u/No-Card-6012

Help Me Choose Which Dialect to Focus On!

Hey everyone, I'm a prospective Welsh learner trying to decide which dialect, North or South, I should base my welsh pronunciation on.

I'm not concerned about the lexical or grammatical differences between North and South, as from what I've seen there are only a few differences in isolated cases. I'll pick up regional differences with that sort of thing as I go. But, as an American with very distant and undocumented Welsh heritage, I don't have any particular reason to learn one dialect over the other aside from how they sound: no idea where in Wales my family was from, I have no Welsh friends yet, I don't plan on living in any particular region, etc.

The thing is, I've had a lot of trouble with finding any extended comparisons of spoken welsh that are explicitly from the North or the South. All I'm looking for is a resource or two (like a podcast or YT videos) of explicitly a northern accent and the same thing for explicitly southern accents. I just want to listen to a few people speak, see what I like the sound of, and then go from there. The more examples the better too, because I understand there's immense variations within regions as well.

I appreciate any thoughts or comments! Also I preemptively apologize for any formatting issues, I don't use Reddit.

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u/No-Card-6012 — 4 days ago