I find it pretty amazing that this language has survived as a first language, even when the country is right next to England and placed right in the middle of the British Isles. And the way that they can sit around drinking beers and casually slipping between English and Welsh without really thinking about it is great.
I stand corrected but people like me who live in south wales no longer speak welsh as a first language. Yes we learn it in school but our close proximity to England means we kinda dont have a choice when a comes to picking welsh as a first language
SmellyWelshHobo - which will be why I learned it, my 3 daughters went to Ysgol Gymraeg Casnewydd and my grandchildren now go there - and why there are so many Welsh-Medium Primary schools in the city that's closest to the English border that a Welsh-Medium High School is planned
to understand welsh, you need to add 'w' 'y' to the vowels, add O to the end of everything, and write a word as if you are writing it as a five year old would, eg, tools is twls
Oh my god he is my new favorite person. I love him in Misfits and Game of Thrones, I just listened to his fantastic music, now I find out he is bilingual!
OmenGaming69 Not quite. It's not that simple. Tolkien drew from multiple languages when creating the different Elven languages. He actually drew most of the language structure and syntax from Finnish.
Hazel Quenya he drew from Finnish (mainly phonology to my understanding, and noun cases, but grammar is Indo-European). Sindarin he completely modeled after Welsh with some elements of Irish and Old English and Spanish.
He was inspired to write the language when he saw the name of a Welsh town on a coal carrige when he was a young boy. He thought it looked other-worldly.
I first came across this five years ago. Then there was covid. I learned Welsh. Now I can understand bits of it. It's being spoken quickly and colloquially but words and phrases make sense to me now. My Welsh mother would be shocked - but pleased I hope.
youtert Good point but listening to Valyrian does sound like Estonian since theres a melody to it examples Daenerys Valyrian dialgoues and real-life Estonian songs from Ines Kerli Kõiv Brigit & Koit
He called John snow boring, which is true, the actor playing him (kit) is great but John is so boring, his storyline is interesting but he has no spark
Wow. I literally sat through the entirety of this interview, trying to understand what they might be saying. I regret nothing. Welsh is an awesome language, wish I knew how to speak it.
you do know welsh is older than english right? And the random english words you hear is basically because the language is so old there's no logical translation for it? Iwan also has a extremely strong accent and uses a lot of slang. Iwan yw'r agosaf mewn treftadaeth i'r bobl y cymeriadau yn seiliedig ar.
almost all words he uses actually have a welsh alternative, but the richness of the language is kind of under appreciated in spoken welsh because it’s so easy to switch to an english word.
To be honest I find Jon Snow's character boring as well, or at least I did when I first got into the series. When I bought the DVD's I pretty much skipped any scenes having to do with him or the Night Watch, The Wall, The Wildlings, etc. Kit's a great looking guy and can act but the character does nothing for me. But anyway, I'm an American who has never heard Welsh before so this interview is a treat for me. To whomever did the translations, thank you!
Welsh and Gaelic are both Celtic languages, but they look and sound very different from each other. Breton and Cornish are more like Welsh, and Manx and Irish are more like Gaelic.
I think it's a Cardiff thing, a lot of Cardiffian welsh speakers incorporate English words into the language, more than welsh speakers further west from my perspective.
Yes, and church is eglwys, school is ysgol, It also has the double negative like french: Nid ____ ddim : Ne ______ pas. Celtic languages have certainly similarities with Romance languages due to a more recent common ancestral tongue compared to other branches.
***** Germanic languages are very different from the REST of Indo-European. It is actually a hypothesis that a lot of pre-Indo-European indigenous language might have influenced the development of Germanic. Celtic and Italic share closer roots. But that is also a theory for now, since the Roman influence even furthers the similarities.
***** The ancient Brits lived through several hundred years of Roman occupation, unlike the Gauls etc. they kept their language which went on to develop into Welsh (and Cornish and Breton). They borrowed a lot of Latin words which became part of the language. Much as English borrowed lots and lots of Norman French words.
It's cool to hear Welsh and from the sound of it, I wonder sometimes. Would a Welshman speaking Welsh understand someone from Scotland or Ireland speaking Gaelic of any form? Or are both languages unintelligible to each other? I'm an American (Latino American) and I'm curious about other countries and their diversity.
To reproduce his accent via computer, one must smash ones face into ones keyboard. Doing so replicates the unique dialect of the Welsh as no other methods are known at this time.
sure I only meant the melody but it actually reminds me more of Norwegian :D it sounds like a nice and unique language though! Btw are you Welsh, I was curious if most Welsh people actually speak the language fluently because I know that for example not many Irish people speak the native language (I am not mixing the two up just an example :D)
+Mila Mihaylova I'm welsh, it depends what part of Wales you're in. In South east Wales such as Newport and Cardiff only some people speak it. But in north west wales most people speak it.
Really? I just thought it was because he couldn't think of a particular word or said some English words without thinking like "yeah" or "sort of." I'm Irish and we do that when speaking Irish. And then there's those newer words that they don't bother translating like "iPod" or something.
If he's garbled and ineloquent here, than he's garbled and ineloquent in his native language. Many people are incredibly garbled and ineloquent when they speak their native languages and especially they can be so in interviews or at least in any one given interview. (However, the claim that he's garbled and ineloquent here is itself debatable. At times, maybe, but at others, no.)
Rwity'n dyski Cymraeg and it would be a great help if we could have the Welsh subs as well. ANy chance? And who is that GORGEOUS and CUTE and ADORABLE blonde babe?
Diolch! I am gonna order Colloquial Welsh I think shortly. I wasn't sure between that and Teach Yerself Welsh. But I got Teach Yerself irish and Colloquial Irish, and prefer the Colloquial method, so I guess it has more chances to be pleasing to me. Unless ye'd know about a Blu ray/DVD or other Book + CD method?
Lol they are both using English words in the middle of sentences!! And that women's accent is hard to understand.... But caru ti!!! Dwi'n siarad cymraeg ac dwi'n hoffi bod un o Fy hoff 'actor'(dwi'm yn gwybod y gair!!) yn siarad o!!
Probably because of english influence, they probably lost the original welsh accent although they still speak it. (Apart form the really isolated welsh villages with the elderly who still speaks it without accent)
I started attempting to learn Welsh a month ago. Hearing it spoken all I can think is "Well... fuck." I am determined to get to the point where I can understand this interview without English subtitles.
François-Marie Arouet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language :) That's not completely true. But apart from the fact that they are both indo-european languages, i as a german don't really think it sounds that similar. I didn't get any of it :D
The Dragon Killer Welsh is most similar to the other Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Manc, Cornish) but also has some Latin influences from the Roman conquest that further differentiates it from Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Seeing as German is not from the Celtic group of languages and lacks much of a Latin input, it's actually very different to German: the only similarity would be some of the English words incorporated into Welsh. Both Indo-European though, but that's a very broad similarity!
Welsh speakers, please don't be mad, but I live in the USA and NOBODY on this side of the pond speaks this language and thus nobody can translate a word of the interview. Anybody willing to translate some? Pretty please?
+Sweep Stakes You read the subtitles? HBO sent out hired guns with sniper rifles after the game of thrones cast. The Welsh are more dangerous then the British led us to believe.
I find it pretty amazing that this language has survived as a first language, even when the country is right next to England and placed right in the middle of the British Isles. And the way that they can sit around drinking beers and casually slipping between English and Welsh without really thinking about it is great.
Its a dying language only 10% of us actually know the language fluently
SmellyWelshHobo 19%, ac nid yw'r iaith yn marw
SmellyWelshHobo Anghywir
I stand corrected but people like me who live in south wales no longer speak welsh as a first language. Yes we learn it in school but our close proximity to England means we kinda dont have a choice when a comes to picking welsh as a first language
SmellyWelshHobo - which will be why I learned it, my 3 daughters went to Ysgol Gymraeg Casnewydd and my grandchildren now go there - and why there are so many Welsh-Medium Primary schools in the city that's closest to the English border that a Welsh-Medium High School is planned
I seriously don't understand a shit of this. But Iwan is so pretty, his voice is so pretty, this language is so pretty.
A shit of this?!
Seriously,I've never heard Welsh spoken before..but I have to say this is the coolest language ever :D
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MAN
Can't understand a word but I love listening to him!
to understand welsh, you need to add 'w' 'y' to the vowels, add O to the end of everything, and write a word as if you are writing it as a five year old would, eg, tools is twls
+AmazingEiraIsNotOnFire _ *offeryn
I've been taking welsh lessons for a few months, and it's weird to hear him incorporating so many english words into his welsh.
omnilingual Welsh will do that all the time tbh, most omnilingual people do...also depends what part of Wales they come from
Oh my god he is my new favorite person. I love him in Misfits and Game of Thrones, I just listened to his fantastic music, now I find out he is bilingual!
i dont understand him one bit but i still found him cool as hell
It sounds like a weird mixture of Swedish, German, English and Elvish! Awesome!
Elvish was actually based on Welsh, if you didn't know.
OmenGaming69 Not quite. It's not that simple. Tolkien drew from multiple languages when creating the different Elven languages. He actually drew most of the language structure and syntax from Finnish.
Hazel Quenya he drew from Finnish (mainly phonology to my understanding, and noun cases, but grammar is Indo-European). Sindarin he completely modeled after Welsh with some elements of Irish and Old English and Spanish.
He was inspired to write the language when he saw the name of a Welsh town on a coal carrige when he was a young boy. He thought it looked other-worldly.
I didn't understand anything but I just came here to listen to Iwan Rheon speak Welsh, and I don't regret anything
not even a native English speaker, but did he make a joke about someone from HBO sniping him if he reveals too much about GOT? :D haha so awesome
Awww he's so sweet!!!
I first came across this five years ago. Then there was covid. I learned Welsh. Now I can understand bits of it. It's being spoken quickly and colloquially but words and phrases make sense to me now. My Welsh mother would be shocked - but pleased I hope.
Im suprised she can tell what he's saying because as if welsh wasnt hard enough he mumbles it bless him
It's easy they both speak Welsh.
Ramsay's Valyrian is very poor.
youtert Good point but listening to Valyrian does sound like Estonian since theres a melody to it examples Daenerys Valyrian dialgoues and real-life Estonian songs from Ines Kerli Kõiv Brigit & Koit
*Nostril
Sounds like a mix of drunk mix of finnish and clearing your throat.
Oh no I don't think that it's sounds like Finnish. Maby you mean dansk.
+KamiKaZantA More sami than finnish, but yeah a bit.
He called John snow boring, which is true, the actor playing him (kit) is great but John is so boring, his storyline is interesting but he has no spark
Wow. I literally sat through the entirety of this interview, trying to understand what they might be saying. I regret nothing.
Welsh is an awesome language, wish I knew how to speak it.
you do know welsh is older than english right? And the random english words you hear is basically because the language is so old there's no logical translation for it?
Iwan also has a extremely strong accent and uses a lot of slang.
Iwan yw'r agosaf mewn treftadaeth i'r bobl y cymeriadau yn seiliedig ar.
almost all words he uses actually have a welsh alternative, but the richness of the language is kind of under appreciated in spoken welsh because it’s so easy to switch to an english word.
I don't speak Welsh but damn he sounds good
To be honest I find Jon Snow's character boring as well, or at least I did when I first got into the series. When I bought the DVD's I pretty much skipped any scenes having to do with him or the Night Watch, The Wall, The Wildlings, etc. Kit's a great looking guy and can act but the character does nothing for me. But anyway, I'm an American who has never heard Welsh before so this interview is a treat for me. To whomever did the translations, thank you!
I can't understand a word of this but it's still beautiful :)
Me encanta su voz 😊 lastima que no entiendo sy idioma 😢
What a beautiful language :)
weirdest sounding language. not in a bad way. kinda cool. is it closely related to gaelic or no?
Welsh and Gaelic are both Celtic languages, but they look and sound very different from each other. Breton and Cornish are more like Welsh, and Manx and Irish are more like Gaelic.
Wow he's started making an album!!!
I think it's a Cardiff thing, a lot of Cardiffian welsh speakers incorporate English words into the language, more than welsh speakers further west from my perspective.
Beautiful language!
anyone else finding the subtitles moving along a lot quicker than how they're speaking?
I saw this video earlier today. There were no captions. Now there are. That's why people were asking before.
Este es el hombre mas talentoso, guapo e hipnotizante del mundo...
She sounds like she is speaking Welsh, he sounds like he speaking nonsense with a stutter.
christinertheweiner I don't think it's that bad, but he does have a strong accent.
street welsh
He my friends, is talking in what we like to call 'Wenglish'
His Jon Snow impersonation! XD
I recognize this language. It's Simlish!
I understood "window" cuz it sounds like Latin fenestra
Yes, it's ffenestr in Welsh. :)
Yes, and church is eglwys, school is ysgol, It also has the double negative like french: Nid ____ ddim : Ne ______ pas. Celtic languages have certainly similarities with Romance languages due to a more recent common ancestral tongue compared to other branches.
***** No, that's not what I mean, Italic and Celtic had a more recent divergence.
***** Germanic languages are very different from the REST of Indo-European. It is actually a hypothesis that a lot of pre-Indo-European indigenous language might have influenced the development of Germanic. Celtic and Italic share closer roots. But that is also a theory for now, since the Roman influence even furthers the similarities.
***** The ancient Brits lived through several hundred years of Roman occupation, unlike the Gauls etc. they kept their language which went on to develop into Welsh (and Cornish and Breton). They borrowed a lot of Latin words which became part of the language. Much as English borrowed lots and lots of Norman French words.
He's is so delicious the most beautiful color eyes I ever seen
I imagine this is what Americans hear when they listen to English people talk
This is what I hear when politicians talk. Sounds like words, makes zero sense to me. 😄
Nope, this is what we hear when we listen to Welsh people talk in Welsh xP.
Bathrobe Warrior
I kinda like it tho! No frikkin clue what they are saying, but ... its not unpleasant to listen to.
It's certainly a phonologically interesting language xD.
Lol. Yes, it may as well be a different language.
que hombre más hermoso
Where is fun and cute Leni Hatcher from? 😽💖
Love her voice to.
Does she speak Breton or Cornish too?
It's cool to hear Welsh and from the sound of it, I wonder sometimes. Would a Welshman speaking Welsh understand someone from Scotland or Ireland speaking Gaelic of any form? Or are both languages unintelligible to each other?
I'm an American (Latino American) and I'm curious about other countries and their diversity.
I'm sure there may be cognates Welsh speakers would recognise in Gaelic, but no they're not mutually intelligible.
Mae e'n lush iawn ^_^
Wenglish 😂 love it
Fckn Welsh.
To reproduce his accent via computer, one must smash ones face into ones keyboard. Doing so replicates the unique dialect of the Welsh as no other methods are known at this time.
Ashcandy first one must also down at least two bottles of beer and a shot of vodka
Can you please correct the English subtitles on this please?
I didn't know he was a cymraeg speaker, Dw i'n hoff iawn o Vicious, a Misfits, a Game of Thrones.
i have no idea what any of this means but i love it
So cooooool.
:D all I hear is gibberish with occasional "like" "yeah" "now" "game of thrones" "Simon" and so on :D
Gret clywad o yn siarad y gymraeg ;)
why no subtitles :c
Mae'n wir wrth fy modd yn gwrando arno siarad yn ei iaith frodorol
what he says???
dothraki? valaryian? :P
Iwan Rheon is Welsh and he is speaking Welsh...
if you put the captions on they're english :)
He is speaking English and welsh at the same time?
He's using a few English words mixed in with his Welsh like when he laughs and says "I don't know, mae yn byw yna a nhw'n cael hwyl"
Is it common to just randomly add english words?
We call it Wenglish lol we speak mostly welsh but use certain English words :)
Subtitles please!
The first time I have seen someone on youtube speak welsh am I'm not joking.. I can speak a bit of welsh but not fluently
the way some of you are reacting to Welsh is kind of insulting. It's an indigenous language that's insulted by the British government enough as is.
Marvelous, yet tad strange sounding language, just like watching Ođđasat broadcast.
Jon Snow impression at 4:42
it seriously sound like a Scandinavian language to me lol :D
The language melody might sound a little Swedish, but trust me, the words are definitely not. Haha =)
sure I only meant the melody but it actually reminds me more of Norwegian :D
it sounds like a nice and unique language though!
Btw are you Welsh, I was curious if most Welsh people actually speak the language fluently because I know that for example not many Irish people speak the native language (I am not mixing the two up just an example :D)
+Mila Mihaylova nope swedish. So someone else is going to have to answer that for you! :)
thank you! :3
+Mila Mihaylova I'm welsh, it depends what part of Wales you're in. In South east Wales such as Newport and Cardiff only some people speak it. But in north west wales most people speak it.
Really? I just thought it was because he couldn't think of a particular word or said some English words without thinking like "yeah" or "sort of." I'm Irish and we do that when speaking Irish. And then there's those newer words that they don't bother translating like "iPod" or something.
he looks like son of andy serkis - gollum actor :D
it's like watching those indian movies and trying to figure out what they're saying based on the english words and phrases thrown in.
is he a native speaker? or is it his second language? native welsh speakers would know
He's a native speaker.
He is a native speaker.
If he's garbled and ineloquent here, than he's garbled and ineloquent in his native language. Many people are incredibly garbled and ineloquent when they speak their native languages and especially they can be so in interviews or at least in any one given interview. (However, the claim that he's garbled and ineloquent here is itself debatable. At times, maybe, but at others, no.)
They are both perfectly understandable.
Rwity'n dyski Cymraeg and it would be a great help if we could have the Welsh subs as well.
ANy chance?
And who is that GORGEOUS and CUTE and ADORABLE blonde babe?
Melvorgazh It's great to see people learning Welsh, insted of just having a laugh about it!
Da iawn!
Diolch! I am gonna order Colloquial Welsh I think shortly. I wasn't sure between that and Teach Yerself Welsh.
But I got Teach Yerself irish and Colloquial Irish, and prefer the Colloquial method, so I guess it has more chances to be pleasing to me.
Unless ye'd know about a Blu ray/DVD or other Book + CD method?
I'm not too sure, you could check for school courses in your area.
Wow you're SO SMART! Why haven't we possibly though of that?? Oh yeah... because THEY WEREN'T THERE BEFORE genius....
Reminds me of Danish but I don't see any potatoes
Don't understand it but idec
AAAAAAAA what is this? What kind of language??????
Welsh
lol thats all i was here for :P thanks
Lol they are both using English words in the middle of sentences!! And that women's accent is hard to understand.... But caru ti!!! Dwi'n siarad cymraeg ac dwi'n hoffi bod un o Fy hoff 'actor'(dwi'm yn gwybod y gair!!) yn siarad o!!
Definitely a Welsh accent, however sounds slightly more Cardiffy than the stereotypical Welsh accent
Probably because of english influence, they probably lost the original welsh accent although they still speak it. (Apart form the really isolated welsh villages with the elderly who still speaks it without accent)
I would do bad things to have his head of hair
Diddorol odd e ddim yn hoffi Jon Snow nol fan hyn...
Is it me ir do they really sound like the Sims? xD
I got 10 words but still it's cool !
HAHAHA!!! thats just what i was thinking!!!
I started attempting to learn Welsh a month ago. Hearing it spoken all I can think is "Well... fuck." I am determined to get to the point where I can understand this interview without English subtitles.
It's just all English I reckon with such a strong Welsh accent none of us understand
this comment made the joke better some how hahaha
makes me feel bad i don't speak my own language!
They shoulda carried the interview out before he got drunk
This is what Old tongue of the North should sound like unlike Valyrian or Dothraki whichsounds like Estonian
So... basically sims=welsh?
Is it just me or does he sound like he's talking German? LOL
The Dragon Killer Welsh and German come from the same language family, as Welsh is celtic and celts originated in Germany.
OmenGaming69 that is completely untrue, Celtic and Germanic are completely different
Sorry, that was how I understood it. We were once both celtic, so I assumed. I was wrong, sorry.
François-Marie Arouet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language :)
That's not completely true. But apart from the fact that they are both indo-european languages, i as a german don't really think it sounds that similar. I didn't get any of it :D
The Dragon Killer Welsh is most similar to the other Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Manc, Cornish) but also has some Latin influences from the Roman conquest that further differentiates it from Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Seeing as German is not from the Celtic group of languages and lacks much of a Latin input, it's actually very different to German: the only similarity would be some of the English words incorporated into Welsh. Both Indo-European though, but that's a very broad similarity!
Such an interesting language. They way they were speaking it made it seem like it was just an English dialect.
Welsh speakers, please don't be mad, but I live in the USA and NOBODY on this side of the pond speaks this language and thus nobody can translate a word of the interview. Anybody willing to translate some? Pretty please?
There are subtitles, lol
+Sweep Stakes You read the subtitles? HBO sent out hired guns with sniper rifles after the game of thrones cast. The Welsh are more dangerous then the British led us to believe.
Oh right, that's a bit bad.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the welsh just came out and were like yea we made welsh up to trick you poshos it’s just gibberish 😂
How English sounds to non-English speakers.
Welsh sounds vaguely like German.
subs are all fucked up but I don't care OwO
It sounds like german mixed with danish hahah
no....i'm german.
sounds nothing like German.
dj braincrash what you mean, which Germany?...there's only fckn one, last time I checked, hahaha. Btw, I said it doesn't sound German.
+Nada Barton lol my opinion
Nada Barton
I've read too late. sorry.😉😊
what the fuck
Oh my god welsh is so disturbing !! Can someone make the subs please ,
why are they talking jibberish?
This is what people sound like when I dissociate.
I don't know what you're trying to say, but what this actually is is what people sound like when they speak Welsh.
This is so strange to watch. Welsh is so odd!