who was it between and who started and any other backround information?? please!!

if have a paragraph to write and i have to be a woman name Mrs. Aronold Welsh.

here husband was killed by Britain officials because of a land claim
and she is part owner of a wig store.

which way would she vote. would she vote for the battle or not?

anything else you want to add THANKS

For a native English speaker who also knows French, German, Latin, and has knowledge of many other languages, how hard is Welsh to learn? Is the grammar regular? Is pronunciation easy and spelling phonetic?

From what I've found no one really know much about England before 1066. I was talking to a Welsh friend of mine and he said before the Anglo-Saxons came over from Germany (Which I was aware of any way) and renamed this land, any way he said prior to that England was called Saesneg or Lloegr among other things in the other Celtic language?

Is there anything anyone really knows about England before 1066? The only thing I know about really is the amount of small conflicts within the island such as battle of brunanburh where England defeat the Kingdom of Scotland, Ireland & Dublin.

Thanks!

okay so i have a oral exam practice next week for welsh, im in a welsh school i can speak welsh and that, but i hate talking to the class.
its on our opinion, we got to choose out of three different categories, our opinion on our city, animal protesting, and abortions, iv picked abortion, because it seemed easier and i could have my own opinion on it because im a girl lol, but i really dont want to speak out to the class :/ iv'e taken drama, and i love it im really confident with acting out, but not reading!
can anyone give me advise on how to keep calm and not be nervous! its going to bug me now for the rest of the week.
pleasseee

So far I've only read Trainspotting which I think is a great book. At first I found it somewhat difficult to read since it was written in the Scottish dialect. However, once I got used to this I thought it was a very entertaining and sometimes darkly funny novel.

So what do you think of his work and style of writing?

BQ: What are some other books that are written in a particular dialect or accent?
BQ2: Favourite author from Scotland?

have ever heared of Wales?The country of Wales that is.How many of you know where it is?Joe Calzaghe is from Wales,so is from Jones,Anthony Hopkins,Cathrine Zeta Jones and many others.Do you know any Welsh people?
And by no means am i calling you americans stupid its just a general question.Im Welsh,live in Wales,speak Welsh and so on.
Approx 3%of the population of the usa are of Welsh decent.Abraham Lincoln was Welsh.
The defining feature of the Welsh is that we speak Welsh,but also English as we are a bilingual country.
Thanks for all the answers so far.

Im not sure what i want to learn
1.) German
2.) Greek
3.) Italian
4.) Irish Gaelic
5.) Cymraeg (Welsh)

I really am intrested in Irish and Welsh but not sure.
I plan on moving to Europe for awhile after college and tracing my roots back thier in Wales and Ireland so both are kinda what i want to learn but i also love Italian and Greek & German >.< sohard to choose.

I was watching Castle in the Country just now which is a TV programme in England looking around castles, churches and stately homes around Britain and learning about their history and in this one programme they were talking about a Welsh princess (i can't spell her name, i can hardly even say it lol) who was imprisoned as a nun within the church by the English king at the time and gave the title Prince of Wales to his son which is where the tradition started, the title of Prince of Wales in the English monarchy.
Of course England has a royal family and i know Scotland and Wales use to but what about Ireland, or did they just have clan/tribe leaders scattered around the country and depending on who's land you were on you abide by their rules, or something?
I know Scotland had clans aswell as a monarchy (well i think they were around at the same time as our monarchy is at least a 1,000 years old and the scottosh one should be about the same age) i remember the Romans built Hadrians Wall to keep the horrible scottish clans out of Britian.

I know a lot of foreigners cause I live in a diverse part of Chicago, and since I'm a minority with them, I try to understand and get along with them. I was born here, so I speak both Spanish and English fluently. I know a lot of foreigners who hate English speakers(in a more general term, the White Americans) because they constantly make fun of their accent.

This is my question, why don't people realize this is the same treatment in other countries? When my English friend moved to Wales for a while, she got picked on by some because she didn't speak Welsh. And when she tried to, she was ridiculed by her accent being "bad." I'm sure it's this way when people move to other countries. I've heard of bad experiences in travelings where the natives say something like "oh always trying to speak English, what a controlling ignorant American"

So don't pretend like other countries aren't jackasses too, and expect you to speak their language in their country.
And I agree with the whole "speak our language better" thing. It's not slavery anymore, people CHOOSE to come to America. If you wanna live here, learn the language. There's a lot of misconception in Mexico that coming to America means more job opportunities and a better life. Not really, life is hard everywhere. So learn the language and quit speaking broken English unless you plan on never conversing with another English speaker, which is unlikely since that's our dominant language. (I may sound a little harsh, especially because my grandma is this way, but it's true)

I would learn another country's if I were moving there, and whenever I was teased, I'd treat it as inspiration to do better so that someday I won't be teased. In fact I learned Spanish first because as a baby I lived in Mexico most of the time so that was most beneficial, and when I started going to kindergarten in the US to learn English, I was picked on a lot because I had an accent. And that's a good thing, because it's hard to get far in America with a silly accent I couldn't control and my mispronounced words, and now I speak English just fine.

I think people choose to ignore this fact because of all the American hate in general. >:

Wales is a small country of mountains and sea-coasts in the west of Britain.The Cambrian mountains form its backbone.In 2005 the population of Wales was 2,900,000 people.The majority of them live in the southern valleys and in the coastal areas where the main urban centres are situated.Cardiff is the capital city,while other major towns are Swansea and Bangor.
Even if everyone in Wales speaks english, 20 per cent of the inhabitants speak Welsh as their first language.Welsh is one of the six Celtic languages of Europe, together with Scottish Gaelic,Irish,Breton,Cornish and Manx.In Welsh tha name of the region is Cymru whic means "land of brotherhood".
In 1999, after a referendum, a National Assembley for Wales was set up in Cardiff.This body examines and decides all the matters that regard the people of Wales,like the social services, education,transport,the environment,etc..Like the Scots,Welsh people are very pround of their identity,their way of life and their traditions.Singing is almost a way of life for them.At rugby matches,crowds spontaneously start singing the national anthem "Land of My Fathers" particulary if Wales is playing against England!

THANK YOU HI

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I want to learn Welsh, but people barley use it in Wales anyways. Would it be a waste of my time to learn Welsh?

My parents are both English, I was born in Indonesia, and I live in Wales.

I have never lived in and have hardly ever been to England, I've only ever lived in Wales except from when I was a baby for a month in Indonesia.

I went to primary school in Welsh, I can speak Welsh and I've lived here all my life and I live in quite a 'Welsh' area.

I don't see how it makes sense to call myself English.. I've never lived there and I certainly wasn't born there.

But then again, I'm not Welsh either as my parents aren't Welsh and I wasn't born here either. I feel more Welsh than English though.

And I don't count myself as Indonesian at all! haha

What would you say?

I am at a Sports website and have been asked to write a piece on Snooker. Just wondered if anyone had any ideas on what I could write about. I know the Masters is coming up, followed by the Welsh Open... but many Sport Journalists will be covering that...

Thanks

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im an irish-american who almost studied irish. at that point i found out that most irish people hate their language. after telling this to my friends, they all said, "irish and english people are the same god damn thing, they speak the same language", to which i protested, but i admit they had a point. "a people without their own language arent a people at all", some author, icant remember. at least the welsh have kept their language.

It's a competition, I have to design a new logo [old one is a kid crying with broken arm + patched up teddy = very depressing -.-] and come up with a name + slogan

The charity/trust is called The Trust for Sick Children in Wales BUT it's basically a trust that collects money to let parents stay in a building next to the hospital completely free of charge so they don't have to travel if they have a terminally ill child in hospital.

The logo I've done is two parents, mum crouching, dad standing, beckoning a child and the kid is just out of reach, holding out his hand trying to reach back. It's all in silhouettes but the kid is wearing a blue hospital gown and a bandanna [the ones that some kids wear after Chemotherapy, it'll either have a welsh flag on it or just rainbow colours] Also, I'm contemplating putting a sort of roof-shaped "flick" over the parents or something as in a shelter but that might look as though the kid isn't allowed under shelter :L? ....anyway it's not totally finished but that's not overly important (:

What I'm having trouble with at the moment is the name + slogan. Right now the name is The Trust for Sick Children in Wales, and the slogan is "Make this your charity, please" <-with "please" written in a child's handwriting.
I'm completely stuck for ideas :S

I've been thinking about something like "Love heals best" or "Cadw'r Cariad/Keeping the love" as a slogan [Cadw'r cariad is the welsh translation] but you don't want to give the parents too much hope and the second doesn't make much sense... :S so I don't like that, or something like "_name of trust_ -because love has no boundaries" as in the love of the parents won't stop them from being with the kid? But I don't like that either =/
I wouldn't be asking unless I was desperate but I don't feel bad asking because the competition is to re-vamp the trust's image and to modernise it, re-naming it and getting a new slogan is optional, but requested if you get what I mean...
it's in for this Friday anyway so I really really need ideas :S
Thanks in advance x

P.S. IF you happen to speak Welsh, I'm making it bilingual but if you have any ideas in welsh, it would be cool if not, no worries, the chances of a Welsh speaking person coming across this is insane :L x

Germans, French, Welsh, or Irish girls?
A couple friends of mine and I were talking about that, and one of us said Irish girls are pretty. And I was like, "STFU, man! German girls are prettier! Just what is it about German girls? Why are they so...beautiful? They're so friggin' gorgeous."
My friend insists that Irish girls are better.
Then one of our friends butts in and says French girls are way prettier than German or Irish girls.
Another says Welsh girls are prettier than French girls.
What do you think?

Heres something,Im welsh,live in Wales and speak Welsh(and English).How come you americans think we are part of England or something.We are not.Also,Wales is in Europe,not America.And,3 million plus Americans are of Welsh decent,Abraham Lincoln was Welsh,so was Jack Daniels and over half the men who singed the bill of independendence.Tom James is Welsh,and many more.
Welsh:
Pam rydych chi americanwyr mor twp yn erbyn ni yr Cynraeg.Rydych yn fodus iawn maer america yn annibynniol heb yr cymraeg byddech yn rhan or daernas unedig!
Cymru am byth

PS...RUGBY ROCKS,THE WELSH NATIONAL SPORT!!!!

please don't use a translator, I can do that myself. Accurate translations only, please! "they also like swimming" is okay. which ever

Heres something,Im welsh,live in Wales and speak Welsh(and English).How come you americans think we are part of England or something.We are not.Also,Wales is in Europe,not America.And,3 million plus Americans are of Welsh decent,Abraham Lincoln was Welsh,so was Jack Daniels and over half the men who singed the bill of independendence.Tom James is Welsh,and many more.
Welsh:
Pam rydych chi americanwyr mor twp yn erbyn ni yr Cynraeg.Rydych yn fodus iawn maer america yn annibynniol heb yr cymraeg byddech yn rhan or daernas unedig!
Cymru am byth

PS...RUGBY ROCKS,THE WELSH NATIONAL SPORT!!!!

I have just written to them and asked them the same question, i doubt i'll get any response what so ever, so i though i would ask you guys. http://www.fco.gov.uk/

ok so i really want to get a Welsh Corgi Pembroke!!!!but my mom & dad want to learn more about them before i can get one!!!!! Please HELP!!!!!

Heres something,Im welsh,live in Wales and speak Welsh(and English).How come you americans think we are part of England or something.We are not.Also,Wales is in Europe,not America.And,3 million plus Americans are of Welsh decent,Abraham Lincoln was Welsh,so was Jack Daniels and over half the men who singed the bill of independendence.Tom James is Welsh,and many more.
Welsh:
Pam rydych chi americanwyr mor twp yn erbyn ni yr Cynraeg.Rydych yn fodus iawn maer america yn annibynniol heb yr cymraeg byddech yn rhan or daernas unedig!
Cymru am byth

PS...RUGBY ROCKS,THE WELSH NATIONAL SPORT!!!!

She always goes around insisting that she's Welsh at every turn. I don't really follow what she's doing yet I've heard her bring up being Welsh at least 4 times! She's half Irish half Welsh or she claims anyway, but Zeta is Greek so why doesn't she acknowledge that - I think I read Zeta comes from her grandfather. Her features are too full to be just Irish and Welsh - she looks spanish or maybe even half black to me. How many white people have the name Jones? What do you think, why is she always talking about being Welsh if she doesn't have something to hide? Especially when she was doing Zorro and ppl thought she was Hispanic, she got really haughty about it.
Wow, Stylish, you sound defensive there... Are you a racist?
So there are no black people in Wales, lol?! Sounds like you need to expand your horizon a little bit.

Heres something,Im welsh,live in Wales and speak Welsh(and English).How come you americans think we are part of England or something.We are not.Also,Wales is in Europe,not America.And,3 million plus Americans are of Welsh decent,Abraham Lincoln was Welsh,so was Jack Daniels and over half the men who singed the bill of independendence.Tom James is Welsh,and many more.
Welsh:
Pam rydych chi americanwyr mor twp yn erbyn ni yr Cynraeg.Rydych yn fodus iawn maer america yn annibynniol heb yr cymraeg byddech yn rhan or daernas unedig!
Cymru am byth

PS...RUGBY ROCKS,THE WELSH NATIONAL SPORT!!!!

How many people on yahoo speak Welsh or any other Language exept English
I havent heared of some of the languages can you tell me where they are from too. I know spanish and french

I can't learn it right now, because my hands are full with German and Japanese. But I have half-Celtic ancestry (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish), so would eventually one day like to add a Celtic language to the list of ones I know.

I know that Welsh is the healthiest in terms of survival (Wales still has a strong linguistic identity unlike Scotland and Ireland - and growing), but how easy is it compared to the others?

Are Scottish Gaelic and Irish essentially just novelty languages today? Are are they still used in significant numbers elsewhere.

Thanks for reading and for the upcoming answers.

I need to write a critical review on the novel trainspotting by irvine welsh. can anyone help me decide what to discuss I'm not quite sure.
Thank you so much

I'm Welsh and strongly support us sepperating from England, here are my reasons:

1. We welsh speak a different language than the English.
2. We Welsh have a different religion to that of the English.
3. We Welsh are left-wing, whilst the English are right-wing.
4. Over the years we have had our natural resources stolen to fund England.
5. England in the past executed welshmen and whipped welsh children at schools for speaking Welsh.
6. I believe the Welsh econemy would do better than it is at the moment if we were independent, in the same way as other small European countries' econemies are doing better.

I wanted to know what others from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Europe or the rest of the world think about Wales and Scotland splitting from England!

The meaning of the name Llewellyn is Leader.
The origin of the name Llewellyn is Welsh.
I've heard the pronunciation 'clu-ell-inn' but I think the more used pronunciation is 'loo-ell-inn'.

I'm not planning on using it but I'm curious of what you all think.

Thanks
X

A ventriloquist visiting Wales walks into a small village and sees a local sitting in his porch patting his dog.

He figures he'll have a little fun, so he says to the Welsh man "Can I talk to your dog?"

Villager: "The dog doesn't talk, you stupid git."

Ventriloquist: "Hello dog, how's it going mate?"

Dog: "Doing all right.

Villager: (look of extreme shock)

Ventriloquist: "Is this villager your owner?" (pointing at the villager)

Dog: "Yep"

Ventriloquist: "How does he treat you?"

Dog: "Real good. He walks me twice a day, feeds me great food and takes me to the lake once a week to play."

Villager: (look of utter disbelief)

Ventriloquist: "Mind if I talk to your horse?"

Villager: "Uh, the horse doesn't talk either.... I think."

Ventriloquist: "Hey horse, how's it going?"

Horse: "Cool"

Villager: (absolutely dumbfounded)

Ventriloquist: "Is this your owner?" (pointing at the villager)

Horse: "Yep"

Ventriloquist: "How does he treat you?"

Horse: "Pretty good, thanks for asking.

He rides me regularly, brushes me down often and keeps me in the barn to protect me from the elements."

Villager: (total look of amazement)

Ventriloquist: "Mind if I talk to your sheep?

Villager: (in a panic) "The sheep's a f@&%ing liar!

Hi,if you do not come forom the uk and have been to wales before,please tell us of your experieces and views of the land,people,food,sport or whatever you remember of it.I am from Wales and speak Welsh and would like to know what the rest of the world thinks of us.
Cheers
sorry,I ment experiences in the first part of my question,spelling mistake sorry!
cheers

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Also, which languages do you think are the most important languages to learn?

I don't know the official names but in English there are

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What is the most harsh (IMO Scottish for English) and what is the most gentle (soft southern English for me)?

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I have to write an essay in which I design a fictional grazing system for 10 organic welsh blacks (on organic grassland in South central UK)..help please

im an irish-american who almost studied irish. at that point i found out that most irish people hate their language. after telling this to my friends, they all said, "irish and english people are the same god damn thing, they speak the same language", to which i protested, but i admit they had a point. "a people without their own language arent a people at all", some author, icant remember. at least the welsh have kept their language.