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Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh
by
Pamela Petro
Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided to go where English was not an option - all kinds of unlikely places with long-standing Welsh-speaking communities. She visited the Hong Kong Men's Choir, all Chinaman who sing in Welsh
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...morePaperback, 336 pages
Published
June 1st 1998
by HarperCollins Publishers
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You are not going to learn any Welsh -- even a little bit -- from this book. As a travelogue, it is somewhat limited: the author talks about being hosted by Welsh speakers in various countries, and time after time neither host nor guest is able to muster more than a few words of Welsh anyway. But the Patagonian section at the end somewhat redeems the book: The very landscape seems to have overwhelmed the author into a level of inspired gloom and hopelessness that feels, for the first time, meani...more
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Very interesting book, easy to read and fascinating incite into Welsh Patagonia.
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