THINGS WELSH PEOPLE SAY | The Living Abroad Diaries | Ysis Lorenna

These are some things Welsh people say! My name is Ysis, I'm a Brazilian living in Wales and in this episode of the Living Abroad Diaries I share a few funny words and sentences that I hear a lot here in Wales. I was brought up in Brazil and moved to the UK for almost 10 years ago. I'm married to a Welshman (hence, I live in Wales!) and together we have two children.

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[mayajones]

i'm welsh and i'm sat here like " wait only welsh people use these "

[noaboveme]

I'm Welsh living in the states and I laughed the whole video cause I still catch our family talking like this .... Pretty lush isn't it

[JillyC]

As a proud welsh woman from Swansea living in England for the past 40 years I love to go back and visit, when a girl in a shop told me the skirt I was buying was 'lush' I knew I was home :)

[nobueno]

It's so refreshing to see such a positive person interacting with Welsh culture as well as representing it so positively. Diolch yn ddiffuant.

[tonywilkinson]

I’m a Londoner and to my ears in your normal speech you are definitely Welsh with a light touch .incredible!

[carisrandomchannel]

"Anyone can cuddle,
But only the welsh can cwtch"

[PrincessSherK]

I live in the USA but my dad is welsh. I’ve heard almost all of these from visiting my aunts, uncles and cousins. Loved this

[christinebeverley]

Brilliant, proud to be welsh from Swansea🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍🏻

[ftumschk]

4:40 Sometimes you don't even need to repeat a phrase to reinforce it - you can say "She was furious she was", but "Furious she was" is slightly more emphatic. In Welsh, the constituents of a sentence can be placed ahead of the verb for emphasis - e.g. "Mae hi'n byw yng Ngwent" ("She lives in Gwent") is fine, but it's slightly more emphatic to say "Yng Ngwent mae hi'n byw" (literally "In Gwent she lives").

Even though a region may no longer be heavily Welsh-speaking, it's as if the patterns of Welsh speech are preserved in the way in which people speak English there. As John Edwards, who wrote some entertaining books on 'Wenglish', put it: "We still speak Welsh in the Valleys, but it's spoken through the medium of English".

Loved the video, and your accent is fab :)

[rhosllwyd]

Cwtch can also mean small space! We used it for the space under the staircase as well as hug.

[gethinroberts]

THIS IS ICONIC! I LOVE IT! I’m welsh and a fluent welsh speaker and honestly I forget I do literally all of these 😂

[silverfish]

Lovely! As a Welsh exile in Canada, this was a delight to watch. You are a beautiful Brazilian/ Welsh person, and a credit to the welsh speaking world. Thanks!

[azuraskye]

I'd say many of these are sayings from the South Wales Valleys area from Swansea to Newport.

[romapotter]

Thank you for a beautifully presented item! My mam(1926-2011) was born in Glamorgan, the last of 12 kids. Very hard, disadvantaged early life she had. She met my dad( a Londoner) when he was doing his National service in Wales: she worked in the NAAFI. She lived up here in Kent for 54years and never lost her accent - she wasn't a fluent speaker of Welsh as she was of the generation that had a placard round their neck and a beating if they were heard using their own language. She always said daps for plimsolls: loshins for sweets: poor little dab for any unfortunate being and called on "Duw" when angry!! "Ych I fi"when we got mucky. "Shopping is it then?": for "are going shopping? and"light the fire then" for "go and light the fire". I'm very proud of my Welsh heritage and I think I sound more like her as the years pass. There's funny!

[Mumblemum]

I do so many of these ESPECIALLY 'now in a minute'!! Loved this video - tidy but, proper lush isn't it?! 😂

[jimrichards]

I left Swansea more than 40 years ago for London and I still use a lot of those expressions and pronunciations.
I couldn’t drop them even if I tried.Your vid gave me a good laugh and brought back some fond memories—isn’t it?

[ParaNormelle]

I am from the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales, this is so legit :D so proud to be Welsh

[bepolite]

My favourite. ^There he was, gone." Every time I go back home to Wales, the old habit of ending sentences with the word, "Mun" comes back instantly.

[Thebusysuperhuman]

I’m Welsh & yes 100% we say these things and more. 👍👍👍👏👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[DanielleLeah]

I’m from Cardiff and all of these are so true! I don’t say most of them but I do hear them a lot!! 💕