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Minum

Joined: 21 Jan 2009
Posts: 65
Location: Top left hand corner of Wales

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 10 7:45 pm Post subject:

JohnB wrote:

Now we've got onto language. Do many English immigrants actually try to learn Welsh, and how do they do it?

I'm rubbish at languages, but think I ought to give it a try, even if [url]it's just so I can pronounce place names!

We moved to NW Wales from London last summer. My youngest is going to an entirely Welsh speaking school, and everyone we meet is a Welsh speaker, so I felt it was essential to learn Welsh. I'm learning via https://saysomethinginwelsh.com plus local classes when I can get to them. I'm loving learning, and can really recommend the online class - I've learnt more with them in a few months than I did in French in years at school!

And no, I dont feel like we've emigrated. A lot of people we've met here think it is a big deal that we have made such a big move, and are so far from home, but I dont have a strong sense of where I'm from, probably because my parents had both moved away from their roots.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 10 7:57 pm Post subject:

gardening-girl wrote:

He,s gone back to his roots though, as our surname is Evans, and OH,s grandad was a gamekeeper in Crickhowell.

Small world. Evans is one of my ancestral names, but from Kent not Wales ... and I have a sister living in Crickhowell!

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 10 8:57 pm Post subject:
We could be related

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 10 9:23 pm Post subject:
You never know Be afraid!!!

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 10 8:33 am Post subject:
I have moved from the Southern hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere. Ihavealso moved from England to Wales. So no, it does not feel like emigrating. I will however say, that I find Wales to be friendlier than England.

Ruralnaedowell

Joined: 11 Nov 2010
Posts: 121
Location: Welshpool

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 10:00 am Post subject:
Imagine parleying with headhunters from Borneo or Pathans on the North West Frontier.............

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 10:14 am Post subject:
England to Wales? That's not abroad. There are bigger differences between counties in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland than there are between those regions of the UK. Lancashire to Yorkshire - that's abroad

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 10:57 am Post subject:

Vanessa wrote:

gardening-girl wrote:

He,s gone back to his roots though, as our surname is Evans, and OH,s grandad was a gamekeeper in Crickhowell.

Small world. Evans is one of my ancestral names, but from Kent not Wales ... and I have a sister living in Crickhowell!

If your Evans relations are from that Island of Socialism surrounded by a sea of Conservatism in Kent,theres a good chance they came from Wales to work in the Mines there.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 11:20 am Post subject:
The island of socialism? Blimey!! I've never heard of that! Whereabouts in Kent is that?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46245
Location: yes

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 3:15 pm Post subject:
wales seems like home ,scotland im not a tourist but a ggg isnt quite local , kernow .well me ansom

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4613
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 4:49 pm Post subject:

Vanessa wrote:

The island of socialism? Blimey!! I've never heard of that! Whereabouts in Kent is that?

From Betteshanger down to Dover,the Kent Coalfield.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Tue May 01, 12 5:55 pm Post subject:
Hmm, not as far as I've managed to find so far, in that case. Will have to keep digging ... one of these days I'm going to go to the places I know my ancestors lived, and do some "in person" digging rather than relying on stuff that's available online etc.

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 9:36 pm Post subject:
what is wrong with Lincolnshire? i've felt out of place ever since I was dragged unwillingly away as a child.Now I feel I don't belong anywhere anymore.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8950
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 9:41 pm Post subject:
I've moved 26 or 27 times- I started feeling at home here a couple of years ago, the first place I can remember calling a place home and not just "the house"

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu May 03, 12 8:11 am Post subject:
Same here! My OH claims that I must have Gypsy blood in me.

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