Creiglyn Dyfi which sits under the summit of Aran Fawddwy is the source of the ecologically important Afon Dyfi. (January 2007) Comments[ Post a Comment ] | Andino | Bravo ! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Very nice perspective ;o) | | Posted Jul 18, 2007 3:55 pm |
 | | Nanuls | Re: Bravo ! | | 
Hasn't voted | Thankyou, I love this spot it always catches the snow, a rare thing in Wales! | | Posted Jul 21, 2007 2:19 pm |
| Aspen | Bottomless Pit | | 
Voted 10/10 | It truly does look like a bottomless pit! Welcome to the Cold Heart of Hell!! *evil laugh* Mwwhahahaha!!!
Knight | | Posted Aug 16, 2007 10:47 pm |
| | Nanuls | Re: Bottomless Pit | |
Hasn't voted | now your worrying me!
Cheers
Dan | | Posted Aug 17, 2007 8:59 am |
| yatsek | The Senses | | 
Voted 10/10 | The area looks handsome, clad in thin white, with this black hole. Does it sound more or less like this:
kreiglin divi @ æræn vauðwi ? | | Posted Nov 26, 2008 8:40 am |
| | Nanuls | Re: The Senses | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks very much! And your pronounciation is so close too. The first word should be more like Duvi. | | Posted Nov 26, 2008 11:10 am |
| | yatsek | Re: the u | |
Voted 10/10 | U mean U as in "put", or the vowel in "fur/fir"? | | Posted Nov 26, 2008 11:49 am |
| | Nanuls | Re: the u | |
Hasn't voted | oh sorry I'm so used to the language I don't even think about these things - as in 'fur' or 'furrow', or 'fun'.
| | Posted Nov 26, 2008 11:58 am |
| | yatsek | Re: Tough Fun | |
Voted 10/10 | It's usually complicated no matter you're used to the language or not:-) As to the English sounds and signs representing them, I'm used to the so called RP, i.e. "BBC" version. The problem is that it has the same sound/sign for the vowel in both "fun/bus" and "love/tough", while in N England the former sounds like "put" (this U is quite close to the Polish U).
So, to sum up, is your/our U like the vowel sound in "foot" (or at least closer to the one in "foot" than to that in "rough/done')?
| | Posted Nov 26, 2008 2:23 pm |
| | Nanuls | Re: Tough Fun | |
Hasn't voted | Nnothing like foot, 'U' sounds like a short 'ee', as in 'seen'; never as in 'cup'.
Does that make sense?
| | Posted Nov 27, 2008 6:33 am |
| | yatsek | Re: dYfi | |
Voted 10/10 | Hope I'm getting warmer:-) So now my guess is it must be something close to the most common vowel sound in English ("schwa"= ә ):
climbEr, barrEn, pencIl, murmUr, cOnsensUs
??? | | Posted Nov 27, 2008 7:25 am |
| | Nanuls | Re: dYfi | |
Hasn't voted | Right! your getting it - 'Y' in Welsh is (normally) like the 'U' in murmur or consensus in English; and 'U' in Welsh is like the sound 'ee' in Engish like in keen or deep.
Just to complicate things 'Y' in certain Welsh words is sometimes also prononounced as an 'ee', but there aren't many uses of this. The most common it 'ty' which means house. | | Posted Nov 27, 2008 8:09 am |
| | yatsek | Re: U & I LOL | |
Voted 10/10 | Aha! Right, now we're done with the sound, time to deal with the letter U: as there's no roof over it, the sound shouldn't be longer than that of the letter I. Do both of them sound alike then? | | Posted Nov 27, 2008 9:56 am |
| | Nanuls | Re: U & I LOL | |
Hasn't voted | Yes, that's it, they both sound alike! Nice one, I should have probably said somthing like that earlier... sorry! | | Posted Nov 27, 2008 10:29 am |
| | yatsek | Re: U & I LOL | |
Voted 10/10 | That's OK, Dan. I do like sorting out problems. Perhaps just different examples or some international signs for non-native English speakers would do.
Diolch yn fawr,
Jacek
| | Posted Nov 27, 2008 12:02 pm |
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