Andy78 Posted August 29, 2012 Author Posted August 29, 2012 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (UK)
Daddydavek Posted August 29, 2012 Posted August 29, 2012 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (UK) {Can you pronounce it phonetically for the Welsh challenged?} Hazelwood (MO/USA)
Andy78 Posted August 29, 2012 Author Posted August 29, 2012 Darwin (Australia) Pronunciation guide as requested: LLAN - FAIR - PWLL - GWYN - GYLL - GO - GER - YCH - WYRN - DROB - WLL - LLAN - TYSILIO - GO - GO – GOCH Two points to begin with on pronunciation: The ‘ll’ - Lie your tongue flat in your mouth so that the tip is firmly touching the bridge behind your front teeth. Keeping the tip of your tongue in place, try and touch your back teeth with the sides of your tongue - now breathe out forcing the air to run strongly over the back of your tongue. This will cause a kind of hissing noise near your back teeth. You need to use this pronunciation on all “ll” in Welsh. (If you can’t get this, you can just pronounce it as an ‘L’). The ‘ch’ – is a hard sound and is pronounced like the “ch” in Scottish and German LLAN – the ‘ll’ sound, followed by ‘lan’ FAIR – vire (like ‘fire’, but with a ‘v’ instead of an ‘f’) PWLL – the word ‘pull’, followed by the ‘ll’ sound’ GWYN – gwin (the word ‘win’ with a ‘g’ in front of it) GYLL – the word ‘gill’, followed by the ‘ll’ sound’ GO - go GER – gare (like ‘care’ but with a "g" instead of a "c") YCH – ‘uh’ followed by the ‘ch’ sound WYRN – win DROB – drawb (the word ‘draw’ with a ‘b’ on the end) WLL – pronounced the same as ‘pwll’ just with the ‘p’ LLAN – as above TYSILIO – tee-silly-or GO - go GO - go GOCH – go then the ‘ch’ sound
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