A question to all the Mumsnetters who are WELSH........

[RTKangaMummy]

When you are driving and see the writing on the ground in english and welsh

which do you read?

I have just come back from a week in wales and have been wondering it as driving around











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[Pixiefish]

no, when i'm speaking/reading or writing english then i think in english and vice versa with welsh

[nutcracker]

When we went to wales in feb Dd1 (7) said kept asking what the words were and then she aid 'Oh i wish i could speak Wale'

[RTKangaMummy]

I wish I was bi-lingual

It is so interesting how you can switch

DEFFO BRILL

[RTKangaMummy]

nutty

[spacecadet]

i do speak it when i go home though to visit my mum, i love having the oppurtunity to speak welsh, im sad that i dont really have to speak it anymore...scared i might lose my tongue

[RTKangaMummy]

Do you speak it to DDs?

[RTKangaMummy]

I mean so that they can understand convers

[spacecadet]

i used to speak welsh to my dd1 and ds1 and my mum speaks welsh to all of them, but i find i dont tend to with the youngest two.

[RTKangaMummy]

can they speak / read it?

[moondog]

I do like pixiefish-think and read in whatever I am speaking.
Peachyclair,there is masses of backup for non Welsh speaking parents-you obviously don't know aboutit. Where are you? I can help.

Lol at 'traeth' thing. Had a friend who for years thought that 'Gwesty Hotel' was the name of a hotel!

Where were you kangamummy?


I speak Welsh with my children and I live in Turkey. Was also brought up speaking Welsh despite living in Zambia and Papua New Guinea as a child.

I'm very proud of that.

[Pixiefish]

moondog- neis dy weld ti- you've been quiet me old mucker.

[moondog]

I am working on preparation for my next bout of sessions at Galeri next week, and I've been away-went to see Al Green in Birmingham on Thursday night. Stayed over in fab Hotel du Vin, had a full body massage,drunk loads of Champagne.

Solitary bliss for 24 hours..first time I've been away from ds overnight.(He's 1 tomorrow!)

All like a strange dream now though. Back to washing nappies and sweeping the kitchen floor about 20 times a day......

[RTKangaMummy]

St Asaph

[RTKangaMummy]

DEFFO BRILL

[moondog]

Eh? Seems an...unusual choice of holiday destination, unless you were staying in Bodelwyddan Castle?

[RTKangaMummy]

DS was staying in Nantglyn

So I chose nearby town

[moondog]

Where's Nantglyn? What goes on there?? (Feeling mildly paranoid now-should know as I spent 7 years in boarding school in that neck of the woods.)

[RTKangaMummy]

A residential centre kind of place

[RTKangaMummy]

On the other side of Denbigh

[moondog]

Freaking even more-was in school in Denbigh!!!

[RTKangaMummy]

So if you go through denbigh and out other side

It is very very tiny village

[RTKangaMummy]

here is some more info

[moondog]

Thanks! (Must have been too busy swotting to concern myself with immediate vicinity....)Thought of Denbigh a lot tonight...Live Aid occured on my final day of school after seven years' incarceration.......

The Speech Day was ruined by girls running off to watch it. Remember my bf at the time coming to see me-hardly saw him the whole day. He found a tv secreted in a lecture theatre and never came out..

Ahhh,reminisce over. Glad you liked our neck of the woods.

[RTKangaMummy]

DEFFO BRILL



Countryside is beautiful

[spacecadet]

gosh, mum used to live in bodelwyddan, just down the road from the marble church, have been to bodelwyddan castle many a time, strangely enough when i was in the majorettes, we quite often used to have carnivals at st asaph. rtkanga, my kids can not really speak much welsh, they can understand the basics, but then dh is english so only me, welsh speaking in the home.