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Cofiwch Dryweryn!
by frobozz 6y ago
Cofiwch Dryweryn!
- rbanffy 6y agoAnd people say Hungarian is hard...
- _sbrk 6y agoLol. Reminds me of The Crown where Price Charles is learning Welsh. However, at least all the letters are familiar. Asian languages are at least an order of magnitude harder for westerners.
- rbanffy 6y agoIn Irish, at least, the letters being familiar doesn't help when they sound totally different. When I moved here, I arrogantly stated I was going to learn Irish. I'm humbled now.
- twic 6y agoIt looks wild, but the pronunciation is very regular: https://wikitravel.org/en/Welsh_phrasebook https://wikitravel.org/en/Welsh_phrasebook Or rather, the orthography is - spoken Welsh is ancient, but the way of writing it with Latin letters is relatively new, so it was worked out fairly sensibly. The actual grammar is headache-inducing, though.
- DonaldFisk 6y agoRemember Tryweryn! In case anyone's wondering what this is about, in the 1960s the Tryweryn Valley in Wales contained a village (Capel Celyn) which was evacuated and the valley flooded to make a new reservoir to provide water for Liverpool. There's a portion of a nearby wall painted with these words.