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featherynscaleI spent some quality time on the ADF website last night, doing some work on tonight's Wild Hare Samhain ritual (I am not a member, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
triadruid is, and was kind enough to let me use his login to poke about), and discovered that they've got audio files of a very musical-sounding fellow speaking useful ritual words in Welsh. So I learned some of them, what fun! (No, really. Seriously. Welsh = fun sounds in my mouth.)
So I was thinking to myself that I should learn to speak Welsh. I mean, it's exactly the sort of skill that I can get excited about having: It'd be fun to practice, I could pretend that it's religiously motivated, and it would be almost completely useless in day to day existence. What could be better than that?
triadruid is, and was kind enough to let me use his login to poke about), and discovered that they've got audio files of a very musical-sounding fellow speaking useful ritual words in Welsh. So I learned some of them, what fun! (No, really. Seriously. Welsh = fun sounds in my mouth.)So I was thinking to myself that I should learn to speak Welsh. I mean, it's exactly the sort of skill that I can get excited about having: It'd be fun to practice, I could pretend that it's religiously motivated, and it would be almost completely useless in day to day existence. What could be better than that?
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Date: 2006-11-04 06:14 pm (UTC)I studied Welsh as part of my translations comparisons for my master's degree, using the text _the Mabinogion._ Good and tough lanuguage --I adore the bumper sticker, "Vowels for Wales," ah, how true that is....
I have dictionaries, books, and more books if you are interested.
BTW, there is a traveling Welsh intensive that I took the year it was at Berkeley (1998?), and it rocked verily. They will be heading to New York in 2007, which is not too bad for airfare, actually. Check out Cwrs Cymraeg: http://www.madog.org/cyrsiau/eleni/index.shtml
A few helpful links:
A Welsh Course//online : http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Welsh.html
I cannot find the link to the professor whose website helped me immensely; he was helpful in preparing my defense. Any rate, at one point, I wanted to teach English classes to kids in Wales. Alas, no more...other things happened in life. Of course, due to the outright banning of the language in the 1940s and 1050s in the UK, school kids today in Wales are required to be dual-languaged so that they can maintain cultural heritage and presence. It is amazing at the initiatives the UK government put forth to re-acclimate new generations into Welsh, despite the prejudices against the Welsh speaking population for centuries.
Good luck!!