A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the forms of ...

The Welsh government has a language strategy that aims to have a million people speaking Welsh by 2050. And it seems to be working: recently on TV channel S4C, 230,000 children from more than 1,000 ...

I welcome your editorial (‘Welsh template has to be the goal for Irish language growth’, Irish Independent, March 2) about the current state of the Irish language. I would go further than “Seachtain ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. “Trydar y Cymry” means “the twittering of the Welsh” or “the Welsh twitterers” (the verb “trydar” now being used in connection ...

At work in central Hong Kong, David Hand is surrounded by people speaking Chinese and English. But inside his home, the Welsh language rules. Hand’s three children – Arwen, Huw and Tomos – have never ...

The what3words addressing app is now available in Welsh. Cymraeg, or Welsh, has been added to support Welsh businesses, thousands of Welsh-speaking people, and the Welsh Emergency Services who use the ...

The number of people on Dysgu Cymraeg courses has risen by 61% since 2017, as people in Wales rediscover the ‘poetry’ of the language Elinor Staniforth from Cardiff hated Welsh lessons at her ...

I think it’s time that I took ‘Welsh (fluent)’ off my CV. Yesterday my housemate asked me to say something in Welsh. I tried to say ‘I’m in my flat, frying vegetables’ but couldn’t think of the word ...