The aim of the weekend for learners is to practice the Welsh language out of class. It will take place on 15-17 February at the Tresaith Center: £ 70 includes accommodation and breakfastLink: https://cymdeithas.wales/corstresaith
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Stumdi organized an employment forum in Breton language (Forom an implic e brezhoneg) on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at the Le Family cult... -
Last year, they were 15. This year, they are 14 candidates for the baccalaureate of Diwan high school in Carhaix, Finistere, to have wr... -
Students and An Dream Dearg movement protested outside Queens University in Béal Feirste / Belfast demanding respect and equal... -
The first female MSP to make a plenary address in the Scottish Parliament chamber in Gaelic has warned the language’s future will only ... -
The motion, describing the introduction of legislation as "fair and proper treatment for the Irish language community", receive...
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45 schools in Galway are to benefit from almost 1.5 million euro in funding under the Irish Language Assistants Scheme. The new funding com...
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The French education services recently refused to open a bilingual education class at the René-Guy Cadou public school in Kastell-Briant/... -
The Council of Gorsedh Kernow has announced the winners of their annual Adults Awards after careful adjudication of this year’s impressi... -
Children are getting their first taste of the Manx language with a new book. ’ A Manx Alphabet’ is designed to engage young children look...
2019/01/28
Scots urged to safeguard Gaelic for future generations
Young Gaelic speakers have a duty to pass on the language to the next generation, according to SNP MSP Kate Forbes. Ms
Forbes made the comments ahead of delivering the first annual address
in memory of John Macleod, the former president of An Comunn Gaidhealach
– the Highland Association.
She will deliver her lecture in Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh later on Thursday.
The
organisation was set up in 1891 to help...
2019/01/26
Welsh 'Foreign' HSBC Tell Customer
“A major bank told a customer who wrote to it in Welsh to complain
that some services were not available in her language that she should
communicate with it in English rather than a “foreign” tongue. Nia Lloyd, a classroom assistant from Wrexham in north Wales, wrote to
HSBC pointing out that online services were not available in Welsh.
Customer support replied that her message was in a “foreign” language
and asked her to...
2019/01/22
Arts Council England and Cornwall Council launch Cornish language show
The first ever television chat show in the Cornish language has been launched. Two pilot episodes of 'Jaqi ha Jerry' have been made with money from FEAST - a programme funded by Arts Council England and Cornwall Council, and managed by Creative Kernow. The
programme, hosted by Jerry Sethir and Jaqi Heard, is a half-hour show
on the online...
2019/01/21
Lisvane primary school makes Welsh language fun to learn
Welsh will no longer be classed as a second language in English-medium schools, under new proposals. All pupils will follow the same curriculum for the language from 2022, but English-medium pupils will not necessarily be expected to meet the same standard as Welsh-medium students. Other reforms include introducing "international" languages in primaries. The Welsh Government said it was working to ensure teachers had the right...
2019/01/20
The key figure in the revival of the Manx language, Dr Brian Stowell dies, aged 82
The key figure in the revival of the Manx language has died at the age of 82, following a long illness.
Dr Brian Stowell spent his life devoted to academia, as a physicist as well as a linguist.
Learning Manx as a student, he recorded elderly native speakers, and also learnt Irish.
This enabled him to translate Irish language...
2019/01/19
Fears raised over Welsh language education funding in Powys
During a meeting of the Learning Skills and Economy Scrutiny
Committee, which looked again at the funding formula, Plaid Cymru county
councillor for Llanwddyn, Bryn Davies, raised his concerns. But
he was told by Director of Education, Ian Budd, and portfolio holder,
councillor Myfanwy Alexander, that his arguments should be part of a
different discussion.
Funding Review Group (FRG)
chairman and school governor Graham...
2019/01/16
Edinburgh Gaelic Week for Schools 2019
Information on this annual Comann nam Pàrant event has gone out to schools. The activities are for P4-7 pupils in GME. We will be in Our Dynamic Earth, Botanic Gardens and the National Museums, where this year schools will spend a full day with two workshops on offer. If you would like more information, contact your school or magaidh@cnag.org
Seachdainn...
2019/01/15
Cardigan Town Council cheque rejected by Lloyds Bank 'for being written in Welsh'
The town council paid a contractor by cheque but when he presented it to a branch of Lloyds Bank in England, it was refused.The contractor got in touch with the town council and said: “I
apologise for having to contact you about this as I find the whole
situation embarrassing.“Earlier today we received a cheque from Cardigan Town Council and
similar to last time, the area where you write the amount is written in
Welsh.
“I...
2019/01/14
Assembly of the association Kafe Brezhoneg fully in Breton language
The increasing interest in the practice of the Breton language is undeniable. The permanent vitality of the association Kafe Brezhoneg, based in Henvig (in French Henvic), shows it. Its fourteenth Annual General Assembly, totally in Breton, was held on Friday 11 January at the City of Peñzez (in French Penzé), attended by about fifty participants...
2019/01/13
Simultaneous protests in several stations demand train services in Welsh
"It's a huge disappointment that the Welsh Government, Transport Wales and the contracted company have failed to ensure that these services are provided in Welsh language despite all the time they had prepared ... we have asked for the Welsh Language Commissioner to use the broad powers he has to conduct a general investigation. " says Cymdeithas...
Béal Feirste / Belfast City Hall lit in red for Irish Language campaigners
Béal Feirste /Belfast City Hall has been illuminated in red in a show of support
for those campaigning for greater protections for Irish language
speakers in Northern Ireland. Around 200 activists gathered for a
colourful and noisy demonstration as the landmark building turned the
colour of their movement late on Saturday afternoon....
2019/01/11
Donegal Council blasted over its policies towards use of Irish language
A Donegal county councillor has hit out at the local authority's
policies towards the use of the Irish language for official Council
business. Councillor Mícheál Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig was speaking
after a Special Purpose Committee on Housing and Corporate meeting which
he attended.
While at the meeting, Cllr Mac Giolla Easbuig spoke in Irish although there was no translation service available.
A number of councillors...
2019/01/09
KEAV General Assembly held with a strong success
The association Kamp Etrekeltiek Ar Vrezhonegerion (Keav, Intercultural Camp of Breton speakers) celebrated its General Assembly on Saturday 5th of January in Karaez / Carhaix. The opportunity to do an analysis about the courses of Breton organized every summer in Châteaulin.
Born in 1948, the Association Kamp Etrekeltiek Ar Vrezhonegerion...
2019/01/08
Mannin: Ned Maddrell lecture on the Irish experience of immersive language education
Why is it a good thing to learn through a different language in school? An awful lot of work has been done into this question in Ireland, where
the results are "overwhelmingly positive", not just in the progress in
that language, but also, perhaps surprisingly, in English and in maths
and science.
This comes from T. J. Ó Ceallaigh, who visited the
Isle of Man in November 2018 to deliver the Ned Maddrell lecture on the
Irish...
2019/01/07
Irish Still Under Threat in Twenty-Six County Education System
It has been reported in the last twenty-four hours that the
Twenty-Six County Minister for Education, Joe McHugh, intends to keep
Irish as a compulsory subject at Leaving Certificate level. While this
news is welcome, there is no room for complacency in relation to the
place of our native language with the education system.
Many Irish...
2019/01/06
Scottish Gaelic language plan launched by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
The process of identifying personnel who are proficient in the
language is currently taking place, as well as assessing how frequently
community groups use Gaelic when contacting the service.
The comprehensive strategy has been set out to meet the needs of the
Gaelic Language Act 2005 and has welcomed advice from Bord na Gaighlig,
the principal public body responsible for promoting and developing the
Gaelic language.
Equality...
2019/01/04
Children get a taste of the Manx language
Children are getting their first taste of the Manx language with a new book. ’A Manx Alphabet’ is designed to engage young children looking at their first books, while giving them a taste of Manx.
The
Culture Vannin book’s full-page illustrations begin with ’arran’
(bread), ’bainney’ (milk) and ’clag’ (clock) and move through to V, W...
2019/01/02
Ceredigion's plan to increase the number of children receiving their education in Welsh to 80 per cent of the population is making progress
The three-year plan for
improving uptake of Welsh medium education was approved by Ceredigion County Council in March this year after being “called-in”. The
Welsh in Education Strategic Plan 2017-20 was “challenged on targets and
specific aspects of the plan” challenge advisor Silyn Roberts said at a
meeting of the language committee.
He updated councillors on the
progress made since then and actions taken to get more seven-year-olds...
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