RubberBuccaneer
Hedd Wyn
liampreston said:
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Basic Welsh . . .
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liampreston
Spend time, not money
=) Well if you want to get paid per phrase..."Excavate in footway to clear blockages in duct"
Heh, I don't want to take the piss. I remember driving a German friend bonkers by asking him to translate everything, usually after a heavy night at the pub. To ensure I never asked him again, he refused to speak English until I swore never to ask again =P
Heh, I don't want to take the piss. I remember driving a German friend bonkers by asking him to translate everything, usually after a heavy night at the pub. To ensure I never asked him again, he refused to speak English until I swore never to ask again =P
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Gavin Bl said:1) the DD is like a hard TH really, as in The.
2) I think this was earlier on in this or the Siarad Cymraeg thread - its like a soft TH immediately running into an L, but there is something about it which is very difficult to pinpoint precisely in English, but the above approach will get you close.
The 'throat clearing sound' I think you mean CH, which is a letter in its own right as are LL and DD (as distinct from C, H, D and L), and is rather like the Ch in the scottish word, Loch - its a very throaty sound indeed.
hokey dokes
tbh i'm finding that i'm probably better off trying to learn to read welsh than speak it. i'd need to immerse myself in people who speak it to get proper translations.
i've been looking at the beeb learn welsh pages.
confuzzling stuff (i have to point out i have a total blank space when it comes to learning languages - unlike my mother who learnt 6 and my little brother who's steaming through 3
)liampreston
Spend time, not money
The romantic streak in me loves any languages... and the ability to learn and speak another language amazes me... Much power (or wispec') to those who can.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
don't know how i can help wiskey but i will in any way i can
this might be of some use
http://www.geiriadur.net/
if not, worth a go http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/vocab/
this might be of some use
http://www.geiriadur.net/
have u been trying the bbc cymry'r byd 'vocab' where you can having floating translations?wiskey said:
if not, worth a go http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/vocab/
lemontop
hungry luma
I had to learn a bit of Welsh as a foreign language as part of my TEFL certificate. I can still remember everything from 6 years ago, only very basic stuff but I used to freak out my old Welsh housemate by giving her the weather forecast in Welsh. I liked that the number five was 'pimp' and a carrot was a 'moron'
Ben Bore
Member
llantwit said:
I'm not looking for an argument, but by insiting your child is'nt subjected to that horrible useless and dangerous language (Welsh), are you not taking the choice away from them? If they are fluent in both, then the can make the choice. if they can only speak English, they have no choice what langugae they speak unless they spend time learning Welsh as a second language when adults
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
i wish i'd grown up in wales just so i could speak the language, i think its fasinating and id really like to learn it, and i know i never will sitting on forrums all day. one day ill treat my self to an extensive welsh course, drop out half way through coz its to hard and then revert to english 
neprimerimye
Well-Known Member
Ben Bore said:
Exactly the same argument can be made for the teaching of Kirghiz as a compulsary second language in Welsh schools. But why should children who live in areas which are not Kirghiz speaking be taught Kirghiz? After all if they are not taught it from an early age they cannot freely choose not to speak it in adulty life.
But such an argument is, of course, nonsense. As is the argument that all children should be taught Welsh from an even earlier age when we know that in the real world they will not make use of it in either their personal or work lives.
neprimerimye
Well-Known Member
liampreston said:
Contact the Welsh Language Board and a grant will be yours by the end of the week.
neprimerimye
Well-Known Member
ddraig said:i reckon he's mumbling it stropily whilst rolling the eyes but with a *superior* and gleefull grin exuding a little spittle along the way.
Astounding how often clowns resort to personal insults when their line of reasoning is shown to be fallacious.
And there are grants available to businesses for help with Welsh language translations. Good advice check it out asswipe.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
is that an insult lesson?neprimerimye said:
none so precious as as an offendee going in for some ott retaliation. and can u fallate yerself? 
did u see the 'i reckon' and
in my post or was the spittle obscuring some of the screen. i know of what u elude to but it's just the way you do it ya see
e2a - how have u shown my line of reasoning to be fallacious btw
you did read the thread title didn't you? and obviously it's too much to politely ask you to save your venom for the specially created thread for you and your unmoveable 'ilk'
neprimerimye
Well-Known Member
ddraig said:
Read my post made at 2.37 and find out.
A reply would be appreciated but beyond your limited abilities in all probability.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
neprimerimye said:
so after a long and difficult hunt with my lomited abilities i found it.
and
1) what and where in that post is anything directed at myself?
2) where on this thread or any others have i argued against the points you so elloquently deigned to (sharing your obvious wisdom/'facts') put across to us plebs?
rhys gethin
New Member
Every Englishman I've ever met has been told to say 'THL' got 'll', and its sounds HORRIBLE.
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