Re: aspirated m?

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From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>

>> And
>> Ray's
>> experience and duration far exceeds mine.  I lived in Swansea for over
>> a
>> year and took the Wlpan (year-long intensive language course), spoke
>> with
>> people at pubs and parties, but Ray has had the equivalent of a young
>> adult lifetime in Wales. :)
>> Sally
>
>
> Ewwww, Wlpan! :P
> I hope you've recovered since then!
I wish I HADN'T recovered from it.  My moving out of Wales to Geneva and
back to the States has wiped out the intense involvement that keeps a
language alive for me.  Now, my efforts go towards Middle Welsh, and
teaching it.

> I'm suffering through Ulpan right now... they said my score on the
> evaluation test is more than high enough to get into level 6, but not
> high enough to skip 6 and go straight to the final End-Of-Ulpan exam.
> Do they call that test the "p'tor" in Wlpan too?
You know, it's funny how the Welsh have adopted this Hebrew word for their
intensive-language-learning course.  You're not the only one to comment on
it.  And spelled so decidedly Welsh, too! :)  No, they didn't use any other
Hebrew words.  We did get grades, though.  And certificates.

I don't see it used in the States of any intensive course in language.  Is
it used in Ireland?  I talked to a man involved in the Cornish Language
Revival Movement and he said that there was a great deal of conversation
between them and Israeli linguists about "how to revive a dead language."
Perhaps the use of Ulpan derives from that conversation, at least in the
Celtic communities.

What's with the orange peel in your signature? :)  ("hey hey, ho ho, this
orange peel has got to go!")

Sally

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