Wrth cwrs yn ni siarad Cymraeg yn Singapore, ia?
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news-today.world | Okay, I'm going to share something funny with you - I'm choosing to laugh at how ridiculous the situation is as there's no point in getting angry. I appeared on Finnish television today and there's going to be a lot of people who are going to be very, very confused by me (jump to 17:00 for the piece in question) about Singapore. You see, Finland celebrated their 100th anniversary since independence from Russia and one of my best friends (who was featured in one of my vlog posts) is from Finland - so he invited me to join a group of specially selected guests to wish Finland happy birthday on this momentous occasion. I was told quite simply by the producer: you're free to speak in whatever language you like and make it about a minute long. I already knew they were going to get a lot of submissions in English and I didn't want to do one in French as well, even though French is my second language as they already had people in France doing this. They wanted me to do it in a language that they have yet to cover - I could almost sense them pleading for me to do it in an Asian language like Mandarin or Malay because I was the only non-white person involved. I then said, Welsh is my fourth language, may I do it in Welsh? Surely you have no one wishing Finland happy birthday in Welsh? They said yeah okay.
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| Yes I am fluent in Southern Welsh. |
So you can see my minute long piece here on the YLE website - I did an English introduction to make it clear that I am in London and that I'm going to speak Welsh, before launching into a piece of Welsh whereby I talk about why I love the sound of the Finnish language, especially the Finnish double-R sound which would require the speaker to really roll their tongues. I have in fact done a video about this on my vlog about rolling one's Rs. I suppose I could have done that piece in Mandarin (or Spanish for that matter) but I thought, let's use a minority language and make this special. There isn't enough Welsh out there on TV outside Wales, let's make people sit up and take notice of the beautiful Welsh language. And besides, if I am going to talk about the sounds of the Finnish language, then Welsh felt like a far more suitable language to do that in as Welsh does share a lot of the more unusual sounds with Finnish. So in the Finnish evening news report tonight, like the main news channel watched by millions across Finland, I was featured along with Angela Merkel and Ed Sheeren - not bad company if you ask me but they labeled me as Singaporean. Yeah right, Singaporean!
You see, if you had watched the full one minute piece, then it would have made sense: I am originally from Singapore, I'm clearly in London and I announced that I am going to speak Welsh, one of the national languages of the UK. But the way the news programme was chopped up in the editing, it made it look as if I was wishing Finland happy birthday all the way from Singapore and I was speaking in my mother tongue/native tongue/first language - Welsh. Subtitles were given in Finnish but it wasn't made clear what language I was speaking, the viewers were just told which country these people were from and I had the word 'Singapore' with a big Singaporean flag on the screen when I appeared. Speaking in Welsh. Viewers who know anything about Singapore would have realized, "he's clearly not speaking an Asian language and that's clearly not English but we don't know what strange language he is speaking in - is this guy really from Singapore? Like don't they speak English, Malay or Mandarin in Singapore? What the hell is going on here? Where did you get this bizarre Asian guy speaking in this strange European language?" I think it suffices to say that most people involved in that programme did speak in their first language: so Angela Merkel spoke in German and Ed Sheeren spoke in English. I guess there's an element of making a point that I'm perfectly capable of expressing myself eloquently in my fourth language (Welsh) and that I could have done the piece easily in English, French, Mandarin or Spanish as well.
Look, I love being on TV and to get to show off my language skills on Finnish TV is right up my street. But I'm afraid I've just given the Finnish public the impression that we all speak Welsh in Singapore. Well, that is if they can even identify Welsh from just listening to it and I doubt they can. Seriously, I think I'm like the only person from Singapore who speaks Welsh fluently. Sorry for well and truly confusing the people of Finland today but I seriously thought the producers would have explained a lot in the editing. Life would be a lot more boring if we all just spoke in English. So go on, click through on the link and have a laugh, let me know what you think. Thanks for reading. Kiitoskia oiken paljon, diolch yn fawr iawn.
You see, if you had watched the full one minute piece, then it would have made sense: I am originally from Singapore, I'm clearly in London and I announced that I am going to speak Welsh, one of the national languages of the UK. But the way the news programme was chopped up in the editing, it made it look as if I was wishing Finland happy birthday all the way from Singapore and I was speaking in my mother tongue/native tongue/first language - Welsh. Subtitles were given in Finnish but it wasn't made clear what language I was speaking, the viewers were just told which country these people were from and I had the word 'Singapore' with a big Singaporean flag on the screen when I appeared. Speaking in Welsh. Viewers who know anything about Singapore would have realized, "he's clearly not speaking an Asian language and that's clearly not English but we don't know what strange language he is speaking in - is this guy really from Singapore? Like don't they speak English, Malay or Mandarin in Singapore? What the hell is going on here? Where did you get this bizarre Asian guy speaking in this strange European language?" I think it suffices to say that most people involved in that programme did speak in their first language: so Angela Merkel spoke in German and Ed Sheeren spoke in English. I guess there's an element of making a point that I'm perfectly capable of expressing myself eloquently in my fourth language (Welsh) and that I could have done the piece easily in English, French, Mandarin or Spanish as well.
Look, I love being on TV and to get to show off my language skills on Finnish TV is right up my street. But I'm afraid I've just given the Finnish public the impression that we all speak Welsh in Singapore. Well, that is if they can even identify Welsh from just listening to it and I doubt they can. Seriously, I think I'm like the only person from Singapore who speaks Welsh fluently. Sorry for well and truly confusing the people of Finland today but I seriously thought the producers would have explained a lot in the editing. Life would be a lot more boring if we all just spoke in English. So go on, click through on the link and have a laugh, let me know what you think. Thanks for reading. Kiitoskia oiken paljon, diolch yn fawr iawn.
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