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A book has been released all about teaching your four-legged friends Cornish words and phrases.

The book, published by Welsh author Anna Cakebread, was released in August as a follow-up from the success of her Teach Your Dog Welsh book.

Anna, speaking to BBC Radio Cornwall Breakfast Show yesterday (September 11), said that she first wrote the Welsh addition after rescuing a dog that wouldn't respond to basic commands.

"I'm not very good at learning languages and I've been trying to learn Welsh and I re-homed a Welsh speaking dog which we didn't realise wasn't taking any notice of commands," she said.

"Then one day I remembered that she was from a Welsh speaking family and she was doing something and I said 'dewch yma' (which means come in Welsh) and she trotted over.

"And then I said 'eistedd I lawr' (which means sit down) and she sat down. They were just a couple of words I got from my Welsh classes I go to."

Anne said that practicing the language with her dog gave her confidence to learn new languages because the dog wouldn't judge her for not having the correct accent or butchering the word entirely.

She continued: "It was just suddenly one of those light bulb moments that I realised if I had this book when I was younger, the difference it would have made."

The publishers of the book, Y Lolfa, specialise in teaching people minority languages and have been 'brilliant' according to Anne.

In the book you can find handy commands to teach to your dog in Cornish, from sitting down to going to the toilet.

There are also more advanced phrases for proper conversations, like 'Fatla genes?' which means 'how are you?' in Cornish. She said "Its fun... there are things like 'can I have a pasty?'.

"The tourists have gone absolutely mad for it. We sold out of the Welsh one in the first week and we are onto the 7th print run now. It's out in a number of minority languages as well and hopefully next year it will be in some of the major languages."

Anne says that her whippet who inspired the series, Frida, is bilingual in Welsh, so wont be learning cornish. But she has two other dogs who might and that her lurcher particularly looks like she could be a Cornish dog.

You can purchase your copy of the book here.

Go Cornish, who provide Cornish language sessions, have also teamed up with the publishers Y Lolfa to give away five copies of Teach Your Dog Cornish. You can enter the competition here.

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