Uhtred's Welsh Course

**Black Wolf** · 02-12-2014, 03:31 PM

I have some 2nd cousins in Wales who are native Welsh speakers. Their grandmother and my grandmother were sisters born in Ireland. Their grandmother (my great aunt) married a Welshman and moved there.

**Fear Fiain** · 02-13-2014, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by Longbowman

Well, not quite. They're both Indo-European. Western Indo-European, at that. Beyond that there's no close rlationship, Welsh being a Celtic language and English a Germanic one.

not sure that's accurate, I think there's a large breton-celtic lexicon in modern english. and a large english loanword lexicon in modern welsh.

**Longbowman** · 02-13-2014, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by faoilchu mor

not sure that's accurate, I think there's a large breton-celtic lexicon in modern english. and a large english loanword lexicon in modern welsh.

You'd think, but actually there's very, very little Celtic influence in modern English, surprisingly. The reverse is less true. For example, famously (in England) the Welsh word for 'microwave' is 'popty ping' BUT in reality they just say 'microwave.'

**Merida** · 07-06-2014, 12:51 AM

Great post!! Very clear and interesting!!

Welsh is such a cool language. It sounds really nice to my ears!

Thanks for posting this!

**Smaug** · 07-06-2014, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by Lean

Great post!! Very clear and interesting!!

Welsh is such a cool language. It sounds really nice to my ears!

Thanks for posting this!

Thank you very much! I see you also have Welsh ancestry.

**Merida** · 07-06-2014, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by Uhtred

Thank you very much! I see you also have Welsh ancestry.

And very proud of it!!

Cymru am byth!

**DarkSecret** · 07-07-2014, 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by Longbowman

You'd think, but actually there's very, very little Celtic influence in modern English, surprisingly. The reverse is less true. For example, famously (in England) the Welsh word for 'microwave' is 'popty ping' BUT in reality they just say 'microwave.'

it's a technical term or a device though... For example we say televizyon to television. But actually in Turkish it should be dalga-görüş or tele-görüş something. And many language has the same word for computer but there is an acceptable word for computer. We don't say komputer for example we say "bilgisayar". It means "data-counter" lol. It was made up but society embraced the word so nobody says komputer...

**turkojew** · 08-14-2014, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by DarkSecret

it's a technical term or a device though... For example we say televizyon to television. But actually in Turkish it should be dalga-görüş or tele-görüş something. And many language has the same word for computer but there is an acceptable word for computer. We don't say komputer for example we say "bilgisayar". It means "data-counter" lol. It was made up but society embraced the word so nobody says komputer...

They call it kompüter in old movies though. Like Turist Ömer.

**uuiiioo** · 09-18-2014, 01:39 AM

I'm Welsh and lived in Wales all my life. Being born in the capital I'm now upset that I cannot really speak Welsh at all! Teachers in school were terrible, and I find it hard to teach myself. I know the obvious basics, of course. Many of my Welsh speaking friends don't even fully understand the language themselves so they say they cannot help me much.

I can't see to find many Welsh courses available. I did apply for one in a college near me months ago, but they never got back to me. Guessing it isn't running. It's pretty depressing haha. The language is sort of dying, they want people to learn but don't really give you the resources for it. Would love the government to run courses/classes. Preferably for free, but beggars can't be choosers haha.