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The version of this I've never managed to find is the one they used to teach to the non welsh speaking rugby players in the national team. It's a collection of English words that sound fairly like the real welsh ones, but make very little sense. This was felt to be easier to learn and allowed them to belt out something approximately right when the anthems were sung.
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Originally Posted by Snowzone
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i byd Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mad Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad Tra mor yn fur i'r bur hoff bau O bydded i'r heniaith barhau There's more but that's all that's sang.  |
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Swedish and English are the only ones I would consider myself fluent in.
I have started to learn a number of other languages, but most of it has either been forgotten or I never learned that much to start with: Russian, Spanish, French, Finnish, Japanese, Korean and Esperanto.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
You'ld be suprised at the increase in welsh speakers in the last few years. Over penarth/dinas powys side, i'ld say the majority of people here are able to ALMOST speak fluent welsh. Took me back quite a bit because like you said, i too was under the impression hardly anybody spoke a word of welsh.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
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Actually Perkele/Perkons/Perukunas/Perun is well... balto-slavic-finno-ugric pagan god usually associated with thunder and lightning. |
Originally Posted by zachary_EU
Perkele ancient name of pagan finnish god and means devil at present but original meaning is one of strongest ancient god of pagan age here. We had many gods at those times like Ukko the overgod. Actually word ukko means very old man. Nobody knows his real secret name but Perkele is one possibility.
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In modern Latvian "perkons" means "thunder", in Lithuanian "perkunas" is both this and a curse (then again, my Lithuanian is... Well, it isn't.) and in modern Russian the word is well, not used for anything.
Anyway, I can speak Russian, English, Latvian (though it's bad), and kinda-sorta-almost understand French. They tried to teach me German in high school, but it was a miserable failure.
English, barely, and that's it?
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One of my best friends is Danish and I wish I knew how to speak it.
What's stopping you from learning it then?
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I know one in spanish:|
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
2 phrases in Welsh
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Hijo de la P***
Well, my uncle was a Trucker and took me along for a few rides down to Spain. That was the first thing he taught me when we crossed the border...sadly I forgot pretty much everything nice.
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We used to work together, but now I don't spend enough time with him to pick it up, and we live in separate cities. <shrug>
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Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
What's stopping you from learning it then?
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Afrikaans - native
English - secondary
bastardized south african english (mix of afrikaans and english)
and i can speak a tiny amount of idiot
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Originally Posted by HeavyTank
and i can speak a tiny amount of idiot
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ja nooit bru, that's like completely true hey
English, and enough german to get by working at a gig staffed by mostly germans.
I'm better at reading it, but not by much, and have been told by native germans that i speak the language in a slight black forrest region accent.... i assume this may mean i speak like a german redneck.
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Schwiizerdüütsch for teh win!!
So, Swiss german dialect would be the native thing. Then of course German itself.
English comes next, I use it a lot at work, and I read most of my books in English, to keep in touch with the language.
Then there's some French, which I learned at school. I use it very seldom though, and it got alot worse in the last few years :-/
I'm from the North American side of the servers, so I hope I don't come off as intruding.
I only speak English fluently, but I know enough Spanish to be able to read and write it. I also made an effort to learn Russian that didn't turn out so well.
I am curious as to whether people would count the (joking) trilingual claim in my signature.
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My languages are... English & Norwegian. That means that I have an easy time understanding Swedes and Danish aswell.
(I lack however the skill to speak the two.)Somehow Swedes has a hard time understanding Danish and the Danes have trouble understanding Swedish, but both of them understands Norwegian. (I've yet to come across a Dane or Swede that did not understand Norwegian)
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Finnish (native)
English (not too bad)
French (decent)
Swedish (ok'ish)
German (reading comprehension is decent, but other than that...)
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Strine and English.
Did French for a couple of years at high school, and it's probably as good as my woodworking skills (another subject that lasted two years at high school).
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Now the welsh national anthem . . . . . . that i am ashamed to say to not have a clue about
gwlad . . .. gwladddddddddd
part hehe
Also:
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i byd
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed
Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad
Tra mor yn fur i'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau
There's more but that's all that's sang.