Posts Tagged ‘cymraeg’

Cymru a’r Eira (Wales and the Snow)

03Feb09

I thought this was a really cute way of using the bad European weather for marketing:
Cymru – ‘Wales’ in Welsh
This was the main image on the BBC Cymru homepage today, and it reminded me of the dozens of times I had written ‘Éire’ (Ireland) on a fogged-up window as a kid. It’s nice to see [...]


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Y Gymraeg a Fi (Welsh and Me)

01Feb09

Dw i wedi dysgu’r Gymraeg am 2.5 flwyddyn nawr, ond dw i ddim yn medru ei siarad yn dda eto…
(I’ve been learning Welsh for 2.5 years now, but I’m still not good at speaking it…)
The Welsh language is fascinating to me; to your average Joe Anglophone, the written language looks like an alphbetical car-crash. It [...]


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Where’s Our Own Music?!?

13Feb08

Here are two videos of songs in Welsh that I really like. Have a look and a listen, and ask yourself one question; Why don’t we have comtempory music in our own language, like the Welsh?!?
Clinigol: Gorau (Feat. Gemma Rees)
Brigyn: Os Na Wnei Di Adael Nawr


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