Ive been watching a little of Abadas, very childish, but I like the songs haha.
I have been assured many times that Popti ping is not the word for microwave, it being Microdon, but they used popti ping here at about 6:40
I started watching childrenâs programmes on S4C before I even started with SSiW. Made sense as the children are learning and so there is a lot of repetition which helps. And as you say there are visual clues to help as well.
There isnât one - lots and lots of different options there. Pili-pala, iâr fach yr haf, glĂśyn byw, glĂśyn Duw⌠and apparently in Cornish itâs âtikki Dewâ, which is âtegan DuwââŚ
I hope it doesnât all blend into Pili Pala - Iar fach yr haf is a beautiful name and what would happen to the crazy nonsensical second verse of one well known version of Mi welais Jac-y-do:(Pili Pala doesnât quite work).
Mi welais iar fach yr haf
yn mynd i werthu ffa
Feâi gwerthodd yn rhes
ond collodd y pres
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Talking of new and old words. This was one question on Duolingo: I want bacon - my answer: dw iân moyn cig moch. (nil point and wrong in every way and I was being careful, because the people where I live wouldnât even say dwâi. since Fi happens to work for just about everything) correct answer dw i eisiau bacwn and then I noticed bacwn in the supermarket and was blown away. I guess Iâm a bit hung up on the old stuff.
One not very often used word that I love is ffrwchnedd (sp?) for banana. I saw it first on a menu outside a pancake stall in the Urdd Eisteddfod 2 years ago and it stuck with me. I was talking to a first language Cymro last week and heâd never heard of it but said he would start using it just for a laugh. Eleri SiĂ´n used it on an episode of Llyncu Geiriau recently too. Apart from that, nothing.
I was wondering why the children kept saying âyn Ben Dant Captain!â in âBen Dantâ. I thought that Ben Dant was just the pirates name, so I was confused as they seemed to be saying âlike you Captainâ. I have heard the word âbendantâ on the radio also, so I looked it up, it means âdefinitelyâ! So the children are saying âDefinitely Captain!â, which makes so much more sense! Such clever word play!
Hehe, I remember the penny dropping about Ben Dant, and feeling a bit clever and stupid at the same time! It used to be my kidsâ favourite programme, but unfortunately theyâre rather growing out of that kind of thing now and I havenât succeeded in getting then on to anything for more middle sized children in Cymraeg. (Saesneg is a bit of a problem too actually as the main attraction at the mo is Scooby Doo - which you can call up at any hour of the day nowadays!)
I feel your pain. I used to babysit my friends children and was heartbroken when they moved on from CBeebies to CBBC as watching together was no fun anymore. I donât know what to recommend.
I think acting for children really allows actors to show off their abilities, whereas older children start expecting adults to act like adults (whatever that is supposed to be). I think the Ben Dant actor is good [yn bendant!] and I love the chemistry between Lisa and Twm on Sbridiri, even though Twm never speaks.
What worries me is growing out of these programmes myself. Iâm getting to the point where I have learnt most of the standard phrases, can sing along with the theme songs and understand an ever higher percentage of what is said, which I feel is great progress. however I worry that more grown up programmes will be less fun, unless itâs something interested in.
I do believe that the quality of childrens programmes is usually much higher than âadultâ programmes like âX-factorâ, which I canât bear to watch , though I really enjoyed âFferm Factorâ on S4C, even when I wasnât learning Welsh.
I like the Ben Dant actor too. (I donât know his name.) I took the kids to the Eisteddfod in Caerffili last summer and he had a very nice chat with them in the Cyw tent, which they were starry-eyed about for ages. I also happened to see him in an excellent (and very moving) documentary for adults about alpaca farmers in South America a few months ago. I think there is quite a variety of interesting stuff on S4C to move on to when you outgrow Cyw - although I have seen woefully little of it so far!
Whilst trying to sort out the numerous boxes cluttering up my dads house, I found a box containing books from my previous attempts at learning Welsh.I found a copy of Gareth Kingâs âColloquial Welshâ, on the cover it says âCassettes availableâ which shows how old it is. Itâs really strange to flick through and to know most of the written material from the SSiW course! anyway I will read itthrough because a lot of the explanations of things seem to be really useful.
Anyway, childrenâs programmes are recommended by Mr King because âthe subject matter is generally more interesting and the story lines far more intelligent and convincing than the vast majority of programmes aimed at adultsâ, I agree.
Iâm at the stage now where I understand most of what it said and can guess at the new words.
I just noticed this thread and wanted to praise:
Ysbyty Cyw Bach
This seems a brilliant way of showing small children that hospital isnât that scary a place!
I have posted inthe Reaching a millionâŚthread about the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport instructing BBC to hand some of licence fee to other companies to pay for new Childrenâs Programmes. I felt that some of us might try to ensure that S4C gets its share. I am not best placed in Scotland to have any influence, but if any of you with children who live an Wales fancy writing to your MP and/or AM that could do no harm!
As has already been discussed, it is important that people get the full story to investigate for themselves. Therefore, you should include the link for others to make up their own minds:
This fund is to start in 2019. It is unclear as to how the money will be distributed, however, it is stated that this is for the Public Broadcasting Services which they have stated includes S4C.
Personally, I am unclear as to how a letter to an AM or MP would influence this situation. Therefore, I will not be sending a letter.
Thank,you very much, Anthony I,still canât quote links from my iPad, so am grateful for both times you have done it for me! I would have tried to add that one tomorrow.