By Simeon Wren © Warsaw Summer School 2013, NaukaBezGranic

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Simeon Wren

Wales and England, what is the difference?

Wales and England, what is the difference?

Wales and England, what is the difference?

Welsh

Welsh• It’s like singing

• Sounds are stretched

• ‘I’ is ‘e’

• Roll your ‘r’s but just a little!

• One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep

WelshDw i'n medru siarad Cymraeg

Pronunciation (Ynganiad)

• ch (like in Polish)• dd (like ‘the’)• f (like ‘van’)• th (like ‘thin’)• ff (like ‘f’)• ll (like ‘clourghughughugh’)• I , y & u (like ‘bit’)• W (like ‘book’)• Si (like ‘sh’ in English)

WelshDw i'n medru siarad Cymraeg

• Hello: Helô, Hylô• How are you?: Shwmae?• I'm fine, thanks. And you?: Da iawn,

diolch. A tithau?• Goodbye: Hwyl• Do you speak Welsh?: ti'n siarad

Cymraeg?• Yes, a Little: Ydw, tipyn bach• Where's the toilet?: Ble mae'r toiled• Happy Easter: Pasg Hapus• I love you: Dw i'n dy garu di

WelshWhat are they talking about?

• Helô, ti'n siarad Cymraeg?• Ydw, tipyn bach.• Ok, Hwyl• Dw i'n medru siarad Cymraeg……

Dw i'n dy garu di.• Pasg Hapus, Hwyl.• Hwyl

English AccentsWatch the video. Listen to the accents

English Accents

Listen to the 4 accents and match them to the different areas and cities on your worksheet

English AccentsDoing the accents.

Tyke

• Tyke: Speak with a wide mouth. Speak heavy. Sometimes short vowels.

• "u" in bus = "bUs" like in Polish/ "o" = "orr", when you say "no" you say "nor"/"y" like in "nasty" = "eh", "nasteh"/there is no "the" or just a "T", "have you been T bank".

• Phrase: "as thee bin on bus T bank".

Cockney

• Cockney: Speak with a round mouth. Very exaggerated vowels, like a working-class RP (standard English)

• "Bath, grass" stress the "a"/ “Th” = “F” "Maths" is "Mafs" at the front "th"= "d" "this" is "dis"/No “H”/ No “g” in “ing” “I’m workin”/They use the double negative, for example "I didn't see nuffink."

• Phrase: "Dis fellor did it, I din't do nuffink"

Brummie

• Brummie: Speak with a very round mouth like a cow, in a very flat voice, almost boring. it is a mixture of North and South, because it is in the Midlands.

• "u" in bus = "bUs" like in Polish (like in northern English accents)/ no "H" like in Cockney/"ar" like "park" is very lazy/the "I" sound like in "five"="oi", "Foive pounds please"/when you say "ing" the "g" is very pronounced "nothinG"/They roll their "R" before vowels, for example "Bov(rrr)il".

• Phrase: "I scarged my knee in the park drinking Bovril"

Scouse

• Scouse: Speak with a flexible mouth that goes from round to wide, feel the saliva in your mouth a bit like mouth wash. Swallow from the back of the throat to get a "ch" sound like in Polish. This is a mixture of Northern English and Irish. Speak through your nose.

• "u" in bus = "bUs" like in Polish (like in northern English accents)/Say "yous" not "you"/ "book" and "cook" are "bewk", however "look" and "took" are normal/"d"="th", "dis man"/"me"="my" for example "me book"/ "giz'= "give us"/drop "t"s

• Phrase: "Giz me bewk I wanna look at dis. Ta, sound Mate!"

Calennig

Calennig& Mari Lwyd

Plygain

PlygainThen Now

Dydd Santes Dwynwen

Dydd Santes Dwynwen

Dydd Santes DwynwenLovespoons

What do these love spoons mean?

Dydd Santes Dwynwen

Now make your own and remember to say: “Dw i'n garu

di”

garu di

Bonkers traditions on England

Bonkers traditions on England

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

Bonkers traditions on England

Egremont's Crab Fair World Gurning Contest

Bonkers traditions on England

Egremont's Crab Fair World Gurning Contest

Bonkers traditions on England

The World Worm Charming Championship at Willaston

Bonkers traditions on England

Guy Fawkes Night.Fireworks, history and burning the

Guy!

Bonkers traditions on England

Guy Fawkes Night.

Bonkers traditions on England

Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday)

Bonkers traditions on England

Tossing the panckake

The welsh flagBut why a red dragon?

The welsh flagBut why a red dragon?

"Bran & Branwen"

National Eisteddfod of

Wales

National Eisteddfod of

Wales"Eisteddfod" without the grammar means: eistedd, meaning "sit", and bod,

meaning "be".

National Eisteddfod of

Wales“Session”

National Eisteddfod of

Wales

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem• And did those feet in ancient time.

Walk upon Englands mountains green:And was the holy Lamb of God,On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,Shine forth upon our clouded hills?And was Jerusalem builded here,Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold;Bring me my Arrows of desire:Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:Till we have built Jerusalem,In Englands green & pleasant Land