Course in learning Welsh

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I've just applied for a course in learning Welsh, to be started in September. I'm so excited! I will be distraught if I dont get in, apparantly its popular. I've always wnated to learn the language. I live in England and come accross as very English, but I am infact Welsh. This is like, getting back to my roots.

Yea! Don't let those Poms destroy your culture!

Well, I guess.But noones trying to destroy my culture.

well maybe im just an ignorant american/italian. but what is the difference between welsh and english and all that stuff? not too sound rude

The difference between Welsh and English? Depends exactly what you mean. If you means whats the difference between the languages? Well they are completely different languages, but Welsh is a largely defunct langauge. Only 20% of the Welsh actualy speak it and most of those that do speak English as first language, and the very few that speak Welsh as first language do at least have a rudimentary understanding of English.If your question was about the difference between Welsh and English people and our constitutional relationship, then the answer is very complex and you will get very varying answers from who you ask.

I'll go more indepth if you like.

lol well im just confused. lets say i flew over to where you live. do welsh and english people all live in england? is it kind of like dutch people living in america, or american indians and americans? i just dont understand the main concept of it all.

Welshmen live in Wales, Englishmen live in England, Scotsmen live in Scotland. But all these three peoples live in BRITAIN and are all British people. They all speak English.This will help... The red is England, the little Green one is Wales and the Blue is Scotland. The entire island, collectively, is known as Britain. Thats all simple enough.We are not three seperate entities however. The entire of the island of Britain is united in one country, informally called simply Britain. When people say Britain they do not mean England (unless they are idiots) they mean England, Wales and Scotland collectively. We are the United Kingdom of Great Britain (and Northern Ireland, but thats a whole other story), with our capitol in London, south-east England.A simplified (and largely rather sloppish) way of looking at is as three different states of the united states, but with less state rights, yet more state identity.Read on if you want the complex bit: Britain is often called the nation. But hang on...England, Wales and Scotland are often caled nations to, and they are within Britain. Nations within nations? Yes you could see it that way. Or some people believ that the Britain is not a nation, it is only a state, and that only Wales, England, and Scotland are nations. I persoanlly believe the former, that Britain is a single nation and should remain united.

If I insulted your intellegence atall then you have my apologeise. Though most people ar eunsure of exactly what Britain is, that includes people in our own country lol.

i learn something new every day

wow i had no idea. so when you say you are from the UK, that also means britain right? kinda like i say im from america, but i could also say im from the USA?

Yeah thats right.

Wow, that made everything clear for me. Thanks!

Was it back in the 2004 Six Nations when Wales were playing England that the Welsh coach gave his team a big rark up by saying how England had come in and taken over and all that jazz, and now was the time for payback? That seemed pretty cool to me, like Wales' version of Braveheart.

If he did say that then he is completely ignorant of history and the reality of anglo-welsh relations...even more so than the makers of Braveheart. Though I was happy when we wont the Six Nations Cup

I wouldn't have the faintest about Welsh-Anglo relations but they speech sounded pretty cool. Even though Collin Charvis blatantly isn't ethinically Welsh, I could imagine him getting so fired up about it.

What prevents me getting fired up at such speeches is knowing the facts.

Just out of curiousity what are the facts? How did Wales come under English rule?

You just confused the hell out of me lol

"Wales has not been politically independent since 1282, when it was conquered by King Edward I of England." - Maybe there is some truth to it then?