbol, though, heheh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leek#Cultural_significance MUTATIONS. That made me laugh out loud. They're really unnecessary but you really do get used to them...
@taffyducks5447 жыл бұрын
Good at Rugby!!! we aren't anymore 😢
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
Oh no! :(
@jrgboy6 жыл бұрын
My fathers family were all from South Wakes but only on of them spoke Welsh, the last census showed that 19% of people who live in Wales speak welsh regularly, I'm not knocking it, I spent a year - from 7 to 8 years old, living in South Wales back in the 1950's...
@justushall96345 жыл бұрын
Old Welsh was spoken as far north as Glasgow? Actually, more like Proto-Brythonic, which gave rise to Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Or should we say Cumbric, a now-extinct Brythonic language?
@Ara-gp4yj7 жыл бұрын
Im Japanese and it's really hard to learn Kanji :(
@krystal17936 жыл бұрын
I'm welsh
@kawen026 жыл бұрын
Im welsh!!
@samthomas72534 жыл бұрын
As a Welsh person, I've noticed one of the things non-natives have trouble with is pronunciation because they're so used to english pronunciations. When in reality - it's actually pretty simple (granted I don't really have an outside perspective). If you can memorize the welsh alphabet (really similar to the english one. In case you were wondering it's: A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G Ng H I J M N O P Ph R Rh S T Th U W Y) If you can memorize the sounds of each letter, Welsh is basically 'read it how it looks'. Like when she said 'eisteddfod' she pronounced it 'aisteddfud', I'm guessing du to the english connotation of 'ei'. Also this is purely educational, not meant to be angry. Croeso!
@LindsayDowLanguages4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! :)
@caileigh94977 жыл бұрын
Gwnaethoch hynny yn dda!
@otherfergl46094 жыл бұрын
eye sted vod
@mep63026 жыл бұрын
I thought welsh, scottish, etc were english dialects. Not languages. And I didn't know welsh was spoken in my country xD. It's good to know it. I'm not an ignorant anymore. I don't like to be that. But I don't know everything. Thank you :)
@sheldonoestreichandrada93077 жыл бұрын
do a video on turkish!!!
@sofiadavies54247 жыл бұрын
9 reasons to learn Greek?
@lloyddavies6635 жыл бұрын
I mean technically you tried so well done?
@shayfromscratch4 жыл бұрын
Someday, Welsh. Someday...
@savannahmcdonald73507 жыл бұрын
What other languages are you fluent in ?
@LindsayDowLanguages7 жыл бұрын
My native language is English but I have also studied, in order of how much, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch, Mandarin, Korean.I’ve also studied various languages for travel at certain points in the past. :)
@robertberger42037 жыл бұрын
How about Turkish ? It's a really cool language with the most regular grammatical structure of all the world's languages . No irregular verbs !
@davidtodorovic1426 жыл бұрын
Do 9 reasons to learn Serbian
@austinvlogs6206 жыл бұрын
I know how to pronounce all words
@Happy_HIbiscus6 жыл бұрын
dude, this is cool
@KC-mg2yf6 жыл бұрын
Dwin gwybod cymreag
@MorbyLol5 жыл бұрын
1:15 this is an easy joke tbh (also I'm Welsh)
@sagemcallister48225 жыл бұрын
LL = Sid the Sloth.
@jzaar74836 жыл бұрын
Welsh has only been spoken in Wales. You mean Brithonic (was spoken to Glasgow). That's almost like saying Welsh was spoken in Germany (which it wasn't but Proto-Celtic was)... - just fyi
@coolbrotherf1277 жыл бұрын
There are almost as many Welsh people in that little country as Finland. Also, Welsh seems similar to most Germanic languages and has similar root words.
@ingridode74887 жыл бұрын
theacp127 Finland has like 5.7 million citizens
@KC-mg2yf6 жыл бұрын
Dwin gwybod dipyn o cymreag..
@skrip48976 жыл бұрын
Eisteddfod = Istethfod
@briannahebert2956 жыл бұрын
9 reasons to learn Finnish
@dami56635 жыл бұрын
Dw i'n dod o'r Ariannin a dw i newydd dechrau ddysgu Cymraeg 😀