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[mk_fancy_text color=”#ffffff” highlight_color=”#000000″ highlight_opacity=”0.7″ size=”25″ line_height=”50″ font_family=”none” align=”center”]Phonetics[/mk_fancy_text][mk_fancy_text color=”#ffffff” highlight_color=”#000000″ highlight_opacity=”0.7″ size=”25″ line_height=”50″ font_family=”none” align=”center”]Pronouncing Welsh Place Names[/mk_fancy_text]
<h3>Pronouncing Welsh Place names</h3>
I have added below various place names used in the three Drake novels <em>Brass In Pocket</em>, <em>Worse Than Dead</em> and <em>Against the Tide</em>. Although Welsh is a phonetic language where every letter is pronounced. The language has no hidden letters or examples where letters are not pronounced so it should straightforward! I know from my feeble attempts to learn French years ago that it is never that simple to learn another language. There are lots of ‘LL’ and ‘TH’ in Welsh place names so I hope the voice recordings below will help you read the books and hear the place names at the same time.
[mk_fancy_title size=”30″ line_height=”40″ font_weight=”600″ font_family=”none”]Brass in Pocket[/mk_fancy_title][mk_audio file_title=”1. Cwm Llan (pronounced as Coom llan)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cwm_llan.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”2. Llanrwst (pronounced as Llanroost)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Llanrwst.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”3. Llanberis (pronounced as llanberees)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llanberis.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”4. Llanddwyn (pronounced as llanthween)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llanddwyn.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”5. Llandudno (pronounced as llandeednoh)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llandudno.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”6. Llanfairfechan (pronounced as llanvairvechan)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llanfairfechan.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”7. Caernarfon (pronounced as Cairnarvon)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Caernarfon.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”8. Bangor (pronounced as Ban gor)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Bangor.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”9. Colwyn (pronounced as colween)” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Colwyn_Bay.mp3″]
[mk_fancy_title size=”30″ line_height=”40″ font_weight=”600″ font_family=”none”]Worse than Dead[/mk_fancy_title][mk_audio file_title=”Llanddwyn Island” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Llanddwyn_island.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Llandudno” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llandudno.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”LLanberis” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llanberis.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Caernarfon” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Caernarfon.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Bangor” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Bangor.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Anglesey” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anglesey.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Holyhead” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Holyhead.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Holyhead” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Holyhead.mp3″]
[mk_fancy_title size=”30″ line_height=”40″ font_weight=”600″ font_family=”none”]Against the Tide[/mk_fancy_title][mk_audio file_title=”LLanfairpwll” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/LLanfairpwll.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Llangefni” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Llangefni.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Llandudno” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llandudno.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Llanfairfechan” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/llanfairfechan.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Caernarfon” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Caernarfon.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Colwyn Bay” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Colwyn_Bay.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Bangor” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Bangor.mp3″][mk_audio file_title=”Pam es i allan nos Sul? Lle fi oedd bod adre” mp3_file=”https://www.stephenpuleston.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pam_es_i_allan.mp3″]