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Tudalennau 'r Dysgwyr - Welsh Learners' Pages

Dolennau 'r Dysgwyr / Learner's Links

Here's a few web sites that you may find useful

Comprehensive Information

These sites provide a wealth of information, help, advice etceteras. Always the first places to look.

http://www.gwybodiadur.co.uk/: Harry Campbell's excellent Gwybodiadur - A Welsh Informationary. If it's not on Harry's site then he can tell you where to find it together with unbiased advice to help you choose your resource.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/: The Beeb has long been a major player in Welsh learning. I've seen Welsh Course notes from the BBC dated in the early 1950's (well before the successes of the Welsh Language movement) and I'm sure these are not the first. It is no surprise then how good this site is. There's an on-line dictionary, a spelling checker, mutation checker, courses at various levels, Welsh grammar, exercises, competitions, message boards... the list is endless.
http://www.acen.co.uk: Acen began in 1989 as a project within S4C - the Welsh fourth television channel - to teach Welsh to adults through the "Now You're Talking" series. Today, the company has become a limited company in its own right and runs its services from its offices in the centre of Cardiff. The company motto is "Yn gwasanaethu dysgwyr y Gymraeg" - Serving Welsh learners.

On-line Courses

There are many on-line courses presented in a number of ways. Which is best really depends on what works for you

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/: Mark Nodine has made a name for himself amongst Welsh Learners. Here is his Welsh On-line course, there is also an on-line dictionary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/catchphrase/: The BBC have been providing Welsh courses for very many years. Here you can find courses for every level, from beginner to advanced.
http://www.menai.ac.uk/clicclic/: Clic Clic Cymreig is an audio visual course provided by Coleg Menai for beginners wishing to learn the North Wales Dialect.
http://www.swan.ac.uk/dace/e-wlpan/: This E-wlpan course from the University of Wales Swansea complements Cwrs Wlpan De-Orllewin Cymru - the coursebook widely used in intensive Welsh classes for beginners in South-west Wales.
http://www.e-addysg.com: The University of Wales, Lampeter provide a large range of on-line courses including Camu, a Welsh language course that is a pathway into Higher Education.
http://www.learn.cd/: Goleg Digidol Cymru (the Welsh Digital College) provide courses in a wide range of subjects. They suggest that the audio visual courses are for broadband users only, but I have found that if you have a little patience and wait for the download to complete there is no problem using my 64kb home Highway Link. The Welsh language courses here have been produced by Acen. I found them a little too easy (and it was a little incongruous to see what was clearly Acen's offices being used as a film set for a film set in a hotel!) but they are good for the very beginner.
http://www.wjec.co.uk/welsh_adults.html: No courses here, but a selection of past exam papers have been published by the Welsh Joint Education Council.

On-Line Dictionaries

A selection of on-line dictionaries, for details of paper dictionaries see Harry Campbell's Gwybodiadwr.

http://oldweb.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html: Mark Nodine's celibrated Searching Lexicon. 16,000 words
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/wales/learnwelsh/welsh_dictionary.pl: A 60,000-word English–Welsh and Welsh–English searchable online dictionary, with RealAudio clips of 1,200 often-used words, part of the exciting new Learn Welsh area of the BBC website. “Try looking up ‘show’. The dictionary knows this can be both a noun (sioe) and verb (dangos and arddangos). When you click on ‘CONJ’ (conjugate) for either verb, you’ll see the 20-or-so verb forms as you’d hear them in both north and south Wales. Originally it did not recognise mutated words but trying them now it seems to work.
http://www.linguru.com/: An on-line dictionary with a difference. Developed by Paul and David Houghton, this dictionary is installed on your PC. Linguru users can update their dictionary and these updates are shared with the rest of the Linguru community. The result - a self expanding dictionary.
hhttp://www.geiriadur.net/: The University of Wales, Lampeter's on-line e-addysg.com course, Camu is supported up by an on-line dictionary.

Chat groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClwbMaluCachu/: "Clwb Malu Cachu is for Welsh learners, Welsh speakers, people who would like to learn Welsh and, of course, anyone who simply likes the look of it. Just think of Clwb Malu Cachu as the email equivalent of a leisurely pint and bag of pork scratchings at your local pub, Ol' Jim's Sumptuous Ferret Emporium." I reckon that says it all. This is probably my favourite Welsh Chat site. There's also CMC's sister site, http://www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk with short stories, cheat sheets audio files, and much much more, you'll even find how to swear in Welsh.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/welshlearners/: This is a group for people who are learning Welsh to practice and support each other. All Welsh Learners are welcome from those just starting to those fluent.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cymraegdysgwyr/: This group was originally started when the Welsh Learners group was under attack from spammers. Although Welsh Learners now has the spam under control this group is still active
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TeachMeWelsh/: For users of the TeachMeWelsh books and tapes/CD's.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WriteWelsh/: One of the more advanced chat groups, for those who want to be able to read and write in Welsh

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