I can tell the difference between a Cardiff accent and a Swansea accent, but not much more as far as South Walian speech is concerned.
My wife is Welsh, but you would only hear a Welsh accent if she was speaking, or listening to, other Welsh folk. I noticed it especially when she spoke to her mother on the phone
Pembrokeshire is divided historically by the Landsker line which roughly follows the route of the A40 road. South of the A40 is the Englishry, (South Pembrokeshire, aka Sir Benfro) where true native speech is much more aligned to broad Devonshire than Welsh.
North of the A40 is much more Welsh, with Welsh being spoken quite a lot, especially in rural hamlets and villages.
Sir Benfro is a part of Wales where the Welsh language on dual language road signs once was more likely to be defaced than the English portion!
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