All over the world, people are increasingly looking for more effective language education. In the US, for example, there are now more than 800 dual language programmes aiming to produce bilingual ...

Welsh-speaking inmates have been told to use English by staff at Wales' biggest prison, according to former inmates. Speaking to researchers at Cardiff and Liverpool universities, ex-prisoners at HMP ...

Welsh language schools have started hiring English-speaking teachers due to a staffing crisis, a council has heard. Welsh medium schools have strict language rules and traditionally ban the use of the ...

The curious tale of how a font was chosen and unchosen before getting the chance to adorn Welsh law.

Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...

A women's football team have claimed they were mocked by the opposition during a match for speaking Welsh, and told to "speak English". The Felinheli team have complained to the Football Association ...

The number of Welsh speakers has fallen in the past decade as fewer children are speaking the language, new figures show. In 2021 an estimated 538,000 people in Wales aged three years and over (17.8%) ...

Effective communication in a preferred language is a matter of safety and wellbeing, not just choice Communication and sensitivity to other people’s needs are fundamental to good social work practice.

This Annual Report refers to the period from 1 August 2024 to 31 July 2025 and details how the Welsh Language Standards are ...

Wales is a country blessed with two languages, but how many of us actually speak them both? View the map below showing how Welsh language use has changed by region and age group. Click the play button ...

Estyn, the Welsh school inspectors, concur – their 2011 annual report concluded that Welsh as a second language, in English-medium schools, wasn't meeting standards: "Many teachers are not confident ...