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If you're not a Welsh speaker, we've given the best approximate pronunciation for each phrase.

Where you see a 'Ch' the sound is like the Scottish 'loch'. The 'Ll' is an aspirated L. Form your lips and tongue to pronounce L, then blow air gently around the sides of the tongue. The nearest you can get to this sound in English is to pronounce it as an L with a Th in front of it.

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Translation: The guilty flee with no one chasing them

Approximate pronunciation: Myre eye-og un foy heb neb un ey err-lid

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Translation: A great sin can enter through a small door

Approximate pronunciation: Gall pechod maur thu-fod trooy throos buh-chan

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Translation: There's a black sheep in every flock

Approximate pronunciation: Uh my dah-vad thee um mhob prythe

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Translation: A nation without language is a nation without heart

Approximate pronunciation: Ken-edl heb yayth, kenedl heb gal-on

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Translation: Everything you have in this world is just borrowed for a short time

Approximate pronunciation: Ben-thig dros amser birh ew popeth ah geyr un uh beed hoon

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Translation: Things turn sour when you play with fire

Approximate pronunciation: My chooar-eye'n troy'n chooerr-oo oorth chooar-eye efo tarn

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Translation: The crow sees its chick as white

Approximate pronunciation: Gooin uh gwel uh vrahn ey chiw

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Translation: Starting the work is two-thirds of it

Approximate pronunciation: Dye-parth gooeyth ew eye thechrye

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Translation: The old know and the young suspect

Approximate pronunciation: Urh hen ah ooyr ah'r eefank ah dub-yerh

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Translation: It's raining old wives and walking sticks

Approximate pronunciation: Boo-roo hen wrag-eth ah feen

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Translation: A man without prudence is a ship without an anchor

Approximate pronunciation: Goor heb boo-eell, llong heb angor

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Translation: Home is home, however poor it is

Approximate pronunciation: Car-trev ew car-trev err tloted uh bore

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Translation: Tapping persistently breaks the stone (If at first you don't succeed, try and try again)

Approximate pronunciation: Duh-val donk ah dirr uh gar-egg

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Translation: Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing

Approximate pronunciation: Duh-wed un thar am duh guv-eyll, am duh elin duh-wed dim

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Translation: Go slowly and go far

Approximate pronunciation: Ah-rav deg my mihnd um-hell

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Translation: While kicking and biting, love develops

Approximate pronunciation: Oorth gick-yor ah bra-thee my car-yad un mag-ee

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Translation: Everything yellow is not gold (All that glitters is not gold)

Approximate pronunciation: Nid ire ew popeth melin

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Translation: Birds of the same colour fly to the same place (Birds of a feather flock together)

Approximate pronunciation: Ah-dar ore een lliw eh-head-ant eer een lle

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Translation: Adversity brings knowledge and knowledge wisdom

Approximate pronunciation: Ad-vid ah thoog wibod-eyth ah gwibod-eyth doy-theen-eb

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Translation: The first to the mill grinds

Approximate pronunciation: Uh cun-taf eer velin geyf val-ee

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Translation: At the end of the song comes payment

Approximate pronunciation: Due-eth uh gahn ew'r gyne-yog

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Translation: The pennies add up to become a pound

Approximate pronunciation: Oh gyne-iog ee gyne-iog urr ahr ar-yan un bint

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Translation: There's reward in every goodness

Approximate pronunciation: Mewn pohb dye-on-ee uh my goo-obr

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