Raise your flag up!

[Luciana]

Hey hey!

 

 

Lets have some fun and geography classes!

We're all here from different countries all over the world, so let's raise our flags up and show the others why we love our countries! 

For start, just post how your flag looks like and how your anthem sounds! We can all learn something and feel proud

 

 

Serbian flag:

 

 

 

Serbian anthem:

 

It has a really long history, it was written long ago, when Serbia was part of Yugoslavia and when Yugoslavia was a kingdom

 

[LordCronal]

[cocopop3011]

Y Ddraig Goch meaning The Red Dragon!

 

I am very proud to be Welsh. I love it here..we don't have much of the finer things of life...although we do have some great landmarks and an amazing welsh rugby team (which me and valleys got to have breakfast with on our wedding weekend as the team were also there!)

 

What I love most about my country is how we Unite as one in times of need. We all stick together when we need each other. In the village where I live everyone knows everyone and its great to have a sense of belonging ... In Wales you always have family around you ...even if you don't have any family!

[LordCronal]

Can You speak Cymru, Sharon?

[cocopop3011]

Can You speak Cymru, Sharon?

Have a guess!

[LordCronal]

Yes.

[cocopop3011]

Yes.

Haha! Wrong! I'm not fluent! Its a really hard language to learn and lucky for me I was able to drop the subject as a GCSE!

[LordCronal]

I read that Cymru is the most alive in Celtic languages with Irish Gaelic.

[cocopop3011]

I read that Cymru is the most alive in Celtic languages with Irish Gaelic.

Did you!!!

[Luciana]

What's Cymru and how does it sound? Come ooon Coco, tell us something in Cymru

[cocopop3011]

What's Cymru and how does it sound? Come ooon Coco, tell us something in Cymru

Cymru is WALES! Its pronounced *****-re!! (No pun intended there!)

 

 

mae wedi bod yn ddiwrnod braf heddiw

[cocopop3011]

Hahahaha.....hahahahaha.....hahaha it wouldn't let me use the word hahaha

 

C U M - R E is how it's pronounced

 

And AG I told u after I wrote it no pun was intended

[Luciana]

Hahahaha, why the forum put you stars instead of letters? Detected swearing?

 

What did you write in Cymru? 

 

And why you have your own language? What's the status of Wales - a separate country? 

 

Speaking of language varieties, I just found an interesting photo:

 

[cocopop3011]

Hahahaha, why the forum put you stars instead of letters? Detected swearing?

 

What did you write in Cymru? 

 

And why you have your own language? What's the status of Wales - a separate country? 

 

Speaking of language varieties, I just found an interesting photo:

 

No we are part of the United Kingdom, I've no idea why we have our own language! I may have known if I listened more in school but I didn't! I also didn't go to a welsh speaking speak so Even though I'm welsh my first language is actually English. I speak very little Welsh...

 

I said its been a lovely day today!

[ValDes]

Fantastic idea for a topic, Lu! 

 

The Bulgarian flag:

 

 

The Bulgarian National anthem:

 

 

 

And this is the song 'Излел е Дельо Хайдутин', performed by one of the most amazing Bulgarian authentic folklore voices - Valja Balkanska, which is flying in the open space for more than 30 years! 

 

[Luciana]

Hey Lordy, why blue cross on white background? Any particular reason?

 

Haha, I must notice that ValDes' and mine look so powerful and Lord's so simple..but the reality is totally opposite

 

Sharon, you forgot the hymn

[cocopop3011]

Ooops sorry! Our welsh National Anthem is something that is drummed into us in school! We are very proud! We are also very proud of our rugby boys so here is the welsh national anthem being sung when they best our rivals England last March! ... In welsh.

 

[cocopop3011]

English subtitles ....

 

[LordCronal]

Hey Lordy, why blue cross on white background? Any particular reason?

 

Haha, I must notice that ValDes' and mine look so powerful and Lord's so simple..but the reality is totally opposite

 

Sharon, you forgot the hymn

 

Blue and White are traditional Finnish colours and Cross comes because we were under Sweden once and when we get independence, some wanted to more connection to West instead of Russia, so thats why Cross.

 

 

[LordCronal]

Another option of Finlands flag and honestly, I prefer that one.

[LordCronal]

Here is the language map of Europe, though not accurate because some people in Cornwall speaks Cornish which is quite near of Welsh.

http://www.mappery.com/map-of/Languages-of-Europe-Map

[cocopop3011]

Here is the language map of Europe, though not accurate because some people in Cornwall speaks Cornish which is quite near of Welsh.

http://www.mappery.com/map-of/Languages-of-Europe-Map

Cornwall is in England!

[LordCronal]

Cornwall is in England!

 

I know, but there lives people who use that language and I heard that some of them not considers themselves to English but Cornish. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language

[cocopop3011]

I know, but there lives people who use that language and I heard that some of them not considers themselves to English but Cornish. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language

Either way they not welsh!

[LordCronal]

True but I meant that this language was not in map and I meant that Welsh language is near of Cornish, but separate. Just like Finnish is near of Estonian and Swedish to Norwegian.