"Diw, Diw" for "tut-tut" or "Oh dear" and "Nawr" meaning "now then". Both give me a warm feeling, reminding me of the holidays of my youth in Coed Frechfa. I laughed out loud when you said "I'll meet you by year now" and the reply was "I'll be there now in a minute" That is so Monmouthshire that I anticipated it. I love it. My daughter, who has lived most of her life in England, uses it all the time, having picked it up from her old schoolfriend who lived in Usk, and through helping out with the equestrian registrations for the annual Usk Show - which happens to be one of the best things to happen in Wales... "Banging", in fact.
Love it that when you say EAR 'the english way' you still say YUR. When I first moved to Wales this would confuse me. A friend was talking about how her earing got stuck on something and I heard 'urine' which made the story really weird. And recently my mother went to the doctor with an ear infection and they where taking her details and they asked her which yur, she repeated -1939, no, which ear 😆 Ps. Am finally trying to learn Welsh and your videos are brilliant. thanks.
I visited Cardiff and Swansea when I was 16 with my mother and aunt. I remember hearing them chat with their childhood friends. I fas fascinated by the way they spoke
Clean off! was always a fave of mine, heard alot in Carmarthen! Alright butt! was one i grew up with! also "whos boy r you!?....and after being overseas for many yrs i returned to hear everyone saying how "Lush" everything was!
Back in the 90s every other word people said was Lush. I don’t hear it as much now. I hear alright butt all the time since I moved to Bridgend County but I’ve never heard Clean off. What does it mean?
@@LearnWelshPodcast clean off ! Used to describe a mad person who's mad in a funny way! Or a crazy funny situation! I only ever heard it in Carmarthen!
I hear people use the word humming a lot in Carmarthenshire to mean a bad smell/something unpleasant. Buzzing usually seen as a positive: "that party was buzzing"
Love your videos! I am the first on my father’s side to be born in the U.S. all of my family are back in Wales. I’ve been once and met them all and it was the highlight of my life. Thank you. You help me to feel connected! We do keep in touch via social media and one of my cousins visit regularly. My family is also from South Wales; Swansea, Port Talbot. Would love to move their one day to get to know my family and culture. 🏴 ❤️
Loved this, but want to tell you that I have spent the last 2 decades teaching children (after being on the school bus) to thank the driver. Maybe it is only popular in Wales, but I'm trying. Plus I'm learning Welsh, I visited once & fell in LOVE, hope to visit again.
Thank you for these videos. To challenge myself this year, I started learning Welsh and look forward to learning more about the country and culture. And, as a person from Iowa in the American midwest, I've been stuck following a lot of tractors, which I never mind one bit. ☺️
My Mother came from Ebbw Vale and used all these sayings! She would be in her 90's now. She always spoke almost in a whisper about Welsh speakers as if it was bad or illegal. I love my Welsh side although I am Scots to the bone! I'm Bi-Celt I guess 🤔😂
Punctuating sentences with "like" is common in England too. And you can get stuck behind a tractor is a well-known frustration in many rural locations, especially the SW. "Twpp" isn't one I've heard in England. Loving the videos!!! Even my husband who doesn't yet have a great desire to learn Welsh is enjoying them! 😊
Greetings from Taiwan. Hope you might like to do a brief introduction on that lovely Welsh Red Dragon 🐲🐲🐲 and interesting customs about it. Chinese and Welsh people love dragons. Comparison btwn the two could be fun to learn. Polish people got their own traditional dragon as well. you might like to find it out too
The story was very important, and was part of "Brut", the foundation myth of the Britons as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth in "History of the Kings of Britain" - 600 years later. They are part of a prophetic tale. No spoilers about who was the prophet... but as for the dragons... There was a white dragon and a red dragon. They slept beside each other, they woke together, they fought each other, neither could defeat the other, they slept beside each other again. They are doomed to repeat this again and again for ever. They represent Wales (red dragon) and England (white) in heraldry. The white dragon is a type called a Wyvern, which has only two legs but a poison barb on its tail. There is a golden dragon in English heraldry too, which represents the historic kingdom of Wessex. The story was important to the English as well as the Welsh. It "explains" the division of Wales and England, and sets up a chain of events which are said to have taken place in the Dark Ages (the Sub-Roman Period), for which Britain has almost no recorded history. In times past, denial that the story was true resulted in rioting in Wales.
I'm from Maesteg and I'm always saying "hell your Chopsy" or "Why are you so Chopsy" another thing is we don't use boyo unless it's someone's nickname, but we do say "Bachie". I was surprised that we are the only part of the UK to say "All right drive" when getting on a bus and saying thank you when getting off. Keep up the good work.
Nice to hear chopsy is still used in Wales. I hardly ever hear it now. I think it’s sad that only the Welsh thank the driver, but it does show what lovely people we are. 😉
No 11 made me giggle. Reminded me of the time my mam and auntie (from the Rhondda) reminisced about "Reenie the Milk" and "Gladys One-eye" who used to live on their street. You'd swear they were making this stuff up but nope, welcome to the valleys :) Oh and we definitely say "buzzing" round here to mean a bad smell (see also "gopping" which is très Tonyrefail...). Must have not reached out West.
It may be in Part 2 but, as a young lad in Swansea, I used to hear "where's he to" (where is he ?) quite a lot. I also used to like my grandmother's swear words when we kids used to wind her up....unfortunately, I can't spell them in Welsh !
I've recently moved to the Rhondda, & I was talking to a neighbour about someone I had to meet & she said he lives in "the end house in the middle!" Turned out it was a terrace row with a gap in the middle & he lived in the end house by the gap!¡!!
I'm hoping to start learning Welsh soon, & I do find different words for the same thing. My grandfather came from ynysybwl, & he was always called " grancher" but in Maerdy where I am, a grandfather is called "bampi".
Even though it is the wrong Dragon, being the Tudor/Cadwalladr flag as opposed to the Glyndwr/Arthurian. It's still the best national flag on the planet. Followed by Mexico, Argentina, South Korea and Albania. Btw, The real name for the Dragon is Not Dewi, as that meant "one with god", David translates as Dafydd. "Year, Ear, Here" all pronounced the same - Totally correct. I say Tidy all the time. Also say Buzzing all the time. Yeah, Most of these are True!!! 😉
Taffy Ducks I never hear Tidy but until I moved to Bridgend I had rarely heard anyone calling people Butt. Now I hear it all the time. It’s interesting how each area of Wales uses different slang terms.
@@LearnWelshPodcast absolutely - like little mini Wales' within Wales itself. Even if they don't use them, the other areas are fully Aware of the sayings.
I was almost going to share this video with a youth until I saw him flipping the bird at everyone. I can't seem understand his context maybe someone here can help me? Thanks
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When I went to Llangranog in year 7 one of the teachers found a coat and asked the whole room "Who's coat is this jacket?"
😂
Was your teacher called Nessa, by any chance? 😂
"Diw, Diw" for "tut-tut" or "Oh dear"
and
"Nawr" meaning "now then".
Both give me a warm feeling, reminding me of the holidays of my youth in Coed Frechfa.
I laughed out loud when you said
"I'll meet you by year now"
and the reply was
"I'll be there now in a minute"
That is so Monmouthshire that I anticipated it. I love it. My daughter, who has lived most of her life in England, uses it all the time, having picked it up from her old schoolfriend who lived in Usk, and through helping out with the equestrian registrations for the annual Usk Show - which happens to be one of the best things to happen in Wales...
"Banging", in fact.
Love it that when you say EAR 'the english way' you still say YUR. When I first moved to Wales this would confuse me. A friend was talking about how her earing got stuck on something and I heard 'urine' which made the story really weird. And recently my mother went to the doctor with an ear infection and they where taking her details and they asked her which yur, she repeated -1939, no, which ear 😆 Ps. Am finally trying to learn Welsh and your videos are brilliant. thanks.
You're really good at this, much appreciated. Diolch- A dyslexic Englishman learning welsh.
MrEd Diolch!/ Thanks for your lovely comment!
I visited Cardiff and Swansea when I was 16 with my mother and aunt. I remember hearing them chat with their childhood friends. I fas fascinated by the way they spoke
Clean off! was always a fave of mine, heard alot in Carmarthen! Alright butt! was one i grew up with! also "whos boy r you!?....and after being overseas for many yrs i returned to hear everyone saying how "Lush" everything was!
Back in the 90s every other word people said was Lush. I don’t hear it as much now. I hear alright butt all the time since I moved to Bridgend County but I’ve never heard Clean off. What does it mean?
@@LearnWelshPodcast clean off ! Used to describe a mad person who's mad in a funny way! Or a crazy funny situation! I only ever heard it in Carmarthen!
I've used the coat/jacket line myself a few times and I constantly say I will do something now in a minute.
I hear people use the word humming a lot in Carmarthenshire to mean a bad smell/something unpleasant.
Buzzing usually seen as a positive: "that party was buzzing"
Love your videos! I am the first on my father’s side to be born in the U.S. all of my family are back in Wales. I’ve been once and met them all and it was the highlight of my life. Thank you. You help me to feel connected! We do keep in touch via social media and one of my cousins visit regularly. My family is also from South Wales; Swansea, Port Talbot. Would love to move their one day to get to know my family and culture. 🏴 ❤️
Loved this, but want to tell you that I have spent the last 2 decades teaching children (after being on the school bus) to thank the driver. Maybe it is only popular in Wales, but I'm trying. Plus I'm learning Welsh, I visited once & fell in LOVE, hope to visit again.
We called our teachers Mr (subject) mainly the Welsh stream did but certain teachers everyone did. Mr bioleg was the main one
Thank you for these videos. To challenge myself this year, I started learning Welsh and look forward to learning more about the country and culture. And, as a person from Iowa in the American midwest, I've been stuck following a lot of tractors, which I never mind one bit. ☺️
My Mother came from Ebbw Vale and used all these sayings! She would be in her 90's now. She always spoke almost in a whisper about Welsh speakers as if it was bad or illegal. I love my Welsh side although I am Scots to the bone! I'm Bi-Celt I guess 🤔😂
The Scots have the Lion Rampant which is cool but not as cool as a dragon, but we do have the Unicorn as our National Animal 💖
I love you! Am learning your beautiful language... you make it such fun! Thankyou good boy!
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Yes our flag is the best. I always say now in a minute I'm from West Wales
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I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, USA I often get slowed down by tractors.
My favourite one is "hwnco mwnco" = him over by there = that man over there! The feminine form would be " honco monco" = that woman over there.
I have heard every one of these.
Punctuating sentences with "like" is common in England too. And you can get stuck behind a tractor is a well-known frustration in many rural locations, especially the SW. "Twpp" isn't one I've heard in England. Loving the videos!!! Even my husband who doesn't yet have a great desire to learn Welsh is enjoying them! 😊
I still use tidy and mun...occasionally the "who's coat is that jacket" or "are you reading that newspaper you're sitting on" has slipped out too
My bampi always says who’s coat this jacket
I used to go to school with a guy called 'Tidy Bob Watts', or 'Tidy' for short...
Yes you absolutely have THEEEE best flag!!!!
I do use the word tidy quite a bit.
Buzzing is used a lot in Port Talbot
I’m from Hereford and this sounds a lot like us too. Except Yur is Yer
Greetings from Taiwan. Hope you might like to do a brief introduction on that lovely Welsh Red Dragon 🐲🐲🐲 and interesting customs about it. Chinese and Welsh people love dragons. Comparison btwn the two could be fun to learn. Polish people got their own traditional dragon as well. you might like to find it out too
The story was very important, and was part of "Brut", the foundation myth of the Britons as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth in "History of the Kings of Britain" - 600 years later.
They are part of a prophetic tale. No spoilers about who was the prophet... but as for the dragons...
There was a white dragon and a red dragon. They slept beside each other, they woke together, they fought each other, neither could defeat the other, they slept beside each other again. They are doomed to repeat this again and again for ever.
They represent Wales (red dragon) and England (white) in heraldry. The white dragon is a type called a Wyvern, which has only two legs but a poison barb on its tail. There is a golden dragon in English heraldry too, which represents the historic kingdom of Wessex.
The story was important to the English as well as the Welsh. It "explains" the division of Wales and England, and sets up a chain of events which are said to have taken place in the Dark Ages (the Sub-Roman Period), for which Britain has almost no recorded history.
In times past, denial that the story was true resulted in rioting in Wales.
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I'm from Maesteg and I'm always saying "hell your Chopsy" or "Why are you so Chopsy" another thing is we don't use boyo unless it's someone's nickname, but we do say "Bachie". I was surprised that we are the only part of the UK to say "All right drive" when getting on a bus and saying thank you when getting off. Keep up the good work.
Nice to hear chopsy is still used in Wales. I hardly ever hear it now. I think it’s sad that only the Welsh thank the driver, but it does show what lovely people we are. 😉
I always thank the driver and I'm Scottish.
The drive thing is also used in Devon and Cornwall
No 11 made me giggle. Reminded me of the time my mam and auntie (from the Rhondda) reminisced about "Reenie the Milk" and "Gladys One-eye" who used to live on their street. You'd swear they were making this stuff up but nope, welcome to the valleys :)
Oh and we definitely say "buzzing" round here to mean a bad smell (see also "gopping" which is très Tonyrefail...). Must have not reached out West.
we used to say "gopping" and "minging" in the 80s as the same thing in the in English Midlands in the 1980s as meaning "nasty" or "unpleasant"
Thank you very much for your videos, I always enjoy them. I am really keen to learn Welsh and they are really helping
"Where's 'e to?" and "I do 'ave" is in fact West Country dialect brought to the valleys by immigrant workers.
haha.. man, I thought you said something other than "fact" for a moment there. But yes, the dragon on the flag is cool.
It may be in Part 2 but, as a young lad in Swansea, I used to hear "where's he to" (where is he ?) quite a lot. I also used to like my grandmother's swear words when we kids used to wind her up....unfortunately, I can't spell them in Welsh !
Love it!
So glad!
make your way on to anglesey and we'll teach you proper welsh
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I do love dragons and Welsh flag, it's cool! 🏴
But I should say that Bhutan also has dragon on their flag, thought it's an Asian dragon🇧🇹
Jimmy Carr said “who’s coat is that jacket”
I've recently moved to the Rhondda, & I was talking to a neighbour about someone I had to meet & she said he lives in "the end house in the middle!" Turned out it was a terrace row with a gap in the middle & he lived in the end house by the gap!¡!!
Clive Glover What a fantastic turn of phrase. Very Welsh valleys! I might start using it. 👍😀
I'm hoping to start learning Welsh soon, & I do find different words for the same thing. My grandfather came from ynysybwl, & he was always called " grancher" but in Maerdy where I am, a grandfather is called "bampi".
Who’s boot is that shoe?
Even though it is the wrong Dragon, being the Tudor/Cadwalladr flag as opposed to the Glyndwr/Arthurian. It's still the best national flag on the planet. Followed by Mexico, Argentina, South Korea and Albania. Btw, The real name for the Dragon is Not Dewi, as that meant "one with god", David translates as Dafydd.
"Year, Ear, Here" all pronounced the same - Totally correct.
I say Tidy all the time. Also say Buzzing all the time.
Yeah, Most of these are True!!! 😉
Taffy Ducks I never hear Tidy but until I moved to Bridgend I had rarely heard anyone calling people Butt. Now I hear it all the time. It’s interesting how each area of Wales uses different slang terms.
@@LearnWelshPodcast absolutely - like little mini Wales' within Wales itself. Even if they don't use them, the other areas are fully Aware of the sayings.
now in a minute is also a northen irish thing 😂
I live in Devon and everyone here says "cheers drive" too.
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I was almost going to share this video with a youth until I saw him flipping the bird at everyone. I can't seem understand his context maybe someone here can help me? Thanks
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