When you were saying that long place name, you sounded like Dory from Finding Nemo speaking Whale 🐋 🤣

That buzzer was rather brutal, LOL!!!

Okay, no hope for us! Can we hire Joe as a translator when we travel there? He's awesome!

Looking forward to it. See you tomorrow.

Great job Joe! I need to back up the truck several times to get these! Great video Dara! ~Cara 😊

Thanks for sharing this video! Always believe in yourself and keep doing what you love to do!❤😊👍

Love this!! Funny, interesting, and educational! What’s not to love!❤️

How fun that you got to go to Wales. Have you ever watch Gavin and Stacey. It is about a couple who are Welch and English. Like his parents. It is so funny. You should watch it.

I won’t even begin to try Welsh. Never. Ever…!!!! 😂❤️

What a fun language lesson. You're basically fluent now!

Can't wait for this one! We still can't even pronounce Ioan Gruffudd, and we love that guy.

Good for you, Dara, for having a go at unpronouncable Welsh, and respect to Joe for his dead-pan patience! Now....how do you pronounce the Welsh place name Dduallt...? Now...have a go at Cornish 😁

I love it! Especially how serious he is 😂 but I still have no idea what these mean :-)

Welsh is not easy even if you're used to British English and for us Americans it's really hard. You did pretty good Dara.

As a native of Abertawe I can say that you were judged very harshly. You did really well and deserve more points. I hope you enjoyed your visit to Wales and had a chance to get to a few more places beside Llangranog.

Great job Joe though you may have failed as a teacher. Not sure Dara's Welsh is any better!

I saw a video where a weatherman correctly pronounces the ridiculously long name of some Welsh town. It was wild!

Easy peasy! Haha! Many thanks to Joe for helping us out today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I'll be able to pronounce Welsh as good as you, Dara.

What does Yaki Da mean? In Welsh, the way to say Cheers! is Iechyd da! (It is sometimes anglicised to Yaki da! or Yaki dah! but these spellings are incorrect.) As in English, it is said when you raise a glass to toast another person, or when you clink glasses with a group of friends in celebration.

With so many high scoring letters missing, scrabble must be challenging 😉

wonderful video thanks a million😍😍😘

Joe is priceless -- what a neat kid, going along with "Crazy American Cousin Dara"!! 🤣Thank you for all the enjoyment (and education!) from this video, Dara. Loved it!! 👍

Hahaha, too much spitting, Dara!! 😜

Sorry I missed this. Watching now

Happy to support your channel new subscriber

Oh that’s gonna be cool!

That has to be your funniest one yet Joe was a star how he didn't fall about laughing was great. Its strange how many places across the UK have names that are differently said as opposed to the spelling. Masham in Yorkshire is one, pronounced Mass ham, you could have asked Joe about microwave and increased your Welsh language skills further.

Fun.

Dara, well done. I’ve lived here in Wales for 70 years and still make mistakes. My Nephew from N. Wales, Bala, is a native Welsh speaker, he tells me off. When I worked in the local BT Telephone Exchange, a big 2 floor building with loads of BT vans outside, we’d daily get delivery vans and semi’s calling in for directions, some drivers attempts were priceless, if they brought their delivery slip it would be easy! Looking forward to your Welsh food video, thinking of Lava Bread, Welsh Cakes, Cawl, Bara Brith and Faggots & Peas. Time for tea/dinner.

Great video, lots of fun, Joe was a good teacher and very patient with you! ♥️

You really need to check out the Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert. Search YT for him learning Welsh, the video quality isn't great but it is hilarious.

Really enjoyed that, very well explained and Joe did brilliantly! The buzzer was brutal lol 😆 great premiere, happy Friday all! Diolch yn fawr, Ceri and Kat ☕ ❤ 👍 🥰

There’s one on list I could help with.✌🏼

Can't wait!

Hi Magenta This video is so interesting and entertaining.. I love the rapport of you and little Joe, what a smart little character he is… I am Australian but my grandparents were welsch.. I didn’t learn much about their language, it’s interesting to me how different so much is.. And that there is no x,z or K in the welsh alphabet.. You have beautiful energy I look forward to more from you 💎💕💥

Nicely done Dara and Joe!

This is gonna be hilarious!

Hehe Dara I loved that . It is so funny hearing non welsh speakers trying to pronounce Welsh . Got to say though that even non welsh speaking Welsh people struggle with the language . You did um... ahem ... quite well though 😃 I enjoyed your laughing at it 😄👏😄👏😄💕

This was hilarious....such a fun video!!! 🤩

Great fun video Dara. Welsh is famously difficult for us English speakers to pronounce. You did really well!!

alright everybody hold YOUR LAUGH IN just hold it in everybody🤫

I've lived in Wales for 14 years and am still tripped up with some place names, plus I have the advantage of speaking Afrikaans which has some similar sounds to Welsh that aren't found in the English language, so for an English speaker you did very well. Aberystwyth is one I like to hear the English try to pronounce, plus another local town, Eglwyswrw. Once you think you have mastered Welsh, take a trip up to north Wales where they pronounce it all different and learn it all over again ;-) I think Joe would score you less than you scored yourself but he's too nice ;-)

Da iawn, Dara!

Loved it!! It’s such a bizarre alphabet, but once you know it, its a lot easier to pronounce words as there aren’t all the weird rules of English!! Well done 🍻

I have heard of American optimism but learning Welsh in 10 minutes? I lived in Wales from the age of 11 to 27 and didn’t manage it!

Hadir teman ikutn nyimak salam dari aku ❤❤❤❤❤❤🇮🇩

Well done 👍 👌😍

Blimey Dara! If you think Welsh is a bit... taxing, go 'round the corner and down a bit' and have a go at....... CORNISH. There are only about 5-600 people left who speak it as their first language - so you might actually be saving it! I (pathetically) tried to have a go at Cornish in a pub near Truro (Malpas, to be precise) when I was about 15 (1976!) and failed even more miserably at that, than you managed with Welsh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 And I've been to Llangranog too! Beautiful little place which was like stepping back into the 1940s. I went there when my eldest son was about a year old (he's nearly 31 now)

Wow amazing content👍👍🌟🌟💟🇵🇰🤗🤗

Loved learning Welsh in 10 minutes! We'll grade you on a curve. I'm sure none of us would have gotten any right so 3 out of 10 makes you the Valedictorian!

I was on a bus in Mid Wales, telling the driver I was going to Llandinam . He looked puzzled asking me to repeat it, I did but it didn't help. A passenger sitting close by laughed and suggested I pronounce as it would be in English since he didn't understand.

PH in Welsh is similar in sound to the ph in pharmacy.

Yes your Welsh relatives, ask her about cawl a very old Welsh dish, you named the name of my village in your learning how to speak Welsh video, sorry to say you failed lol but thanks for trying.

Hello, I've watched your videos must say inspiration positive funny family friendly I've subscribed. You should work for the British tourist board do a better job all split in to 4 welsh tourist board you be amazing at it. Your knowledge of history diff cultures here is astonishing I know more tho lol, well presented and spoken with music and well spoken in a kind respective manner with scenery and nature your job apply for British tourist board. I can speak English in high equity or depending on who im with where I am will naturally use saying n phrases so meaningfull and tend to talk a lot of slang lol.. I can speak welsh and understand what words places mean the terminology etc, as born grew up in South Wales welsh language surrounds us, had welsh classes in school ( my fav subject ) but was English school not welsh speaking.. Since January this year I been doing a online course named Duolingo so much fun they have apps with a great community do quizes etc get points to learn welsh fluently im on intermediate level putting sentences together etc which originally learnt in school. Obviously I know all greeting bye phrases words in welsh so much fun. Today me my parents my older brother my son my girlfriend going to Pendine sands Carmarthenshire for 5 days a small haven caravan park there, reminds me of childhood early teen years in the magical 1980s traditional UK holiday caravan parks Best memories tho. Your channel others to positive vibes on Britain where I born ( Wales ) grew up made me realise we tend to take for granted im very much love nature n chill. Im quiet natured but can ramble so sorry. I have so many recommendations to visit in UK but be a long list tho. Im lucky to live by coastal seaside town porthcawl the historic cynffig villages surround kind of centrel for me inbetween Swansea Cardiff M4 right by London 2 n half train ride away etc. Love London to visit been loads football matches to but won't like to live there. Have a wonderful time in UK you should try live permeability experience autumn winter I dont moan about weather use to it lol it so changeable unreal if it rains who cares a saying here - Keep calm and carry on make best of your da. So excited Pendine sands with family n girlfriend leaving soon woohoo... Keep up the positive well presented videos nice one n cheers . Kind regards..... Gareth.... x

Oh wow, some of these stuff are impossible :d and I thought Hungarian can give a headache with length of words (and surely it does) but Wales have their fair competitors :D Good job though! :)

I imagine that when you get the hang of the special sounds that certain letters make, Welsh is more consistent with its pronunciations than English? Is that so? I'm guessing with extra practice you're now almost fluent, Dara! 😉😂

Great

when i was stationed there i leart onlt bad words lol

V and J don't exist in the Welsh alphabet despite Jones being a common Welsh surname! Watch out for orthographical changes eg M can become F, C can become G. C is never pronounced as S. I'm English and can't speak Welsh but have been to Wales many times and picked up on some of the language. I hope!

i think the only KZfaq videos with me in are the ones on other channels ☠️

Joe is a very good teacher, but maybe he's a little bit strict. I thought many of your pronunciations were fine! I think you have to learn how to pronounce the words first before trying to pronounce them! (speaking as a language teacher with decades of experience!) Welsh pronunciation is much easier than English as the spelling is almost 100% regular. The Llanfair... place name is best split up into its constituent words, but I've never seen anyone do that! It's great that you tried to speak the Welsh language, which is an irreplaceable and ever-fascinating asset of Wales.

Its young Joe Root.

When did they add J to the welsh alphabet? lol, they must have sneaked that one in very recently. It must be an anglicisation thing, because of so many Christian names with a J, like Joe, Joseph, James, John, Jesus etc, they must have thought, what’s one more letter to the alphabet. So even I have learnt something from this video, lol, not sure how I feel about it. Ok so a question to the welsh speakers who have been taught with a J, do you still spell names like Ioan with an I or do you now spell it with a J? And do you spell fridge the English way or do you spell it in an Welsh way but with a J now it’s part of the Welsh alphabet say Ffrij? Or do you just use the welsh word oergell/oergelloedd?

Diolch

Well done, I'd stick to English if I were you

All I know is that ll is pronounced cl

It's all Greek to me....

There is no j in the Welsh alphabet.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch translates as St Mary’s Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave

Probably be easier if you break it down into it component words: Llanfair pwllgwyrngyll go ger y chwryn drobwll llan tysilio gogogoch. Church of St Mary-pool of white hazels-near the wild whirlpool - (and) the Church of Tsylio - of the red caves...Thusly: TLahn-vair-puTL-guirn-guTL-go-ger-i-xhurin-dro-buTL-TLahn-ti-silio-go-go-goxh. with TL being the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative LL and xh being the uvular fricative CH