American singer Suzanne Vega delighted fans at her gig in Cardiff last night by talking to them in Welsh. But the 63-year-old Californian star ended up leaving the sold-out audience at St David's Hall a little confused by the random phrases she'd learned for the occasion.
Because, rather than picking a more traditional way of greeting the home crowd in their mother tongue, the Luka songstress instead attempted some rather odd titbits suggested to her by an online language learning app. "I tried learning a little bit of Welsh on Duolingo," she told the packed house, to huge cheers.
"And it teaches you these strange phrases to say, like 'Sut dych chi, Mrs Jones?'. And she responds, 'Ofnadwy'.
