Welsh language help

Is your DS's girlfriend from North Wales or South Wales? There are some language differences and you wouldn't want to get it wrong.

We do have a few Welsh-speakers - I'm sure one will be along soon

Anniebach where are you?

They were trying to unify the language twenty odd years ago when I had to go on a course - creating a sort of Quenn's Welsh to get over the problem * Ana* mentions - not sure how successful that was.

She's from North Wales !

I've emailed my friend from Blaenau!

Here I am, there is a difference between North And South, example - grandmother in the North is Nain , pronounced Nine,

In the South it's Mam-gu , pronounced Mam Gee

I used cariad for my grandchildren , it means - beloved one , else granddaughter is - wyres

Thank you

My DH is just on his way back from north Wales, and Welsh is his first language. I'll let you know the words you want as soon as he gets home. If there is anything else you need translated, just let me know. I'm trying to learn to speak welsh myself, oh dear! Its not going too well

I mentioned somewhere else on GN that my only foray into learning Welsh was when I was trying to earn some Brownie points and wheedle my way into DH's feisty grandmother's affections. Neither the learning nor the wheedling went well! The only word that sticks in my memory is 'gorau' which I think means 'best'. No doubt someone will be along to put me right in due course!?

I spoke Welsh before English , it is a difficult language to learn and like English Welsh spoken in the home is not always school Welsh

I had a very good Welsh friend when our children were young, before she moved away, who spent her early years in Wales, then her family moved to Spain, tri lingual as a result, but English was on the back burner when she was growing up and she told me she only started speaking it fluently when she was about 12 or so. My friend was an archetypal blonde and some people mistook her for an airhead which she wasn't. There was a girl in our circle who wasn't very nice and called her a "bimbo". She'd never heard the word in the context it was meant, when she was living in Spain "Bimbo" was a make of bread and she said she couldn't understand why so and so was calling her "bread". We just collapsed when I told her what it meant it was always on ongoing joke between us.

Sorry digressed from the actual thread.

A good giggle .Terri

"ddoniol" Annie if that's the right word!

nannybadcrumble1 - thanks you. my son is trying to learn it too - not easy - I am trying as well just as my DGD might feel more comfy with me as she gets older if I can speak some Welsh to her!