Americans Guess Welsh Slang // Presented by Welcome to Wrexham

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@mariaaguadoball3407 Жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ, the Welsh language isn't "slang."

@emmahowells8334 Жыл бұрын

One thing to remember, NEVER confuse Wales for England, it's NOT a part of England. Mitching in wales is always associated with skipping school, not goofing off.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@PedrSion Жыл бұрын

Wrexham is in North Wales. Most of the sayings were from South Wales.

@darrenjones1413 Жыл бұрын

South Wales is basically England hardly anyone speaks Welsh

@Cwlcymro Жыл бұрын

@@darrenjones1413 The people of Llanelli and Carmarthen would like a word with you

@darrenjones1413 Жыл бұрын

@@Cwlcymro all the women would faint and men would want to be me I feel like I'd be smurfing at this point going there I've already Been to many places in south Wales and hardly no 1 speaks Welsh like they have a Welsh accent but no one speaks Welsh and there's a lot who can't even string a sentence in Welsh except the good morning good health or good night even English speak more Welsh then that there will be a few places of Welsh speakers but mainly in a group no one has a scooby doo its facts not fiction and many South Wales people have told me straight up born and raised in South Wales but can't speak Welsh ..... dealladwy?+? =?

@oldwelshlady6584 Жыл бұрын

@@darrenjones1413 where are you from Darren? You are obviously not mixing with Welsh speakers, its the law that you have to learn Welsh until yr 18 so, I don't understand???

@oldwelshlady6584 Жыл бұрын

@@Cwlcymro hello from Carmarthen!!! Xxx

@RyanCogar Жыл бұрын

"Mitching" in Cardiff/South Wales means to skip class or school. You'd more commonly say "on the mitch" though more than likely. "We all went on the mitch for our last 2 lessons yesterday" as an example. 👍

@leapoldstotch4987 Жыл бұрын

Mutching not mitching .

@TheDahakon Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's how i used it too (South Wales)

@ealing456 Жыл бұрын

@@leapoldstotch4987 Really depends on where in south Wales, I've heard everything from 'mitching' and 'mUtching' to 'mURching'.

@Strawx_berryz Жыл бұрын

@@leapoldstotch4987 in the more south part of wales we spell it like ‘mitching’ and yeah it means like skipping class or school and also in the south part of wales tidy to us means clean so like “make sure your room is tidy”

@CashConqueror101 11 ай бұрын

@@TheDahakonin South I always used Mitching

@hanes_cymru_ Жыл бұрын

I've used the term "Ych a fi" all my life but I never saw it in writing until now...I picked up the term from my mother and it's never left me 🤣🤣🤣

@samandthegang2326 Жыл бұрын

"Shwmae" means hello (informal) and isn't usually a question. I was taught to use "sut wyt ti?" or "sut dych i?" for "how are you?"

@SombreroPharoah 10 ай бұрын

Sut mae? Or S'mae. Or variable spelling of. "Y'alright?". So it's kinda both really

@thegreatpapyrus6269 Жыл бұрын

Fun to watch this being Welsh :))

@OwainGaming Жыл бұрын

ia mae o yn ddoniol

@CynthiaPrice79 Жыл бұрын

My ancestors spent some time in Wales before coming to America. They originated in Mongolia/Eastern Russia and moved west over a few millennia.

@stacywinson3955 Жыл бұрын

Some of the south Walian terms I was like, Be ti siarad am? Siaradwch Cymraeg!! XD xx

@OwainGaming Жыл бұрын

@@stacywinson3955 😂 digon cywir!

@X-Bumblebee-X 9 ай бұрын

Pwy sy'n hoffi Gymraeg?

@WhatIsItToBurn Жыл бұрын

Welsh is one of the best languages in Britain.

@OwainGaming Жыл бұрын

yr gorau! 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😂

@NecroMorrius Жыл бұрын

Definitely in the top ten

@Ccccc-mi3tr Жыл бұрын

It’s the oldest language of Britain

@darrenjones1413 Жыл бұрын

@@Ccccc-mi3tr nos da good night is opposite way round so we would say night good or morning good very old like tribe like

@oldwelshlady6584 Жыл бұрын

Its one of the rarest too!

@jumpoverthewall Жыл бұрын

“i don’t want to go back to work” honestly is so relatable

@user-zj2hy6le5r Жыл бұрын

Surprised at how good the pronunciation was 😂 (+ a lot of the guesses too)

@itsjustvix5846 Жыл бұрын

Mitching does not mean goofing off... And I should know, I'm Welsh lmao

@jonnicoleman8295 Жыл бұрын

Okay but these are literal translations, you should have them react to idioms and ask them what they think they mean

@vvgirl6173 Жыл бұрын

Chware teg made me thing playing tag (Welsh person here). Mitching has always been associated with skipping classes for me.. Most of the first half were never used by myself or others in my Welsh Town. Though, honestly I've always associated Igam Ogam to a toy shop in my town growing up so I didn't know it was a real phrase XD

@rmannayr2129 Жыл бұрын

THIS IS A LOT OF WELSH SLANG!

@JohnRCWilson Жыл бұрын

Mitching means skipping school where I come from in Northern Ireland

@mixodorians12 Жыл бұрын

Nope, that's mooching.

@clairec1267 Жыл бұрын

Means that in Wales too

@High_Lord_Of_Terra Жыл бұрын

Mitching means playing truant from school and is used all over uk. A cwtch is also the cupboard under the stairs.

@monty4478 Жыл бұрын

As a welshman i find it kind of sexy hearing an american woman trying to speak welsh.

@Welsh_Veteran_420_Z Жыл бұрын

I've lived near Wrexham in North Wales my whole life and I've never heard of those phrases lol

@HamnaTabuu Жыл бұрын

Iesu mawr!

@Welsh_Veteran_420_Z Жыл бұрын

@@HamnaTabuu big Jesus!

@christopherwilliams5939 Жыл бұрын

Most of these were South Walian slang and words, Wrexham is in the North…very different. Im North Walian myself.

@striderwhiston9897 Жыл бұрын

I'm south welsh and never heard any of these except tidy and cwtch.

@zoepeters3826 Жыл бұрын

@@striderwhiston9897 im south wales and heard of all of them. I guess they picked phrases from Swansea lol

@Madi77767 Жыл бұрын

@@zoepeters3826 same but I’m from Caerphilly

@patconner3226 Жыл бұрын

I’m from Wrexham and never heard of mitching or daps.

@Ccccc-mi3tr Жыл бұрын

Daps is a South Wales valleys thing

@Cwlcymro Жыл бұрын

Both are south Wales, common there but not up north

@ycylchgames Жыл бұрын

Both South Wales valley terms and even then it's very specific.

@Funkopopsstorewalkthroughsunbo Жыл бұрын

Shwmae pawb I am a proud welsh man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@mermaidmimsy Жыл бұрын

Im proud to be a welsh woman but sadly my ancestors although welsh as likely from many welsh royal lines I never got to learn welsh and want to learn more about traditions etc my dna is welsh and ive been up in north wales every weekend but i feel I almost cant call myself full welsh being as I wasn’t born within the current border on the welsh side but Ill always identify as welsh or at least brythonic despite not being able to speak it much.

@OwainGaming Жыл бұрын

I am welsh born and raised with Cymraeg as my first language and not heard any of the english welsh slang 🤷‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😂 shwmai no no no there is much more, North/Mid and South Wales dialects, shwmai is South Wales slang the North would be Sut mae hi or Helo again cwtch is south. 🤦‍♂️😂😂😂 but meh effort out of 10 possibly a 5/10 please give more attention to North and south division in slang, you cannot brush the South as being all of Wales, you will have a shock to hearing the over part of Wales not the South aka Gavin and Stacey Land 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 e.g Milk= Llefrith yn y Gogledd ond yn yr De mae nhw yn dweud Llaeth, Microwave = Microdon yn yr Gogledd ond Popty Ping yn yr de hefyd nid oedd neb/bron neb yn dweud Cwtch yn yr Gogledd mae nhw yn rhai ardaloedd yr de

@CynthiaPrice79 Жыл бұрын

I kind of love that South Wales just calls it a ‘ping oven’. Don’t ask me why, because I couldn’t tell you. It’s just cute.

@OwainGaming Жыл бұрын

@@CynthiaPrice79 yeah but I hate the idea everyonevin Wales call it that also in exams its incorrect

@sarahcoletti6946 Жыл бұрын

It's like when you're from America and everyone thinks you have a Southern accent and dialect. Every region has its own way of speaking with its own accent. I'm actually Welsh by heritage and wish I could understand the language!

@OwainGaming Жыл бұрын

@@sarahcoletti6946 Yeah well at leastthe video did not call the Welsh English 😂

@evilcommunistpicklerick3175 Жыл бұрын

Sai'n clywed 'Popty Ping' yn fynych yn y Dê Dydych chi ddim yn dweud 'Cwtch' yn y Goledd?! Rhyfedd a dydw i ddim yn credu ti chyu

@__Liv_Slaysss 7 ай бұрын

“Slang?” This is our language?!

@doc6904 Жыл бұрын

Videos like these honestly make me wanna melt my brain

@deanmarsh1452 Жыл бұрын

Nailed the pronunciations! Epic. Haha

@oldwelshlady6584 Жыл бұрын

You did really well!!!

@chrismaggs Жыл бұрын

I used mitching in the same sense as bunking. As in skipping lessons basically!

@concrete_consumer725 Жыл бұрын

Where I live in Wales, how are you is “Sut Wyt ti?”

@JamesMMcCann Жыл бұрын

03:39 Holyhead (Holly-Head) is where I'm from. You don't need to go there.

@sunny5ma Жыл бұрын

Omz it's sooo good to see Spenser again!!! I miss her! 💖💖

@gethbach1988 Жыл бұрын

more like southwalian slang!

@101spacemonkey 10 ай бұрын

Some of these terms aren't solely used in Wales but in Northern Ireland and Scotland

@aledrob Жыл бұрын

Some of the initial slang terms are from the opposite end of Wales to Wrexham, good attempts though. North and South dialects and words can be very different

@ticketyboo2456 Жыл бұрын

Proper Welsh people pepper their sentences with actual Welsh.

@Gemini_Woman Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched Buzz Feed since Safiya left . Just thought I'd check in. I lived in Wales for 9 years and went to a Welsh primary school they even tried to teach me welsh but I could never pick up the language.

@liamgreen5092 Ай бұрын

Never too late to learn it 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@ams6850 Жыл бұрын

Dude one of the guys looks like the love child of john krasinski and Shawn white 😆😆😆😆

@rmannayr2129 Жыл бұрын

I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK!

@rmannayr2129 Жыл бұрын

SPENSER IS SO CUTE!

@harimcdermott7341 Жыл бұрын

Greeting: “alright la”

@rmannayr2129 Жыл бұрын

SPENSER IS MY FAVORITE!

@daniellaburgess8963 8 ай бұрын

A lot of these answers were wrong mind 😂 Like 'mitching'? Means like 'Playing hooky', 'Bunking off school'.

@ReenaBINA Жыл бұрын

It’s always unique to hear how other countries say American slang

@user-ql1jv1dw8s Жыл бұрын

Was that Mathew Rhys speaking Welsh?

@ACslife23 Жыл бұрын

i am from wrexham, i live in wrexham right now i am wrexham born and bred

@pennyholman7177 Жыл бұрын

proud of this (i'm from wrexham)

@chrismaggs Жыл бұрын

3:36 🐲🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@MichaelSacamos Жыл бұрын

To everyone who sees this comment, keep pushing in life and never give up. Can't wait to see you successful one day and May God bless you!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@MrTaktic121 Жыл бұрын

Not bad

@CeriJames23 Ай бұрын

Welsh language is a language not “slang”

@mzampell Жыл бұрын

Can't they afford a vowel?

@wales-whatsinaname Жыл бұрын

There are more vowels in Welsh than English , 2 more

@Dead_in__side__ Жыл бұрын

Haha very original comment

@millardfillmore1331 Жыл бұрын

I'LL TAKE ANACHRONISTIC SPELLINGS OF ARCHAIC VENUES/CULTURES AND METAPHORS FOR 800....OR UH OH MAKE THAT SIXPENCE ALEX!!

@HamnaTabuu Жыл бұрын

A E I O U W Y. I would say that it's English that is lacking in vowels.

@samsonkth Жыл бұрын

How are you suppose to make that pronunciation from that type of spelling, Talking about cwtch btw,

@arugozino4639 Жыл бұрын

Indonesian slang language bruhh

@ticketyboo2456 11 ай бұрын

Who actually give an eff...

@DoctorCymraeg Жыл бұрын

Why do southern Welsh when talking about Wrecsam? 🤦‍♂️

@bingbong2205 Жыл бұрын

Dw'i yn hoffi cwrw 😛

@samparry4950 Жыл бұрын

Didn't butcher it did quite well now to learn how to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobyllantyseiliogogogoch

@samparry4950 Жыл бұрын

And yes it's all one word and it's a place name

@user-cx6pw6mf9h Жыл бұрын

Then again, Wrecsam Welsh is just Scouse talking over Welsh words

@ticketyboo2456 11 ай бұрын

Actually Scouse is English spoken with a north Walian accent...

@jz8407 Жыл бұрын

@aria.who.then. Жыл бұрын

first edit: i put firstr edit 2: i refreshed before comment and i am

@oldwelshlady6584 Жыл бұрын

Except you got mitching wrong, its skyving school, not going to school that day, pretending to yr parents you went but didn't really! Goofing off is not specific enough!