Visiting Dolgellau (Part 1) | Easy Welsh 1

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Filmed by Judith, Mim and Sylvie
Transcribed by Gareth
Produced and edited by Sylvie

[@mitchellbarton7915]

Been trying to learn welsh to get closer to my roots and I was mind blown to realize how much I was able to understand. Got a long way to go still, but hopefully this beautiful language can live on!

[@szymonxxx5646]

I'm surprised that we can watch Welsh episode! This language sounds so mysterious and wonderful. Hope to see more Welsh videos. Greetings!

[@easywelsh9903]

Greetings! Thanks for watching and we're glad you like Welsh :)

[@markhm8682]

Our language is ancient

[@PolyglotCurious-rv9dx]

Dwi'n caru Cymraeg Hawdd! I love this. I was studying Welsh, but could never hear it spoken, so I was discouraged. This really helps! Diolch!

[@ulyssemarquet1790]

amazing! Hope we can get more "smaller" languages on easy languages

[@margaretkopretina]

Oh yay! I am so enchanted by the Welsh language

[@elliotgordon4795]

The girl with the pink hoodie has such an amazing accent, I don't hear much Welsh so it might be normal but the stress on certain words like stopio and heddiw makes a really nice flow in the sentences

[@Knappa22]

She’s speaking south Wales Welsh!

[@davidamat6588]

I love Welsh!

[@cristinam6575]

I've been learning Welsh for three months and I'm totally in love with this language 😍

[@tinfoilbottle5943]

How’s it going

[@matteonic6589]

Io ho iniziato oggi, come sta andando dopo 2 anni?

[@LellePrinter82]

I love the celtic languages they're all so beautiful. Would've loved to see some Scottish Gaelic and Irish (Gaeilge) too.

[@Sandylaner63]

Try ,,now you’re talking,,,it provides vids in Welsh and/or Irish Gaelic

[@silverspeak4813]

It’s not really the same thing because of the bretonic influence it has

[@sebastiangudino9377]

@@silverspeak4813 They never claimed it's the same thing, they only said they like Celtic languages and would like to see more...

[@FrozenMermaid666]

There should also be Easy channels for Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic - I am trying to learn all 6 Celtic languages, and it’s not easy to find resources for most of them! And also, for the less known Germanic languages, like Faroese / Icelandic / Gothic / Old Norse / Norn / Old English etc and Limburgish and the West-Vlaamse / Oost-Vlaamse Dutch-based languages and Luxembourgish / Low Dietsch / Ripuarian etc and the other German-based languages and Gallo / Galician / Guernsey and the 4 French-based languages spoken in Belgium and Occitan and Aranese etc and all Italian-based languages like Venetian / Sicilian / Neapolitan etc and Slovenian, they all should have an Easy yt! I am trying to learn all these languages - they are very pretty languages, so they should be included in language related videos and also on lists of recommended languages etc!

[@dustgreylynx]

Both Welsh and Irish are so beautiful ! Iwish they were more frequently spoken then i would be more motivated to learn them. Greetings from Berlin !

[@caitlinlemon7480]

I'm welsh and went to Ireland last year and LOVE the language! Everytime we got in the car i was like 'lets listen to the Gaelic radio!' but SO different from Welsh

[@FrozenMermaid666]

There should also be Easy channels for Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic - I am trying to learn all 6 Celtic languages, and it’s not easy to find resources for most of them! And also, for the less known Germanic languages, like Faroese / Icelandic / Gothic / Old Norse / Norn / Old English etc and Limburgish and the West-Vlaamse / Oost-Vlaamse Dutch-based languages and Luxembourgish / Low Dietsch / Ripuarian etc and the other German-based languages and Gallo / Galician / Guernsey and the 4 French-based languages spoken in Belgium and Occitan and Aranese etc and all Italian-based languages like Venetian / Sicilian / Neapolitan etc and Slovenian, they all should have an Easy yt! I am trying to learn all these languages - they are very pretty languages, so they should be included in language related videos and also on lists of recommended languages etc!

[@Rathori]

I was fascinated by the language when I went to summer school at Glyndwr University. I literally took about a hundred photos of various signs and posters in Welsh, lol. Hopefully someday I'll have time to learn it :)

[@tomservo5347]

Little wonder Tolkien stated that Welsh is the world's most beautiful language. As a history buff I've read that in North Africa during WW2 the British used Welsh speakers to talk on the radio as the Germans wouldn't have a clue how to understand-rather like our Navajo code talkers. I'd love to visit Caernarfon someday and see if I still have relatives from my ancestors that immigrated to the US in the late 1800's. Where I grew up a lot of Welsh settled together in a small town called Dawn, Missouri where you can still find surnames like Morgan (my ancestor's), Evans, Jones, and Davies.

[@ThatDamnPandaKai]

Interestingly enough, Evans and Davies aren't 'true' Welsh names, rather they're anglicized, since there is no 'v' in Welsh, the v sound in English is represented with a single 'f' in Welsh.

[@alesauria2]

We need more of these please! Duolingo is not enough anymore :p

[@hashimahmedali7251]

Ale Flores Duolingo was never enough

[@janeauer7389]

Duolingo had the thing it does and it’s really helpful. But at some point, it’s necessary to get exposure to the language in use and, eventually, even in the wild. Duolingo, as useful as it is (and it REALLY IS) can’t be all things. It’s important to have other resources, like this one.

[@joelsong4209]

Wow this project becomes more diverse! Great

[@stalkerkoala777]

This is wonderful! More Welsh!

[@gillianivory7453]

Brilliant! So helpful you can see it read it read it and hear which in learning welsh is so vital as it sounds nothing like it's written. Also you can pause and repeat !!!

[@pianoman598]

Turning on the English automated subtitles is highly amusing

[@lifefan1]

This language made me feel nostalgic somehow..

[@timothydouglas9474]

Diolch! Dw i'n eisiau siarad Cymraeg. Heddiw rwyn dechrau dysgu.

[@barnbersonol]

Wow! I'm South Walian and although I understand this dialect I must emphasise that Welsh has far more regional varieties in one small country . than English does across the whole world. Dolgellau Welsh is immediately identifiable even from Aberystwyth.

[@caitlinlemon7480]

My Mam is from Cardiff and fluent in Welsh, but I learnt Welsh from Conwy area, where I grew up, and we really struggle to converse in Welsh because of all the little nuances and differences, and when I first went to primary school I'd get told of for saying loshins and stuff 😂😂 and when I went to high school, my teacher was from Anglesey and wouldnt know what we meant by some words cos they wouldn't use it in that way or at all in Anglesey, it's so confusing 🤣🤣

[@barnbersonol]

@@caitlinlemon7480 falle bod dy Gymraeg yn ddyffygiol a dim byd mwy na hwnna. Bues i yng Nghaernarfon blwyddyn ddiwethaf ac galles i ddeall pawb, dim problem ac deallon nhw fi hefyd.

[@caitlinlemon7480]

@@barnbersonol wow, dw i'n darganfod Cymraeg Caernarfon yn anodd iawn! Pethau fwyaf roedd i deall gyda fy mam neu athrawes, ond un neu ddau geiriau yn g wahanol, fel loshins neu fferins, a sut i dweud sentences a pethau. Ond dw i'n cytuno gyda'r dy sylwi cyntaf, Cymraeg ydy yn wahanol yn ardaloedd wahanol, ond hefyd dw i'n dydy ddim yn siarad Cymraeg cyntaf iaith, felly Cymraeg yn teimlo mwy wahanol i fy oherwydd dw i'n dysgu dialect sicr, wyt ti'n ddeall? Fel ti'n dweud, fy Gymraeg yn ddyffygiol. Mae'n gwneud synnwyr? 😂

[@barnbersonol]

@@caitlinlemon7480 mae siarad Cymraeg yn dda ac yn gywir dim ond angen ymarfer a hyder. Mae mantais da fi fod y ddau riant yn siarad Cymraeg. Doedd dim Saesneg o GWBL yn y ty pryd o'n ni'n tyfu lan. Dim gair.

[@col4574]

Really,so how will my fictional character,a girl from the countryside nearby,sound......anything distinctive.......she is a teenager.

[@TravelsWithRose]

This place is so beautiful I want to go back again.😊

[@donbamsey5212]

I’m so familiar with all the accents so I keep thinking that I understand them but I just don’t. It’s weird.

[@learnwelshonline494]

Kudos to the creators for getting this out there. I want to interview people too (but on audio on podcast form) but still haven't got round to it! It's good to see minority languages represented on Easy Languages too.

[@col4574]

Good,followed that nicely after ten lessons from Cardiff University

[@andycwb]

This is great - good to augment my basic Welsh from Duolingo with some proper authentic pronunciation. Diolch yn fawr!

[@thefrenchpoet3160]

Yes! YES! Finally, THANK YOU!!!!

[@easywelsh9903]

Thanks for your kind comment, and we are really glad you like the video. More to come!

[@tassietraveller2239]

Brilliant!

[@tulegenow]

Очень интересное звучание у этого языка

[@learnwelshonline494]

Спасибо :)

[@igeljaeger]

welsh is cool

[@ilovegreen0150]

Listening from Australia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️👍

[@henriksiboni6930]

Interesting language! Thank you for making this video :)

[@fernweh9316]

I forgot how much I love Dolgellau

[@nikolayordanov3115]

Shwmae sounds too similar to the Polish siema, which is a casual way of saying hi

[@pawe.l]

@Fflur Efa And the Polish "siema" comes from "jak się masz?" which means "how are you?" (in a literal translation it is "how do you have yourself?")

[@garthhunt7238]

Another awesome video!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ogurenedebaki2044]

They all have Swedish intonation

[@claudioristagno1213]

Well done! It would be nice to see easy Irish now :-)

[@easywelsh9903]

Thanks! Glad you like the video.

[@MrYorickJenkins]

amazing I did one weeks intensive Welsh and listening to this and not looking I understand about 25% Ilike the sound of Welsh very much Prydferth

[@raufrzayev9994]

Wow just noticed that "today" sounds almost the same both in Welsh and Esperanto :)

[@ftumschk]

Well spotted. "Heddiw" (Welsh) originates in the Latin "hodie", as does the Italian "oggi". I wouldn't be surprised if Esperanto's "hodiau" was based on the same root.

[@SionTJobbins]

@@ftumschk ... and "avui" (Catalan) etc. Same root - never knew that until recently, it's not obvious to Welsh speakers. The 'dd' is the same sound as the 'th' in 'with', 'together', 'the' etc.

[@ftumschk]

@@SionTJobbins Diddorol iawn! Diolch :)

[@joanneaugust6611]

I don't know any Welsh, but I could hear that the mother and daughter duo from Cardigan spoke a different accent/dialect - a very beautiful one. What I wonder with Welsh is: how many of the speakers learned it at school or something like that, an how many are actually native speakers? Am I correct in assuming that the couple with the young girl were native or at least very fluent speakers, while other only had some knowledge of Welsh?

[@sejb222]

My mother is from Dolgellau!

[@survey9728]

Cool!!

[@jonesmartins]

YES!

[@gabrielamariaalbuquerquede2123]

Amazing!

[@pradeepsubedi1993]

help me my tongue stuck... wow this is so interesting to learn really. i am right here with pen and paper. i am quiet surprise that some of the work are quiet similar to Shan Language in burma.

[@johnmjones1604]

most of my relatives live there and up the road to llan

[@HitroLis]

It's interesting. Thank you.

[@ameyi05]

I’m an Irish speaker but it’s nice to hear how other Gaels speak

[@welsh-cymru1588]

Its actually brythonic were a separate branch to Gaelic Celtic brythonic Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cornwall 〓〓 Brittany 🇨🇵 Celtic Gaelic Ireland 🇮🇪 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ilse of man 🇮🇲 There were originally just 3 Celtic groups wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 & ireland 🇮🇪 & picts who were also brythonic like us welsh , northern irish immigrants moved into northern Britain (modern day scotland) and mixed with the native brythonic picts the Scottish identity was born, basically the scottish🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 identity is like a welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 x irish 🇮🇪 x picts hybrid , lots of old brythonic names in scottish towns , the irish also settled on the isle of man 🇮🇲 , they speak a Gaelic language called manx, the anglo saxons invaded britain in 450ad and pushed us Britons (welsh) west into mordern day wales , the other Britons got split from us near the severn bridge and got pushed down into mordern cornwall they were separated by a body of water from us so the cornish identity and langauge formed over time , many didn't stay in cornwall due to fear of another saxon invasion so they got on ships until they landed in north-west france (brittany) where they settled, they were eventually conquered by the franks but kept their celtic culture and language and there is actually a small independence movement happening there , possible new nation in the future along with cornwall , be nice to see 4 independent celtic nations and a United ireland we should be proud of our cultures not many of us celts left we used to be all over europe until the Roman's and julias ceaser wiped them out it's a miracle that were still here.

[@channelraven8808]

Super cool channel! Thank you! Simple language but real!!! No eating apples or worshipping holy potatoes (Duolingo I'm looking at you!!

[@iamsherk2605]

I am learning Welsh right now and I read like a kindergartener.

[@tstsullivan]

I see 2 versions of ' I am', neither of which is what I was taught, which is ' dw i'. Can anyone clarify that? Diolch!

[@ikarly2898]

Scots Gaelic and Irish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Occitan, Franco-Provençal, Sardinian, Sicilian, Neapolitan, Tartar,

[@denniscrowli]

I wish they would do easy irish with the gaeltachs -.-

[@CyberSiberian]

*______* wow

[@Gw0wvl]

Good video , But why is the music " So loud " compared to the talking ... I'm here in work with headphones on , And the music is Sooooo loud its a wonder I'm not deaf ....... 👎

[@brstfr7126]

Why does he say "Dw'in dod o Bangor" and not "Dw'in dod o Fangor"? Is the soft mutation optional after "o"?

[@bicycle4206]

Very late reply, but in casual-everyday-Welsh mutations are not absolutely necessary to be understood. There are so many specific rules about when to use them that it can be hard to remember so some people forget but it's not a big deal. If a mutation was absent or wrong in a government announcement/document then that would be a problem, but nobody really minds if you miss/incorrectly use a mutation in casual conversation. So yes, 'o Fangor' is the correct way of saying it but it doesn't really matter that much.

[@harriskhan2126]

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️🇧🇩❤️

[@drspaseebo410]

So many people ignoring mutations ! /

[@SimonS44]

Pwy sy'n dysgu Cymraeg hefyd a sy'n meddwl bod y fideo'ma'n dda iawn?

[@kamaal_i]

dwi'n dysgu cymraeg a dwi'n caru fideo hyn ! Diddorol a helpful iawn (:

[@caitlinlemon7480]

It's nice to see content that is in Welsh but isn't about learning Welsh, ti'n deall? 🤣 Diolch i ti

[@Lampchuanungang]

Celtics are pratical consise, very pratical and fonetically very economic to say and express things and have many consonantal words. 💚💚💚💚🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🐍🐍🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖

[@markhm8682]

I was trying to see if I knew anyone in this video and I didn’t :(

[@Max_Kleiber]

i'm surprised how slow it is compared to english.

[@edj4833]

I think some of them seem like learners, which is lovely to see.

[@OkThisllbeMyName]

why does it sound like danish

[@ArcaneEdits]

because vikings

[@jackieroberts7895]

@@ArcaneEdits hywel DDA kicked the vikings ass

[@col4574]

Much coming from the throat rather than tip tongue Englisssh

[@gyshalom]

Sounds a little like dutch

[@allenwaker1542]

What is welsh

[@barrysteven5964]

Google it for God's sake.

[@Wayspears]

why it looks like they are thinking before they speak like no natives do?

[@electricalblood5112]

Because welsh is not a strong language, is not spoken in every situation or every single day, it is more like a secret language; the last phase before it will become a death language. (I am catalan, believe me, I know how all this process works. )

[@joan98610]

@@electricalblood5112 :(

[@Wayspears]

@@electricalblood5112 but when they speak it, it doesn't sound foreign. their rhythm and accent are really like of a native. wow

[@cylindricalcake]

@@electricalblood5112 That is a massive generalisation right there. It is true that Welsh does not play an integral role in general life in many communities in Wales, but in many others Welsh is part of everyday life. I live in northwest Wales where Welsh is far from being merely a 'secret language' and is a language I have come to use every day as much as possible since I moved to Wales. Also, this video is a wonderful mix of people who speak Welsh as a mother tongue and others who are learning/have learnt the language!

[@spg2a4]

@@electricalblood5112 most of these are not native. I'm a native speaker, and I use Welsh everyday, and was educated through the medium of Welsh. So I think you're a little confused there.

[@Rivan98]

sounds like some elfic language.

[@jackieroberts7895]

One of Tolkiens favorite languages is welsh

[@MuBritish_]

Sounds like German to me

[@taffyducks544]

No. English is Germanic. Welsh isn't.

[@519djw6]

Cymraeg oedd fy nain dad. Hoffwn pe gallwn ddysgu'r iaith!

[@nadyadaniella]

this language sounds like a combination between russian and norway

[@taffyducks544]

Pre dates both.

[@raziel3541]

I thought in Welsh spoke English

[@uadhlagash7280]

they speak English, but their indigenous language is Welsh, which is a Celtic language.

[@barrysteven5964]

They speak both.

[@taffyducks544]

@@uadhlagash7280 British! English is Germanic. The term Celt was invented by Edward Llwyd.

[@uadhlagash7280]

@@taffyducks544 Celtic Languages is a technical linguistic designation. This is a consensus designation and is precise in what it refers to. If you need to refer to Welsh in any other way, people would not understand what you mean and it can be confusing. "British" does not carry any linguistic technical definition. To your point, "Welsh" itself is a term invented by the Anglo-Saxons. You can call it "British" all you want, but no one else will use it that way. If you do not prefer the term "Celt" I would suggest Brythonic as a replacement term, as that is already its linguistic designation. However, you would need to create a new term to designate the larger language family that Welsh is merely a part of, which would include the Goidelic Languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx). What would you propose? Hiberno-Britannic? That's a mouthful and leaves out other related languages like Gallic, Gaulish, Lepontic, etc. Celtic is as good a term as any to use, as it has historic usage for continental Celts.

[@higen0]

Welsh is what English sounds like to non-english speakers

[@independentclause5520]

It sounds like german for me .

[@taffyducks544]

How?! Sounds nothing alike!

[@matthewminshull7371]

Dw i’n sorri ond eu Gymraeg ydy sbwriel! Y hacen o’r ddynes ydy 🤢