My day job is teaching Welsh to adults in Cardigan. I also put together an almost weekly email newsletter for learners, listing events in the Cardigan area. If you’d like to be on the mailing list, drop me a line.
If you’re looking for a Welsh class, contact your local Welsh for Adults centre.
Top Tip: If you live near a border between two centres, contact both of them. I’ve heard of people travelling 20 miles to a class in their “local” area, rather than 5 miles to one just over the county line.
- Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Gwent – Caerffili, Torfaen, Newport, Monmouthshire
- Glamorgan – Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Tâf, Merthyr
- South West Wales -Neath Port Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire
- Mid Wales – Ceredigion, Powys, Meirionydd
- North Wales – Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham
There’s also loads of good stuff on the web to help Welsh learners.
Say Something in Welsh is an excellent MP3 based course, which will quickly have you doing what it says in the URL. The on-line community which has grown up around SSIW is one of the unsung wonders of the Welsh Wide Web.
S4C have oodles of resources for learners, as do the good old BBC.
Clwb Malu Cachu is a blog about learning Welsh. It rocks.
The Welsh blogosphere is no longer an oxymoron. Start at Blogiadur and work your way out.
Facebook has lots of groups for Welsh learners, but it is the work of the devil, so I won’t link to it here. Search for “learn welsh” or “dysgu cymraeg”. It’ll do you more good than planting virtual strawberries, or whatever it is.
Of course, all the cool kids are on the Twitter. Umap aggregates a good proportion of Welsh language tweets, using a technology known in Wales as hud a lledrith. It’s a good place to find people to follow.
Don’t forget to say hello.
[Edit. Please feel free to add suggestions for useful websites in the comments.]
http://www.acen.co.uk/ (news, event diary, reading material, games, blog)
http://hedyn.net/wici/Categori:Blog_am_ddysgu_Cymraeg Blogs (in Welsh) about learning Welsh
http://hedyn.net/wici/Sgwrs_Categori:Blog_Cymraeg#Blogiau_Saesneg Blog (in English) about learing Welsh
Cylch Ti a Fi
Where do you go to practise your Welsh? More shameless self-promotion
Remember the Twitter game @DailyWelshWords as well – We give you an English sentence with one Welsh word. You guess the word, and write your own English sentences including it. We retweet the correct ones, and there are some real crackers!
Also the Welsh Class blog – http://welshclass.wordpress.com/ – which hasn’t been updated due to an ill wife and now 3month old baby taking far too much of my time (cue violins…), and the extrememly useful crowdsource wiki pages at http://ssiw.pbworks.com/w/page/35962650/FrontPage
These are all SaySomethinginWelsh resources, but open to anyone who wants to use them.
If you like flashcards, you’ll love quizlet.com’s collection of Welsh flashcards. Vocabularly from every unit of Cwrs Wlpan, Cwrs Pellach and Cwrs Uwch, plus loads of other. Created by learners, on the whole, but available to everyone.
The cards are also exportable, so you can use them in an app on your smart ffôn of choice.