FabSwingers.com forum: Welsh language

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I see the Welsh language society are determine to waste yet more money trying to force more people to speak Welsh

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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago

Wrexham

"I see the Welsh language society are determine to waste yet more money trying to force more people to speak Welsh

God damn the Welsh language society for caring about the Welsh language.

Those dicks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A beth sydd o'i le ar siarad Cymraeg?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's our Welsh money spent in Wales so don't worry about it bud , now send us your women

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Force more people!!! We should all be fluent Welsh speakers, if it wasn't for that English cunt we would still be a nation of Welsh speakers.

Besides it's our money anyway so what's it to do with anyone else.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I see the Welsh language society are determine to waste yet more money trying to force more people to speak Welsh

What? Trying to get Welsh people to speak their native language is just ludacris! I'll alert the village elders and put a stop to this post haste!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well spoken miss Wilkes x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Force more people!!! We should all be fluent Welsh speakers, if it wasn't for that English cunt we would still be a nation of Welsh speakers.

Besides it's our money anyway so what's it to do with anyone else. "
well spoken miss Wilkes xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I see the Welsh language society are determine to waste yet more money trying to force more people to speak Welsh

did you not know that the first language spoken in the British Isles was welsh?

and if it wasn't for foreign invaders, then it probably still would be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Force more people!!! We should all be fluent Welsh speakers, if it wasn't for that English cunt we would still be a nation of Welsh speakers.

Besides it's our money anyway so what's it to do with anyone else. "

exactly!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My daughters live in Wales and they go to Welsh medium school. I see absolutely nothing wrong with learning a another language. I feel that if you also speak another language later on life if you have to learn another it helps

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By *ubSirVient-DefinitionCouple
over a year ago

dukinfield

It's the only other language I've ever had any desire to learn!!! So wish I could speak Welsh

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Waste of time and money

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My daughters live in Wales and they go to Welsh medium school. I see absolutely nothing wrong with learning a another language. I feel that if you also speak another language later on life if you have to learn another it helps

Yeah, my daughter is in a Welsh speaking school and is fluent Welsh anyway but knows Spanish from Dora the explorer (fuck knows) like she could actually have conversations with the staff in the hotel when we were in Spain, she has picked Korean up really quickly from kickboxing as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Waste of time and money

Who's time and money, yours? No so don't busy yourself mate.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Waste of time and money

no one is forcing you to learn it are they?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm English (well my mum was Welsh) and we moved here 5 and a half years ago.. learning welsh is compulsory in all non welsh speaking schools and my son is now fluent in reading, writing and speaking it...I wish he'd teach me but I cant seem to grasp it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

gwynt eich gwddf yn

^ That's wind your neck in, in Welsh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I see those crazy French are persisting with that French language!!! Waste of Euros I tell you.

Bonnet de Douche...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x"

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like the idea of offering people an oppertunity to learn the language but to make it compulsory is autocratic lunacy.... or as the Welsh might say "ffolineb awtocratig"

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By *unandbuckCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Good job that everything else is so well funded that there's plenty left over for this project.

Good idea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

From my own experience it is so much easier to learn a language when you are young

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales"

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x"

lots of English people retire there, scousers especially...well they come from all over really, as you probably saw for yourself

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Good job that everything else is so well funded that there's plenty left over for this project.

Good idea."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x

lots of English people retire there, scousers especially...well they come from all over really, as you probably saw for yourself"

Yeah there was. It's a beautiful place I can see why x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x"

It's pretty much a small bit of Merseyside in Wales up there. I like Llandudno though, makes a nice day out.

Head down to Bala and it's the complete opposite. Properly Welsh down there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x

It's pretty much a small bit of Merseyside in Wales up there. I like Llandudno though, makes a nice day out.

Head down to Bala and it's the complete opposite. Properly Welsh down there."

I might do that on my next visit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd love to learn the Welsh language. I think keeping our heritage alive is very important.

PTU xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x

It's pretty much a small bit of Merseyside in Wales up there. I like Llandudno though, makes a nice day out.

Head down to Bala and it's the complete opposite. Properly Welsh down there.

I might do that on my next visit

its very welsh where I am too but I'm nowhere near the sea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x"

They are all hidding in the hills.

PTU xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'd love to learn the Welsh language. I think keeping our heritage alive is very important.

PTU xxx "

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

But they are saying they want it made compulsory not voluntary.

If it was that popular then it would not be in decline.

Is it going to creat jobs? Probably not

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As a proud Welshman I struggle with the teaching of Welsh in all Welsh schools. I went to school a mile from the England border and had to suffer 7 years of Welsh lessons in an area where next to no one spoke it, I can now count to 5, ask where the bus or book is and say the bus or book is on the table.

My kids hace and are having to learn Welsh at the cost of learning a more valuable language

I don't want the language to die but I don't think every child should have to learn it

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By *reenleavesCouple
over a year ago

North Wales

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x"

Yeah, between Chester and Llandudno and north of the A55 is essentially the scouse riviera. Once you get west of there, things do improve

There are even a few first language schools that teach all subjects through the medium of Welsh. In some of the more isolated villages, some toddlers learn English as a foreign language in their early years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Good job that everything else is so well funded that there's plenty left over for this project.

Good idea.

And that's the real contentious issue.

I was brought up by a family that spoke Welsh. It was just spoken with no thought about its significance or status.

However it does seem that there's a section of Welsh society who want to play the patriotic game of token Welsh language speakers, believing it gives some status in my opinion.

The education system and health service are crumbling, but some eccentric fanatics are pushing millions into advertising the fact you need to learn it.

If it was so important to you, why hasn't your family taught you at home on a daily basis(assuming they havent).

The Welsh language is important to our identity and history but ploughing huge amounts of money into the process is ridiculous. Learn it to use it, not to be uber cool and for gloating purposes?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I went to wales on holiday once,i walked into a shop and the staff were chatting away(in english)and when they spotted me the switched to welsh,i must of looked dodgy!

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By *ink Panther.Woman
over a year ago

Preston

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By *ink Panther.Woman
over a year ago

Preston

I know a man that wouldn't get a job teaching Welsh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It should be compulsory in all schools though from nursery age. They won't even notice they're learning it they just do and then they're bilingual. Eventually through the generations everyone will be fluent Welsh speakers again like it should have been.

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By *relanddirectMan
over a year ago

cheshire

"I see the Welsh language society are determine to waste yet more money trying to force more people to speak Welsh

Wow, I can't believe you think such a post is appropriate, why shouldn't the Welsh be encouraged to speak their own language. Good luck to them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wish i would have learned to speak another language at school i tried to learn german a couple of years ago it was hard work

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I went to wales on holiday once,i walked into a shop and the staff were chatting away(in english)and when they spotted me the switched to welsh,i must of looked dodgy!"

PMSL they were prob talkin about you.

PTU xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Was in North Wales last week and didn't hear 1 Welsh accent. I found that quite strange x

whereabouts as there are lots of English people who have settled in parts of north wales

Prestatyn and Llandudno. I knew being North Wales the accent wouldn't have been strong but it really surprised me x"

Prestatyn and Llandudno are holiday resorts, a vast majority of seasonal staff and indeed many hoteliers etc are often from Liverpool, Manchester etc, you would need to go a few miles inland towards Llanrwst or towards Cearnarvon to hear a proper welsh accent, although there are still some Welsh speakers in Llandudno areas.

The joke used to be why have Llandudno got all the scouters and Blackpool all the donkeys? Blackpool got 1st pick.

Twll ddu pob saes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

eich bod yn malu cachu nawr ... dos i chwarae efo dy nain yn lle hynny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't see the problem.

Yes, a good point was made earlier about families teaching their children if it's important to them.

I was forced to learn French at school, and they are still doing it. Why French? I'm never going there and it has no bearing on my life.

So I can't see the difference tbh. At least in Wales they'll be able to speak Welsh to each other. In England I speak English, not French.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's just our heritage and we should all speak Welsh and would have all still spoke Welsh if that English geezer hadn't cut the head off Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (the king of Wales) speaking of Welsh was forbidden under English laws, apparently the work of wizardry and witchcraft.

Who says we don't know how to hold a grudge!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's just our heritage and we should all speak Welsh and would have all still spoke Welsh if that English geezer hadn't cut the head off Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (the king of Wales) speaking of Welsh was forbidden under English laws, apparently the work of wizardry and witchcraft.

Who says we don't know how to hold a grudge!"

Such a racist cow.

How you'll feel if next time i drop a English baby in yer..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who says we don't know how to hold a grudge!

Such a racist cow.

How you'll feel if next time i drop a English baby in yer..

Haha suppose I'd have to love it, would be half Welsh though!

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