Challenge 15, 16 and 17 Southern

Welsh General / Questions
#1

Can someone please clarify my brother your brother
My sister your sister

Also in challenge 16 is it this film film na and that film film ma?

Is there a southern challenge 15 listening thing?

I think there was something else but ive forgotten

Thanks

#2

My brother - fy mrawd
Your brother - dy frawd
My sister - fy chwaer
Your sister - dy chwaer

This film - y ffilm 'ma
That film - y ffilm 'na

Southern listening - no, not yet, sorry, but we’ll get there :sunny:

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#3

Thank you

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#4

Hi Theresa!

Just to add - the f of fy ofteb disappears in southern Welsh, so you’ll hear “y mrawd i” for my brother, and “yn (ch)waer i” for my sister. It’s not a rule, it’s just dialect. I suspect that “fy” had an n on the end at some time in it’s history, which would explain the nasal mutation that follows it quite neatly.

#5

What’s the difference between dwi ddim and dorni ddim?

#6

Dwi ddim - I don’t…

Do’n i ddim - I didn’t/wasn’t…

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#7

Ahh ok.
Currently I seem to say do’n i ddim when it should have been dwi ddim

#8

Don’t worry too much, it’ll work itself out for you with enough exposure/usage. :sunny:

#9

@aran Just finished 16. Looked at 17 and could see I am getting to be more 50/50 Gog/De!! However, towards the end of 16 I did find I was getting the words out faster and some of them were even right!!
I know I could force myself to say what @Iestyn says, but it feels so wrong! And, trying to actually sound Gog feels just as wrong. I always said my throat couldn’t stand Gogledd vowels!! To me, northerners sound as if they are choking, especially in English!!

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