Golwg360 – new Welsh learners calendar

March 31, 2011

Golwg360 is a news website with Wales news, international news, sport and some opinion. They’ve just launched a calendar of events for Welsh learners, categorised by date, location and event type – gigs, art, lectures, literature events and more. The listings are all in Welsh which may be daunting if you’re an absolute beginner – [...]

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Alys: evening in Pontypridd for Welsh learners, with S4C

January 17, 2011

Welsh learners evening in Pontypridd this week with S4C and Sara Lloyd Gregory from the new series Alys. Detailed view of flyer above or call 029 20300800 for more info.

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A video in Welsh every day with fideobobdydd.com

November 9, 2010

I must give another mention to the rather wonderful fideobobdydd.com The idea is simple – a video in the Welsh language every day, old stuff, new stuff, DIY vids and half-forgotten TV classics. I’ve mentioned it before but the recent run has been splendid – from history to music to comedy to children’s. To made [...]

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Gwlad Beirdd on S4C: T. Llew Jones, Gwenallt, Cynan, Hedd Wyn and more

October 28, 2010

Gwlad Beirdd is a rather splendid S4C series about famous poets such as T. Llew Jones, Eifion Wyn, T.H. Parry Williams and Cynan. There’s still time to watch some of the programmes online, with subtitles available in English and Welsh. Pity I missed the ones on R Williams Parry, Waldo Williams and Crwys though. Looking [...]

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Welsh Knot on BBC: a disservice to the Welsh language?

October 26, 2010

Some excellent comments by Suw Charman-Anderson on the recent BBC TV programme The Welsh Knot about Welsh education in schools. They originally appeared in the Clwb Malu Cachu Yahoo Group (an email discussion list for Welsh learners everywhere!) and I’m copying them here with her permission. I’ve watched this now, and I have to say [...]

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5 decades of Recordiau Sain now on Spotify

September 27, 2010

Recordiau Sain is Wales’ biggest, longest-running, most diverse record label. It even has its own distribution, making it a major label to rank alongside EMI and Universal – kind of – in categorisation if not in scale. If you fancy a subjective crash course, then much of the back catalogue is now on Spotify – [...]

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Local eisteddfodau from now until August 2011

September 16, 2010

Here’s a list of eisteddfodau taking place around Wales. Some of these will have their own websites and others may not, it’s worth searching. This list does not include eisteddfodau taking place outside Wales or smaller school eisteddfodau. You may notice there aren’t any listed for Cardiff, this is something we hope to rectify in [...]

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Be part of SkillsCymru’s world record attempt and learn some Welsh

September 15, 2010

If you’re in or near Cardiff, Wales, you might be interested in this unusual event, info about which landed in my inbox this morning. If you need more info, please contact the organisers directly. Come along to the Millennium Stadium on Saturday 18 September and help to secure a place in history as skillscymru hosts [...]

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The Welsh learner’s guide to new S4C drama Pen Talar

September 13, 2010

Pen Talar is a new 9-part television series on Welsh language TV channel S4C. According to the channel it will “take viewers on an epic 50-year journey as we follow characters from two families in west Wales from the early 1960s to the present day”. If you’ve even dipped into the channel recently you’ve probably [...]

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Speaking Welsh badly and getting away with it (hat tip: David Crystal)

September 7, 2010

So in order to use Welsh properly and confidently you need to be 100% fluent – it’s all or nothing right? Actually, no. I’ve been revisiting this paper Towards a philosophy of language diversity by Wales-based linguist David Crystal after some pretty involved chats with various people over the summer about language purism and what [...]

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