>>I named my son Rhys before starting to learn Welsh and now would like to know how to correctly pronounce it. We've been saying it like the English name Rees. >In the North they would pronouce the vowel more like a German u-umlaut, i.e. "ee" with rounded lips. It's NOT rounded in fact, and sounds quite different to the high front vowel ("e As for "ll", perhaps the best way to learn it is to say an English word where l >Starting in the 'L' position, raise just one side of your tongue to make contact with the upper side teeth, and blow hard. As a learner I have always pronounced LL with the air passing over both sides of Harri Campbell [Sais, neu hanner-Gymro, yn gweithio yn Ffrangeg a Sbaeneg yn yr Alban]