{"id":798819,"date":"2026-10-11T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798819\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:00:14","slug":"welsh-character-rhiannon-introduced-to-chinese-game-reverse-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798819\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh character Rhiannon introduced to Chinese game Reverse: 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rhiannon was voiced by Rebecca Wang, a trilingual Asian-American voice actress, for the dialogue in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She initially had doubts about playing the character as she had &#8220;no familiarity&#8221; with the Welsh language, but was convinced by the studio after being told they would only be adopting the Welsh &#8220;here and there&#8221; to appeal to a global audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I quickly realised the Welsh language loves their Ws as vowels. I would have to learn how to pronounce these words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s some that requires some throatiness, like bechan for example, which is a term of endearment, meaning little one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rebecca said it was a &#8220;fascinating&#8221; learning process because &#8220;they&#8217;re English letters that don&#8217;t abide by English rules&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A self-confessed lover of languages, she used Tik Toks, YouTube videos and a dialect coach to help her with these words, describing it as a &#8220;fun process&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rebecca said her experience has peaked her interest in Wales and she would like to plan a trip in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhiannon was voiced by Rebecca Wang, a trilingual Asian-American voice actress, for the dialogue in the game. She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}