I am in wales for uni, and I am surprised by the great variety of the welsh accent even from just a 5/10 journey away. My firends did however say that if I came home with a welsh accent, they would kill me! Haha
i am pleased jess, i wouldn't like to get harassed by you. remind me never to speak in welsh to you...then i sound proper welsh haha. opherrichards, where do you go to? i'm in aberystwyth, and while i did get a bit more of an accent in first year, it doesn't really affect people too much i don't think!
my friend lives in swansea, when i want to harrass some welsh people i just go there i know one word in welsh..oh no, 2 WORDS! ARAF= slow BWS= bus. amazing.
AHHHH. I don't know if I can properly communicate the fact that I LOVED the Rasmus a few years ago. It was kind of a scary fan love. I still listen to Dead Letters when I clean or study because it comforts me so much! I 'spose since this is a photo thread I should post some, haha. I'll get around to it after classes, and I should probably pop some up of our fresh snow! It just dumped a pile of the powdery soft stuff on us all day and now everything is covered!
i am indeeeeed! i couldn't live here otherwise hehe. and i study law. jess i'll teach you some welsh...um, let's see "dwi'n caru ti" - "i love you" "dwi'n eisiau cael dy babenau" - "i want to have your babies" "dwi'n gweithio yn walt disney world yn florida" - "i work in walt disney world in florida" "mae blas o gin fel dwr, beth am gan un arall, john" - "this gin tastes like water, may i have another, john?" matt yw y berson gorau yn y byd, a mae e'n hoffi cerddoriaeth da iawn! - i'll let you try to translate that so i don't seem to full of myself! (i am not fluent, so there may be a lot of inaccuracies)
Saying these things out loud sounds so magical... and also ridiculous, because I know I have it wrong, haha.
"mae blas o gin fel dwr, beth am gan un arall, john" - "this gin tastes like water, may i have another, john?" This one is a keeper...I see myself using it often...
it's from a song by a band called mynediad am ddim...i only like/occasionally listen to that song because my flatmates found it funny in the first year!
Oh ya me too, I was very excited after meeting him lol I don't think I've ever heard anyone speak Welsh before. Just from reading your examples, I couldn't even imagine what some of those letters together would sound like lol I do however think the accent when they speak English is very sexy. And for the record, yes, Zac Efron is a babe (for some reason I especially think so in Hairspray) but for me, in the HSM gang it's all about Corbin Bleu. That boy's smile is to die for.
I am at uni in Newport. And I have learnt not even to attempt to pronouce welsh without asking a welsh person first as words are pronouced completely different from what they look like, its so much easier to avoid the embarassment completely
Welsh sounds like fun to learn. I can fake the accent quite well (well, for a yorkshire lass anyway).
oh god don't go home with a newport accent, that's a baaaaad accent, even worse than cardiff's as for pronounciation, i'll try and write those phrases phonetically dween ca-ree tee dween a-shy kyle duh [not like duuuh, just a short one] ba-ben-eye dween gway-theo un walt disney world un florida my blas o gin vel do-er, beth am gan een aralth, john matt ew ur bearrson gore-eye un ur bead a my ehn hoffi care-th-ori-aeth dai awn that's REALLY hard to do haha, hope you'll all be speaking welsh to me out in florida now though
"Rydw i'n byw mewn ty ar wahan -- I live in a detached house" That's the only Welsh phrase I remember when drunk, which is absolutely useless usually. But if I can remember it when I'm drunk, you'll be able to remember it!! I have a minging Welsh accent.... I didn't lose it when I went to Faberystwyth uni
you can tell who the rich ones are here...i'm a "dwi'n byw yn ty teras" boy (oh btw, dwi'n is just a shortened version of rydw i'n, in case you kids are getting confused)
We would get along great Matt, i love the Tis! Shes my ideal woman, woohoo! I wonder if she likes Scottish accents, im good at a scottish accent (haha!)
that's awesome leo! but i won't lie to you, if the tis comes along, i'm gonna fight dirty for her - no holds barred! hehe
OMG, i can't actually tell you how excited i am to be working with some welsh 'uns. i'll have a whale of a time learning all these random phrases but more excited about florida as a whole in general..
