>>I find welsh completely incomprehensible, as I guess most british do! I was in Wales with my family about twenty years ago, and in Cardiff we talked to a man from that area. I mentioned that we had planned to drive to the town with the longest name in the world , and he said what the name was, in welsh. My two sons laughed their heart out, and he said it four more times until I asked him to stop, or my sons would have collapsed. And, by the way, don't ask me to even try to remember what the name of that town was!
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>Something like:
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>Llanfairpwddgwyngyllgogeriddrwndrobwiliogogogoch.
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>The "ll" is pronounced like you're trying to say "th" but with the tongue further back on the palate, and the mouth in a grimace - shall we say "lh", "f" -> "v", "air" -> "ire", "w" - "oo", "dd" -> "th", "y" -> "i", "och" as in Scottish "loch". So:
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>lhan-vire-pooth-gwingilh-gogerith-roondrob-ooiliog-og-og-och
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>Should be no problem to a Norwegian :-)

I can tell you that it's equally hard, or maybe even harder, in norwegian. What made my sons laugh, was the last part, it sounded like four quick hickups. :-)