I first heard a black person speaking Welsh about fifty years ago when I was on holiday in Snowdonia. He was a young lad about seventeen years of age talking to his mates ( all white) outside a chip shop in one of the slate-quarrying villages. The sense of it being something incongruous lasted for about thirty seconds. Black people speaking Welsh is now quite common. Kizzie Crawford and her sister live near my town. Ben Cabango recently became the first Welsh-speaker with African heritage to play football for Wales.

before this I'd never seen anyone who wasn't white speaking welsh

@RomanReigns-sh3hw

5 жыл бұрын

Im brown and I speak welsh

@tonyamcrae9775

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I have never seen anyone other than whites speaking welsh. I wonder why that is.

@tonyamcrae9775

3 жыл бұрын

@John Stevens your feedback enlightens me, thank you.

@haltdieklappe7972

3 жыл бұрын

Most welsh people don’t speak welsh, you can’t expect non welsh people to speak it lol

@Gaizaz

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyamcrae9775 Uhh maybe because Wales is a tiny and HOMOGENEOUS country, Welsh people are WHITE.

I went to a Welsh medium school and we had black, ME, Chinese kids, it was never an issue or looked at in a weird way. I don’t see the issue, this was back in the 80’s

im black and i was born in wales and can speak great welsh FIGHT ME😂😂

@RRTNZ

3 жыл бұрын

Da iawn !❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@UncleSamSiam

2 жыл бұрын

@@RRTNZ no need to get agro lol beautiful language

@RRTNZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@UncleSamSiam Beth wyt ti'n siarad am ? Efallai dylet ti defnyddio "Google Translate" am "Da iawn" .

@UncleSamSiam

2 жыл бұрын

@@RRTNZ calm down

@RRTNZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@UncleSamSiam Wyt ti ddim yn deall, neb yma yn bod ymsodol. Gwnaeth yr OP joc, dweudais i "da iawn". Dylet ti'n ceisio "Google Translate" mae hi'n defnyddiol iawn.

Respect .as a welsh speaker I'm proud of them 👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Why dislike? this video is exactly as described. It doesnt under or over-deliver. Its literally black people speaking the welsh language.

@gwynplaine6710

7 жыл бұрын

Being black doesn't make you foreign

@slothfromthegoonies8201

7 жыл бұрын

+Gwyn Plaine. Nobody said it did, stop looking for offense where none was intended. That's the hallmark of a liberal mindset.

@gwynplaine6710

7 жыл бұрын

Not true, read the comment, it's implied! Not being Black or 'Liberal' i took no offense at it though that's why my comment was a simple ' Being black doesn't make you foreign' it was a very small comment not filled with anger or rage or an overly liberal mindset, just a comment.

@slothfromthegoonies8201

7 жыл бұрын

Gwyn Plaine Oh, now I see it...

@emmamcmahon7099

7 жыл бұрын

Not being Welsh makes you foreign and I've never in my life seen a black Welsh person.

Im Black of African heritage born in London. Feels like a complete world away from Wales. Just watched a whole football match (Wales vs Czech) on channel S4C. Loved the whole experience... and Wales won making the whole experience even more enjoyable. Iv never been to Wales and would love to visit one day. More so I would love to learn to speak Welsh. This video has just inspired me!

Black people can speak different languages? Mind blown!

Why do I love this video? I'm gonna learn Welsh.

@SerenEnfys

2 жыл бұрын

Wnaethoch chi dysgu?

@marianozamudio8460

2 жыл бұрын

@@SerenEnfys I think it is "ddysgu" , soft mutation

Why should it even be surprising black people speaking welsh? But I guess it just is. And Wales is a beautiful land.

@GrimeReaperMan

5 жыл бұрын

@Owen Cradoc though Cardiff is the closest you'll get to multiculturalism in Wales.

@dragonofthewest8305

3 жыл бұрын

@@GrimeReaperMan in 20 years Wales will be like England unfortunately

@GrimeReaperMan

3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonofthewest8305 with more and more people currently discovering places like snowdonia at this current time, I'd say 5

@admiralrabbit5166

3 жыл бұрын

@@GrimeReaperMan whats wrong with more people speaking welsh

@haltdieklappe7972

3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonofthewest8305 bro you’re making me sad

Da iawn am siarad Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Wales has a thriving black community with a history in that land - Shirley Bassey anyone? When you are born somewhere of course you speak your native tongue !!

@petesmart1983

Жыл бұрын

It's like Scotland they both have alot minoritys but as there non in the public eye people think there isn't any

@darrenwilson8042

Жыл бұрын

@@petesmart1983 - really? Danny Bhoy - Tony Singh and Hardeep Singh Kholi a,ongst others spring to mind - all very much Scotrs and in the public eye

@wonderwoman5528

7 ай бұрын

Cardiff has had black immigration as a port city, from hundreds of years ago

Learning Welsh increases your National consciousness and marries you to the land and it's culture,making you a Cymro,or a Cymraes. Those who don't speak the language are not truly Welsh.Just like someone who lives in England and doesn't speak English is not English. Welsh Culture cares not about race or ethnicity ,it cares about your willingness to learn and understand it .It's all about respect ,it's all about making the effort.and the 'croeso you'll receive when you become CYMRAEG..not just merely"Welsh"(a horrible Saxon name for foreigner)

@haltdieklappe7972

3 жыл бұрын

Being ethnically welsh makes you welsh. An american who is of welsh ancestry is more welsh than a polish guy who was born and raised in wales

@justinnamuco9096

Жыл бұрын

I heard "Cymr--" (gendered ethnonym) literally means Welsh speaker?

@henrysnowdon7563

Жыл бұрын

@@haltdieklappe7972 lmao no they're not

Welsh is compulsory in schools and there are plenty of diverse schools in Wales

Pam mae pôbl yn ffindio fô rhyfedd fôd mae pôbl ddu yn siarad cymraeg Dwi’n siarad cymraeg â saesneg oherwydd mae mam fi yn saesbeg ond mae fy tâd yn cymraeg dwi yn hefyd dôd ô dolgellau

There's alot of black speakers of Welsh as in the city's there's lots of minoritys , it's actually great that they are to keep the language alive

You can be Welsh and black so what. You have to learn it at School there so everyone brought up there will have a bit of knowledge at least.

@ellaskye7750

6 жыл бұрын

That's all it is a Welsh Education system where Welsh is compulsory.

@AlphaGoII

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you can't lad.

@algonzalez6853

4 жыл бұрын

You cant be welsh and black, being welsh is an indigenous ethnicity, same way a white person cant be bantu, ashanti or nilote

@DavidThomas-me6pi

4 жыл бұрын

al gonzález try explaining that to these Dickheadz in Ireland who think it’s OK to bring non-Europeans into Ireland.

@Knappa22

3 жыл бұрын

Utter bullshit. Welsh isn’t an ethnicity. It is a nationality. You don’t get to arbitrate who identifies as Welsh you xenophobic berk.

From nursery to year 11 I was in Welsh schools; in comprehensive school, there was one Black boy of a ~thousand white kids. He happened to be in my form class the entire 5 years. Another Black boy came to the school about 3 years later... It was his brother. I often think about how their experience must've been and how isolating that could've and would've felt sometimes. He was cool though, very funny :D Edit: comp years: 2007-2012

Brought tears to my eyes. We are all one.

Love it!

Da iawn am siarad Cymraeg! Ddylsa pawb yng Ngymru siarad Cymraeg

Great vid

0, 59 this guy is one of two Welsh speaking rugby playing brothers who speak our national language and have represented Wales. Aled and Nathan Brewer from Gwaun Cae Gurwen.

hi are there a lot of black people in wales? Are there any black children books in Wales? where do you go, to get black children book in Wales?

@SimonW11

5 жыл бұрын

There are few Black people in Rural Wales. The major ports and to a lesser extent the Valleys Ie Southeast Wales have a thriving black population. I can't think of a Black specialist book shop. It has the same English language Books as the Rest of the UK. I can't comment on books In Welsh except to say they are a scarcer.

@stuartwilliams3104

4 жыл бұрын

Yes Cardiff has a large community.

@aksb2482

4 жыл бұрын

@I agree with you 100% no kids just like seeing people that look like them being the heroes in books

The current Chairman of the Welsh Language Society (Cymdeithas yr Iaith）Joseff Gnagbo is from Africa! He was not born in Wales but he is fluent. It's so inspiring. I'm also a foreigner but I want to be a fluent Welsh speaker.

I remember russle howard did a sketch on

Love it

The Welsh language was band in 1563. It was finally aloud to be used in Wales in 1963 it was made compulsory in 1999. Why 1963, that's the same year as independance in Africa.

I thought the first guy was having a stroke

Great to see other ethnicity trying to speak the welsh language 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@jambow2904

3 жыл бұрын

Trying?

@mrmangohead1219

3 жыл бұрын

@@jambow2904 while watching one or two where struggling not that it's a bad thing I'm just saying jts great that other people from different ethnic backgrounds are actually caring and TRYING to learn/speak the language.

Pam ddim?

Great

Lmao the first one was shocking

@tonymoore4584

5 жыл бұрын

Tbf he's from Barbados, so the fact he's learned it at all should be commended. Having seen other videos, it has clearly improved a great deal.

It sounds like it was influenced by Arabic

@theworldvideos1

5 жыл бұрын

It's like saying the Queen is a Muslim, because one of her ancestors was a Ottoman ruler !!

@MrJungle123

5 жыл бұрын

@@theworldvideos1 no. It's not.

@icturner23

4 жыл бұрын

No, it doesn't. Arabic and Welsh both have voiceless fricatives that English doesn't have, so those sounds stand out to English speakers (even though they actually have different ones to each other) but they are in no way similar.

@yizhou5903

8 ай бұрын

It's not influenced by Arabic. However, linguists realise there are some surprising similarities between Celtic and Semitic languages. Very interesting.

Llawer o bobl o bob math yn siarad y iaith... Cymru amlddiwylliannol.

That's crazy I thought Welsh was a white language.

I love to see this *

Da iawn

A large portion of so called 'black ppl' in the states have Welsh last name.. Williams, Jones, Powell.... And no.. They didn't get the names from a Caucasian owner...

@JR-iu8yl

5 жыл бұрын

You sure about that ?

@menacinghat

5 жыл бұрын

we wuz eveything but our own history

@Keke-oh6zd

5 жыл бұрын

How else did they get their names? Just like 99% of African Americans who say their great grandma was a 'Cherokee' native to explain away the lighter skin or loosely curled hair in their families. No it's slavery. Your ancestors existed to work the field, be maids/nannys, lab rats, and hump toys. That's why your skin is lighter and hair is straighter than West Africans. Accept it. The slave owners with the last names Williams, Jones, Johnson, Jackson, Smith, Green, Hill, Jenkins etc owned the most slaves. That's why every fifth black American has one of those last names.

@rhob5730

5 жыл бұрын

It has been suggested that those Cymraeg surnames come from the local pastor.

@semiramisbonaparte1627

4 жыл бұрын

Facts! My first and last name are Welsh

Bendigedig ! Dw i'n caru ein iaith (Cymraeg ). Mae'r pobl'na gwnaeth falch dw i'n bod Cymreig. Welsh is a language for everyone, wonderful that these folks have embraced it.

same like austrian language 😁

@josephstalin7857

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Evans u mean german

0:17 Who is this FOINE person?

Ngl I’m welsh and I didn’t understand jack shit

it sounds like someone trying to cough up saliva

The irony is that even though only 15% of the population of Wales speak Welsh, they have the control over all the best jobs as all positions are advertised as 'Welsh speakers preferred.' Basically, Wales uses an 'Apartheid' system to discriminate against anyone who doesn't speak Welsh (including Welsh-born peoples!). When I was in South Africa, most of the world protested against the regime..........

@morgancockram9833

6 жыл бұрын

Carsick Mick getting hired for being able to speak the language of your country? What an outrage!

@garethifan1034

6 жыл бұрын

22% speak Cymraeg, not 15%..

@macfisher1814

5 жыл бұрын

The difference is that Wales is trying to undo English colonialism instead of trying to hold onto colonial power.

@thelambsauce7307

4 жыл бұрын

Carsick Mick *EXACTLY*

@thelambsauce7307

4 жыл бұрын

oceej0 oh we complain alright

Seriously?! What's next? Muslims speaking Welsh, women speaking Welsh, disabled people speaking Welsh? This seemed patronising and I couldn't believe it was actually a publicly funded announcement.

@RoyalKnightVIII

7 жыл бұрын

cylt Well Welsh is still an endangered language so it's good to see more people speaking it, most Welsh don't even speak Welsh.

@DieFlabbergast

6 жыл бұрын

Can we have parrots speaking Welsh?

@deanmark11

5 жыл бұрын

what next welsh speaking welsh? as most cant speak it..sadly

@Ceidonianphysicist

5 жыл бұрын

It’s literally an outreach which was shown to be needed when the odious toad that is Katie Hopkins tried to talk about how people only kept the welsh language alive to avoid non white people when plenty of minority’s speak and are embraced by the language.

@lordludichris4594

5 жыл бұрын

It's just kind of interesting knowing that settlers are speaking the endangered language

No. No, no, no.

This is extremely disrespectful to the language. He literally sounds like he started learning the language a week ago!!! If you want to hear it spoken correctly and in a way it actually sounds. Look up a video The Welsh language by I Love languages!

@thelambsauce7307

4 жыл бұрын

Taffy Ducks piss off

@kieransawdust

4 жыл бұрын

Aaaand that's how you discredit learners from wanting to engage. If you want the language to prosper once again, get used to hearing people stumble because it's bloody difficult to learn a new language.

@jameshazelwood9433

3 жыл бұрын

Aled Brew speaks perfect welsh he often give rugby commentary in Welsh

@broman178

2 жыл бұрын

Taffy Ducks If I were you, I'd be grateful that they are at least attempting to speak the language and that they are making an effort to speak it even if it isn't perfect (can't expect perfection for all speakers, especially if they are learning it) unlike some other people in Wales who completely disregard the language and don't bother to learn even a few basic words/phrases.

@GiornoLovesDeathGrips

Жыл бұрын

Can guarantee you would not say that if you were white mate.