Wales or Cymru

[Lifelong]

What a great suggestion, we should then consider changing our club name to Dinas Abertawe.

 

[Pontyjack]

What a great suggestion, we should then consider changing our club name to Dinas Abertawe.

I’ve always advocated changing our name to Abertawe so we can be top of the table at the start of every season

 

[bakajack]

Pretty sure when Germans are talking about their National team in German they aren’t talking about Germany.

Pretty sure when Welsh people are talking about their national team in Welsh they do call it Cymru and not Wales.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Pretty sure when Welsh people are talking about their national team in Welsh they do call it Cymru and not Wales.

Exactly.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

What a great suggestion, we should then consider changing our club name to Dinas Abertawe.

What an excellent idea. One could lead to the other. Lovely stuff.

 

[dickythorpe]

It makes sense to me.
If we all spoke Welsh as a first language then that's what we'd be all saying.

One legend of why we speak English nglish is that we rounded up so many in the "olden days" that we had to learn it to communicate with them.

Who knows what the truth is but "Ymlaen CYMRU!!!"

 

[jackjackjackjack]

It makes sense to me.
If we all spoke Welsh as a first language then that's what we'd be all saying.

But we don't we're all speaking English on here. English speakers in England will still call us Wales, those in Germany, France etc will call us whatever they do in their own language. If you all want to write in Welsh, please go ahead and do so. I, for one, won't have a clue what you're on about.

 

[Dewi1jack]

Dinas Abertawe is going to be a struggle to get into songs/chants.

Me?
I'm looking forward to the away fans trying to sing Abertawe's a sh1tehole. I wanna go home

 

[Itchysphincter]

Wales when speaking English and Cymru when speaking Walish, it’s not complicated.

 

[Risc]

Doesn't bother me either way to be honest.

 

[Donnybackspin]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63456797

I don't speak Welsh but I am all for changing to Cymru, let's embrace our language.

 

[Neath_Jack]

For the divs looking in from elsewhere...

For the year ending 31 December 2021, the Annual Population Survey reported that 29.5% of people aged three or older were able to speak Welsh.

This is 0.4 percentage points higher than the previous year (year ending 31 December 2020), equating to around 9,200 more people.

Figures have been gradually increasing each year since March 2010 (25.2%, 731,000).

Dying language my ringpiece.

Small steps, we'll get there.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

For the divs looking in from elsewhere...

For the year ending 31 December 2021, the Annual Population Survey reported that 29.5% of people aged three or older were able to speak Welsh.

This is 0.4 percentage points higher than the previous year (year ending 31 December 2020), equating to around 9,200 more people.

Figures have been gradually increasing each year since March 2010 (25.2%, 731,000).

Dying language my ringpiece.

Small steps, we'll get there.

Many (if not most) kids these days are speaking Welsh almost from the moment they start talking. In a decade or two there’ll be a whole generation of fully bilingual adults who will then go on to have their own fully bilingual kids and so it will snowball. The noisy old men who are angry at the world changing from what they’re used to are irrelevant. Us monoglots will die out to be replaced by confident, bilingual Welsh people who don’t share the same self hatred and inferiority complex or many of our Welsh generation. And Wales will be a more mature and confident nation for it.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Many (if not most) kids these days are speaking Welsh almost from the moment they start talking. In a decade or two there’ll be a whole generation of fully bilingual adults who will then go on to have their own fully bilingual kids and so it will snowball. The noisy old men who are angry at the world changing from what they’re used to are irrelevant. Us monoglots will die out to be replaced by confident, bilingual Welsh people who don’t share the same self hatred and inferiority complex or many of our Welsh generation. And Wales will be a more mature and confident nation for it.

Since I've been alive, there had never been any Welsh speakers on either side of my family. Both my daughters are fluent Welsh speakers, my eldest grandson has just started full time in a Welsh medium school, my youngest grandson will also be educated in Welsh. My sisters eldest is fluent in Welsh, and her youngest is currently in a Welsh comp. Pretty much backs up your post.

The company I work for build schools (amongst other things) and off the top of my head, we have or are in the process of building 8 Welsh medium schools, in the last 10 years. We have built or refurbished half that many English schools.

But it's a dying language that hardly anyone speaks apparently :lol:

 

[Uxy]

Since I've been alive, there had never been any Welsh speakers on either side of my family. Both my daughters are fluent Welsh speakers, my eldest grandson has just started full time in a Welsh medium school, my youngest grandson will also be educated in Welsh. My sisters eldest is fluent in Welsh, and her youngest is currently in a Welsh comp. Pretty much backs up your post.

The company I work for build schools (amongst other things) and off the top of my head, we have or are in the process of building 8 Welsh medium schools, in the last 10 years. We have built or refurbished half that many English schools.

But it's a dying language that hardly anyone speaks apparently :lol:

It's going to get beyond that too, as the plan is to put Welsh on a par with English, even in the English language schools, with the Welsh second language GCSE being replaced with the first language one.

And quite right too. Most of Europe teaches their kids multiple languages. Plenty of studies shows it benefits kids in their development too, plus the cultural benefits.