Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 27 seconds ago
Sixth section of Ifor's monologue, with subtitles, transcript, and English translation.
How do the Welsh and English languages co-exist in Wales?
While it’s possible in a place like Caernarfon to live a nearly monolingual life through Welsh, almost like the way many people throughout the UK, and even in Wales, inhabit an English-only universe, Ifor discusses the different perspectives on languages that living bilingually entails. For Welsh speakers, this includes simultaneously looking at English in at least three different ways: English as a Welsh language, English as an international language, and English as an oppressive imperial language. He also acknowledges that in other parts of the world English may be viewed in some contexts as a language of liberation. These sometimes conflicting conceptions serve to counter any monolithic interpretation of language use and identity. This understanding may be worth sharing across the rest of the UK.
Transcript here: multidict.net/cs/12439
Full English translation here: guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ifor-6-translation.pdf
Part of the "Welshman from London" series of videos for the Island Voices "Extensions" series. More information here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/ifor-ap-glyn-welshman-from-london
Sixth section of Ifor's monologue, with subtitles, transcript, and English translation.
How do the Welsh and English languages co-exist in Wales?
While it’s possible in a place like Caernarfon to live a nearly monolingual life through Welsh, almost like the way many people throughout the UK, and even in Wales, inhabit an English-only universe, Ifor discusses the different perspectives on languages that living bilingually entails. For Welsh speakers, this includes simultaneously looking at English in at least three different ways: English as a Welsh language, English as an international language, and English as an oppressive imperial language. He also acknowledges that in other parts of the world English may be viewed in some contexts as a language of liberation. These sometimes conflicting conceptions serve to counter any monolithic interpretation of language use and identity. This understanding may be worth sharing across the rest of the UK.
Transcript here: multidict.net/cs/12439
Full English translation here: guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ifor-6-translation.pdf
Part of the "Welshman from London" series of videos for the Island Voices "Extensions" series. More information here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/ifor-ap-glyn-welshman-from-london
