Americans Guess Welsh Slang // Presented by Welcome to Wrexham

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[@RyanCogar]

"Mitching" in Cardiff/South Wales means to skip class or school. You'd more commonly say "on the mitch" though more than likely. "We all went on the mitch for our last 2 lessons yesterday" as an example. 👍

[@leapoldstotch4987]

Mutching not mitching .

[@TheDahakon]

Yeah, that's how i used it too (South Wales)

[@ealing456]

@@leapoldstotch4987 Really depends on where in south Wales, I've heard everything from 'mitching' and 'mUtching' to 'mURching'.

[@Strawx_berryz]

@@leapoldstotch4987 in the more south part of wales we spell it like ‘mitching’ and yeah it means like skipping class or school and also in the south part of wales tidy to us means clean so like “make sure your room is tidy”

[@CashConqueror101]

@@TheDahakonin South I always used Mitching

[@emmahowells8334]

One thing to remember, NEVER confuse Wales for England, it's NOT a part of England. Mitching in wales is always associated with skipping school, not goofing off.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@PedrSion]

Wrexham is in North Wales. Most of the sayings were from South Wales.

[@darrenjones1413]

South Wales is basically England hardly anyone speaks Welsh

[@Cwlcymro]

@@darrenjones1413 The people of Llanelli and Carmarthen would like a word with you

[@darrenjones1413]

@@Cwlcymro all the women would faint and men would want to be me I feel like I'd be smurfing at this point going there I've already Been to many places in south Wales and hardly no 1 speaks Welsh like they have a Welsh accent but no one speaks Welsh and there's a lot who can't even string a sentence in Welsh except the good morning good health or good night even English speak more Welsh then that there will be a few places of Welsh speakers but mainly in a group no one has a scooby doo its facts not fiction and many South Wales people have told me straight up born and raised in South Wales but can't speak Welsh ..... dealladwy?+? =?

[@oldwelshlady6584]

@@darrenjones1413 where are you from Darren? You are obviously not mixing with Welsh speakers, its the law that you have to learn Welsh until yr 18 so, I don't understand???

[@oldwelshlady6584]

@@Cwlcymro hello from Carmarthen!!! Xxx

[@mariaaguadoball3407]

Jesus Christ, the Welsh language isn't "slang."

[@hanes_cymru_]

I've used the term "Ych a fi" all my life but I never saw it in writing until now...I picked up the term from my mother and it's never left me 🤣🤣🤣

[@thegreatpapyrus6269]

Fun to watch this being Welsh :))

[@OwainGaming]

ia mae o yn ddoniol

[@CynthiaPrice79]

My ancestors spent some time in Wales before coming to America. They originated in Mongolia/Eastern Russia and moved west over a few millennia.

[@stacywinson3955]

Some of the south Walian terms I was like, Be ti siarad am? Siaradwch Cymraeg!! XD xx

[@OwainGaming]

@@stacywinson3955 😂 digon cywir!

[@X-Bumblebee-X]

Pwy sy'n hoffi Gymraeg?

[@jumpoverthewall]

“i don’t want to go back to work” honestly is so relatable

[@user-zj2hy6le5r]

Surprised at how good the pronunciation was 😂 (+ a lot of the guesses too)

[@vvgirl6173]

Chware teg made me thing playing tag (Welsh person here). Mitching has always been associated with skipping classes for me.. Most of the first half were never used by myself or others in my Welsh Town. Though, honestly I've always associated Igam Ogam to a toy shop in my town growing up so I didn't know it was a real phrase XD

[@samandthegang2326]

"Shwmae" means hello (informal) and isn't usually a question. I was taught to use "sut wyt ti?" or "sut dych i?" for "how are you?"

[@SombreroPharoah]

Sut mae? Or S'mae. Or variable spelling of. "Y'alright?". So it's kinda both really

[@WhatIsItToBurn]

Welsh is one of the best languages in Britain.

[@OwainGaming]

yr gorau! 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😂

[@NecroMorrius]

Definitely in the top ten

[@Ccccc-mi3tr]

It’s the oldest language of Britain

[@darrenjones1413]

@@Ccccc-mi3tr nos da good night is opposite way round so we would say night good or morning good very old like tribe like

[@oldwelshlady6584]

Its one of the rarest too!

[@jonnicoleman8295]

Okay but these are literal translations, you should have them react to idioms and ask them what they think they mean

[@JohnRCWilson]

Mitching means skipping school where I come from in Northern Ireland

[@mixodorians12]

Nope, that's mooching.

[@clairec1267]

Means that in Wales too

[@itsjustvix5846]

Mitching does not mean goofing off... And I should know, I'm Welsh lmao

[@rmannayr2129]

THIS IS A LOT OF WELSH SLANG!

[@doc6904]

Videos like these honestly make me wanna melt my brain

[@deanmarsh1452]

Nailed the pronunciations! Epic. Haha

[@sunny5ma]

Omz it's sooo good to see Spenser again!!! I miss her! 💖💖

[@High_Lord_Of_Terra]

Mitching means playing truant from school and is used all over uk. A cwtch is also the cupboard under the stairs.

[@oldwelshlady6584]

You did really well!!!

[@101spacemonkey]

Some of these terms aren't solely used in Wales but in Northern Ireland and Scotland

[@Funkopopsstorewalkthroughsunbo]

Shwmae pawb I am a proud welsh man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@mermaidmimsy]

Im proud to be a welsh woman but sadly my ancestors although welsh as likely from many welsh royal lines I never got to learn welsh and want to learn more about traditions etc my dna is welsh and ive been up in north wales every weekend but i feel I almost cant call myself full welsh being as I wasn’t born within the current border on the welsh side but Ill always identify as welsh or at least brythonic despite not being able to speak it much.

[@patconner3226]

I’m from Wrexham and never heard of mitching or daps.

[@Ccccc-mi3tr]

Daps is a South Wales valleys thing

[@Cwlcymro]

Both are south Wales, common there but not up north

[@ycylchgames]

Both South Wales valley terms and even then it's very specific.

[@chrismaggs]

I used mitching in the same sense as bunking. As in skipping lessons basically!

[@JamesMMcCann]

03:39 Holyhead (Holly-Head) is where I'm from. You don't need to go there.

[@Welsh_Veteran_420_Z]

I've lived near Wrexham in North Wales my whole life and I've never heard of those phrases lol

[@HamnaTabuu]

Iesu mawr!

[@Welsh_Veteran_420_Z]

@@HamnaTabuu big Jesus!

[@christopherwilliams5939]

Most of these were South Walian slang and words, Wrexham is in the North…very different. Im North Walian myself.

[@striderwhiston9897]

I'm south welsh and never heard any of these except tidy and cwtch.

[@zoepeters3826]

@@striderwhiston9897 im south wales and heard of all of them. I guess they picked phrases from Swansea lol

[@Madi77767]

@@zoepeters3826 same but I’m from Caerphilly

[@rmannayr2129]

SPENSER IS SO CUTE!

[@Gemini_Woman]

I haven't watched Buzz Feed since Safiya left . Just thought I'd check in. I lived in Wales for 9 years and went to a Welsh primary school they even tried to teach me welsh but I could never pick up the language.

[@_Strange_Editor_]

“Slang?” This is our language?!

[@rmannayr2129]

I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK!

[@rmannayr2129]

SPENSER IS MY FAVORITE!

[@ams6850]

Dude one of the guys looks like the love child of john krasinski and Shawn white 😆😆😆😆

[@ticketyboo2456]

Proper Welsh people pepper their sentences with actual Welsh.

[@OwainGaming]

I am welsh born and raised with Cymraeg as my first language and not heard any of the english welsh slang 🤷‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😂 shwmai no no no there is much more, North/Mid and South Wales dialects, shwmai is South Wales slang the North would be Sut mae hi or Helo again cwtch is south. 🤦‍♂️😂😂😂 but meh effort out of 10 possibly a 5/10 please give more attention to North and south division in slang, you cannot brush the South as being all of Wales, you will have a shock to hearing the over part of Wales not the South aka Gavin and Stacey Land 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 e.g Milk= Llefrith yn y Gogledd ond yn yr De mae nhw yn dweud Llaeth, Microwave = Microdon yn yr Gogledd ond Popty Ping yn yr de hefyd nid oedd neb/bron neb yn dweud Cwtch yn yr Gogledd mae nhw yn rhai ardaloedd yr de

[@CynthiaPrice79]

I kind of love that South Wales just calls it a ‘ping oven’. Don’t ask me why, because I couldn’t tell you. It’s just cute.

[@OwainGaming]

@@CynthiaPrice79 yeah but I hate the idea everyonevin Wales call it that also in exams its incorrect

[@sarahcoletti6946]

It's like when you're from America and everyone thinks you have a Southern accent and dialect. Every region has its own way of speaking with its own accent. I'm actually Welsh by heritage and wish I could understand the language!

[@OwainGaming]

@@sarahcoletti6946 Yeah well at leastthe video did not call the Welsh English 😂

[@evilcommunistpicklerick3175]

Sai'n clywed 'Popty Ping' yn fynych yn y Dê Dydych chi ddim yn dweud 'Cwtch' yn y Goledd?! Rhyfedd a dydw i ddim yn credu ti chyu

[@chrismaggs]

3:36 🐲🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@harimcdermott7341]

Greeting: “alright la”

[@concrete_consumer725]

Where I live in Wales, how are you is “Sut Wyt ti?”

[@monty4478]

As a welshman i find it kind of sexy hearing an american woman trying to speak welsh.

[@pennyholman7177]

proud of this (i'm from wrexham)

[@daniellaburgess8963]

A lot of these answers were wrong mind 😂 Like 'mitching'? Means like 'Playing hooky', 'Bunking off school'.

[@ACslife23]

i am from wrexham, i live in wrexham right now i am wrexham born and bred

[@aledrob]

Some of the initial slang terms are from the opposite end of Wales to Wrexham, good attempts though. North and South dialects and words can be very different

[@ReenaBINA]

It’s always unique to hear how other countries say American slang

[@gethbach1988]

more like southwalian slang!

[@user-ql1jv1dw8s]

Was that Mathew Rhys speaking Welsh?

[@MrTaktic121]

Not bad

[@MichaelSacamos]

To everyone who sees this comment, keep pushing in life and never give up. Can't wait to see you successful one day and May God bless you!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@arugozino4639]

Indonesian slang language bruhh

[@ticketyboo2456]

Who actually give an eff...

[@samparry4950]

Didn't butcher it did quite well now to learn how to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobyllantyseiliogogogoch

[@samparry4950]

And yes it's all one word and it's a place name

[@mzampell]

Can't they afford a vowel?

[@wales-whatsinaname]

There are more vowels in Welsh than English , 2 more

[@Dead_in__side__]

Haha very original comment

[@millardfillmore1331]

I'LL TAKE ANACHRONISTIC SPELLINGS OF ARCHAIC VENUES/CULTURES AND METAPHORS FOR 800....OR UH OH MAKE THAT SIXPENCE ALEX!!

[@HamnaTabuu]

A E I O U W Y. I would say that it's English that is lacking in vowels.

[@aria.who.then.]

first edit: i put firstr edit 2: i refreshed before comment and i am

[@samsonkth]

How are you suppose to make that pronunciation from that type of spelling, Talking about cwtch btw,

[@bingbong2205]

Dw'i yn hoffi cwrw 😛

[@DoctorCymraeg]

Why do southern Welsh when talking about Wrecsam? 🤦‍♂️

[@user-cx6pw6mf9h]

Then again, Wrecsam Welsh is just Scouse talking over Welsh words

[@ticketyboo2456]

Actually Scouse is English spoken with a north Walian accent...

[@jz8407]

:)

[@oldwelshlady6584]

Except you got mitching wrong, its skyving school, not going to school that day, pretending to yr parents you went but didn't really! Goofing off is not specific enough!

[@SiimplyDestiny]

Tin iawn pawb? Oedd I just di dod yma I wilio rwybeth cymraeg ❤️❤️

[@oscarvernall9189]

STOP CALLING IT SOCCER