Video: How To Speak Like A Brit via A Welsh View
There's no Welsh accent in this clip but there's one amongst his many other videos (he also does non-British accents).......
Atlas of True Names via A Welsh View
The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's maps of the World and Europe.
The 'True Names' of 1500 cities, countries, rivers, oceans and mountain ranges
are displayed on these two fascinating maps - Europe and the Wolrd
Using the map above, I'm located just down the road from the Dark Water Fort in the Land of Strangers, a principality in the Great Land of the Tattooed. That sounds so much better than Newport, Wales, UK.
The 'True Names' site has information on how to purchase the maps and also have large images of the Great Land of the Tattooed (Britain) and the United States of the Home Ruler (US). Spiegel also has images from other regions of the world....... Actes et Paroles via No Good Boyo
Hardly anyone in Britain learns a foreign language these days apart from us glorious Welsh, and all we learn is English.There are objective reasons for this:All the foreign types your average Englishman meets either speak English or are eager to learn - Club 18-30/Saga/timeshare reps, Brazilian pre-opp transsexuals, Spanish policemen, Greek scam artists, Romanian au pairs/aspirant second wives, Polish barmaids, amusing gîte owners, Amsterdam dominatrices: they all speak commercial English.The main foreign language on offer in British schools is French, which is almost unpronounceable and spoken by unsavoury sorts - recalcitrant gîte owners, Belgian paedophiles, the Tontons Macoutes, advanced film-makers and the French.The only other languages on offer are either even harder (German and...
Oddest Book Titles via A Welsh View
A collection of the Oddest Book Titles of the Year from 1978 to 2007 including "Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual", "How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art" and"The Big Book of Lesbian Horse......
Video: English Language Spelling Inconsistencies via A Welsh View
102-year-old Ed Rondthaler on the English language's spelling inconsistencies. [via]...
Game: Guess The Accent via A Welsh View
This game is quite difficult, especially when it gets down to city level.... The Typo Blog via A Welsh View
Typo Hunt Across America is the blog of the Typo Eradication Advancement League, a group dedicated to eradicating typographical......
Facebook yn Gymraeg? via Morfablog
Braf gweld, ar flog Mercator bod Facebook wedi derbyn y galw am fersiwn Gymraeg o’r safle.
Mae’r broses gyfieithu yn agored i bawb, ac maen nhw’n defnyddio model diddorol iawn ar gyfer y gwaith. Y cam cyntaf yw i gyfieithu’r 226 o dermau sylfaenol maent yn galw y “glossary” - gwaith sy wedi’i gwblhau eisioes. [...]...
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Apparently "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence. Mental Floss......
HowJSay Pronunciation Search Engine via A Welsh View
Pronunciation search site HowJSay offers (almost) instant audio of a huge catalog of words correctly read....... (no title) via Smiling under Buses
After Luistxo was greeting in Irish on Flickr, he asks "And Basque? ". Robert has been greeted in Welsh.If you happen to log into your Flickr account and are greeted with "Ongi etorri [your name]", then take a screen capture, I'm sure it will make Luistxo's... What The F***? via A Welsh View
Steven Pinker on why we curse.......
Chinese Pod - Chinese Language Podcasts via A Welsh View
Chinese Pod allows you to download podcasts that help you learn Chinese. There are currently over 650 lessons......
The World’s Disappearing Languages via A Welsh View
"Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them never yet recorded—will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works."
National Geographic has an interesting interactive map highlighting areas of the world where languages are disappearing and has plenty of interesting facts. Did you know that Nigeria has 500 different languages - 5% of the world's languages.
See also: Languages Die, but Not Their Last...... Learn a Foreign Language with Mango via A Welsh View
Mango is an excellent free website that helps you learn different languages. It offers 11 free foreign language courses in Spanish, Russian, Greek, German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian and Polish.
After signing up with your email address simply choose any of the available courses and start learning. The courses are presented in a slideshow format and there are about 100 lessons per course....... 20 Famous Last Words via A Welsh View
A list of 20 last words by famous......
Iaith a chof y twll yn y wal via Morfablog
Eto trwy Pat, sy’n tynnu cwestiwn diddorol ma’s o’r cyfweliad yma: pam bod rhaid i’r peiriant twll yn y wal ofyn “pa iaith dych chi’n siarad?” bob blydi tro dw i’n tynnu arian o’r banc?
Yet with all this investment when I go to the ATM at my bank it still asks me in what [...]...
This is carzy stuff via Smiling under Buses
In Wales, when there's any suggestion by the public or campaigners that private companies should be covered by a Language Act that require them to provide some Welsh language service, we're told by politicans that we need to show there's a demand. How were supposed to do this they don't say - I assume we're all expected to write a letter to every busienss which we use or are likely to use sometime in the future. This will require a lot of pens and a lot of stamps, but it's something we have to do it seems.I remember reading about 14 year old Èric Bertran from Lloret de Mar, who in 2004 sent an e-mail to three companies who operate in Catalonia asking them to provide bilingual (Catalan/Spanish) labeling in their stores. He made the mistake of signing his e-mails with 'Army of the... Èric and the Army of the Phoenix via Morfablog
Stori anhygoel ar y maes heddi.
Èric and the Army of the Phoenix documents the truth and the personal consequences -and the politics at play- in the case of Èric Bertran, a boy from Lloret de Mar, a town some 75 km north of Barcelona (Catalonia). When he e-mailed a grocery chain to demand they [...]...
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism via A Welsh View
An interesting article from the Oxford University Press USA blog about long words in the English......
Words That No Longer Exist via A Welsh View
The Phrontistery is a directory of English words that are no longer used in the English......
Learn Welsh For Free via A Welsh View
Want to learn Welsh? For the rest of this week icWales in conjunction with Linkwordlanguages is offering people to learn an extensive vocabulary and basic grammar in 10-12 hours. The free offer covers the first five sections of Linkword Level 1, with the downloads available in either the software or the MP3 audio version. You can download the first part here if you want the other parts you will need to revisit the link each day this......
Awful Spelling via A Welsh View
Taken by a friend, the person who wrote this address is not the best speller.
Related: Should we simplify...... The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks via A Welsh View
Neatorama has an interesting guide to the origin of common punctuation marks such as the exclamation mark, question mark and dollar......
Video: Amazing Kid Who Speaks 13 Languages via A Welsh View
After selling his products to tourists from many different countries, this young boy has learned how to sell in 13 different languages including Russian, Japanese and...... Your Name In Japanese via A Welsh View
I'm not sure how accurate this......
No Welsh please we’re British via Smiling under Buses
While visiting my parents for a few days I received a phone call from a colleauge saying that John from the Courts Service in londan had rang, wanting me to call back urgently. I've been called to do jury service next weekDwi wedi cael fy nghalw i fod ar reithgor yn yr wythnosau nesaf. The bilingual letter came informing me, and I naturally completed the Welsh side and returned the form. I then received an info pack which was mainly in Welsh, apart from a bilingual leaflet and a loss-of-earnings form in English only. As I work in a work place where Welsh is the normal language, I e-mailed (in Welsh) asking if I could have the Welsh version of the form. Anyway I rang john back and this is our discussion:Me: It's Rhys Wynne here, I understand you called my work wanting to speak to...
ialgi hadi (a Basque Scymraeg) via Smiling under Buses
You may already be aware of the Scymraeg group on Flickr which is a collection of badly translated signs/posters in Welsh. Sadly, there are already 256 examples on it already and the numbers are growing.There's a similar group on Flickr for Basque examples called ialgi hadi.Here's a funny example on an anti-drugs poster by the government:The Spanish version says 'Great activity without drugs'and the Basque version says 'No rest without drugs'funny, basque, flickr, euskara, euskadiGenerated By Technorati Tag... Language Provision via Culture, Alienation, boredom and Despair...
A report by the Council of Europe on how minority languages are treated by the State in the UK. The report stated that not enough is being done to meet the call for Welsh language education. Maybe it is time that ALL schools in Wales taught Welsh and English equally. Having one lesson of Welsh a week, like any other modern language in some schools, is doing the youth of Wales a great dis service.The report goes on to talk about language provision within the health service, where it states that the provision of welsh is patchy. It is about time the realisation of Iaith Pawb was acted upon, when will Wales be a truly bilingual nation?Posted by...
How To Insult Someone Using British Sign Language via A Welsh View
A handy tutorial on how to insult somebody using British sign language. Also, how to flirt, swear and how to make sexual references in British sign language.......