To add to the following thread, I wonder if there are any cassettes or CDs of Welsh speakers talking, singing, reciting poetry or just pronouncing place names?? Maybe the Gwynedd FHS could usefully produce something?? I would add that there is no substitute for visiting the part of Wales that your family are from, finances allowing!!! (As it's only a return train ticket for me I suppose I forget that a lot of the list are many thousands more miles away. Even I only visit 3 times a year at most.) Ian London SW9 _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE connection, FREE modem and one month's FREE line rental, plus a US or European flight when you sign up for BT Broadband! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband

There are a lot of websites that have information on the Welsh language including sound on how to pronounce some place names. These are sites that I have bookmarked and all worked today. History & Status of Welsh language: http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/geraint.jones/about.welsh/ A Welsh Course: http://oldweb.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/ Welsh Language: http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/welsh_language Welsh/English English/Welsh http://oldweb.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html Welsh Language Guide: http://www.britannia.com/celtic/wales/language.html Welsh Institute (yearly language study): http://www.madog.org/ Dictionary of Welsh Language: http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/index.html Welsh Informationary http://www.gwybodiadur.co.uk/ Welsh- University Oregon: http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/welsh.html Welsh Language: http://bubl.ac.uk/link/w/welshlanguage.htm Just Enough to Impress: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/about/language-justenough.shtml Welsh Language: http://www.wales-calling.com/language.htm Learn Welsh: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/ More Welsh Language: http://www.croeso-cynnes-wales.co.uk/iaith/ Another Welsh Language course: http://www.red4.co.uk/language.htm Sounds of Wales: http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/sounds/ Enjoy them. Pam Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: "I Thompson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:48 AM Subject: [CAE] RE: Place names > > To add to the following thread, I wonder if there are any cassettes or CDs > of Welsh speakers talking, singing, reciting poetry or just pronouncing > place names?? Maybe the Gwynedd FHS could usefully produce something?? > > I would add that there is no substitute for visiting the part of Wales that > your family are from, finances allowing!!! (As it's only a return train > ticket for me I suppose I forget that a lot of the list are many thousands > more miles away. Even I only visit 3 times a year at most.) > > Ian > London SW9 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get a FREE connection, FREE modem and one month's FREE line rental, plus a > US or European flight when you sign up for BT Broadband! > http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband > > > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== > http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/inst/uwbangor.shtml > Bangor University Archives > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >