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“Yma o hyd” by Dafydd Iwan and learning Welsh

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Yma o hyd with Welsh flag football as background

I write this in the week that the Welsh protest song Yma o hyd by Dafydd Iwan topped the iTunes chart in the United Kingdom off the back of his performance in the stadium before Wales beat Ukraine and qualified for the Fifa World Cup for the first time for sixty-four years. Update 30 Nov '22. Well, Qatar didn't quite work out quite as we'd hoped ... but let's keep singing! … [Read more...]

Welsh football words

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Wales supporters celebrated the Wales men's team qualification for the Fifa World Cup only a few years after the national squad did so well in the 2016 and 2020 EUROs. The national team, like the language, put Wales on the map. To bring them both together I've put together this list of Welsh football words specially for the occasion. If you're a Welsh learner or thinking of … [Read more...]

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