Saturday, August 5, 2017

Learn Welsh words for cow, duck and rabbits

Problem
How do you remember Welsh animals?

Answer
Look for letter combinations.

Welsh - English
buwch - cow (think of b for bull, u for moo, w third letter of cow, c first letter of cow)
crwban - tortoise (think of it being cruel to ban a tortoise CRwBAN)
cwningen - rabbits (CheWING carrots and breeding like rabbits aGaiN)
hwyaden - duck (how why a D uck)

English - Welsh
cow - buwch
duck - hwyaden
rabbits - cwningen
tortoise - crwban

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker, and teacher of English and other languages.

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