I've been looking into Welsh lately (learning the grammar and whatnot, but not seriously learning how to speak it). One of the first things I came across was the word 'yn'. I was never able to find an actual translation of the word, and it appears at first glance to be simply a word to mark of the verb phrase.

So, my question is, what is the literal meaning of 'yn'? If there is no literal meaning, what is its grammatical function?

(Note: I can handle linguistic terminology, if you choose to use it)

I am currently living in Wales and i speak English, What language should i learn possibly Spanish or French ? Welsh would not really benefit me so im ruling that out.

I want to be able to hear Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Welsh, Dutch, Italian, and Polish by ear and know what language I am hearing.
I can already differentiate English (of course), Spanish, German, Russian, and French.
How do I go about doing this??

I had a dream last night, I don't remember much of it but I do remember distinctly that the words "Cwn Annwn" were written on a white piece of paper and I was like, 'hold on thats Welsh-ish spelling'. What does this mean? I'm trying to learn Welsh, as I'd love to come to Wales someday so all I know is how to pronounce the letters and words and the basics like "good morning" bore da. This phrase has never crossed my path in my studies.

Hello,

I'm an American who is absolutely enthralled by Welsh language and culture. However, here in the states, there are VERY limited resources on language learning materials. I understand that the best way to learn this language is to travel to Wales, but even if I took that approach, I can't even find anything on home-stays, or even Welsh language programs abroad.

Does anybody know of any useful resources for learning this language? It could be anything that is available in the States (Books, software, CDs, etc?), or across the pond in Wales (study abroad programs).

Thanks in advance~

Ok, so i'm hoping to move to Wales in January, my boyfriend is starting Uni there in 2 days, and I can't move there till January. He's going to be doing something with his life, so I want to too. I think the best thing to do is a welsh language course, or something that helps you learn welsh fluently (or at least almost) anyone know how I can start this?

I'm English but my ancestors are Welsh, and I think learning Welsh is a pretty cool idea Only that BBC's "The Big Welsh Challenge" doesn't really enter grammar and sentence structure as much as basic phrases. Can someone help?
P.S. I live in France...

I'm applying to Bangor University in Wales and all of the e-mails I get are in Welsh and have to be put into google translate and translated into english.

Suddenly I've become compelled to learn dead languages.
I want to learn Irish, Latin, Greek and Welsh.
OK anyone who is going to give me comments saying they aren't dead: THEY ARE - GET OVER IT.
Being dead doesn't make them insignificant. Like Kurt Cobain.

The free-er the better and I'd like to learn them online if possible.

I already speak English (Fluently) and French and German (not so fluently but enough to get by)

I know the tiniest bit of Latin. Maybe one word of welsh and a small bit of Irish.

Thanks!
Au Revoir (Bon Nuit) Merci!
Slan!
My bad greek isn't dead. A language being taught doesn't mean it isn't dead. Latin is taught. Latin is dead. Irish is taught. Unfortunatley English is the main language of Ireland. There isn't a country in the world that speaks Irish. It's sadly, dead. Same for Welsh. Whilst this is a great shame it's also a fact. Now stfu and answer my question.
Thanks

so my friend has a cousin who has a dog and well its a corgi (ugly dog in my opinion, i didnt tell her that) and she and i share a locker so she puts up pictures every were of him and she says hes her dog and i have shetland sheep dog so when i put pics up of her she takes them down and says my dog is ugly and she wishes i would sell him or take him to a pound and just get a welsh corgi she even called my dog a bast ard and tore pics of her and i tore her pics but then she apoligized and did it again and so my question is should i talk to her or take her stuff out and throw it on the floor coz it is my locker and when my old dog (poodle) died she said oh well get a corgi poodles are fake and ugly and i said that the corgi wasnt even hers and she said it is coz her couzin said it is and i said ur 15 act mature sorry kinda dumb question

Firstly, who likes Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales?

Who likes the Prince for Wales idea?

Do you think that Prince Charles should learn Welsh? Or at least Prince William?

I'm 22 and an ugly virgin. They never talk to me, never look at me and never acknowledge my existence and when they do it's to verbally abuse me in the middle of a street. I know this probably has a lot more to do with Welsh women, considering the majority have no manners. When ever I try to talk to a woman, they either ignore me or look at me weird. Why?

I know it's probably because I'm ugly, but I've seen uglier men date attractive women.
Sins= no such thing

My friend told me that Welsh and Irish are not Indo-European. I can actually understand that because they don't sound or look anything like Indo-European languages. And we all know that Welsh and Irish are not related to English, which is an Indo-European language. While the Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain, the original Celtic Britons could not understand anything of what they said, and that shows that Celtic languages and Anglo-Saxon language are not in the same family. I know that Welsh and Irish belong to the Celtic language family, but are they related to other languages?
I find Welsh and Irish among the most beautiful languages in the world, and there is no wonder why Tolkien based the elven languages on Welsh, Irish and Finnish. I think Finnish looks a lot like Celtic languages. Is there any relationship between Welsh, Irish and Finnish?

i don't no why but i want to learn more of my language welsh i just think it's going to be hard for me to pick it up now i am older i no a few words my nan speaks it fluently my mum can say abit my mums side of the family mostly have welsh names like my uncles alun and selwyn just seems to be a more growing intrest now that i am older

im south african living in d uk for just over 2 years now.i live near Liverpool and my partner is scouser.so ive picked up bits of scouse.now when ppl talk 2 me they dont know where im from.Have been told i sound Welsh,Polish,Slovakian,Australian...everything but south afrcan!

I'm 14 and i learn all them languages, im fluent in english, welsh and german. The thing is, am i weird? because some boys at my school are saying im sad and stuff like that...

should more not be done in countrys like wales scotland and northern ireland to separate themselves national from england... the uk i fink is great but in northern ireland it does not have its own flag or national anthem or language same for i fink wales and scotland... scotland doesnt play enopugh bagpipes and talk scot gaelic and wales dont tlj enuf welsh there is too much english influence in the uk..

I'm 13 and i learn all them languages, im fluent in english, welsh and german. The thing is, am i weird? because some boys at my school are saying im sad and stuff like that...

This is a serious question.Today, i asked my friend what race she would like to be if she weren't white.She replied by saying that she would like to be white, because she would be considered attractive by the boys at her school and she would like to know what being super light would be like.
My friend is about the same complexion as soulja boy.She then started to talk about the cherokee, french, scottish, welsh and irish blood she has.She later said that she use to be lighter skinned, but got darker because of the sun.Is this self hatred?

btw my friend is 16.

This is a serious question! Mature people only!
an error haha, i meant what race she would like to be if she weren't black.
You don't know soulja boy! LOL
Lil miss stfu and the racist guy you're sick animalisitic pig.

We don't really live in caves and amongst sheep, but we do like rugby and have our own language. Some stereotypes are still around, but I'm just curious.

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!

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

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.

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?

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!!!!!

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.

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.

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!

Arabic
Chinese (Mandarin)
Danish
Dutch
English (American)
English (British)
Filipino (Tagalog)
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Pashto
Persian (Farsi)
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Latin America)
Spanish (Spain)
Swahili
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh

If you could instantly learn any language, out of these, which 10 would you most like to learn?

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

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.

Here is a paragraph from Wikipedia to support your answer:
"England and Wales are constituent countries of the United Kingdom, which is a member of the European Union and EU law is effective in the UK.[5] The European Union consists mainly of countries which use civil law and so the civil law system is also in England in this form, and the European Court of Justice, a predominantly civil law court, can direct English and Welsh courts on the meaning of EU law."

Again im talking about presently..