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Word(s) of the Day! - 15 November 2025

(I meant to do this daily! Alas, life got in the way. HERE WE GO THOUGH!)

IRISH GAELIC

Ansin - there

Example sentence: Tàim ansin. - I am there.

WELSH

Saesneg - English

Example sentence: Wyt ti’n siarad Saesneg? - Do you speak English?

#word of the day #cymraeg #welsh #gaeilge #irish gaelic #langblr #welsh langblr

Word(s) of the Day! - 30 October 2025

IRISH GAELIC Uisce beatha - literal translation, "the water of life", this is whiskey! Example sentence: Ólaim uisce beatha. - I drink whiskey. WELSH Bore da - Good morning. Example sentence: Bore da, Cymru! - Good morning, Wales!

#cymraeg #welsh #gaeilge #irish gaelic #langblr #welshblr #welsh langblr #irish gaelic langblr #learner #october #thursday #word of the day #words of the day #whiskey

Word of the Day - 29 October 2025

IRISH GAELIC

Cara - friend WELSH

cwrw - beer

#irish gaelic #welsh #cymraeg #gaeilge #langblr #october

Word of the Day - 12 October 2025

IRISH GAELIC Dia duit - hello! (lit. "God be with you.") WELSH Shwmae - Hello!

#word of the day #langblr #irish gaelic #a1 learner #welsh #cymraeg #gaeilge

polyglotarkive

Some Welsh things

lalunebat

Learning all the important things in Welsh

#welsh #learning welsh #duolingo #cymraeg #welsh langblr #reblog

onlyusefulphrases

Me whenever I open tumblr.

crystalpoints

When people assume Celtic = Irish I get a strong urge to stab myself in the eye.

No no no no no no.

Sit down we must have a conversation.

There were 6 Celtic nations.

Éire, Cymru, Alba, Kernow, Breizh, and Ellan Vannin.

Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Mann respectively.

They’re all related, but not the same. They all have different languages descended from a similar group, Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish (Gàidhlig), Manx (Gaelg), Welsh (Cymraeg), Cornish (Kernowek), and Breton (Brezhoneg). Some are more widely spoken than others, for example Welsh is still commonly spoken in Wales, whereas hearing Cornish in Cornwall instead of English is rare. All Celtic nations have varied mythology and culture. Irish Mythology is different from Breton Mythology, and even Welsh and Cornish mythology (arguably the most related Celtic Nations) have subtle differences to each other. I wish I could add more about the cultures at this time but my knowledge of Celtic nations is primarily made up of the history and languages of those regions, particularly Cornwall.

You might have notice that England and English are missing from this, because the English descended from Anglo-Saxons, who were German invaders that came to the isles right around the Fall of the Roman empire in the 5th Century, erasing the Celtic influence in what is now England.

So what this all really means is that Celtic is an umbrella term, and just because it’s Celtic doesn’t mean it has anything to do with Ireland at all. So don’t assume that just because someone’s talking about something Celtic that they’re talking about something Irish.

stephrc79

I actually didn’t know this. Thank you, tumblr person

gaywithflowers-deactivated20200

I love you for this. I love learning and this day started in a good note.

littlestwolf234

@beealinguist

ravenlesslangblr

Let’s bust a myth.

Irish is NOT hard. It is NOT hard to learn. It is NOT impossible to learn. Irish is actually quite an easy language. The keyword here is that it’s different. It’s a different kind of language. Not your Standard European Average language like German or French. There is a lot of influence from Semitic languages, which is attributed to either substratum, language contact and…coincidence? Here’s a list of reasons why Irish is not hard to learn. 1. It’s phonetic. Once you learn the rules of reading it, you can read almost any word, no matter how confusing and long it is. It’s phonetic. So each letter or group of letters correspond to one sound. There may be slight alterations in the various dialects, but you can’t go horribly wrong like you can in English.

2. It’s regular. There are only 11 irregular verbs and out of those, only 6 are pretty crazy and have to be looked out for, other than that, there are very few exceptions.

3. Look out for mutations Lenitions and eclipses. They mark grammatical meaning (like inflections do in other languages, for example) and they make a huge difference. Sometimes, there are disputes between dialects (ar an bhus and ar an mbus, i’m looking at you Ulster and Munster), but you’re not going to make a huge faux-pas when you say mo teaglach instead of mo theaglach. You’re going to be understood, you’ve just made a mistake. 4. The few resources there are are actually very good. I’m going to be posting about these in the crash courses I’m planning to do. 5. Look out for genitive Genitive is tricky and sneaky. But it can be looked up if you’re having trouble since again, it is very regular. 6. The Irish speakers are the most welcoming and supporting language community I’ve met No shade towards other communities (honestly, still scared of French people), but if you show just a little bit of knowledge of Irish, you will be praised and everybody is going to be so happy. If you make a mistake, no problem, everybody makes mistakes, you learn from mistakes. That’s the kind of approach I’ve experienced so far anyway. If fears of difficulty are keeping you from learning Irish, don’t let them. Irish is NOT hard and it’s not worth being scared of.

imgoingtofighttheocean

U kno what???? Honestly?? All jokes side about the Duolingo owl, Duolingo is one of the only language education services I know of that doesn’t charge for the full course and I really think we don’t appreciate that enough in a world where knowledge is severely (and increasing) restricted based on income. I just went through the app store and downloaded every language app I can find, and the only two that didn’t charge hefty subscription fees to access all the lessons were duolingo and memrise. Support free education.

coto524

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

saethwr-blog

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

coto524

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

coto524

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

sithofren-blog

(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)

tiocfaidharlulz

drag them, wales!

lizimajig

Go Wales

thebaconsandwichofregret

the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:

W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.

We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.

systlin

Welsh is, in addition, one of the oldest surviving indo-European languages. It dates back as far as 4,000 years and is one of the few surviving Celtic languages.

ceruleancynic

HELL YES WELSH.

dottewa-deactivated20200728

In English, y is sometimes a vowel and sometimes not. This makes far less sense than “w is a vowel,” because the letter belongs to one thing.

In Spanish, l is a consonant and ll is a different consonant and a single letter. This is exactly the same as Welsh using ll as a single letter.

The fact these are seen as strange even though there’s very, very simple parallels everyone who speaks two of the most common languages in the world, with a very very high overlap between casual phrase usages, is entirely propaganda meant to destroy people’s interests in relearning their culture as it’s being systematically repressed and destroyed. And it’s working. Because we can’t be bothered to think, “w is a vowel, just like y except it’s always”.

polyglotarkive

Some Welsh things

lloerwyn-deactivated20201104

If you don’t get my Welsh carrot puns, you’re just a moron.

garethbail

english person: the only reason people speak welsh is so they can talk about other people

me: oh my god that's so disrespectful my language is 1400 years old and is one of the most spoken celtic languages and survived your dumb ass country trying to eradicate it cymraeg is a beautiful language that deserves so much more than your hate jfc

me: *talks shit about that person in welsh*