77. Survival part 1: Second Home
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There are two main places in the world where the Welsh language is spoken: Wales, and the Chubut Province in Patagonia. How did this ancient language take root in rural Argentina, 12,000km away from its home base?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, |
| 0:07.0 | smash a bottle of champagne on Languages Bout. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's episode is a tale of epic voyages of |
| 0:13.0 | scrawling for survival and fruit loaf. |
| 0:19.0 | On with the show. |
| 0:31.0 | The show is a tale of a story about a young woman. |
| 0:38.0 | The show is a tale of a woman. |
| 0:41.0 | A story of a woman who is a young woman. |
| 0:44.0 | A story of a woman who is a young woman. |
| 0:47.0 | It's Friday night. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm in a church hall in the small town of Gaiman, |
| 0:52.0 | in rural Argentina, around 1200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, |
| 0:56.0 | watching a concert in which locals are singing songs in Welsh. |
| 1:04.0 | Three thoughts of rotating in my mind. |
| 1:06.0 | One, these people are really good singers. |
| 1:15.0 | Two, if I die here, people are going to wonder what an earth I was doing |
| 1:19.0 | in a church hall in a tiny town in Argentina. |
| 1:22.0 | Three, we are 12,000 kilometres from Wales. |
| 1:26.0 | And the Welsh language is not widespread. |
| 1:30.0 | Why are there people speaking Welsh in Argentina? |
| 1:40.0 | In late May 1865, the Mimosa, a converted tea clipper, |
| 1:45.0 | set sail from Liverpool carrying around 155 Welsh passengers bound |
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