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2008-04-26

Cronfa data genedlaethol o dermau

"The Welsh National Database of Terms may be used in one of two ways: by looking up specific terms on-line, and by downloading entire dictionaries into your translation memory system."

http://www.e-gymraeg.co.uk/bwrdd-yr-iaith/termau/Default.aspx

Grammar - Gramadeg

http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/gramadeg/index.shtml

BBC Cymru - Adolygu Bitesize TGAU - Welsh Second Language

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/tgau/welsh2nd/ymadroddion_defnyddiol/index.shtml

Welsh proverbs

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Welsh_proverbs

Meddal - Welsh Software

http://www.meddal.com/

S4C's Website for Welsh Learners

http://www.learnons4c.co.uk/index.php

Y Rhegiadur Cymraeg

http://www.rhegiadur.com/

TWLL - Welsh Learner's Links

http://pcfcij.dbs.aber.ac.uk/cymraeg/links.html

Dysgwyr De Ddwyrain

"Blog ar gyfer dysgwyr y de ddwyrain. Blogio gwefannau o ddidordeb a rhestru digwyddiadau.
A Blog for Welsh learners in the south east. Blogging websites of interest and listing events."

http://de-ddwyrain.blogspot.com/

Discussion of Welsh language technical terminology and vocabulary

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/welsh-termau-cymraeg.html

Cardiff University - Welsh Language Service

The responsibility of the University's Welsh Language Services Unit falls into 3 main categories:-

  • To ensure compliance with the University's Welsh Language Scheme and to assist Schools/Division in the development of Welsh Language Issues.
  • To co-ordinate of the University's Translation Service.
  • To assist in the development of Welsh Medium Academic through liaison with Registry.
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/welshlanguageservice/

Sebon - the online Welsh music shop

"Welcome to Sebon - the online Welsh music shop. Here you will find the latest releases of Wales' most exciting and original artists and labels, as well as some old classics"

http://www.sebon.co.uk/

Ninnau & Y Drych - North American Welsh Newspaper

"NINNAU & Y Drych is the North American Welsh Newspaper ®. It is the result of the merger in November 2003 of NINNAU, then the North American Welsh Newspaper, and Y Drych, the oldest Welsh newspaper in the Americas. Now united as one newspaper, NINNAU & Y Drych provides complete coverage of the North American Welsh community."

http://www.ninnau.com/

BUBL: Welsh language

http://bubl.ac.uk/Link/w/welshlanguage.htm

Say Hello in the Welsh Language

http://www.ipl.org.ar/youth/hello/welsh.html

A Welsh Course

"This course is one suitable for beginners. The main emphasis of the course is in developing conversational skills in Welsh as it is currently spoken (as contrasted with teaching the forms needed for understanding literary Welsh). The material is an indirect descendent of the Cymraeg Byw movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This course does not assume a general proficiency in learning languages, nor any previous background in Welsh"

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/

Geiriadur - Welsh Dictionary

"Welcome to the latest version of the On-line Welsh-English English-Welsh Dictionary developed within the Department of Welsh, University of Wales Lampeter . We hope that you will enjoy the increased efficiency of this substantial resource."

http://www.geiriadur.net/

Cerdd Ystwyth Music

"We are a general music shop, selling sheet music, CDs, tapes and instruments, based in Aberystwyth, a small university town in a beautiful location on the west coast of Wales."

http://www.cerddystwyth.co.uk/

What do I need to learn Medieval Welsh?

"I'm posting this FAQ, not because I'm an expert teacher (I've never taught Welsh), but because I'm an expert learner, having made most of the mistakes students can make in learning a language. My comments are based on the Welsh classes I've had, and my own trials and errors. I assume that you are primarily interested in learning Medieval Welsh in order to read the Mabinogi and the other medieval texts, and that you already have an understanding of English grammar, including conjugations, declensions, subjects, objects, and indirect objects."

http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/faqs/medwelsh.html

Making Welsh language clear and simple

"New on line guidelines are now available for anyone concerned about the clarity and readability of Welsh documents. Like the Plain English Campaign with English documents, Cymraeg Clir is concerned about Welsh public documents that tend to be full of jargon and 'official' language."

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=8534

Konjugator - a browser-based conjugator for Welsh verbs

"Konjugator is an attempt to produce a comprehensive and freely distributable resource to help with learning or interpreting verb forms in Welsh. As well as being a stand-alone resource, the forms listed in Konjugator will be used in a free spelling checker which is under development"

http://www.rhedadur.org.uk/index.php?lg=en

Clic Clic Cymraeg - Welsh Course

A Welsh language course with sound files

"We would like to emphasize the point that this is primarily an introduction to spoken Welsh. The style of language is that which is used by people brought up in North Wales and whose mother tongue is Welsh. When you are working through the units, it is very important for you to say out loud the new words or phrases as soon as you have heard them."

http://www.menai.ac.uk/clicclic/

Adnoddau Cymraeg ar y We / Welsh Resources on the Web

"Dysgwr yr iaith Gymraeg a cherddoriaeth traddodiadol Cymreig ydw i. Mae rhai lleoedd Cymraeg ar y we yma. Oes lleoedd eraill gyda chi?

I'm a student of the Welsh language and Welsh traditional folk music. Here are some Welsh places on the web. Have you any others?"

http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/~diana/cymru.shtml

Welsh for Adults - Cardiff

"The place to learn and polish your Welsh"

http://www.caerdydd.ac.uk/cymraeg/canolfan/english/index/index.shtml

Secret behind our Welsh accents discovered

"... Although the study identified several influences on the South Wales valleys accent, such as the dialect of the West Country and the West Midlands, and the way in which teachers have taught English in schools, the most striking influence was found to be the impact of Welsh. It has given the accent its melody, formed by the rise and fall of the speaker's pitch, as they put stresses on certain sounds. ..."

Secret behind our Welsh accents discovered

BBC - Learn Welsh

The BBC's pages for Welsh Learners

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/

Llyfrgell Owen - Welsh Phrasebank

Welsh words and phrases

http://www.testunau.org/mynegair/index.htm

Reading Middle Welsh

"It is often assumed that people with an interest in Middle Welsh are either speakers of Modern Welsh, who can be eased into the medieval language fairly simply, or high-powered linguistics students with considerable knowledge of other languages, who can work directly from academic grammars and dictionaries. In fact, many potential students, perhaps most, do not come in these categories. A few are interested in linguistic studies. Many more are folklorists, historians, Arthurians. Some are simply of Welsh origin, though often no Welsh language, and interested in their heritage.

Reading Middle Welsh is based on materials and methods used by the author over many years to teach this wider audience. It introduces and practises the forms and structures used in the first story of the Mabinogi, a medieval tale of mythical characters from the earliest layers of Welsh tradition. It culminates in a reading of that story, complete and unchanged, in a standardised spelling close to that of Modern Welsh. Then it tells something about medieval spelling and opens the gate to reading the published text of the entire Mabinogi and the rest of Middle Welsh literature."

http://canol.home.att.net/

Clwb Malu Cachu - Welsh Language Club - Cheat Sheet

"Whilst cmc isn't really attempting to teach anyone Welsh grammar, we have put together in the course of our own studies some 'cheat sheets' which have helped us learn certain grammatical points."

http://www.eu.socialtext.net/cmc/index.cgi?cheat_sheets

100 Most Popular Words

http://www.eu.socialtext.net/cmc/index.cgi?100_most_popular_words

The Welsh Flag

"The Welsh flag has two equal horizontal stripes, white above green, and a large red dragon passant. The dragon standard was perhaps first seen in Britain in the shape of the "draco" a standard carried by the cohorts of the Roman legion. The Romans appear to have been inspired by the dragon standard carried by their Dacian and Parthian enemies and had adopted this device by the third century. Carl Lofmark (see below) argues that the dragon of the cohort was more familiar to the British than was the eagle standard of the legions. As Roman legions withdrew at the end of the fourth century and the British were left alone to face Saxon attacks, the dragon would have been a natural symbol for those who wished to preserve their Romanised way of life against the barbarian invader."

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/flag.htm

Welsh language

"Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg, pronounced [kəmˈrɑːɨɡ], [ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]), is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales (Cymru), in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language

Welsh language traced - to Russia

"Vodka, furry hats, gymnastic dancing, the setting for one of the greatest Bond movies - Russia has given us a lot. But research has discovered that it also gave Wales the Welsh language - from Russia With Llove, as it were..."

Welsh language traced - to Russia