Hi everybody! So today I'm here with my friend Kim.
Hey! Who hails from Wales.
She's a Welsh whale from Cardiff. A literal whale.
And today she's going to be teaching me how to speak Welsh, the only language in the UK
that I haven't learnt yet on my channel.
So what do we have to start with today. Well!
Was that a pun? No?
Wale Do you just perceive the world in puns?
Yes Even if they're not there!
Well first of all, Wales... stop, stop trying to make it seem like I'm
punning! Welshucks. Oh my God Evan.
Continue. First of all do you know any Welsh words first
of all. Or do you think you do at least?
Cymru which is welsh for Wales. Are you kidding me?
Plaid Cymru oh my God.
sounds like a car brand. Stop! It's like you're trying to hurt me!
Everyone needs to know that it's not plaid. It's plaid.
Like you got played! No. It's not...
So the Welsh for Wales is Cymraeg. Cymraeg. Yeah
I drive a Toyota Cymraeg. Is that a thing? A car?
A camry. We can go start with some greetings.
Alright. So it's the morning time! We're just, we're
meeting! And it's gonna be great, and I'm like Bore da! Bore da!
And that means good morning. I don't know why you put some weird whatever
accent that was on it. Bore da!
It's sing song. It's nice that you got a little head movement
going on. That's how I say good morning.
Good morning!
Prynhawn da! Prynhawn da!
I'm Welsh! I'm Evan. Evan is a Welsh name.
Is it? It means warrior.
Evan sounds like an aggressively American name.
I was born with stars and stripes. You came out the womb like FREEDOM!
There's the famous one that people really like for no understandable reason other than
rhyming.
Rydw i'n hoffi coffi. Rydw i'n hoffi coffi.
Which means I like coffee. I love it!
Do ya? I love it!
Do ya like coffee? I do!
Daily sentences! Rydw i'n hoffi coffi.
Yeah. I'm gonna say that at the coffee shop tomorrow.
They put it [Welsh] on all the signs because why have convenience when you can all pretend
and live in this charade that you know 2 languages. You get sort of mixes.
Yeah. Mixes.
So wenglish, not technically called that, but colloquially.
Tell me what you think they mean because you might know some of them.
Cwtch. Ashton.
No. I use this one quite a lot as well.
Kitchen. No. Absolutely not.
It feels like it sounds. He touched her cwtch.
Oh dear. Cwtch is like a little snuggle.
Aww. You can, you can... yeah.
Come here let's have a little cwtch. This is a little cwtch.
Yeah, it's sort of more of a snuggly cuddle than a hug.
K-U-T-C-H Absolutely not.
K-Y-Y-Y-T-C-H C-W-T-C-H
C-W...W??? Cooootch.
*laughs* Cooootch.
Cooootch. Oh Evan come here. Gimme a Cooootch.
Cooootchie Cooootchie Coo!
Bampi. What do you think bampi means, and no it is
not a weird pronunciation of a deer. That's what I was thinking of.
Yeah it's really funny. Mate. Bampi is Welsh for banter.
It is not. That is, that was alright though. You used
basic logic to come to that conclusion. No, it's granddad. It's what people...
Oh you're bampi! You're bampi, yeah.
I don't like it. B-A-M-P-I
Yeah! Dwti.
What do you think dwti means? When you're dumb.
No. Being silly... uhhh dirty.
It's not dirty no. D-U-T-Y-T-Y-T-Y...Y...W
Absolutely not. Okay, it's mainly the English, but you count
now. Why are they so obsessed with vowels when
they come to Wales? Everyone comes to Wales and they're like where
are all the vowels? Like...
Where are all the vowels! In the words!
You guys took "And sometimes y" and were like... YEAH!
Let's do it. Yeah, Y is a vowel in Welsh. Oh!
So now Dwti. How do you think that's spelled. D-W-T-T-Y
Eh, it was D-W-T-I Just like a little dwti, little bug.
What is scram mean to you? Scram is food, right?
No. Well, scram in English means get out of here;
scram! Yeah, it still blows my mind that this isn't
a thing. A fight?
Kindof no, it's like if I got my nails and just... ooo sorry I actually did it.
OW! If I did that to you, what have I just done?
You scratched me. I scrammed you.
I can't understand why this isn't... this isn't a Welsh thing. This is English to me.
I was fooled my entire life.
You might know this one. If I was to say I was tamping...
You're on your period? Mmm, it's not tampon is it, Evan?
Those are different vowels, my love. You're tampin!
When you tamper with something. No, good logic.
When you're a big fan of the Tampa Bay team... No.
No. It's just angry.
That's like the quote that people think is just from the Valleys, the show that people
say it a lot. Tamping, fuming, raging means you're really
angry.
Aww that is hanging. What would that mean? Awesome.
Absolutely not. It is dreadfully the opposite of awesome.
Yeah, it's disgusting. Yeah, cause I imagine like a toenail just
hanging. Ugh, yeah.
There's 28 letters in the Welsh alphabet. A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G Ng H I J
This sounds like one of those pianos where you push a button and it goes
*breath* uh
ich And then one of them's like
ich ich And then one of them's always like
haaaauuuu *laughs*
DJ DJ
d d d d Turn it up!
A B C Ch D Dd E it's like you're beatboxing the actual alphabet!
(It is SO hard to CC sounds) *beatboxes the alphabet*
You don't learn it as the separate words, you just learn the noises you have to make
to be able to go to the toilet. So they wouldn't be mean, like it's not like
we're all expected to speak Welsh. I've got a couple of friends that went to
Welsh-speaking schools, but it's mainly English, and you can get extra points if you say it,
and it's: Ga I fynd i'r ty bach os gwelwch yn dda
Ga I fynd i'r ty bach os gwelwch yn dda (pronounced badly and slowly)
No, you can't. *laughs*
Not with that effort. Ga I fynd
i'r ty bach i'r ty bach os gwelwch yn dda os gwelwch yn dda
That was alright. Yeah. Not great. But it was okay. Good job buddy. Good job.
Do you know the longest word in Wales right? When people say it's the longest place name
in the world it's kinda cheating cause it's not like one place. It translates to
St. Mary's church in the hollow of a white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of ll­llanty­silio
of the red cave.
Like that's not a place name. Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch
Go go go! And everyone knows that bit so everyone will
say it and then everyone'll be like Go go go!
Yeah I can say it too! Go to say an L
And then just don't. And expel air.
Do an L. la Now go... heeh
*fart sound* oh my god you're just spitting everywhere.
*laughs* That's disgusting
Do you wanna have a go? Evan, please will you say to me the longest
place name in Wales? Say it once for me.
Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch
Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch *pronounced badly*
*laughs* mate you nailed it
It says Robin Williams in the middle Oh yeah.
You wanna try and recite the first verse of the Welsh national anthem?
Yes, I didn't know you guys had an anthem! God save us gracious sheep!
You can't do tha... oh my GOD! *laughs*
OH MY GOD! *tries to pronounce first line of anthem*
How are you making it sound Italian? That's a real, that's a real feat!
I don't know what these letters do! *laughs*
I don't know what these letters do. They're lying to me!
Should we find some Welsh towns for you to pronounce?
Aberystwyth Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth That's a thing.
Okay, so what've we learned? Cwmbran
No, I think you're trying too hard with the accent. Just let it go.
Cwmbran We know what W is don't we!
Pontllanfraith Pontllanfraith
You sound like, okay, when you go on Google translate and you try and get it to say a
Welsh word, it's that really electric voice trying to do it like
Pontllanfraith
Ystrad Mynach Not awful.
Ystrad Mynach Ystrad Mynach
Abercynon Abercynon
Yeah! Not too bad. Abercynon
I want to say Pontypridd, but I know it's Pontypridd (pronounced fast)
*mouth noises* I want to say Pontypriddm but I know it's
*regurgitation sounds* *laughs*
*regurgitation sounds* How would you pronounce doddleoddle in Welsh?
Cause there's double d's. Dodlay odlay
*laughs* Dodlay odlay
Thank you guys so much for watching! If you did like it, give it a big thumbs up.
bodiau i fyny And I'm just gonna get Evan to sign a waver
as we sign off now to never try and pronounce anything Welsh ever again.
It will make you Crymu. Cymru
*laughs* Thanks for watching!
Be sure to subscribe to my channel. I make new videos every Sunday.
And be sure to check out Kim's channel. And I will see you guys next Sunday. Good
bye!
*cue catchy whistling outro* *swoosh*
*sped up Welsh national anthem* You know in Bruce Almighty where he...
*makes funny mouth sounds*