Are there five native languages in the UK? English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Shetlantic, or is Welsh, Scottish,Irish maybe Shetlantic the Gaelic languages really the same? lol i got a feeling i may insult some people in saying that.
I feel that i should know the answer really as i live in England, but i just haven't listened to the languages together to see for myself how they differ etc, even though i go to north Wales almost every year to see my auntie (she doesn't speak Welsh) and i listen to Celtic Woman songs i have never thought to compare them, i don't think i have even heard Scottish or Shetlantic.
Please be nice to me

i live in a welsh town it is pretty poor and they hate the english but most speak english them self's there is football violence over it games can not go on unless there are the right amount of police and they have fights when games are not on but i just don't get it i mean it was a couple of 100 years ago i could understand if we all spoke welsh i know a fair a bit not like my nan and grandad who could speak it fluently i learnt it from them when they looked after me but i just don't understand has it just turned into more of an excuse now. ?
i remember when it was not about football but there has been other times a lad got a skull fracture and the others were beaten because they were from an english town
nope no one is a skin head i think it's a senseless pride they have if your really pround you would be speaking welsh then doing the fighting later nos da lol

Are there five native languages in the UK? English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Shetlantic, or is Welsh, Scottish,Irish maybe Shetlantic the Gaelic languages really the same? lol i got a feeling i may insult some people in saying that.
I feel that i should know the answer really as i live in England, but i just haven't listened to the languages together to see for myself how they differ etc, even though i go to north Wales almost every year to see my auntie (she doesn't speak Welsh) and i listen to Celtic Woman songs i have never thought to compare them, i don't think i have even heard Scottish or Shetlantic.
Please be nice to me
wow so there are more native UK languages. good golly lol

Hang on, Irish is still around, that's not extinct
are you saying that Irish, (Republic of Ireland) does not count??
oh yeah, well don't they speak the same langauge (Irish) all over Ireland
Northern Ireland is part of the UK
hehe okay, that's true

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

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.

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 use Welsh slang if you can call it that.
Bad = Good
Boyo- Common phrase we use when addressing people.
Butt- Again common phrase when we talk to people.
we pronounce bath as in barf lol.
How about you.
Its nice to see what other people use and percieve as slang

i recently went to watch a play and the girl spoke with an american accent. i dont know if i could do it even though i act. all my accents sound like welsh/indian when i try to impersonate. what about yous? can you immitate an accent other than your own?
lol, deighton, brummy south african!!! nearly as bad as cockney australian!!! id like to hear it though, soon

I've always wanted to learn one of the old English or Celtic languages since i knew that they were gradually dieing out and as i have always visited relatives in Wales and heard them speak Welsh i was thinking of learning Welsh but i found out about 3 years ago that my surname is Irish and found out how it's spelled in Irish etc. and i found it very fascinating. Now that i know i have Irish heritage and that at some point my ancestors spoke the Irish language i would like to go back to my roots, so to speak, and learn Irish. I also would like to learn it cause there we'll be one more person in the world who knows one of the old Celtic languages that are at threat from not being spoken any more.

I know that surrounding yourself in the language is the best way BUT for one i'm 20 years old and don't have a secure job so i can't afford to go to Ireland for that length of time and second as not many people speak it i'll prob be speaking English more than Irish; oh and i live in the South-East of England, near London. I see Rosetta Stone advertised on TV and they do Irish but it costs like £100-300 which i guess would be worth it if i knew those things actually work, i can't really go by what they say, of course. I was wondering if anyone who has learnt Welsh, Irish, Cornish etc. etc. has found a method that works, i don't know what i'm expecting everyone else to come up with lol i'm just hoping someone might mention something that i have not thought of.
Thank Cody you were a lot fo help, and you got the same name as my dog hehe.

Hi Eire
I'm not sure what you mean by which dialect i'd prefer, i thought Irish was Irish, that there's only one Irish dialect lol shows how much i know.
er.. have not a clue, but if i have to choose one, maybe whatever dialect they speak in Northern Ireland. I found out my Surname is from these counties: Roscommon, Fermanagh and Offaly (i doubt the site i found that from is correct)
what dialect do they speak in the area those counties are in?
Hi cantilen
I sing along to Celtic Woman a lot but not many of their songs are in Irish. Can you suggest any tradtional Iirsh singers?

(just letting you know Eire i'm still waiting for your reply ^^)
Oh wow thanks so much Eire, you've have told me everything that i've been confused about for years. Nice to find someone who's so helpful. I'll look into those books more and see how much they will be in pounds (£) and where else i can buy them from, like a shop or something.

I still would like more replies to my question, incase someone else has more info they would like to share with me
Oh okay so i might find them in my town's library then, it's a bran new library too so it should be all up-to-date and have a varity of books, i hope i'll be able to find them. Thanks again!!

Just english for me. Bit of french
bit of welsh
bit of italian
bit of spanish

lol

In my language welsh we say - Annibyniaeth,

All answer even if your Welsh lol

Diolch

mae'r bardd yn meddwl bod dyai Cymry yn cefnogi'u gwlad.....

mewn mwy o fforddiau gwahanol

or

yn mwy o fforddiau gwahoanl??

thankyou
lol- don i ddim moyn spel gwahanol fel hynny yr ail tro