Flag of Wales. The red Welsh dragon.
I looked at a photo of a Welsh hospital's Accident And Emergency entrance.
I saw three words. Two of the words were very long and hard to remember. But the middle word, presumably 'and' , was ac, starting with the same letter as and.
Just to be sure I had translated correctly, I went to translate google. ac was and. But was and ac?
It is well known to translators that you must translate back again to be sure.
When I put in and, I found a and ac. Like a and an, I presumed, it is hard to say a in front of a word starting with a, so you add a consonant.
Welsh - English
a / ac - and
bach/fach - small
cawl - soup
coffi - coffee
dau - two
ond - but
sebon - soap
siop - shop
sosban -saucepan/pan
tri - three
y/yr - the
yn - in
yno - there
English Welsh
and - a/ac
but - ond
coffee - coffi
in - yn
one, two, three - un, dau, tri
saucepan/pan - sosban
shop - siop
small - bach/fach
soap - sebon
soup - cawl
the - y/yr
there - yno
three - tri (like triangle)
two - dau
Useful Websites
LEARN WELSH
https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/cy/en/Learn-Welsh
TOASTMASTERS
https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/01014712-voice-of-wales
TRANSLATE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Welsh_films
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
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Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.
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