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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welsh language commissioner calls for ‘transformative’ intervention, amid Reform UK threats to undo new powers A “revolution is required” to protect the Welsh language, according to a major new report ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results