Tourists Attempt to Pronounce Welsh Places

The Facts. team hit the streets with a Welsh Language Challenge!
Do you think you can pronounce 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch'?
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The Facts. team gathered some of Wale's most difficult place names and tested the skills on tourists. Translation and facts on the name's were provided by a native Welsh speaker.
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[@oscarmorales8979]

STRAIGHT OUTTA LIANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILLIOGOGOGOCH

[@miamatthews6413]

Hey are u mocking my language

[@miamatthews6413]

Sorry wrong person

[@milesbarraclough1786]

wow stop what does it mean.. oh so what gandalf says

[@sameh5735]

😂🙌🏻😂

[@gayvideos3808]

*Siliogogogoch. The "silio" part only has 1 L, not 2.

[@mennapeters5534]

Forever explaining to the English that my "pointless dying language" was, in fact, here thousands of years before theirs..

[@jdsyke]

and is also used more widely now than it ever has been in its 2000+ year history

[@ARMY2014]

Dongulus Disgustus Wales has been around for over 10,000 years m8

[@jovetj]

And then they remind you that the name of your language sounds like "cum rag" :-/ We've all been there.

[@TheDrumstickEmpire]

And the Sumerian language was in use before that! Over 30,000 years before that

[@amoral_minority]

@@TheDrumstickEmpire I say we start using that instead. If it's the oldest, it must be the best there is (sarcasm)

[@louisemaxwell2097]

Seeing all these tourists fail at pronouncing the names makes me love my country even more :') #cymruambyth

[@paultownsend6919]

It's not "four L's in a row" as those young ladies say - LL is a single letter in Welsh with its own sound, and it so happens that in this compound name contains an accidental double LL. (CH is a single letter also, with the same sound as in German.)

[@sstrain8525]

Welsh, Affirmative Action for disadvantaged letters.

[@giant_rat7781]

It looked like some one mashed a keyboard and called it a name

[@ProGHGaming]

It's easy for us Welshies

[@callumcrosby8281]

Sucks to be from Cardiff.

[@Lew184]

Im from cardiff but i have a very welsh family so i sort of know then

[@HydrogenGamerz]

ProGHGaming Cymru am byth! (Wales 4 ever)

[@darbray7948]

It is.

[@finleylewis9494]

+hydrogen gamers a fi 😀

[@uchihahikaku1630]

I remember years ago i was hired to do this job for this company that manufactured fibre glass products. The manager was a Welshman and when we greeted each other he asked me how to pronounce my name. It's an usual name but it has an english version which i replied to him to save me the trouble of a pronunciation lesson. He insisted i teach him because he knew i was making assumptions that he was English, which in my experience have butchered my name with out any respect for it. Anyway he ended up telling me where he was from etc. Even spoke Welsh to me, it was awesome. He said to me as he started to draw a map. "This is the UK ok? This is Wales, these are the Scotts and this is England." "We have all the mountains, and these bastards here (pointing to England) take all our water. It's the English that cause all the trouble" Ever since then i never saw the UK the same and it painted a new picture for me on Welsh people.

[@iden01]

+X.E.N.A Lmao loads of people here hate england in my experience

[@iden01]

+X.E.N.A Lmao loads of people here hate england in my experience

[@trigaming5554]

+Unidentiviable same here in Ireland... probably hated here more than anywhere else

[@AFGuidesHD]

welsh is the true gibberish language

[@dylanowen4644]

No it is a butifull language

[@SteampunkHeretic]

***** Possibly because... You don't speak it??? Just me with my batshit crazy theories.

[@AFGuidesHD]

Caradog V No i mean like literally giberish, Gabyldwylgweedigoo

[@SteampunkHeretic]

***** That isn't Welsh. You just typed some random letters into the comment box.

[@AFGuidesHD]

Caradog V looks like welsh

[@jardon8636]

the welsh language, could easily give magyar,or other difficult languages, a run for their money lol, its LL,DD are nearly unpronuncable for lazy anglophiles**, who even have difficulty with dutch,german or even danish that are very simmilar sounds..

[@BekaJadexoxo]

Im an Australian, but have attempted to learn welsh so was at least in similar territory with my names, at least if i was trying to say them a welsh person may understand me slightly.

[@halesrubie8604]

I can say that last one 😊

[@umgetoffmychannel]

the european buzzfeed

[@sophierees2263]

I was born and brought up in wales and speak the language and I find it really difficult to speak welsh ,I really want to speak fluent welsh and its like the more I speak it the worse I get I want to speak proper welsh like all the other kids in my class, if you don't speak fluent welsh in my school your practically an outsider but that's not the main reason I want to be better at speaking welsh because I'm scared that when I leave school I'll forget how to speak welsh like my mam ,I've spoken to the teachers asking for extra lesson because I want the welsh language to live on but they won't do anything! Its the treiglo I have difficulty with

[@williamhughes4039]

I have the great advantage of being half English half Welsh!

[@gwennojobbins6735]

im welsh and never heard of half of these towns

[@jdsyke]

im just waiting to see one of these videos where someone fucks up the pronunciation of caledfwlch and says "kal-id-fulsh" (its "cal-ud-voolch" by the way)

[@raindrop2948]

I'm from South Wales and I can't even pronounce the last one properly

[@CaoimheFCindy]

I now understand what Irish must look like to non-Irish speakers ...

[@DiarmuidHayes]

am from Wexford can understand S Pedwar Ech ;-)

[@alunrees313]

I love being welsh we are the Britons

[@davidb3388]

Would you mind pronouncing ysbryd? Does it sounds like "a spirit"?

[@davidb3388]

Ta very much

[@darbray7948]

In English there are sounds like 'sh' and 'ch'. Welsh is the same, there are sounds 'Ll', 'ch' and much more.

[@lawrencehuxham]

Gwell iddyn nhw dysgu'r iaith cyn iddyn nhw deud rhywbeth gachu, pen dafad. Union am fel wnath y myfirwyr Saesnig wedi deud am hyn. Duw mae hyn yn ofnadwy iawn.

[@sanethoughtspreader]

dyw hi ddim mor wael a ni!

[@MrRoboto2338]

Yr wyf yn cytuno

[@bkr1895]

Lawrence Huxham Yeah!!! what you said, I'm sure it was quite profound

[@beargguy3809]

That last one wasn't even fair

[@LilyDoesRandomStuff3Meep]

Swafferdonk No it's called our language

[@Andrew0you0tube]

Didn't know Wales has its own language...

[@AnnieMCGaming]

and the welsh side of me is cringing so much

[@ersan4956]

People pronounce Llandudno with a 'ch' it's not Chandudno!

[@newcasual22]

LL is pronounced CH

[@ersan4956]

alan wxm I know in English but in welsh it's Ll, it's not supose to be pronounced like that but the English can't say the Ll word!

[@alygxx]

Lived there for a long time and yes double ll is pronounced ch (I'm not Welsh) :)

[@XX-ts6lc]

alan wxm No it isn't. LL is pronounced near the front of the mouth, and CH is pronounced near the back.

[@ersan4956]

Perry R Exactly!

[@coffeesloth5385]

I was right about one thing.... In Welsh, nygubngfsbmnwuinboyuntuwebyklubqnvpiw might just be pronounced "Cow" and mean something. I used to think Japanese was hard until I learned a little about Welsh. By the way, rthat was just me pounding the keyboard randomly. I doubt it's a real Welsh word.

[@MrSlyGamer]

Correct it's not a real word and some of those letters don't exist in the Welsh language. Cow in Welsh is actually "buwch" pronounced b-ew-hk. That jumble of letters would actually be pronounced "nuh-geeb-ng-vs-bm-nooee-in-boh-uh-een-tee-wehb-uuh-leeb-n-peeoo" k, q, x, v and z do not exist in Welsh so I left those letters out because they'd be soundless. But there you go. ;)

[@coffeesloth5385]

I have to +1 that. I tip my hat to you.

[@MrSlyGamer]

Coffee Sloth Hahaha! Why thank you good sir.

[@coffeesloth5385]

this little coffee sloth jr. Can you tell me how to say this? yghfdhjsgfsydjsfjfjfjsfegfejgfufljfhjrfjhrfehjewtgfjresnrjefjgfhtfjytugerfruitrgjrgfhurgryegtejfehytrehjthefjrgehjfelrgehuirorgiwhgyrgjgewktgeuigh

[@SteampunkHeretic]

"nygubngfsbmnwuinboyuntuwebyklubqnvpiw" actually means cat.

[@SteampunkHeretic]

Criais i wrth chwerthin.

[@kitty_eliziegamez798]

HURAY MAE NHW WEDI CYMRUD SWYLW O FY (village)!!! mother fugders

[@kristent225]

Do the Welsh just hate vowels?

[@Adavies58]

There are more vowels in the Welsh language than English; H , W and Y are vowels (as well as A , E , I , O , U).

[@kristent225]

Aaron Davies H and W aren't vowels in the English language but I was referring to how rarely they are used in words, not how many there are. I guess if you say H and W are vowels then they use them a lot, but no one else uses those as vowels.

[@ersan4956]

We call them 'llafariad' and it's A,E,I,O,U,W,Y a weithiau H!

[@kristent225]

Erin Williams interesting

[@ersan4956]

Kristen T​ Are you English or Welsh?

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

My teeth :'O

[@alunrees313]

Some English comments are really insulting, but there you go all languages are jibberish to the English they are so ignorant

[@gwynwilliams4222]

English is the youngest language in the world so if you speak English it doesn't mean every body else does. and why do English speakers assume that y is the same in all languages. if you want to read something in Welsh you have to forget what you know about English it's not the same it's completely different it's like trying to get a dog to say moo. anyway I like Americans they are so intelligent and wise and good looking just like George w Bush!!!😂

[@tommywest684]

I'm American and love my country along with the people who populate it but damn even I can't say we are wise. The fact that Donald Trump has ANY supporters has many of us stunned. Should he be elected there may be a mass of American" Trump refugees" sneaking onto your shores.

[@gwynwilliams4222]

Good luck in November all the best

[@tommywest684]

+Gwyn Williams Thank you, we need all the luck we can get.

[@lucyohara1217]

search up what f- off means and try pronounce it if u cant like my coment

[@AintBigAintClever]

To quote Edmund Blackadder III: "never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick, you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight" (and as a proud Taffy I can say that, along with all the placenames in this video :) )

[@AintBigAintClever]

Blackadder - Directions in Wales

[@AintBigAintClever]

Os ydych yn mynd i sarhau rhywun yn Gymraeg yna sillafwch yn gywir, pen pidyn.

[@rhyswatkins7545]

AintBigAintClever nid oes arnoch i fod mor gâs a hurt a hwnna. Ond gywiro eu sillafu oedd angen arnoch chi i wneud!

[@AintBigAintClever]

You need to take a look at a dictionary, because clearly imposter doesn't mean what you think it means.

[@lucyohara1217]

hahahaha I like u bc I know what that says

[@tessrojaro6977]

I love it when people try to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobaillllandysiliogogogoch Because it amuses me so much :) even some people in Wales can't say it but I'm not one of them lol byeee

[@XX-ts6lc]

You can't spell it though. The "d" in "llandysilio" is fair enough, but the vowels in "drobaill" are definitely wrong - should be "drobwll" (from "tro" + "pwll").

[@LoonyHalfBlood]

Tess Rojaro When I went to visit there recently, the bus driver for my group was Welsh and he was refusing to say it because he really did not want to make a fool of himself lol so I see about some Welsh people not being able to say it.

[@66LordLoss66]

Tess Rojaro What annoys me is that I am the only person in my local area who cannot cofidently pronounce it. *Sigh*. It is a curse.

[@mollymiller3513]

My friend lives there 😂

[@Turteng]

Did you write Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch wrong on purpose, hoping that someone might notice it?

[@grandslam1998]

Welsh is an easy language to speak. In Wales the children speak it and dogs understand it

[@Goblinoiddoof]

Well of course it's easy, they were raised with it. But if you compare complexity by lets say, starting as an english speaker, it's difficult

[@tommywest684]

It's great to see Welsh pride in the comments. I have some Welsh ancestors and hope to manage a visit from the U.S. one day. However after several sad and profoundly funny attempts I have accepted that I will never understand the language.

[@geoffpoole483]

Make your dream come true. Wales is a fantastic place. Although it's relatively small there's a lot of variety and loads of things to see. Welsh is a phonetic language and place names are usually descriptive. Learning a few phrases of Welsh will make you really popular with the locals. Go for it!

[@striderwhiston9897]

Make sure to never call yourself welsh though, welsh people hate yanks who say "Hello fellow welsh people!"

[@GlenTindal]

I like to buy a vowel.

[@66LordLoss66]

Glen Tindal The Welsh actually have two more vowels than the English alphabet does. (a,e,i,o,u,w,y)

[@Fireball1787]

No. The Welsh do not hate vowels. You need to know that W and Y are both vowels in Welsh. "Y" is normally pronounced as the "i" in GIN. However, written on its own (as a definite article: THE), it is pronounced as "ER" - as in "earth". For words beginning with a vowel (A,E,I,O,U,W and Y) it is written as "YR", and pronounced (approximately) as the -er at the end of "utter" "W" is pronounced as "oo" as in COOL (never as in BOOK). I hope this helps! Lwc dda! :-)

[@Nornagast]

W is pronounced like the oo in book or the u in put. When it is short. There are long and short vowels in Welsh.

[@Fireball1787]

True. Often a lengthened vowel is indicated by a circumflex over the vowel: e.g Gŵr: Man

[@XX-ts6lc]

The "ER as in earth" is a potentially misleading description of the pronunciation of the Welsh definite article "y", because English "er" is a longer sound, and also because in some English accents the "r" is pronounced. I think that the sound is better likened to the English indefinite article ("a"), at least as said in normal rapid speech when it sounds like the "a" in "comma" rather than the name of the letter A.

[@Fireball1787]

Ok. Fair enough, although it depends whether you speak North or South Walian Welsh!

[@finleylewis9494]

Just shut up

[@jjfilms9267]

It's gooood to be welsh

[@harryroberts9888]

I love being Welsh!

[@MoiraForest]

i stayed in Wales twenty years and I remember well how difficult it was for me to pronounce the "LL" that you can find in so many places :)

[@iden01]

I find that fine, but I can't roll my "r"s, and everyone finds it strange. Gets annoying sometimes

[@user-dh4us7eg6r]

Unidentiviable same, but it's a little bit of a problem for me because I can't pronounce everything in French class correctly ;-;

[@ItsAMeAndrew]

sorry but i can already say all of these

[@collinslfc]

Well aren't you the proud Welshman?

[@aelueal]

spent two hours saying the name of the station when I got to Anglesey ! XD

[@michaelwilliams3926]

the ridiculously long one was mad getting some random bloke on the train to pronounce it every 5 seconds

[@liliforjls236]

I live in Cwmtwrch and I don't think it has healing powers😂😂

[@serenashburner]

Being Welsh myself makes this 100 times more enjoyable! 😂😂😂

[@tardiskeeper6]

What does English look like to Welsh speakers?

[@jelskophfrodham7584]

Normal. Teh end.

[@tardiskeeper6]

I suppose London English, rp?

[@MrSlyGamer]

One Word Everyone in Wales speaks English fluently really whereas only 20% of the population speaks Welsh. So it's completely normal to us.

[@TimothyGreenTRiG]

One Word You can find a community of Welsh speakers who don't also speak English: they're in Argentina. There is a community there which speaks Welsh primarily, though they'd also know Spanish. No doubt some of them also speak English, but it wouldn't be as widespread as it would be in Wales. TRiG.

[@SteampunkHeretic]

Pretty stupid.

[@difcymru]

It's easy for us Welsh, for non welsh speakers "ll" classes as a single letter from the Welsh alphabet (similar as "ll" in Spanish or ß in German) and w,y are also welsh vowels along with the usual a,e,i,o & u!! ☺

[@chloejones3701]

+difcymru You're Welsh and you have Dean as your picture. That makes me happy.

[@difcymru]

Thank you!!! :D

[@miked6930]

Try to pronounce warchester hint (wah-stir) Or (Wa- uh- sta)

[@XX-ts6lc]

Quite. Welsh place names are reasonably phonetic once you learn the system, which is more than can be said for English place names. Where I say "reasonably" phonetic: Welsh *words* are extremely phonetic, but for place names there is the slight complicating factor that words can be run together but the correct pronunciation may depend on recognising where to break the name back down into the constituent words. There is also a complicating factor of having to be sure that you are really looking at the Welsh and not the English version of a place name, before attempting to apply Welsh pronunciation rules to it. Nonetheless, as a native English speaker but only a learner of Welsh, I would be more confident about pronouncing an unfamiliar Welsh place name correctly than an unfamiliar English one.

[@grammarcenturion4644]

Wait. Wait. Wait. Tourists come to wales?

[@nadialauren9510]

I remeber driving through that last one on my trip to Wales and being like wtf

[@TheZibby13]

i can pronounce it after i hear the lady say it lol

[@TheZibby13]

but not llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

[@TheZibby13]

i can kinda say it

[@kevinzhengmusic]

I can pronounce Llanfair etc. just because I've heard of it, but not the others.

[@zahrans]

I see Amy Farrah Fowler is keeping herself busy.

[@mannequinfukr]

I got to learn how to pronounce the last one and im not even welsh

[@FinnyC]

Countdown in Welsh. "I'll have a consonant please Rachel. And another. And another. And another. And another. And a vowel. And a consonant. A consonant. And a final... consonant please." Should be an easy round.

[@masterjim23]

Anyone else notice the girl for a moment begin to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? XD

[@LittleMissNawtie]

I wished i paid more attention to welsh class in high school. Being able to be a fluent welsh speaker in welsh is such an advantage for applying for jobs. Thats why i will be sending my kids to a welsh school. They will speak, english, bengali, welsh, arabic and hindi.

[@legniak1]

My Grandfather tried to teach me Welsh and all I can remember was running away saying please don't make me!

[@kristiannoel4866]

I have heard some Welsh towns being attempted by the non-welsh. I was asked if I'd been to Betsy co ed, or Diffed. :-)

[@NinaHansen2008]

Delightful -- and (most of) the comments are hysterical.

[@tardiskeeper6]

No offence intended but to an English speaker (me) Welsh looks like anagrams.

[@YodaMan-420]

guess thats why they never have welsh people on countdown. every jumble is a word.

[@amyshalders4774]

they did not say Cardiff, Swansea or bloody baglan

[@WWIIDDSS]

The guy in the pink shirt sounded and even looked a little like Roger Federer!

[@lydiaevans8576]

I have been there and Welsh is easy and hard to speak with all the mutations

[@craftsandcupcakes7365]

5they don't know how to pronounce double L's

[@ieuan-lloydjenkins7940]

Ynysybwl is not in cwm clydach, it's situated near 'Ponty'!

[@twjclarke1]

that chick on the left is a delight.

[@konstantineguruli]

Yes I can pronounce that name 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' and in me own Georgian language it is "შანფერპუშგუინგიშგოგეროხუინტრობიშსანტესილიოგოგოგოჰ" :D

[@bexyevans777]

I feel sorry for those sending mail and asking for directions haha! 😂

[@NorwoodingSkullMask]

haha he said gooch

[@pokejom]

Glad I do irish

[@henrooo]

llanddewi brefi

[@avawelsh1534]

Ah Wales

[@TheTomPeeters]

Questions to the Welsh speakers: why is the first Y in Rhydymwyn pronounced as an i?

[@ftumschk]

Because it's a compound word (Rhyd y Mwyn - "Ford of the Ore") and the y in "rhyd" ("rheed" = ford) is pronounced "ee". That's true of most if not all monosyllabic Welsh words with a "y" in them - e.g. byd ("beed" = world), pryd ("preed" = meal). The exception is "y" on its own; this is the Welsh definite article, which appropriately enough is pronounced like the "e" in "the".

[@nope0129]

I'm Welsh and I'm laughing my head off 😂😂😂😂

[@erinl2306]

When she said "supercalifrag-" 😂

[@elisha3830]

im welsh

[@crazyminionre2572]

I can say all these I'm Welsh

[@annelyam3530]

CrazyMinionRE have a cookie mate

[@therealUcxb]

How to name a welsh city: Step 1: Keyboard swipe. Example: Hjjappowmnbuiopknsawkfd Step 2: You're done!

[@LilyDoesRandomStuff3Meep]

[MLG] xX ii|a very long username|ii Xx [MLG] No. You name a city by using the WELSH language and not the English.

[@therealUcxb]

Lily Msp :3 thanks :) much appreciated.

[@LilyDoesRandomStuff3Meep]

[MLG] xX ii|a very long username|ii Xx [MLG] You're Welcome :)

[@crimsonkoba5741]

+master of keys. 1/10 need more "y" - IGN

[@therealUcxb]

LilyDoesRandomStuff :3 Also, by the way, the Welsh language uses almost the same letters as the english language.