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!

@jsmithmultimediatech

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Pog mo thòin essentially meaning kiss my * lol, is also where The Pogues name comes from sort of. Pogue Mahone is the anglicisation of the expression.

@andyhughes5885

Жыл бұрын

I was so happy when you said you understood the lassie speaking in Auld Scots which is still mainly spoken in Ayrshire and the North East around the Aberdeen areas.

@jsmithmultimediatech

Жыл бұрын

Yeah with Old English what the Anglo-Saxons spoke is essentially what that was. Is a fair amount of it remaining in the Geordie dialect like the word gan meaning go or run, are kind of a few others one being hyem means home. Gan (or ganning rather) being in the Blaydon Races the as such anthem of the Geordie nation kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3qHxs9uqZnKoNY.html lol

@steverpcb

Жыл бұрын

You asked about forms of transport, there are the horse drawn trams and the Victorian electric tramway in Douglas Isle of Man, there is the Sea Tractor used to reach the island of Burgh in Devon, and there is the shortest commercial flight - between Papa Westray and Westray in the Orkney islands, takes 80-90 seconds and covers about 2km.

@steverpcb

Жыл бұрын

If you like Cornwall then check out the largest greenhouse in the world, The Eden Project, big enough to have a rainforest inside !

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

@fayesouthall6604

Жыл бұрын

Every sign in Wales has bilingual information.

@ellenwatts4809

Жыл бұрын

Very true 👍 I speak it. Not as often as I did though because I married an English man and moved to South wales where it isn't spoken as much.

@seanbarker4610

Жыл бұрын

@@ellenwatts4809 I moved from England to Pembrokeshire and married a local lady who doesn't speak any Welsh, even though I do speak a little!

@annelewis7531

Жыл бұрын

@@ellenwatts4809 I married a Welsh man from north Wales we now live in South-east Wales. His first language is Welsh and he and my two (now adult) children speak Welsh every day. I can't speak the language but I do understand a fair bit, but after over 35 years of marriage I'm just proud that I've helped to raise 2 more Welsh speakers.

@ellenwatts4809

Жыл бұрын

@@annelewis7531 i love that. Does your husband speak Northern Welsh?

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!

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

We'll assist you!

@maxmoore9955

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Well I DON'T know. How you can, Achieve that Summt .But I wish you a Fair wind and Calm Sea .

@davidhanson3174

Жыл бұрын

Well you'll be arguing all day alone. The language is English end of. If you insist on speaking gibberish do it in your own hovels away from the adults.

@littlemy1773

Жыл бұрын

@@davidhanson3174unnecessary comment from yourself sir . Gaelic languages are valid and they are on the rise whether you like it or not!!!!

@andyhughes5885

Жыл бұрын

Next time you`re in Glasgow listen carefully to the accent and the spoken word. The best place would be any pub in Glasgow to pick up some words spoken in Auld Scots mixed in with Glasgow slang, remembering that what sounds like sarcasm in Glasgow is usually not. It just comes across that way and depends of what way the conversation is going.

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'.

@hardywatkins7737

Жыл бұрын

The Welsh genes have been here the longest also.

@G1NZOU

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, both my parents are Welsh but I didn't get taught it growing up since they moved to England, so I'm trying to learn. My grandmother lived in North Wales though and was a neighbour to one of the top experts on English linguistics. I've got little Highland Scottish in me so I've been meaning to take up Scottish Gaelic too, we can't loose these lovely languages, even though the convenience of English for world communication is so great.

@highpath4776

10 ай бұрын

should Hilbert have covered the ?Dialect? of Northumberland/Newcastle on Tyne - it is probably the most distinctive - and into Yorkshire, with the Danish/Norse roots with totally different words compared to "Home Counties" English.

@janice506

2 ай бұрын

@@hardywatkins7737 Noway ! The Scot’s have been in Scotland since forever.

@hardywatkins7737

2 ай бұрын

@@janice506 Forever? Could you be a bit more specific? And what's that about Norway?

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.😊👍🇬🇧

@margaretnicol3423

Жыл бұрын

He was also Kili the dwarf who was in love with Tauriel the elf in The Hobbit. She loved him so much she became the lone rider and never loves again. 😢

@nigeldewallens1115

Жыл бұрын

Hi there! I used to live down in Newlyn and then Mousehole ok! Please correct me if I am wrong? I thought the Lizard was near to the point of land that sticks out not in the middle so to speak? P.S! I put Mousehole for those, that did not live down there and understand it is said mouzehole ok 🙂😉

@margaretnicol3423

Жыл бұрын

@@nigeldewallens1115 Maybe that's why it's called Lizard Point? 🤔🤣

@nigeldewallens1115

Жыл бұрын

@@margaretnicol3423 I agree as I used two sail around it but please! 🙂 Look at the map they have and it shows the lizard inland that is all I am getting At ok 🙂😉I used to live down at Newlyn 49 years ago ok I cannot believe it Is that long ago either!

@nigeldewallens1115

Жыл бұрын

@@margaretnicol3423 I know! I used to sail around it ok but please! Look at the map they have and just look at where the Lizard is shown that is all I am trying to say ok! I lived down in Newlyn 49 years ago ok 🙂

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.

@smogthehorse9409

Жыл бұрын

I think you are right our native languages should be taught however I have issue with the cornish claiming that as purely thier own language , as a native British language it was still spoken in much of Devon as far as Exeter, it died out as in Cornwall, the industrial revolution brought people from around the land to work in the mines and industries of the South West which helped its decline, the Devon dialect although seldom heard is full of words derived from so called cornish, you guys may still speak the pure form but in my eyes it's true British language not exclusively cornish, also interestingly the ice cream advert has English words as those would not have been in the so called cornish vocabulary.

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.

@fayesouthall6604

Жыл бұрын

Yes my grandfather was from Brittany, spoke welsh easily when he moved to newport in Wales. He married my grandma from west wales who also spoke welsh and English.

@philipbrackpool941

Жыл бұрын

I believe Gareth Edwards used to holiday there for that reason

@melanierhianna

Жыл бұрын

Does ker mean village or does it mean fort. It sounds like it has the same root as Caer,

@molybdomancer195

Жыл бұрын

I think Cornish is closer to Breton than Welsh but all three are close

@jackieroberts7895

Жыл бұрын

@@molybdomancer195 yeah they are Brythonic after all

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.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

We appreciate that! Thank you for understanding that we do take all of this seriously and genuinely love learning ❤️

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.

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.

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.

@davidbarr9343

Жыл бұрын

You are correct!😊

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

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

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

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

@hardywatkins7737

Жыл бұрын

What's Doric? I never heard of it? Is it a dialect?

@alejandrayalanbowman367

5 ай бұрын

@@hardywatkins7737 No it is what is spoeken in North East Aberdeenshire

@hardywatkins7737

5 ай бұрын

@@alejandrayalanbowman367 This doesn't tell me hardy anything about Doric. I'm going to assume it's a dialect of Scots gaelic for now.

@oscarredfearn3492

4 ай бұрын

@@hardywatkins7737it’s a dialect of Scots

@janice506

2 ай бұрын

@@hardywatkins7737 it’s a language I dare you to try to translate it I bet you can’t.

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

@caroleteare924

Жыл бұрын

Such beautiful islands. Been going there since the early sixties and as soon as the Scillonian docks or the plane lands, I feel I am 'home.'

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..🇬🇧💞🙏✝️🐾🐾🐕👍🇺🇸

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

@philwill0123

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I'm sure (ironically) catering to Gaelic speaking language is seen by those wanting to get rid of the BBC licence fee is "woke"

@stevekenilworth

Жыл бұрын

@@philwill0123 BBC licence Needs to go. they became so anti British over the a very short period of time, for starters news very one sided, and any dig to put country down they jump at it, plus all the cover ups child abuse. cannot remember the last time i watched the bbc, all my tv through the internet and been like that for years so why should be be forced to pay tax on something i do not watch, and have no interest going back to watch. im not the only one 1000's monthly are turning away from bbc.

@philwill0123

Жыл бұрын

@@stevekenilworth anti British? Blame the Tories, who went full snowflake over any criticism of them and installed their cronies on board to censor the news. As for cover ups over child abuse, why not blame the newspapers? You think they didn't know? Especially Jimmy savile? They just didn't want to lose access to conservative contacts and royal family since savile was protected by them. And as for putting the country down, no doubt you support a party and politicians who repeatedly tell you you are living in a hellhole, but it's ok when they criticise the country. So basically you want the BBC to report the bad stuff without reporting the really bad stuff that make the country bad. So you want a sanitised BBC telling you what you want to hear. Got it.

@raibeart1955

Жыл бұрын

What language are you speaking? “ they is a Gaelic speaking language” BBC TV licence free? Get off your high horse without tripping.

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.

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.

@stephenremington8448

Жыл бұрын

I hope nobody minds me adding this, i've loved it for years, old French, the language of the Channel Islands, and England many centuries ago because of the Normans, kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4StwaOQftfShZM.html

@malcolmhouston7932

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps it should be made clearer to our American friends that Jersey, Guernsey and the smaller Islands are actually self- governing and along with the Isle of Man are British Protectorates rather than "British Isles " although we are pleased to think them so. Although the Channel Islands are actually closer to France than to England, they have never been French but were in fact the property of the Duke of Normandy. The last owner who inherited the Islands and the Title was Queen Elizabeth 11- now we presume it to be King Charles 111.

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?”

@lizbignell7813

Жыл бұрын

Isle, not Lesley. Autocorrect!

@ftumschk

Жыл бұрын

@@lizbignell7813 Perhaps the Black Lesley is next door to Bob Island.

@lizbignell7813

Жыл бұрын

@ftunscthtk, could be!

@OnASeasideMission

Жыл бұрын

Respects to your Dad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😉

@lizbignell7813

Жыл бұрын

@DraidLwyd, thank you

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.

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.

@generaladvance5812

Жыл бұрын

I've been to Devon numerous times and never had clotted cream ice cream. Love clotted cream though, so I'll give it a try next time I'm down there.

@vaudevillian7

Жыл бұрын

I do like Daisy Made in Lincolnshire though… but definitely there’s no other ice cream like it

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 KZread is one of my all-time favourites

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for educating us

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.

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 👏

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.

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!

@Bob-pu2bu

Жыл бұрын

Well said! I am from Jersey and the Channel Islands have their own languages (jersey Norman French) have tons of history.

@paulsmith9740

Жыл бұрын

@@Bob-pu2bu Exactly. My mother was from Jersey (Grouville) and you are so right about the history. And for Natasha, some very nice castles too! À bétôt

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😀

@fayesouthall6604

Жыл бұрын

It’s brilliant 🤩

@ellenwatts4809

Жыл бұрын

You've got me singing it now 😅

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.

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.

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.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Isle of Fred 😆😆 Debbie's going to move there!

@michaelstamper5604

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Then we'll be neighbours! How simply spiffing, my dears! 😄😄😘

@grahamstubbs4962

Жыл бұрын

Michael, we on the Isle of Tim don't recognise your independence, as you well know.

@michaelstamper5604

Жыл бұрын

@Graham Stubbs I see. Negotiations for part shares in the currently uninhabited Isle of Bert would be rejected, would you say? 😄😄

@grahamstubbs4962

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelstamper5604 Our diplomatic corps are currently down the pub. They'll get back to you.

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.

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

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

Absolutely awesome vid, loved it. 😍

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

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.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

They are all hard!! Keep trying though!

@andreww3225

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow I will. It’s easier when you are younger I think.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

@@andreww3225 everything is!

@andreww3225

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow 😂

@fayesouthall6604

Жыл бұрын

It is hard but it is an easy way into other Gaelic languages.

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 ❤

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🤗

I have learned a lot from this video. Thanks

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.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Hearing Men of Harlech was my favorite part of this

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

That was the Welsh song, correct?

@alvaromarianocarpio965

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow yes it is

@PortilloMoment

Жыл бұрын

@@alvaromarianocarpio965 And here it is for you in Welsh, Alvaro, though it doesn't use the modern lyrics that are better known. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYNol6yqdZWuiKw.html

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

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸❤️

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤️

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.)

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

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

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 KZread, but I think the best version is by the group Capercaillie. Enjoy!

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

@belindawilson1350

15 күн бұрын

I have really cute cats,their names are Eilidh and Seamus...I do not call them Helen and James. Your name is beautiful.I love the sound of it❤

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that! Thank you! ❤️

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Howdy! 👋

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

@applecider7307

Жыл бұрын

Cornish, Corniche is a road.

@terencecarroll1812

Жыл бұрын

@@applecider7307 Bloody auto correct

Enjoyed the video.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

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

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. kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2mmupisZrbaqLQ.html She is singing here with the Fron Male Voice Choir. Fron is that very high and long aqueduct in North Wales.

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:

@stephensmith4480

Жыл бұрын

Clannad are another amazing Irish band that are definitely worth a listen. I saw them live in my home city of Liverpool, they were superb 👍

@vaudevillian7

Жыл бұрын

Seo Linn are fantastic

@Dracorientalis

10 ай бұрын

They are very close... when you learn one you'll be able to pick up the other in the drop of a hat.. some older folk here don't even see them a seperate languages but rather dialects.. their reasoning is that irish Gaelic has like 5 different recognised dialects itself: Gaolainn, Gaelainn, Uladh Gaeilge and Gaeilge I don't remember the 5th... but some of them are as different from eachother as they are from Scots Gaelic. Same with Manx Gaelg. I would agree this was the case back in the older folks days maybe... but with radio and TV pushing the revived standardised leinster dialect or "Irish" (mockingly called 'book-irish' sometimes) as the official language of the country the other dialects are lost their personality and uniqueness so modern Standard "Irish" and Scottish Gaidhlig I would say have grown much further apart in recent times.

@drewc981

10 ай бұрын

@@Dracorientalis I think the other Irish dialect you're lookin for might be Connacht or Munster? I'm still goin strong every day on Duolingo.. 540 days now. I haven't even begun Scottish Gaelic yet because I've been occupied with Irish but maybe one day I will. I think the pronunciation of certain things in Scottish Gaelic might be slightly more difficult than Irish, but I'm no where near fluent in either yet

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".

@reggy_h

Жыл бұрын

That's interesting Chris. I'm Welsh but not a Welsh speaker but it doesn't mean I don't know anything. Llys is Welsh for court, Pen y cwm is head of the valley and bron is the female form of bryn which is hill. When I asked a friend why bron was female because he said a bron is more shapely. Don't know if it's true and if I'm wrong on anything I am open to correction.😆

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.

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.

@HSolar

Жыл бұрын

Mine too!

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.

@jasonsmart3482

Жыл бұрын

Is Doric the same as Scottish? remember seeing this was a common language/dialect in Aberdeenshire.

@AylaOlivieri

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonsmart3482 I would say Doric sounds like what this video says is Scots.

@kittyjohnstone5915

Жыл бұрын

@Jason Smart - I’m from Lanarkshire, and I think Doric and Shetlandic are far enough away from Lallan Scots to qualify as different languages. The reading from Peter Rabbit was definitely more like Doric than Scots. When I was young Scots was Not To Be Used in School. I was always puzzled how Robert Burns, whose poems and songs were mostly in Scots, and we had to learn them - for school!

@andyhughes5885

Жыл бұрын

There`s also Doric which is spoken around the Aberdeen area.

@RMedich

Жыл бұрын

@@AylaOlivieri I stay in Aberdeen and it’s definitely Doric sounding. I don’t speak it but obviously understand it, seems to be fowk fae the broch that spik it. Mainly 😂 They write in it too which is interesting.

Thanks ladies, this one was exceptional.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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).

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

@applecider7307

Жыл бұрын

Cornish, Corniche is a road.

@joannetyndall3625

Жыл бұрын

Don't be a dick.Obviously it was auto correct

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

@janice506

2 ай бұрын

Ireland can discourage all it likes we are the British isles like it or not .

Loving your work 👊😉❤️

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

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. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

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❤️❤️

@Ylyrra

Жыл бұрын

Cornish is the name, or rather the English name for it. Unfortunately lots of the vocabulary was entirely lost, which makes it rather hard to become fluent in. Chunks have been recreated, and it's an ongoing project, but it's basically filling in the missing pieces with educated guesswork from painstaking research. The problem with recreating a language using logical extrapolation from things you know is that living languages are very often inconsistent and appear illogical because of influences that you had no way of knowing.

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

@LiverPools-ib5fv

7 ай бұрын

Lmao no it’s not. Stop it 😂. Arabic is sprawling

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

Patience is a great virtue as they say xx

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

New it was Eilean Donan!!! Everytime! They always show it from different angles!

@rozhunter7645

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow it’s my favourite castle it’s so beautiful and the scenery around it is stunning

@littlemy1773

Жыл бұрын

That’s brilliant . My nephew is at a Manx speaking school. They don’t learn English until they’re 7 there. I’m so glad the effort is going In to preserve these languages!!

@lawrenceglaister4364

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow , come on girls are you saying that you don't know that male body , it's a BBC series based in Cornwall over a 100 years ago and of course it's called Poldark , and was a big hit in the USA as well as other places in the world.

@rozhunter7645

Жыл бұрын

@@littlemy1773 my sister can speak it a little too, we’re not in an area where it is generally spoken but a few primary schools have it now in our area

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I agree, let's all move there and start our own country of Bob!! It can be The United Bobs! 🤣🤣

@keelbyman

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow 😂🤣

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.

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

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

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

@col4574

Жыл бұрын

Y Hen Ogledd...."the old North",where the extinct language Cumbric was spoken until the Middle Ages.It harks back to the Tribes present when the Romans arrived.Anglo Saxon was much slower to make progress in the West

@jinxvrs

Жыл бұрын

The place names are probably a hangover from the British "kingdoms" of Rheged and Elmet which covered most of what is now northern England.

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

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

We appreciate that!

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.

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.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

We did a dialect video back over a year ago. Go have a look 👀

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.

@mjb7015

Жыл бұрын

would you consider reacting to a video about Indigenous Australian languages?

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@mjb7015

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow wonderful! This video is especially good. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHumpplwf8_RZ6g.html About 5 minutes long

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.

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. :)

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 .

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

We did a dialect video over a year ago. Go back and have a look

@mariejoyce5150

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow ooooo missed that one Lol

@mariejoyce5150

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Just watched , although the video seemed to show accents well the Lancashire one at least wasn’t dialect . Dialect has its own words and phrases for things rather than just English words with an accent . I’ll put a few examples below …. Put twood int oyle = Close the door I’m off darnt chip oyle = I’m going to the Fish and Chip shop Get thi coyt on = put your coat on Sithe deawn = Sit Down Alreet = Hi , Hello Oin = to annoy Sken = to look Watter = Water Wesh = Wash Gi oer = Stop There are hundreds ….. maybe worth a look ? Loving your content by the way 👌😁

Great video. Thanks ladies

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching ❤️

Ulster is sometimes used as a convenient, unofficial synonym for the UK province of Northern Ireland. Ulster was a historic kingdom/province in Ireland whose borders are not the same as present day 6 counties of Northern Ireland which only form a part of the historic province. I should imagine people living in those parts of historic Ulster that are in the Republic get a bit irritated by this usage or maybe they are just used to it by now.

If you went back in time just 300 to 400 years. A modern day person would struggle to understand every day chit chat. The lizard is a real place & home to the Earth station, Goonhilly down, well worth a look as the land of the lizard is steeped in history.

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Now we gotta try to find a video on it!

@PortilloMoment

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow To start you off, 'The Lizard' is in all probability a corruption of the Cornish, 'Lys Ardh', meaning, 'high court'.

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 😆

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

Natasha has a Streamer that can get any radio station any place in the World!

@jase6709

Жыл бұрын

Un ------ uh ------ dec- rae - ad ... The 'ch' in 'Dech' is from the throat.... It's not easy to explain in text. Learning the Welsh alphabet is easy and words become so much easier to read.

@drewc981

Жыл бұрын

@@jase6709 That's what t certainly sounded like but I wasn't sure. Thank you

@drewc981

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Oh that particular version of that song is only on youtube as far as I know

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 :-)

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.

Thank you for reacting to this I have learnt a lot. Born and bred in England, I didn’t realise there were so many languages in the U.K. I’ve heard music sung in their original language from all parts of the U.K. and Ireland and always thought they sounded so beautiful but didn’t appreciate the differences. A stereotype in the U.K. (could just be me) is that the Scottish, Welsh, Irish and northern Irish were lyrical and musical people. I now think it’s partly or mostly because their languages are so beautiful and expressive.