This is the city where my family continued to speak Welsh (see my posting above!). They had a Welsh speaking neighbour who used to converse with them, but there weren't any other Welsh people who spoke Welsh nearby.
I'm a Yorkshireman who speaks Yorkshire, English, German, French and some Russian. There is no way on this Earth I would attempt to learn Welsh! You guys are much braver than I am! 🤣🤣🤣
0:00 I 0:22 Green Green Grass of Home 0:38 Sexbomb 0:53 It's Not Unusual 3:55 I Won't Crumble With You If You Fall 5:03 One Day Soon 5:10 You're My World & 5:16 5:19 It's A Man's Man's Man's World 5:31 She's a Lady 5:33 You're My World & 5:36 7:58 One Day Soon 9:02 Treat Her Right 9:05 A Woman's Touch 10:35 Knock On Wood 12:08 No Hole In My Head 13:03 It's Been A Long Time Coming 14:23 I'm Growing Old 14:42 Looking Out My Window 16:03 What's New, Pussycat? 16:39 Are these all the Tom Jones songs you (all) slipped into the conversation? Any good? 💗
This video was so much fun to watch. Thank you guys for trying and well done because you didn't do too badly at trying to speak Europe's oldest language.
Nice one, if you pop to Wales on your next visit be sure to come to the counties of Gwynedd and Anglesey in the north west, that's where the most of Welsh speakers live so there are villages you can visit where the majority of people can talk fluent Welsh, as opposed to somewhere like Cardiff in the south where only 10% can speak Welsh, Welsh is also a little more similar to French than English so they always say French speakers find it a little easier to learn Welsh, modern Welsh is most closely linked to the Celtic languages also spoken in Brittany in France and Cornwall in England, and completely different to the Gaelic languages spoken in Ireland and Scotland, modern Welsh isn't exactly the same as ancient Welsh either, it's such an old language it has changed a lot over the years and modern Welsh is considered the 3rd distinct version of the Welsh language.
Also a show you might enjoy watching at the moment is called 'Welcome to Wrexham', it's all about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying Wrexham football club, and whereas it is predominantly about football (soccer) it also focusses heavily on the local Welsh culture and people too, it's an excellent and fun show, the third series recently aired.
Da iawn!! Welsh is very difficult for English speakers - the sounds and letter arrangements are very different. Like any language though once you understand the basics the easier it gets.
Hats off to all three of you, that was brilliant, Welsh is the oldest European language and extremely hard to learn, my Nana was South Walean and she spoke a funny kind of welsh she tried to teach me Welsh but I didn't do half as good as your effort but little Rich was the best although big Rich was very articulate and i think with a bit of practice we have another Tom Jones in the making. Cheers for the great entertainment ❤
Really appreciated this video guys. There's a channel called Will Huw who has some older videos on basic words and pronunciations, and also a series called "Welsh bloke walking", mostly around the North Welsh coast. I think this was a more of South Welsh tutorial. There are some subtle differences between North and South Welsh, but you will pick those up as you go along. Diolch yn fawr ♥ And a heads up on the Welsh word for "First" when you come across it.. It sounds a bit naughty.... cyntaf 😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures if your guess has a hard "C" it would be correct 😂 I just pictured the little one showing off his new Welsh word at school, closely followed by a phone call from the Principal 😂
@Rachel_M_ where going have to hold off on that one, we are Romani, our word for look is - dick Our word for mom is - di Our word for a man’s part - Cory We had to have a talk with him to not scream certain and words and if he hears anybody with the name Cory, he’s allowed to say it 🤣😂🤣😂
@@Rachel_M_ yea I remember having a little cousin parents being called to the school, when they got there she was sitting there crying, they asked her what was wrong, she started screaming “ THEY ARE TRYING TO GET ME TO CUSS” only to find out… she had a class mate name Cory 🤣😂🤣😂
No it isn't. Something vaguely similar to modern welsh emerged around the 6th century, but would be pretty much incomprehensible to modern speakers, as would any welsh prior to the 10th century.
@poppypalais3108 I'm afraid we're going to have to disagree. It's true that the modern equivalent of the Welsh language has evolved into something different, but the same can be said of any modern language. Take any one; English, French Spanish, Japanese etc... they'll all show some marked differences compared to their 'ancient' origins. However, at their core, they all will have some distinctive attributes. The Welsh are decended from the Celts. The Celts were an ancient race. The Celts spoke a form of Brythonic. This 'devolved' (if you like) into Cornish, Breton, Welsh, and a few more... Of those, Welsh is the main one still around (and spoken) by a significant portion of the population. Even the Romans recognised it as a language. For more information, any Google search will provide you with some. Be that as it may. You state that Welsh wasn't spoken until the 6th century. What, pray tell, did they speak then? Latin, Anglo Saxon, Gaelic... ? It was a form of Welsh. The only real significant changes were imposed by the Romans (there are quite a few words that made it into the language: examples - Pont - Bridge. Ffenestr - Window) Oh... and the English tried to destroy the Welsh language around the 18th and 19th centuries.... Whether you agree or not is immaterial. Enough scholars across Europe agree that Welsh is one of the oldest languages in Europe. Anyway. Iechyd Dda a Hwyl fawr
The guys are killing it, the wife is talking Chinese 😂. Good effort. I don't know if you read my comment on the last Wales video you did, so sorry for repeating, but I do recommend a beautiful YT video by a woman who hiked the Brecon Beacons, its so well filmed called : Three Nights alone in a Mountain Paradise! by Wild Beare.
Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Jones, Ray Milland, Glynis Johns, Christian Bale, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Sheen, Ilan Gruffud, Richard Burton, John Rhys Davies, Luke Evan’s, Rhys Ivan’s; all famous Welsh actors.
You've done extremely well , I'm English so the letters that sound different Welsh like U and F confuse me ,it might help if you look at the Welsh alphabet ,it might not though .I was puzzled for years why the spelling of some Welsh words changed ,then read about Mutation of Spelling in Welsh . Enjoyed the vlog, good luck with it ❤❤. Ps even after 70 years I still can't do that CH sound .
Please don't think you have failed. Attempting any other language when you only have one is to be praised and admired. Look how easily your little boy was learning and engaging with it! Children learn languages easily. if children are fully bilingual this gives them many advantages for further learning . Learning a language depends on how much exposure to it you have. In the USA your exposure to Welsh will be limited but the Internet opens up this world. As long as you are interested and try it you will be listened to and assisted by the person who is fluent in it. To get a good view of Welsh have a look at videos of Welsh people conversing and some of Welsh poetry and singing. I have some Welsh ancestry, they moved from Wales to Northern England but kept it going for a generation after they had moved. I just wish it had been passed on to further generations but it was difficult to do so with not many Welsh speakers nearby. I am not a Welsh speaker but found this for "good luck in learning Welsh" : Pob lwc wrth ddysgu Cymraeg". I hope that it's a correct translation!
I admire your courage. Welsh has a different alphabet, different vowels, uses combinations of letters or diphthongs. W is like double O so Cwm is pronounced Koom. DD is pronounced like "th" in "the". "f" sounds like a "v" and double "ff" is actually like a true English "f". Jones is an extremely common surname in Wales but the strange thing about that is that there is no "J" in the Welsh alphabet. Keep it up. Rwy'n edmygu eich ymdrech i ddysgu Cymraeg
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg Not quite, but it was imposed on us by the English. Traditional Welsh surnames are a little bit similar to the Mc and Mac of Ireland and Scotland; here, it would have been ferch (daughter of) or more commonly ap (son of). So if I was a male called Gruffydd born to Ioan, my name would have been Gruffydd ap Ioan (pronounced Yo-an). After the English colonised Wales, and particularly in the 1500s when English gentry were given chunks of Wales, the traditional patronymic system began a slow decline when Anglicised single word surnames were pushed. So, for example, ap Hywel became Powell and ap Huw became Puw, while with other names, an ‘s’ was added to the end to denote ‘son of’; so ap Ioan and ap Sion became Ioans (Yo-ans) and Sions (Sh-ons) and in turn, with the anglicised ‘j’ became Jones. And that’s the very condensed version!
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rgit is Welsh, ignore the fact it has a J and the Welsh alphabet doesn’t have a J, that is irrelevant in this situation. Welsh names used to be patronymic names for example Llewelyn ap Gruffudd ap meaning son of, so Llewelyn son of Gruffudd Some Welsh people had Welsh first names like Llewelyn and Gruffudd and some had Christian names like John, David Mark etc Some Welsh names like Sion and Dafydd are Welsh equivalents of Christian names, in this case John and David respectively. Si is the Welsh sound equivalent to the letter J although not pronounced the same at all. Other Welsh versions of John are Ianto, Ieuan, Ioan, Evan, Ifan, Iefan etc Anyway, there came a time in England, roughly the 15th Century when all legal/official documents had to be in English and that included people’s names, so any foreign name had to be anglicised into an “English” name, this meant the Welsh had to anglicise their names when providing their name on any legal/official documentation, so to take the example of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, this was done by removing the ap and making Gruffudd the Surname, there are variations of how this was done, so one is Gruffudd but it was usually anglicised to Griffith or Griffiths so that is how that surname came to exist. When it came to Christian names take David ap John for example, the ap would be removed and an S added to the end, so David ap John would be anglicised to David Johns, Jones is a variation of this. Other surnames that came into existence because of this are Williams, Roberts, Evans, Phillips, Edwards, Marks, Richards, Stevens, Michaels, David, Davis, Davies, Thomas, Peters, Matthews etc etc Another way names were anglicised was by removing the a from ap/ab and prefixing it to the name. Ap is before a name beginning with a consonant and ab before a name beginning with a vowel, so John ab Owen for example. So John ab Owen would become John Bowen or John ap Richard would become John Prichard, Rhys has numerous variations, like Price, Preece, Preese, Prees, Pryce etc If however adding a P to the front didn’t work for phonetic reasons, for example Harry or Henry, becoming Pharry, Phenry, the first letter would be replaced by the P, so Harry became Parry and Henry became Penry. In some cases they would create a surname by taking the name of the location like Conway or by using their occupation for example Will Saer, Saer meaning carpenter. Those two ways are less common. So if you see a surname which is a first name with an S on the end, then most of the time it will be Welsh because of the fact that this was how the Welsh anglicised their names, the Nordic peoples would add son or sen to the end, so Williams = Welsh, Williamson = Nordic, Jones = Welsh, Johnson = Nordic, Richards = Welsh, Richardson = Nordic or Parry = Welsh, Harrison = Nordic, Probert = Welsh, Robertson = Nordic, etc etc Once you understand the concept used, it’s really easy to tell which surnames are Welsh
At least 16, probably many more, though well done, as most were very subtle - are we anywhere near the target? Good try with the foreign language! Jones is definitely a Welsh surname. Interestingly, going back in history, did you know that Kumree is in the Bible, the house of Omri, as is The Tartan. You'll know that Kumree is the word for the 'Welsh' people (written Cymru, pronounced kum'ree). And that "Welsh" is a label meaning "stranger". (Same as the less-ancient Romans labeling any strangers they came across on their travels as "barbarians".) Tell us how many you slipped in, but we'll listen again anyway ... 😀
Iawn sounds like the Midlands to my southern English ear!! My apologies to the Welsh and to the people of the Midlands. I speak English, a _little_ French, a _little_ Irish, and a _little_ Latin. Welsh, and other languages, have passed me by for all of my nearly _71_ years ...and I apologise to all for my lack thereof. 🇮🇪🏴🏴🤔🤭🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂😊🖖
To the guy, good work, I had to learn Spanish in my late sixties. If you are in Wales it's the best place to learn. You need to learn from a native speaker not a machine. Your son will follow your example, I don't think your misses is all that keen.
Chwarae teg, fair play, for a first attempt you all did pretty well, especially the little one! Cymraeg, Welsh, is initially daunting as some of the letters are completely different to English and even the ones that look the same are pronounced differently, so getting your mouth to get used to moving in a different way takes a little time! But once you’ve learnt how the letters are pronounced, they don’t change… unlike in English where the same group of letters have different pronunciations in different words; cough, though, thought, plough, furlough, borough etc! If you really are serious about learning a bit more, Duolingo and Say Something In Welsh are both useful resources for beginners (and more advanced) and for Rich Jr, maybe some Welsh language cartoons as he gets a bit more confident… not sure if you can get S4C, the Welsh language channel, over there but I’m sure there must be some cartoons online to look at, to normalise some of the words. Pob lŵc… good luck!
Welsh actors, also Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins Welsh DD = English TH Welsh FF = English F (as in off) Welsh F = English V (as in of) Welsh LL, put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and blow.
Tom jones Easter eggs are all through the video, we tried to say as many of his songs titles throughout the video lol hint: the opening I didn’t mess up lol I by tom Jones.
Dydh da ma yw Kernowek.Walsh ha Kornish yw yeth Keltek. translation, "Hello this is Cornish.Walsh and Cornish are Celtic language." (this may not be a one to one sorry)
Extremely upset that the thumbnail shows one of the easiest welsh place names, and it wasn't even in the video. And that meant you didn't have to say it. 😡 The Welsh language is hard to learn, I gave it up to learn Welsh history in School. Also there are differences between North and South in the language. Also that name is usually shorten to Llanfair PG, that tends to fit better on road signs. 😂
Im english & i wouldn't attempt Welsh. It's a true story. If you were english & went to a local village pub in Wales, the whole pub would go quiet. Another story some english owned cottages in wales would get burnt down.wales rugby @ all costs must beat England the enemy, the otherway around the english just play rugby like gentlemen, if a person from Wales came to a local rural pub,the pub wouldn't go quiet it would embrace the person from Wales, thats the main difference. Infairness thats only a minority. Scottish are just as bad,they would never support england at any sport, but the english would support Scotland if they were knocked out..
Well done for trying ! It's great that the Welsh language is spreading. It's good for the UK and adds to the culture. Sheffield South Yorkshire
Thank you
This is the city where my family continued to speak Welsh (see my posting above!). They had a Welsh speaking neighbour who used to converse with them, but there weren't any other Welsh people who spoke Welsh nearby.
@@weejackrussell It's sad, but use it or lose it, seems to fit !
Well done for trying Welsh has to be one of the most difficult languages to learn from an English speaking background 👍🏻❤️🏴🇬🇧
I'm a Yorkshireman who speaks Yorkshire, English, German, French and some Russian. There is no way on this Earth I would attempt to learn Welsh! You guys are much braver than I am! 🤣🤣🤣
0:00 I
0:22 Green Green Grass of Home
0:38 Sexbomb
0:53 It's Not Unusual
3:55 I Won't Crumble With You If You Fall
5:03 One Day Soon
5:10 You're My World & 5:16
5:19 It's A Man's Man's Man's World
5:31 She's a Lady
5:33 You're My World & 5:36
7:58 One Day Soon
9:02 Treat Her Right
9:05 A Woman's Touch
10:35 Knock On Wood
12:08 No Hole In My Head
13:03 It's Been A Long Time Coming
14:23 I'm Growing Old
14:42 Looking Out My Window
16:03 What's New, Pussycat? 16:39
Are these all the Tom Jones songs you (all) slipped into the conversation? Any good? 💗
Let’s not forget that Welsh is quite a bit older than English!
A language of the original Ancient Britons.
Eithaf!/Quite!😂🏴
Well, great credit to you for tackling Welsh. Hats off to your whole family. Love from the UK
This video was so much fun to watch. Thank you guys for trying and well done because you didn't do too badly at trying to speak Europe's oldest language.
not fun at all, just idiots trying to repeat what they read off screen, just a noise.
Hi guy,s loving the content, we holiday in Tenby in wales
Hey!!! We want to go on holiday in wales lol thank you
Nice one, if you pop to Wales on your next visit be sure to come to the counties of Gwynedd and Anglesey in the north west, that's where the most of Welsh speakers live so there are villages you can visit where the majority of people can talk fluent Welsh, as opposed to somewhere like Cardiff in the south where only 10% can speak Welsh, Welsh is also a little more similar to French than English so they always say French speakers find it a little easier to learn Welsh, modern Welsh is most closely linked to the Celtic languages also spoken in Brittany in France and Cornwall in England, and completely different to the Gaelic languages spoken in Ireland and Scotland, modern Welsh isn't exactly the same as ancient Welsh either, it's such an old language it has changed a lot over the years and modern Welsh is considered the 3rd distinct version of the Welsh language.
Also a show you might enjoy watching at the moment is called 'Welcome to Wrexham', it's all about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying Wrexham football club, and whereas it is predominantly about football (soccer) it also focusses heavily on the local Welsh culture and people too, it's an excellent and fun show, the third series recently aired.
We do indeed!👍😁🏴
Bore da x good morning love from Wales ❤🏴
Da iawn!!
Welsh is very difficult for English speakers - the sounds and letter arrangements are very different. Like any language though once you understand the basics the easier it gets.
It’s too easy for us to forget how hard it must be for English speakers.🙂🏴
There's a few youtubers that can speak multiple languages.check them out.they film in Japan,china,etc & bewilder the locals with different accents
We are bilingual too, we just speak Romanis so I can talk to all the roma pretty much around the world but, not so good for random UA-cam lol.
I’ve seen that. Amazes me every time
Hats off to all three of you, that was brilliant, Welsh is the oldest European language and extremely hard to learn, my Nana was South Walean and she spoke a funny kind of welsh she tried to teach me Welsh but I didn't do half as good as your effort but little Rich was the best although big Rich was very articulate and i think with a bit of practice we have another Tom Jones in the making. Cheers for the great entertainment ❤
Is it older than Basque, Sami or Lithuanian? Even in the UK Gaelic can be traced back in a recognisable form that is older than welsh.
@@poppypalais3108 Not sure to be honest I was always taught at school that it was the oldest European language but you may be right, who knows
Really appreciated this video guys.
There's a channel called Will Huw who has some older videos on basic words and pronunciations, and also a series called "Welsh bloke walking", mostly around the North Welsh coast.
I think this was a more of South Welsh tutorial. There are some subtle differences between North and South Welsh, but you will pick those up as you go along.
Diolch yn fawr ♥
And a heads up on the Welsh word for "First" when you come across it.. It sounds a bit naughty.... cyntaf 😂
Thank you for watching we will check it out. I’m guessing how that is pronounced 🤣😂🤣
@@Trippingthroughadventures if your guess has a hard "C" it would be correct 😂
I just pictured the little one showing off his new Welsh word at school, closely followed by a phone call from the Principal 😂
@Rachel_M_ where going have to hold off on that one, we are Romani,
our word for look is - dick
Our word for mom is - di
Our word for a man’s part - Cory
We had to have a talk with him to not scream certain and words and if he hears anybody with the name Cory, he’s allowed to say it 🤣😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures 😂 😂 😂.. Awkwaaaaaard 😂 😂
@@Rachel_M_ yea I remember having a little cousin parents being called to the school, when they got there she was sitting there crying, they asked her what was wrong, she started screaming “ THEY ARE TRYING TO GET ME TO CUSS” only to find out… she had a class mate name Cory 🤣😂🤣😂
I have some Welsh blood in me but can only say NOS DA Goodnight in Welsh . I used to think it was NO STAR when my mum said it.
Did you catch all the Easter eggs ? How many Tom jones song titles can you hear in the vlog?
The Welsh language is over 2500 years old.
Mae'r iaith Cymraeg yn mwy na 2500 mlynedd oed ;)
Thanks for giving it a bash :)
Great video:)
Diolch 😊
No it isn't. Something vaguely similar to modern welsh emerged around the 6th century, but would be pretty much incomprehensible to modern speakers, as would any welsh prior to the 10th century.
@poppypalais3108 I'm afraid we're going to have to disagree. It's true that the modern equivalent of the Welsh language has evolved into something different, but the same can be said of any modern language.
Take any one; English, French Spanish, Japanese etc... they'll all show some marked differences compared to their 'ancient' origins. However, at their core, they all will have some distinctive attributes.
The Welsh are decended from the Celts. The Celts were an ancient race. The Celts spoke a form of Brythonic. This 'devolved' (if you like) into Cornish, Breton, Welsh, and a few more...
Of those, Welsh is the main one still around (and spoken) by a significant portion of the population.
Even the Romans recognised it as a language.
For more information, any Google search will provide you with some.
Be that as it may. You state that Welsh wasn't spoken until the 6th century. What, pray tell, did they speak then?
Latin, Anglo Saxon, Gaelic... ?
It was a form of Welsh.
The only real significant changes were imposed by the Romans (there are quite a few words that made it into the language: examples - Pont - Bridge. Ffenestr - Window)
Oh... and the English tried to destroy the Welsh language around the 18th and 19th centuries....
Whether you agree or not is immaterial. Enough scholars across Europe agree that Welsh is one of the oldest languages in Europe.
Anyway.
Iechyd Dda a Hwyl fawr
The guys are killing it, the wife is talking Chinese 😂. Good effort. I don't know if you read my comment on the last Wales video you did, so sorry for repeating, but I do recommend a beautiful YT video by a woman who hiked the Brecon Beacons, its so well filmed called : Three Nights alone in a Mountain Paradise! by Wild Beare.
Da iawn, guys! (Alright, guys!)
Well done!
(That's a South Wales dialect btw)
Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Jones, Ray Milland, Glynis Johns, Christian Bale, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Sheen, Ilan Gruffud, Richard Burton, John Rhys Davies, Luke Evan’s, Rhys Ivan’s; all famous Welsh actors.
Yes but how many Tom jones song titles did you hear 👂 in the vlog lol
Christian Bale is English, not Welsh
@@Penddraig7 Although he was born here!
@@philjones45 doesn’t make him Welsh
You've done extremely well , I'm English so the letters that sound different Welsh like U and F confuse me ,it might help if you look at the Welsh alphabet ,it might not though .I was puzzled for years why the spelling of some Welsh words changed ,then read about Mutation of Spelling in Welsh . Enjoyed the vlog, good luck with it ❤❤. Ps even after 70 years I still can't do that CH sound .
Please don't think you have failed. Attempting any other language when you only have one is to be praised and admired. Look how easily your little boy was learning and engaging with it! Children learn languages easily. if children are fully bilingual this gives them many advantages for further learning . Learning a language depends on how much exposure to it you have. In the USA your exposure to Welsh will be limited but the Internet opens up this world. As long as you are interested and try it you will be listened to and assisted by the person who is fluent in it.
To get a good view of Welsh have a look at videos of Welsh people conversing and some of Welsh poetry and singing. I have some Welsh ancestry, they moved from Wales to Northern England but kept it going for a generation after they had moved. I just wish it had been passed on to further generations but it was difficult to do so with not many Welsh speakers nearby.
I am not a Welsh speaker but found this for "good luck in learning Welsh" : Pob lwc wrth ddysgu Cymraeg". I hope that it's a correct translation!
I admire your courage. Welsh has a different alphabet, different vowels, uses combinations of letters or diphthongs. W is like double O so Cwm is pronounced Koom. DD is pronounced like "th" in "the". "f" sounds like a "v" and double "ff" is actually like a true English "f". Jones is an extremely common surname in Wales but the strange thing about that is that there is no "J" in the Welsh alphabet. Keep it up. Rwy'n edmygu eich ymdrech i ddysgu Cymraeg
I believe the surname Jones is actually English in origin! Hence the j
diolch, defnyddiais google translate ar gyfer hyn
I’m Welsh and I’m not a Welsh speaker beyond what I was taught in school.
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg Not quite, but it was imposed on us by the English. Traditional Welsh surnames are a little bit similar to the Mc and Mac of Ireland and Scotland; here, it would have been ferch (daughter of) or more commonly ap (son of). So if I was a male called Gruffydd born to Ioan, my name would have been Gruffydd ap Ioan (pronounced Yo-an). After the English colonised Wales, and particularly in the 1500s when English gentry were given chunks of Wales, the traditional patronymic system began a slow decline when Anglicised single word surnames were pushed. So, for example, ap Hywel became Powell and ap Huw became Puw, while with other names, an ‘s’ was added to the end to denote ‘son of’; so ap Ioan and ap Sion became Ioans (Yo-ans) and Sions (Sh-ons) and in turn, with the anglicised ‘j’ became Jones. And that’s the very condensed version!
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rgit is Welsh, ignore the fact it has a J and the Welsh alphabet doesn’t have a J, that is irrelevant in this situation.
Welsh names used to be patronymic names for example Llewelyn ap Gruffudd
ap meaning son of, so Llewelyn son of Gruffudd
Some Welsh people had Welsh first names like Llewelyn and Gruffudd and some had Christian names like John, David Mark etc
Some Welsh names like Sion and Dafydd are Welsh equivalents of Christian names, in this case John and David respectively.
Si is the Welsh sound equivalent to the letter J although not pronounced the same at all.
Other Welsh versions of John are Ianto, Ieuan, Ioan, Evan, Ifan, Iefan etc
Anyway, there came a time in England, roughly the 15th Century when all legal/official documents had to be in English and that included people’s names, so any foreign name had to be anglicised into an “English” name, this meant the Welsh had to anglicise their names when providing their name on any legal/official documentation, so to take the example of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, this was done by removing the ap and making Gruffudd the Surname, there are variations of how this was done, so one is Gruffudd but it was usually anglicised to Griffith or Griffiths so that is how that surname came to exist.
When it came to Christian names take David ap John for example, the ap would be removed and an S added to the end, so David ap John would be anglicised to David Johns, Jones is a variation of this.
Other surnames that came into existence because of this are Williams, Roberts, Evans, Phillips, Edwards, Marks, Richards, Stevens, Michaels, David, Davis, Davies, Thomas, Peters, Matthews etc etc
Another way names were anglicised was by removing the a from ap/ab and prefixing it to the name. Ap is before a name beginning with a consonant and ab before a name beginning with a vowel, so John ab Owen for example.
So John ab Owen would become John Bowen or John ap Richard would become John Prichard, Rhys has numerous variations, like Price, Preece, Preese, Prees, Pryce etc
If however adding a P to the front didn’t work for phonetic reasons, for example Harry or Henry, becoming Pharry, Phenry, the first letter would be replaced by the P, so Harry became Parry and Henry became Penry.
In some cases they would create a surname by taking the name of the location like Conway or by using their occupation for example Will Saer, Saer meaning carpenter.
Those two ways are less common.
So if you see a surname which is a first name with an S on the end, then most of the time it will be Welsh because of the fact that this was how the Welsh anglicised their names, the Nordic peoples would add son or sen to the end, so Williams = Welsh, Williamson = Nordic, Jones = Welsh, Johnson = Nordic, Richards = Welsh, Richardson = Nordic or Parry = Welsh, Harrison = Nordic, Probert = Welsh, Robertson = Nordic, etc etc
Once you understand the concept used, it’s really easy to tell which surnames are Welsh
At least 16, probably many more, though well done, as most were very subtle - are we anywhere near the target? Good try with the foreign language! Jones is definitely a Welsh surname. Interestingly, going back in history, did you know that Kumree is in the Bible, the house of Omri, as is The Tartan. You'll know that Kumree is the word for the 'Welsh' people (written Cymru, pronounced kum'ree). And that "Welsh" is a label meaning "stranger". (Same as the less-ancient Romans labeling any strangers they came across on their travels as "barbarians".) Tell us how many you slipped in, but we'll listen again anyway ... 😀
Iawn sounds like the Midlands to my southern English ear!!
My apologies to the Welsh and to the people of the Midlands.
I speak English, a _little_ French, a _little_ Irish, and a _little_ Latin.
Welsh, and other languages, have passed me by for all of my nearly _71_ years ...and I apologise to all for my lack thereof. 🇮🇪🏴🏴🤔🤭🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂😊🖖
To the guy, good work, I had to learn Spanish in my late sixties. If you are in Wales it's the best place to learn. You need to learn from a native speaker not a machine. Your son will follow your example, I don't think your misses is all that keen.
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Thank you
Welsh is phonetic, so once you've learnt how the letters are pronounced, you can basically say anything correctly. No silent letters either.
Chwarae teg, fair play, for a first attempt you all did pretty well, especially the little one! Cymraeg, Welsh, is initially daunting as some of the letters are completely different to English and even the ones that look the same are pronounced differently, so getting your mouth to get used to moving in a different way takes a little time! But once you’ve learnt how the letters are pronounced, they don’t change… unlike in English where the same group of letters have different pronunciations in different words; cough, though, thought, plough, furlough, borough etc! If you really are serious about learning a bit more, Duolingo and Say Something In Welsh are both useful resources for beginners (and more advanced) and for Rich Jr, maybe some Welsh language cartoons as he gets a bit more confident… not sure if you can get S4C, the Welsh language channel, over there but I’m sure there must be some cartoons online to look at, to normalise some of the words. Pob lŵc… good luck!
Welsh actors, also Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins
Welsh DD = English TH
Welsh FF = English F (as in off)
Welsh F = English V (as in of)
Welsh LL, put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and blow.
Timothy Dalton Jonathon Pryce both from North Wales
Penguin 🐧 and corgi are original Welsh animal names
Welsh people settled in Patagonia where there are lots of Penguins.
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I suppose it does translate to white heads!!
Richard Burton and Tom Jones were Welsh to name just two, I could give you many more of course, just saying..
Tom jones Easter eggs are all through the video, we tried to say as many of his songs titles throughout the video lol hint: the opening I didn’t mess up lol I by tom Jones.
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I’m English, but I think Welsh really is a beautiful language. Well done to all of you for attempting to learn it. 👍
Dydh da ma yw Kernowek.Walsh ha Kornish yw yeth Keltek.
translation, "Hello this is Cornish.Walsh and Cornish are Celtic language." (this may not be a one to one sorry)
Extremely upset that the thumbnail shows one of the easiest welsh place names, and it wasn't even in the video. And that meant you didn't have to say it. 😡 The Welsh language is hard to learn, I gave it up to learn Welsh history in School. Also there are differences between North and South in the language. Also that name is usually shorten to Llanfair PG, that tends to fit better on road signs. 😂
lol I actually tried saying on a live stream lol I’ll try saying it again lol next video
Rhowch gynnig arni . Good try
ardderchog!
Diolch 😇
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It helps if you're Klingon.
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Im english & i wouldn't attempt Welsh. It's a true story. If you were english & went to a local village pub in Wales, the whole pub would go quiet. Another story some english owned cottages in wales would get burnt down.wales rugby @ all costs must beat England the enemy, the otherway around the english just play rugby like gentlemen, if a person from Wales came to a local rural pub,the pub wouldn't go quiet it would embrace the person from Wales, thats the main difference. Infairness thats only a minority. Scottish are just as bad,they would never support england at any sport, but the english would support Scotland if they were knocked out..