We have been asked to do this one for over a year and after being intimidated by it, we finally did it! It was SO MUCH FUN! We learned A LOT of information about different languages not just in the United Kingdom but the British Isles too! Keep your eyes open for our new "surprise guest!" This was a great video and we love learning new things and really hope you enjoy it! Thanks so much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also please click the Like button. Thanks so much for watching!

Nice that you reacted to my video - glad people are still watching it, and nice for me to see how people react to what I make - even if this one was back when I had just started out making videos! I notice you enjoyed some of the music I played in the video; they're all listed in the description of the video should you be interested. Take care!

As a resident of Wales, I can confirm that the Welsh language is alive and very much in use!

I'm British. English speaking, But I will Argue all day Long, For the old Languages.

Yes the Lizard is an area of Cornwall 😊 The half naked guy is from a popular British TV series called Poldark, he is named Aiden Turner, the series was set in Cornwall in the 1780's and features the tin mines which were once a hive of industry, many still stand as relics of that time. I think you'd both really enjoy the series as he is a soldier who returns from the war of independence to try and salvage his late father's business...lots of romance and beautiful scenery and of course superb acting.😊👍🇬🇧

I'm English and study old English . I believe It's important all these languages are given official status in the UK, preserved and taught in their respective regions. To quote Tolkien: 'Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain; Welsh is beautiful'.

As a born and bred Cornishman it kind of upsets me that when I was in a school I had to learn French with Cornish being our local language which is dying out. I have no intention of ever going to France and now I can only remember certain words, I would have much rather learned Cornish in school.

It's good that you're surprised by some content, you ask questions, and you genuinely enjoy the differences you see in these videos. If shows you are sincere and are taking things seriously rather than it just be something to post for the sake of it(and for ratings). It's very entertaining for us here and it makes us proud that we have all this to share.

My wife was born & brought up in Wales. Her father's family were Welsh-speaking down to her father's generation. My parents had a small farm in the west of Wales; I used to work in the local motel, where most of the staff spoke Welsh. I used to go to the parish priest for Welsh lessons. Welsh is a beautiful language and I love to hear it spoken.

Living in Brittany France, they have the Breton language, and we had a Welsh friend who could actually communicate not in French but in Welsh as its very close to Breton, here in Brittany you find a lot of place names beginning with Ker meaning village or Loc meaning holy place.

My father was Welsh and his first language was Welsh. He was brought up in a village in North Wales where virtually no English was spoken. However, when he went to school, he was forced to speak English only. In fact, any child caught speaking Welsh was punished. He said that he could understand some words in Cornish, Manx & Breton. He was a radio operator during WW2 in the RAF. They used Welsh speakers quite often as there was absolutely no chance of the Germans being able to understand the language. He often told a story of being on holiday in Italy & speaking to his brother-in-law in Welsh and the manager of the hotel trying to guess what language they were speaking and failing. One of my biggest regrets is not learning the language as a child.

Great video.... It's fairly rare these days, but i'm first language Welsh, meaning I grew up with Welsh only, only learnt english once i got a few years into school... The language is doing super well, which is an amazing feat given the deliberate attempts to cull the people and particularly the language over the years and thoughout history.... Which by the way, is well worth looking into and reacting to

I'm a cornishman and the Cornish language is making a resurgence 🎉

I think the castle is Eilean Donan castle in the western highlands. Its extremely scenic and has been used in many films over the years including Highlander and Entrapment to name a couple. I'm sure it can also be seen on many a tin of old Scottish shortbread too.

I love videos like this. English is always the assumed language when the world thinks of our little collection of lands, but we are so much more

If I win the Lottery, I'll buy a wee Scottish Isle and rename it "Bob" in your honour, Ladies! Great video as always.

I live in Wales. Many of the people I work with are first language Welsh. Our neighbours are first language Welsh. My father-in-law is first language Welsh. Cymraeg is very much alive.

Cornish ice cream is THE BEST ever..the man at the beginning of the Cornwall piece is an actor called Aidan Turner and he portrayed a landowner in the 1800's called Ross Poldark..it was a tv series originally in the 70's and remade starting around 2017..from the brilliant books by Winston Graham..the series was brilliant and a mega hit here and in the USA too..my mom was born in Caerphilly..she knew a bit of the language but not enough to teach me ..shame as I'd love to have spoken it..🇬🇧💞🙏✝️🐾🐾🐕👍🇺🇸

I'm Scottish, from the north east, I speak English, Gaelic and Doric.

people in the UK need to remember that the reason they is a Gaelic speaking languages on the BBC is 100% down to the BBC TV Licence free

Yes, The Lizard really is a place. The name is probably an anglicising of its Cornish name, Lys Ardh which translates as High Court. The area is owned by The National Trust, an incredible organisation which like English Heritage looks to preserve the countryside and historic buildings for future generations.

Have a look at the Isles of Scilly. Often overlooked but worth exploring.

I'm Irish,so I grew up with English and Gaeilge(not "gaelige" as written in the video).My dad was from Glasgow,so I also grew up with a lot of Glasgow and Scottish slang.The guy in the video said that "wha" means why,but it actually means "who". Ps: The guy on the Cornish part of the video is Aidan Turner,an Irish actor who starred in Poldark,a TV series set in Cornwall.

The Welsh song (in Welsh, not Men of Harlech that was sung first in English) is the folk song Dacw Nghariad (Nghariad / Cariad is Welsh for ‘sweetheart / my love ‘ essentially) - so the title is ‘There is my sweetheart’ That version is by Eve Goodman, her live Sofar one on KZfaq is one of my all-time favourites

My family is Welsh, though I was brought up in England - my father was fluent because they spoke both Welsh and English at home and my mother was from a predominantly English speaking home but could get by in Welsh. When they wanted to talk about something that they didn’t want my brother and I to hear, they would switch to Welsh ! I didn’t learn the language but there were words used at home that I assumed were English until later. My uncle married someone from a predominantly Welsh speaking home. They moved to London when they were in their 20s, spoke Welsh at home but worked and managed their lives for decades speaking English. She was a maths teacher in a secondary ( high) school He died before her and she sadly developed early onset dementia, with other frailties, and moved into a nice care home where she had been happy but began to get very unsettled. My cousin, her daughter, visited from her home abroad and quickly realised that the reason for her distress was that her understanding of English had completely vanished and she was baffled by everything everyone was saying to her. It must have been terrifying 😕 She was moved to a home in Wales, where she still had family who could visit, and was so much happier.

I extra appreciate that you're both genuinely keen to learn (and remember what you're learning!). Too many other channels are purely reaction and have no real interest in building knowledge but I love the genuine work you put into learning more. You're fantastic 👏

You haven’t had ice cream until you’ve had clotted cream ice cream! I’m Devonian and was raised on clotted cream ice cream. I now live up in Lincolnshire and the ice cream up here isn’t the same league at all. When I was a teenager, I worked in an ice cream parlor for a summer. We were allowed to eat all we wanted. As there were over 30 flavours, I was very happy! I reckon Debbie should open an ice cream parlor on The Lizard.

I'm from Jersey, which is also part of the British Isles. There is a sister island called Guernsey too. Our two islands speak other dying languages called Jèrriais and Guernésiais which are derived from the Norman languages. Sounds like a rougher French.

The Welsh song that you said is beautiful is called "Dacw 'Nghariad" (There is my love). It is a lovely song. The earliest known record of it being sang was in the 1800's. A woman heard a travelling merchant singing it, the song was carried on from there over the centuries. We have no idea how old the song is because the merchant probably heard the song from somebody else as well. The song is on youtube sang by quite a lot of different people, some of them not even Welsh people.

My father was born on The Black Lesley and spoke what he called THE Gaelic. When he was working in Wales a man came into his office and addressed him in Welsh. This was a power-play as he assumed that my father did not speak Welsh. My father replied in The Gaelic which caused the man to be taken aback. My father then said, in English, “Now shall we continue in a language we both understand?”

The random dude was Aidan Turner the Irish actor who played Ross Poldark in the tv series. Poldark is a famous Cornish character from the books by Winston Graham.

My partner is Welsh speaking having grown up in North Wales. There is a significant difference in pronunciation in north and South Wales. This had an impact on me when I worked for a water company. The water company took over a North Wales water company and renamed it ‘Hafren Dyfrdwy’. The management went to great lengths to train everyone how to pronounce this… unfortunately they went to language experts from the university of Cardiff, which is in South Wales. When I pronounced the name to my partner, she said it was meaningless and the first time I spoke to a Welsh customer, I put into practice the pronunciation I had been taught by the company, only for the customer to tell me I was saying it wrong. I spent some time with the customer to learn the correct north Wales pronunciation.

Another awesome video ladies. I definitely learned some new information too. P.S. found your sneaky duck Debbie, sitting in the trailing plant 😁

Glad he included Cornish, it's a beautiful language. I have tried to learn it but I'm hopeless at languages, but there are more and more people becoming fluent.

I was born in the Angus County but grew up in Australia. Both my parents had their strong accent to the days they passed, I miss hearing it and every now and then I hear myself saying a phrase they would use. When I am angry or with other Scots my accent gets stronger.

Ulster is the medieval name for one of the 4 provinces of Ireland, Northern Ireland is a 20th Century political area that remained part of the UK when Ireland gained independence - Northern Ireland includes most of Ulster but not all, some parts of Ulster are in the republic. Ulster is often used as short hand for Northern Ireland but its not accurate

The guy with his shirt off is Aiden Turner (Irish actor) who played Ross Poldark in the series Poldark. The sea looks so blue because Cornwall is on the Atlantic Ocean, it has a much warmer climate similar to the South of France. Debbie you cannot beat a cornish ice cream cone with a blob of clotted cream on top. Quite a few small dairies have their own ice cream shop.

Very interesting. The bit that some would argue was missing was the languages from the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm). The Channel Islands are "possessions of the Crown". They are self-governing islands but very much align to the Crown. They are very near France and were part of Normandy when Williams conquered in 1066. They speak a Norman-French dialect. They are tiny islands and easily missed but have a rich history that may be worth reacting to at some time. And yes, you might well recognise the name Jersey for it gave its name to New Jersey in the 18th century!

I have learnt more about the British Isles from watching your videos than I have done from living in and being educated here. This stuff is not taught in schools and should be. Thank you for this.

I have learned a lot from this video. Thanks

Being English I already knew some of the history of Scotland and Ireland , Welsh speaking, but it was a new lesson to me to hear about the Cornish and Manx. It does explain in many ways the diverse different dialects that have been watered down over centuries and given our towns and counties different accents, loved the video and the lesson, good on ya lady's

I absolutely loved this video, well done ladies, this was so interesting.

You guys are awesome. Watching the channel a while now. So great to see Americans interested in learning more about the British isles and our shared ancestral history. Love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸❤️

Absolutely awesome vid, loved it. 😍

Hi Ladies, That Cornish ice cream cart is not a million miles from a real experience my husband and I had touring Cornwall. We were out for a drive along the empty coastal road, we rounded a hill and in a small layby was a little snack trailer with tables outside. It was the local dairy farms home made Cornish ice-cream cart. They could even point out the cows on the hill the cream came from and name them. It was the best Ice cream I ever had.

Hi ladies ... very interesting video , these are beautiful languages... I love hearing them spoken. I can definitely hear Debbie saying that phrase 🤣 All joking aside ladies this was a fantastic video as always ❤

Outstanding video by you 2 amazing ladies. Was brilliant as always. Very informative

The Cornish guy with his shirt off is Aiden Turner and that's a shot from the Cornwall based TV series Poldark. He's my pick to be the new James Bond.

This was really a great video. I have watched other Americans reaction videos, but they do not research before so sound quite silly in their remarks. I thank you for being true reactionist (if that is a word, well it is now). As a truck driver in England I have been to Belfast, Scotland, Cornwall and Wales. One time in Wales I asked a local how to get to this town, I was pointing at the town name on my paperwork. He said he knew how but said, "I will tell you if you can say the name first". I tried, he laughed and said close enough, he did give me the directions. But it was all done in fun.

This is brilliant I'm learning so so much thankyou girl your the best god bless you abundantly xx🙏🤗🤗

Hearing Men of Harlech was my favorite part of this

Thank you, Loved the video. You show real espect.

Good morning ladies, from the Isle of Fred. An interesting watch, as always, and I learned a few things I didn't know. I love Hilbert's videos. He has a light, chatty style but manages to teach me something new each time. Silly side note - the band The Pogues take their name from Pog ma hoin.

The song you hear at the beginning of the section on Scots Gaelic is called "Fear a' Bhàta" . There are several versions of it on KZfaq, but I think the best version is by the group Capercaillie. Enjoy!

Please take a listen to the Welsh song ''Yma o Hyd'' by Dafydd Iwan. It took 40 years to become an overnight success (!) and is played at football matches. It's available with the English lyrics but I guarantee you'll join in the Welsh chorus. 😀

It's interesting about the "dead" languages at the end. Cumbric/cambric/"north welsh" has certainly left its mark on place names in the Pennines and the Lake District. Close to me we have Pen-y-ghent (a big hill!) and up in the lakes there are place names like Blencathra. But there are at least as many Scandinavian-origin words here too. Some old farmers carry out certain activities in another language, but there's a bit of a debate about whether it's some version of Cumbric or old norse (the most famous is counting sheep: yan, tan, tethera, etc.)

Thanks ladies, this one was exceptional.

Hi guys 👋 Another great reaction. I live in England and still love learning about the British isles. My favourite language is Welsh . Tried learning but gee it’s hard.

Hello Natasha & Debbie. Nice to hear you learning about our languages here. I live in South Wales and unfortunately I am not a Welsh speaker. The part of Wales I live in is predominately English speaking. Welsh was a subject I took throughout my school life, not all on the language. A lot of the time on the history, geography, singing and folk lore. The only people in my family who are fluent are my middle brother and his wife. They moved into rural north Wales in the Bala area. His son is called Huw, his wife is Ceri and they have a son called Osian and a daughter called Beca. They are all Welsh speakers. Huw was 2 when he moved to Llanuwchllyn, near Bala and was speaking Welsh within a couple of months. The nursery (Kindergarten) he went to was a Welsh only school and called Ysgol Feithrin in Welsh. In secondary school he took all subjects in Welsh. English was a foreign language in his curriculum. When I go to his local pub I get asked what I want in Welsh first. The Pub is called Yr Eryr, The Eagles. In a national survey about 20 years ago there were still some people who only spoke Welsh! Much shouting in the public over the last few years has resulted in TV Channel 4 becoming a Welsh channel (also get an English version). All road signs, official documents must be bilingual. My phone bill is twice the length of an English one. Many shops have bilingual signage on the product aisles. Wales has it’s own parliament called Y Senedd, The Senate, and has a Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay. The lady singing is Cerys Mathews, she was the vocal member of the rock group Catatonia. She has also sung and recorded many Welsh songs including “Calon Lan” a Welsh hymn meaning a Pure Heart. Try and find this on You Tube. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5uii5mkm7nYqIU.html She is singing here with the Fron Male Voice Choir. Fron is that very high and long aqueduct in North Wales.

I learnt something new, I never knew about the Manx language. Really enjoyed this one.

Bore da ladies!/Good morning ladies! from cloudy South Wales.

Enjoyed the video.

Ha ha Bob the island would be great. Loved the video and as always learned a lot and had a few giggles with this one :-)

Great video loved the history on it love to learn the language

The ice cream cart is real and they are used on the seafront and at many events. Yes corniche ice cream is gorgeous, smooth and creamy like you'll never believe

It's been suggested that The Lizard is an anglicised form of the Cornish "Lys Ardh" meaning "High Court". There are a lot of unusual placenames in Cornwall and West Devon that are thought be also be anglicised Cornish. Just across the border in Plymouth, there's an area called Pennycomequick which is thought to come from "Pen y cum qwik" meaning "At the head of the valley of the creek". The highest point in Cornwall is called Brown Willy and is thought to be derived from "Bronn Wennili" meaning "the hill of Swallows".

Two that he missed are Zetlandic in Shetlands which is related to Norwegian and arrived via the Vikings and French in the Channel Islands,

The English guy without a shirt is Poldark - a character from a British Historical Drama set in Cornwall. Brilliant review and so great to hear all these languages. Over the last 40 years we have started to really protect our old Languages. My son has just moved to Wales where all children learn welsh at school, if I understand correctly Ireland (both North and Rep) and the Isles also teach their languages as compulsory subject at school.. As the BBC is paid for by the public part of it's licence agreement is that it provides programs (TV, Radio, Online) that are in these languages.

That was really interesting!And yes,Corniche ice-cream is to die for xx

I love the Welsh accent! its great how they have kept the language alive x

Really enjoying your videos. You seem like really nice people with inquisitive, open minds.

Great video Natasha & Debbie. I grew up in the Gaidhealtachd (the West Highlands of Scotland) and we spoke Gaidhlig in our house. I only learned The English when I went to school. Scots Gaidhlig is actually quite simple we only have 18 letters in our alphabet (13 consonants and 10 vowels - vowels have long and short sounds). I am old enough to remember when the telebhisean (TV) arrived in The Highlands and it was all in the confusing English. Scots Gaidhlig is making a comeback, at one point there was only about 60,000 of us left but a push has seen that rise. They speak Scots Gaidhlig in Nova Scotia in Canada and, strange fact, there are Welsh speakers in Southern Argentina.

Great video, I live in north Aberdeenshire but I have lived in various places around Scotland when I was small so really don't speak the local Scots or Doric all the time, but everyone around me does and it can be sooooo Quickly spoken it can be tricky to figure out some of the words even after nearly 40 years living here haha! .. also my Name EILIDH is Gaelic for Helen and pronounced Ay-Ley, incase anyone wondered lol

Don't forget though you guys beat us hands down for indigenous languages with around 800 in the whole of the Americas!

Really enjoyable and informative, thank u both. Living in North Scotland from SE England, I have been looking into this a little more myself. This overview was great. Fascinating to think they are therefore in the roots of the American English and Canadian English language spoken today. Language weaves its way around the world, telling our human histories as it goes. There is beauty and creativity in all of it. Fascinating. My dad did Latin at school and found it very helpful to understand European languages. As they had their main roots in it. He spoke a few like Spanish & French. But also, out of left field, he knew a little Persian (Iran) or Farsi as it's also known. From working there in the 1950's. I am hopeless at languages myself but find them fascinating especially what they tell us of our own heritage, how they tie us together and how musical and beautiful they are. 😁😎💕

Crikey I had no idea. it's really fun learning these things with you 2 beauties so thank you. I was thinking about learning a new language, might have to be Cornish now, I'm from england and not even sure if the language is called Cornish how embarrassing. Welsh is lovely on the ears. Tbh I love all our home nations and proud to be their neighbours and family and friends. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Just a bit of info Ireland discourages the use of British Isles due to its colonial connotations also Naomh is also pronounced "Neev"

This was simply a delightful video .. I think I smiled through the entire thing. I noticed when it was showing the language groups and how Welsh and Cornish came from Brithonic there was a third language, Breton. Since this is about the languages spoke in Britain it wasn't covered but Breton spoken in Brittany, in France and introduced in western Gaul (Brittany) in the 5th and 6th centuries by migrants from southwestern Britain.

I so love you two,you could make anything sound good keep it up,I'm from Royal leamington spa in the Midlands of England

Gaelic is coming back into popularity, especially with the youth who are learning it

Great video ladies! Bless you Debbie, there should be an island called Bob 😂

The half naked man is the Irish actor Aiden Turner, he is the star of the TV series "Poldark" set in 18th century Cornwall. The Lizard is a real part of Cornwall.

Just to disagree with the video a little bit, Scots is spoken more in the Central Belt, which is, as the name suggests, is across the more populated areas around Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the North East, Aberdeenshire mainly, locals tend to speak Doric, which can be debated is either a language or dialect. I fall on the side of it being a language due to its very divergent vocabulary. :)

I'm a Canadian that has been trying to learn Irish or Gaeilge through Dulingp for nearly a year now - 308 days exactly. Both Irish and Scottish Gaelic are beautiful languages. If you'd like to react to some music as Gaeilge (n Irish) look up the band Seo Linn - pronounced 'Shaw Linn:

27:19 “I can’t tell when this guys messing with us” that’s just us English acting normal.

Best thing and the most frustrating thing I ever did was take Irish language courses, I went to an Irish club in Sydney Australia, but I'm sure if you look there will be places near you or you can learn on line. Fantastic fun and bloody hard all at once.

Nice one, ladies. FYI, at one time, way back, when Cornish fisherman were in the middle of the English Channel they would meet boats of Breton fishermen from north-west France. Their respective languages are so closely related that they could talk to each other without using either English or French. Just a fun fact. Keep up the good work............the ancient Englishman from Sussex (sud-saexe = south Saxons).

Great video as always. As a Scottish person I think the ‘Scot’s’ we heard here I would associate with Aberdeen. I’m from the central east coast so we don’t speak quite the same way. An interesting fact, during our census last year we were asked if we could speak English, Gaelic or Scots. I actually had to listen to a guide to know if I actual spoke Scots or not lol. 😂. I thought how I spoke was more slang than a language but apparently I’m wrong.

I think there's a celtic tribe link between yorkshire and Wales. Many places in yorkshire, mountains etc have very Welsh sounding names

Welsh is a bit on the rise, thanks to the Honorary Welsh Rob Mcelhenney, Ryan Reynolds and the entire "welcome to Wrexham" thing.

Loving your work 👊😉❤️

This was a great video, two of my nephews went to a Scottish Gaelic school so they are fluent in that now. I speak a lot of Scots English and quite often put Scottish words in my comments without thinking . The castle was Eilean Donan Castle

Let's be honest, for what could be a very dry subject - that was very interesting. I think following the same vein it would be interesting to look at what regional dialects are still spoken in the UK (not accents). I grew up in Lincolnshire and can remember my grandmother and older relatives speaking what sounded like a different language and I believe other counties were just as unique.

We go to Cornwall and visit Lizard every year. It’s an amazing place, the most southerly point of the British Mainland. The approach of the Spanish Armada In 1588 was seen from Lizard and warning sent to London by lighting beacons across high points of land across hundreds of miles.

love your vid's , my first Language is Welsh , back in the day 60's , prime language Taught in schools was English , but things have changed , and it so nice to hear welsh being taught today

I love this. So many people thing English is the only language in the UK, or they might know something about Irish and Scots, but this really goes into detail about all the different languages. It's a shame they only looked at surviving language, because the linguistic history of the British Isles, including languages like Bryttonic, Cumbric, Pictish, Breton, and so on, is really fascinating.

Interesting video , the languages of Britain are actually even more diverse than this . I suggest you try looking up British regional dialects as there are many. I’m from Lancashire England and Lancashire dialect Is sadly dying out. My great uncle spoke Lancashire dialect and because we were raised hearing it we understood him but if I had friends with me when I visited I had to translate as they couldn’t understand a word he said .

Really great video my father was from the west coast of lreland and his friends were from Dingle and often spoke to each other in their mother tongue. His brother married a Welsh lady, my aunt who also spoke Welsh and English you can imagine the arguments were hilarious. Driving with them was an interesting experience not for the nervous.

yyour making us glasga folk feel grand , appreciated very much x

Oh also! If you want to hear some great music in Welsh look up Welsh of the West End and a song called Yn Y Dechreuad. Can I personally pronounce that? Nope! but it's a fun song 😆