Sample Exercise:“I don’t think a great lack of money is the heart of the problem.”
This is industry standard for general dialect of South Wales, typical of the Cardiff area. Even within this small area, there are several styles of English spoken. There are some Welsh people for whom Welsh is the first language and who do not learn English until they are in school. There are other Welsh people who never learn Welsh at all and for whom English is their first and only language. The English of Welsh people is strongly and distinctively accented, and in offering here this generalized account of that style of speech, I hope to bridge some of the differences between rural and urban, and to provide the basis for further study. (Paul speaks the entire text himself. So you hear him demonstrate, in dialect, the signature sounds in isolation, the word lists, the practice sentences, and the two monologues.)
TO PURCHASE:
The Welsh dialect is available by purchasing Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen. We recommend the Deluxe Streaming version for $79.95, which gives you Welsh plus 26 other dialects and accents. (This is a printed book with the audio files available on a password-protected webpage.) The original CD version of the book, with 24 total dialects and accents on 12 CDs, is also still available.
OR
You may purchase the iTunes ebook (Apple Book) version of Welsh directly on iTunes by clicking this link, for $29.99. This will play on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, using Apple’s free Books app, but NOT on your Windows PC.
