American Reacts to British Soap Operas (#2)

[@YangSing1]

Lol the first one they’re speaking Welsh

[@nickball4071]

i thought the bbc wales kinda gave that away lol

[@nickball4071]

do the scots and irish not also speak their own variation of gaelic?

[@evantighe696]

Irish (or Gaelic as the call it), Scots Gaelic and Welsh are 3 separate languages

[@chloesnickerswedlock]

gaelic is irish, welsh is welsh (welsh person)

[@drawntoicehockey]

All Celtic languages are originally derived from Old Welsh (from ac couple millennia ago), so Gaelic languages share some similarities with Modern Welsh (they're very few and far between). Brythonic languages like Cornish and Breton are a lot closer to Welsh because they developed closer to each other geographically. Taffe should do Rownd a Rownd next lol. The accents in north Wales are difficult for me sometimes, and I've been fluent in Welsh since I was 3 XD

[@ZeldaA_91]

Pobol Y Cwm ( People Of The Valley in English) started all of the long back in the 1970's was actually first shown on the BBC Wales Originally but moved over to S4C in the 1980's!!!

[@sarfaraz.hosseini]

Welsh, from Wales, the ancestral homeland of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Calvin Coolidge, and _Honest_ Abraham Lincoln among other Welsh American Presidents.

[@petermasefield8403]

The fact you commented on Kelli Hollis being a good actress made my evening.

[@peterwilliamskelhorn6675]

@petermasefirld8403 Yvonne in shameless

[@dminalba]

It's Welsh the language you're hearing on Pobol Y Cym, A teenage Ioan Gruffudd was in it long before he starred in the fantastic four movies, There used to be a scottish Gaelic soap between 1992 and 1998 called Machair, River City is set in my home city, Glasgow a lot of the cast have a comedy background. Many of them have been alumni of BBC Scotland's comedy unit.

[@johnm7027]

Nice to see that River City got a mention. Machair was great too - innovative for its time. It's a shame that Take The High Road wasn't in the compilation - just current shows I guess.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

Ioan Gruffudds big break I think was Titanic playing officer Harold Lowe, the officer who took his boat back to rescue survivors.

[@peterwilliamskelhorn6675]

@dminalba brookside is set in my hometown Liverpool

[@drawntoicehockey]

POBOL Y CWM! I WATCH IT EVERY DAY!!! I was listening to this while sorting through my twitter follows, and as soon as I heard the Pobol y Cwm theme tune, I freaked XD. Pobol y Cwm is pronounced POB-ol UH COOM with a short "oo" sound like in the word "look". It means People of the Valley and it's set in the south Wales valleys just like Fireman Sam is. DJ is the nickname of Dai's son, Richard, because it was 1st thought that his biological father was Dic Ashurst, and DJ's named after him, so DJ stands for Dic Jr. I missed the episode you watched, but this video came out just after a storyline where DJ was falsely accused of sexually assaulting his friend, Sioned (who didn't appear in the clip you watched here), when she was passed out after getting drunk, and it turns out, it was a character called Gwyneth (the woman with the short dark hair who talked to Non in the caffi) who did it and framed DJ for it. Non is the girl with the glasses, and she fancies DJ, so her, DJ and Sioned were working to clear his name once they worked out Gwyneth did it and not him. DJ was worried people still wouldn't like him after Gwyneth was publicly outed by Sioned at a party in the local pub incase people didn't believe him, Non and Sioned. I'm deep in the Pobol y Cwm lore... I'm the saddest 18 year old in Wales XD

[@Foebane72]

I really love your reaction videos, Taffe316! I love seeing how American react to British culture.

[@lizziedavidson1987]

Now people have told you about the first one it should be noted that Welsh is one of the roughly 5 Celtic Languages spoken in Britain by people to varying degrees. The others being Irish and Scots Gaelic, Manx, and Cornish.

[@jontaylor1587]

Glad somebody said something about the language.

[@jontaylor1587]

@Sparks TV yes born and bred! Where you from?

[@jontaylor1587]

@Sparks TV lovely area! You're very lucky!!

[@jontaylor1587]

@Sparks TV glad too hear your house didn't flood! Good wellies help!

[@kierboy1296]

They are speaking welsh Taffe 👍

[@reactions5783]

You must be the first "taffe" to not recognize the Welsh language, lol. ..."Taffy" is an English slang term, meaning a "Welsh" person. It's similar to using "Yank" to describe an "American". It can be regarded as a pejorative to some however.

[@terminalfrost3645]

taffy is chewy sweets like chewits in the states.

[@albaproductions9602]

The actress who loses her father in Doctors is a big film television and stage actor here in Britain.

[@vj9021]

Those are a bit more obscure the 1st & 3rd would have to be searched for but true that in Wales more people speak Welsh, re-introduced into schools sort of '90. But fewer Scott's speak Scottish in my experience, but don't say there speaking English. For a small country we have a lot to ague about.

[@moonpriest8016]

You should react to Waterloo road, idk if it’s a soap opera because I don’t watch many soap operas tbh however it is certainly a drama. It’s a show about a school called Waterloo road set in a town in Manchester called Rochdale, rochadale is one of the most impoverished areas in England and the shows about both the lives of the students and teachers, it’s an alright show I haven’t watched all 10 seasons. You should react to one of the episodes. Edit: Waterloo road has its own KZbin channel with the episodes on so idk if that’s gonna be helpful or if it’s gonna have copy-write issues

[@fr1day2]

Blackadder once said: 'Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick. You'll be washing phlegm out your hair for a fortnight.' Which is a series you should definately do a react to vid, if the BBC allows it.

[@greybackwillmunchyou2593]

Hope you enjoyed watching the soap operas you watched and could understand what they where saying in River City apparently it’s hard for people who aren’t Scottish to understand and being Scottish myself I wouldn’t understand that 😂 please could you react to just Emmerdale if possible it’s about the same level as Coronation street in popularity in the UK personally it’s better I would recommend the bypass crash it’s one of the best scenes and has won awards also there was a helicopter crash a few years ago which is worth watching as well

[@rambletash]

I don't speak Welsh but I'm actually really interested in watching the Welsh show. Any show attempting to keep any of the celtic languages alive gets a plus in my book.

[@matte4562]

The people on the first show sound like The Sims

[@lewisdent3535]

Please, I beg please do British Sci Fi shows. Doctor Who, Primeval. There are many others

[@TyrannosavageRekt]

Oh, just a little bit of trivia for you, but "Taff(y)" is a slang word for a Welsh person, it comes from a corruption of the common Welsh name Dafydd. It's quite similar to "Paddy" for Irish people, and "Jock" for Scottish people, though some that live in the countries do find the terms somewhat offensive. Some people say it actually comes from the name of the river that runs through the centre of the capital city, Cardiff, which is called the River Taff. Sometimes it is just applied to people from Cardiff (people from Swansea were known as "Jacks" and often still are, and people from the North of Wales were called "Gogs" after the Welsh word for North which is Goggledd), but now it's often used for the whole country, especially people from the South. Just thought that was a funny nugget given your username.

[@jacobpage6803]

I'm an extra in the first soap opera!!

[@LeeFearn43]

Can you please do a 3rd reaction to British Soap Operas from 2021/2022.

[@theomni6557]

I saw this episode of Doctors weeks ago. The mother was phoning her daughter, who had left home years ago, thinking her Grandpa had sexually abused her. It was actually her brother who abused her, but her grandpa put a stop to it.

[@genticles9981]

“I have no idea what language this is” Dude, it said BBC Wales. Come on

[@taffe316]

I know very little about Wales if I'm being perfectly honest with you.

[@YangSing1]

taffe316 Wales is a country in the UK that has its own language, spoken by about 20% of the people there

[@YangSing1]

According to the 2011 census, 19% (562,000) of Welsh residents three years old or over reported being able to speak Welsh.

[@bluebubble19]

Jake Cooper I'm from South Wales and most of the people I know speak fluent Welsh, just don't use it.

[@bluebubble19]

Jake Cooper really? i’m from further south than that and i suppose it could just be the communities i’m in but the majority of the people i know went to welsh school and are fluent, or can at least use conversational welsh

[@WelshAmethystGirl087]

The first one was Welsh

[@nicholasmilton1310]

The first one is Welsh

[@AnxietyAddict]

What about Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Brookside etc

[@jenniedarling3710]

Corie, EastEnders and Hollyoaks have already been viewed.

[@ハービ]

he should react to casualty

[@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming]

Took most of the first clip to realise but pretty sure it was in Welsh.

[@Spectublend]

The first show was in Welsh.

[@bradleyb3901]

Glasgow representtttttt. River city.

[@harry.newin22]

im from the uk and i have never heard of any of these shows

[@JohnMacbeth]

First clip was in Welsh.

[@jacklong1844]

It would’ve entertaining if he guessed

[@ellielouise.3451]

It was welsh people get the language confused all the time

[@alyssabrinded2865]

It was Welsh

[@urbysteele6444]

It’s welsh

[@StaticModz2016]

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[@annoneymouse5999]

A doctors. Clip without Mrs tembe is pointless best person on the show

[@TonySpike]

That was Welsh dude

[@jparry5305]

Come on... where’s casualty

[@K1C2F3A4]

My friends live in Wales and they can't talk Welsh lol I'm from London tho

[@garethedwards6835]

they speaking welsh mine and a thousand other peoples language lush it is wish i was fluent in it my parents did not send me to a welsh school :(

[@MavenCree]

They're speaking Welsh.

[@owenwood1081]

Welsh they’re speaking welsh

[@Mviews-hb4ib]

first one is Welsh or Scottish, they are both just a noise to us English chaps :)

[@petermasefield8403]

1M views its clearly Welsh. You must have hard of Pobol y Cwm

[@JoeyTheBeastHD]

welsh isn't even brittish

[@taffe316]

Wales is a country in UK

[@JoeyTheBeastHD]

didn't know that because I'm not welsh.

[@terminalfrost3645]

then why did you say wales wasn't british if you didn't know?

[@kwesiidun8512]

Joey Jones - Wales is in the United Kingdom, you tit. Therefore it IS British.

[@jay-jay24]

1st one definitely not British lol

[@taffe316]

It's Welsh. Wales is a country in Britain

[@kwesiidun8512]

Nick-o - Wales is part of the UK, you dickhead!

[@collsmad]

Strictly speaking, it's the only one that IS British. The English language is derived from Anglo Saxon (as is German), whereas Welsh is derived from Common Brythonic, a language spoken throughout Great Britain before the Romans arrived, never mind the Saxons. In Welsh, England is Lloegr, believed to mean the lost land, and the English language is Sasnaeg, meaning Saxon.