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Athro Cynradd. Geni yn Lloegr ond Cymro yn fy nghalon. State-educated Welsh speaker. Adopted son of Wales. Arweinwr @KitchenSingers a @cortrerfenni .

Wales, United Kingdom

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4 years

I have a genuine question. 1) I feel more at home in Wales than I have anywhere else. 2) My grandmother was born in Wales. 3) I've lived here six years. 4) I'm about to embark on a year out to learn the language. 5) But...I was born in England. Can I call myself a Welshman?

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2 years

One major advantage to understanding Welsh is that when they open a new checkout at Aldi in Abergavenny, I know which one it is 3 seconds before everyone else.

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I moved to Wales in 2014. My first year of teaching, I'd never heard of an Eisteddfod. Yesterday, I led the whole thing. Later, we joined our Welsh club friends at the pub for St. David's Day, singing in Welsh and reciting poetry. It runs in my blood now. 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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4 years

I'm excited to announce that I'll be going back to university this September on sabbatical to learn the Welsh language. It's been an ambition of mine for years to be a full Welsh speaker, and to do my part to achieve 1m speakers in Wales by 2050. Rwy'n gyffrous iawn!

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2 years

Today I graduated from the Cardiff School of Welsh. I've come a long way from being that guy that couldn't pronounce the road signs!

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1 year

Hey guys. I've translated the new Twitter into Welsh.

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2 years

This Thursday, I'm starting a two-term sabbatical working in a Welsh-medium school for two days a week. If you'd told me during my PGCE year that I'd one day be able to speak enough Welsh to do that, I'd have told you you were gwallgof. Wish me luck 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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2 years

How did you learn your treigladau meddal? Here's mine: Tom > Daley Cary > Grant Paddington > Bear G > gone with the wind Bruce > Forsyth Dexter > DeeDee Mo > Farah Rh and Ll I just had to committ to memory. What were your ways?

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3 years

It's official. I passed the Cymraeg Mewn Blwyddyn course. With distinction. 🙂👨‍🎓

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2 years

Last week, a pupil in my Welsh-medium school was trying to spell "THE" during his English lesson. Bless him. He used Welsh phonics, and wrote "DDY". If you get it, you get it. It was a fascinsting insight into bilingual learning!

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1 year

I spoke to a champion of Welsh-medium education yesterday, and she said she preferred the term 'siaradwr newydd' (new speaker) to 'dysgwr' (learner), the suggestion being that we shouldn't downplay our language skills. I liked her point, so I'm going with that from now on 🙂👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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3 years

I said last year that, as a result of my time learning Welsh, I would like to produce a bilingual guide to support teachers to use Welsh more in their classrooms. So here it is!

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4 years

I am overwhelmed by the responses to my last tweet. Wales has always felt like a land that embraces people, and these responses just proved it beyond all doubt. Looks like I'm officially a Welshman then! #diolch

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3 years

I sent out a survey to our village two days ago about the proposed Welsh club. I've had 7 responses so far. In a year, we could have 7 more Welsh speakers in a border community in Wales. And I never thought I'd be the one teaching them! #1mspeakers #Cymraeg

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1 year

I was shortlisted for 'Welsh Learner of the Year' this year and had an interview last Friday. Today, they decided not to shortlist me for the final, citing stiff competition. I'm just proud I made it through a 10 minute interview in Welsh, to be honest!

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10 months

A lovely Welsh idiom for you this rainy Thursday morning. "Daw eto haul ar fryn". It literally means "Sun comes again on a hill", but the English equivalent would be "This too shall pass". Look after your mental health, folks.

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7 months

'The Muppet Christmas Carol' is the best Christmas film of all time. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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2 years

Running into a pupil from my Welsh school with his dad in Aldi, and then having a little Welsh chat in the aisle, is exactly the kind of lovely and magical thing that learning Welsh has brought this old Englishman.

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2 years

I've now completed a term working part-time in Welsh medium, and here's what I've learnt: 1) I CAN speak Welsh on the spot. 2) I'm NOT fluent. 3) In time, I could do it. 4) Friendship and kindness transcend a language barrier. 5) Say yes to everything, no matter how scary.

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5 months

March 2024 marks 10 years since I moved to Wales. I love it here so much and I'll never leave. From learning Welsh to buying our forever home in our little village, I am now firmly ensconced in my adopted homeland. Diolch, Wales, for taking me in 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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9 months

I'm going to start posting a Welsh idiom a week. Y'know, for fun. So... WELSH IDIOM OF THE WEEK "Cysgu ar wefus iâr" ~ to sleep on a chicken's lip. In other words, to be so tired that you could sleep anywhere. Teachers, I'm looking at you.

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5 months

I DON'T WANT TAX CUTS. I want fully-funded schools, reliable public transport, a functioning NHS, roads that aren't full of potholes, community centres, libraries, leisure facilities and rivers that flow clean. I'm willing to pay for that with my taxes.

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2 years

It's a real mark of how much my life has changed in the last 5 years that I'm sitting here writing Christmas cards for my village friends in Welsh.

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1 year

Proud to be Welsh.

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Incredible moment in the Welsh Parliament today as Mark Drakeford calmly puts down nasty dog whistle politics from the Welsh Conservatives. I am so incredibly proud to live in a Country which is proud to be a Nation of Sanctuary for all refugees & asylum seekers ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

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2 years

You know the Welsh language is completely embedded in your brain when you see a number plate with FOD at the end and think "Oh, that's just 'bod' after a treiglad meddal."

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1 year

Dafydd doesn't know how to pronounce someone's name. He asks them how he should say it. It takes him 10 seconds. He doesn't call them by a different name to make life easier for him. Be like Dafydd.

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9 months

My favourite thing I learnt from parents' evening this week is that there are children in my class who "really love Welsh" and who "come home speaking it". Some are even teaching their parents, apparently. So that's nice. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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1 year

Tair blwyddyn yn ôl, ro'n i'n brwydro gyda fy iechyd meddwl. Heddiw, es i i'r dafarn. Roedd y haul yn ddisgleirio. Roedd blodau wyllt wyth y ffordd. Ro'n i'n cerdded â ffrindiau gorau. Mae pethau hyfryd yn digwydd yn fy mywyd. Dw i'n hapus i fod yn fyw. Diolch byth.

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10 months

Favourite Welsh word of the week - 'Rhandir' - meaning 'allotment', but literally means a share (rhan) of land (tir). Beautifully and unapologetically literal.

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3 years

In my experience, 1st language Welsh speakers use more English than 2nd language. Here I am, scrambling to recall the word "cyffrous" but 1st language speakers just say "Mae'n exciting iawn!". It just goes to show, language is communication first. Don't interrupt the flow!

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1 year

Self-indulgent post here, but it's a point of real pride for me that I can now go to St Fagans and talk to the staff in Welsh.

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3 years

You know you're a Welshman when you visit England and you miss the bilingual signage.

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1 year

If the Bannau Brycheiniog thing has triggered you, then I can't wait to tell you about penguins and corgis.

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11 months

First day back at my Welsh-medium school today, where I now work Thursdays. Whilst leading the singing assembly, I mused that 27 year old me, sitting behind a bank counter in Bristol, wouldn't recognise the Cymro teaching a hall full of Welsh kids from behind a piano.

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1 year

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8 months

@fesshole I saw a comment on here the other day that I can't get out of my head. 'If you cringe at your past, it means you've improved as a person'. Also, tell him. It'll be healing.

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6 months

I've just registered 34 of our pupils for the @Urdd . Watch this space: we've got a group of enthusiastic, excited young English-medium Welsh speakers and singers ready to plant the @GoytreFawr flag at the Urdd for the first time!

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2 months

I started learning Welsh in 2020. I loved every second. I've spent the last two years part-time in a Welsh medium school, and I've recently noticed that I've stopped thinking about it. The Welsh just kind of falls out of my mouth. So that's nice.

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7 months

My new year's resolutions, or "lofty targets" are to establish a plygain singing group in my village, and to revive the Mari Lwyd too. Living on the border with England must not mean watering down our Welshness! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, pawb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😀

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1 year

When I look back on the awesome stuff that's happened in the last 5 years, a huge chunk of it has been Welsh-related. Learning Welsh changed my life, and it continues to bring me a purpose I didn't know I was missing. Cheers, Cymru. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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1 year

My partner has been doing such a good job of self-study on Duolingo that we're now habitually speaking Welsh together at home! 😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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2 years

True friendship is not writing on the wine gift bag's tag so that I can use it again in the future.

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2 years

When I worked in banking, I was in a branch on the England side of the second Severn crossing. I used to order bilingual paying-in slips because of our proximity to Wales. A guy used to bring in a black marker pen and cross out all the Welsh on the slips. I hope he's found love.

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2 years

@GazJacksonrmt @RMTunion Apparently you aren't entitled to campaign for fair pay unless you dress like Oliver Twist.

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8 months

If you had told me 10 years ago that my job would entail carrying a decorated horses skull around a village while singing at people in Welsh and asking for food, I'd have thought you were drinking too much.

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2 years

Every time I tweet something that gets the Welsh-speaking community responding, I remember how proud I am to be amongst its members. Cymru am byth 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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1 year

My time at my Welsh school comes to an (unofficial) end today. I've learnt a ton about Welsh music. I've become a better speaker and accompanist. I've made wonderful friends. Some mountains are worth climbing. This has shown me that a whole new world was only a language away.

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My time at my Welsh-medium school came to an end on Thursday. Two years of regular weekly Welsh practice in context has made a speaker of me. When once leading an assembly filled me with dread, now the language flows - not like water perhaps, but certainly like gravy 🙂

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1 year

Everytime my phone autocorrects the letter 'i' to a capital when I'm writing in Welsh, it feels like a hate crime.

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2 years

Ooh look, it's me!

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2 years

Good to hear Jonathan’s experience of the #Cymraeg Mewn Blwyddyn course. The course provides Welsh language training to primary and secondary school teachers, classroom assistants and lecturers. More on the course 👇

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This is just a list of reasons why it's brilliant living in Wales. BBC News - Ten times Welsh government law changes hit the headlines

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Ten times Welsh government law changes hit the headlines

From free prescriptions to carrier bag charges, a number of Welsh law changes have hit headlines.

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3 months

Got two minutes? This is our school choir singing at the local Eisteddfod in Welsh yesterday. We're off to the Urdd in May, and every performance helps prepare us for the final. I was so proud of their efforts yesterday. They're a fantastic group of singers!

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So proud of our children yesterday. Mr Small has worked wonders with these amazing choristers and their second place at the town Eisteddfod, is just reward for their talents and hard work. Da iawn bawb.

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I've been so ill this past week, I thought the annual Christmas cake tradition wasn't going to happen. But it did, and here she is. Nadolig llawen i chi!

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Today, Ysgol @GoytreFawr made history as the first ever school in the Gwent region to compete in the category for Welsh learner choirs in the Urdd. And as thanks for our efforts, we're off to the final in May! Da iawn blant, dw i mor falch ohonoch chi!

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@cstsher Honestly, her journey didn't feel staged or sensationalised in any way. It just felt like an organic growth of someone realising she is talented and was just held back by confidence. An experience almost everyone can relate to.

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Heddiw, ddysgais i wers yn Gymraeg y tro gyntaf. Dw i'n hapus, achos nawr, dw i'n teimlo'n hyderus am ddysgu yn Gymraeg yn y dofodol!

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

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This Monday, my local Welsh club enters its third year. Added to this, I'm heading back to school with a brand new approach to teaching the Welsh language at primary level. The impact of Welsh on my personal and professional life has been incalculable. Diolch byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

My grandmother, Glenys, turns 97 today. This photo is only a year old. I hope I've got her genes. This woman is the only one of us who can say she was born in Wales, and partly the reason I wanted to speak Welsh. Legend.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

@fesshole The poor kid's ambition is to make some money in a country where its becoming more and more difficult to do anything you love and afford a home.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

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1 year

I'm so excited to say that after my two terms at Ysgol Y Fenni, my two schools have agreed to share me on an ongoing basis. I'm now going to be working one day a week in Welsh-medium and 4 days a week in English medium for the foreseeable future!

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

Dw i ym Mhwllheli, ac archebais i hufen iâ yn Gymraeg heddiw, fel rhywun lleol 🙂👍Falch i bod rhan o'r dodrefn!

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

3 years

I always said I wanted to start a Welsh club because I wanted to come to my local and converse yn Gymraeg. Today, we ordered our drinks in Welsh. I'm living the dream 😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

8 months

My friend @cazglyn introduced me to a fantastic Welsh word this week: Fflachlwch - glitter Literally meaning "flashing dust". How cool is that?!

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

@anon_opin It so isn't. Here's how it goes. You offer, knowing full well they'll say no, to absolve yourself of seeming lazy. Then they say "Don't be daft, just relax and have some wine". Then you say "OK, bless you".

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

2 months

Very honoured to be on the BBC News for the first time in my life. A lovely chat with Catriona Aitkin today, and she was kind enough to turn it into an article! @Urdd BBC News - Welsh-learning teacher brings choir to Eisteddfod

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Monmouthshire: Welsh-learner teacher's choir at Urdd Eisteddfod

The Urdd Eisteddfod celebrates Welsh learners with a series of contests and performances.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

2 years

Crazy idea here, but what if our Eurovision entry for 2023 were in... Welsh? It still represents the UK, after all. And boy, would it stand out. Plus there's some stonking Welsh music out there. #Eurovision

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

9 months

IDIOM CYMRAEG YR WYTHNOS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "Y drwg yn y caws" It literally translates as "the bad in the cheese", but means to be a "bad influence". Like when objectionable people get paid 7 figures to go on reality shows. #idiomyrwythnos

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

The first time I did a whole school assembly (in English), I thought I was going to pass out from the nerves. These days, I'm doing them entirely in Welsh without breaking a sweat. You never stop growing.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

8 months

Nadolig llawen, pawb!

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

4 months

I gave up on Duolingo a couple of weeks ago because I wasn't enjoying the pressure of maintaining a streak. Since then, I've had desperate offers to buy back my streak, and now the owl app symbol is growing wrinkled and tired-looking. It's pretty manipulative.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

My personal view is that we should move towards every school being bilingual, not Welsh OR English. Add a year to teacher training for language training, from now onwards. In a generation, every teacher and pupil will be a speaker, on a constant upward trajectory.

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Tomos Evans

1 year

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿A Senedd committee has said the goal of one million Welsh speakers will not be reached unless there is a "substantial increase" in the number of teachers who can speak the language

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@signor_piccolo

5 years

Chernobyl has, in just five episodes, surpassed anything I have ever seen. A true masterpiece, gripping and devastating to the last. #Chernobylfinale

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

Our friends' 2 year old is learning Welsh at preschool. We just made Yorkshire puddings together yn Gymraeg. Magic to be able to share Welsh with her like that.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

2 years

@OwsWills I was born an Englishman, but moved here to be with my Welsh partner and train as a teacher. Found Cymru to be a warm and welcoming place. Learnt Welsh on government sabbatical, best decision of my life. Now I'm a Welshmam through and through.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

2 years

@hanwo0dward The first time in British history where a male monarch has met a female prime minister.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

7 months

@AliWoodsGigs If there were 0 orange chocolates, then they answered my prayers.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

2 years

Having the chance to run a Welsh-speaking children's choir has been one of the greatest privileges of this language journey so far. We've just finished rehearsal, and the number who said "diolch" after was lovely. Music runs in their veins, as it does in mine. #Cymruambyth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎶

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@signor_piccolo

1 year

If you'd told me 3 years ago that I'd be doing an interview in Welsh on S4C about the earthquake in Wales, I'd have thought you were a terrible psychic.

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@signor_piccolo

2 years

I know a post a lot of pictures of my cat, and it may feel tedious, but he's beautiful so I don't care. Spread joy.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

8 months

IDIOM CYMRAEG YR WYTHNOS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "Gwell hwyr na hwyrach" In English, we'd say "better late than never", but Welsh favours "better late than later". Like finishing the autumn term on 22nd December. #idiomyrwythnos

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

3 years

I love the notion of Welsh places being known by their Welsh names. If we are to preserve the language, we must celebrate it unapologetically. What do you think?

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

2 years

Bore da i fy dilynwyr newydd i gyd. Gobeithio, rydych chi'n disgwyl llawer am Gymru a Chymraeg ohoni fi! Good morning to all my new followers. Hopefully, you're expecting lots about Wales and Welsh from me! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😉

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@signor_piccolo

2 years

Part of my role at my Welsh school has been leading the school choir, which I also do in my English-medium school. I'm combining them into one for the local Eisteddfod this year. Yesterday's Welsh rehearsal was 👌. It's such a joy making music with young people.

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@signor_piccolo

1 year

It is *ridiculous*, in this day and age, when the planet is dying and the oceans are full of plastic, to deliver rulers to a school that are INVIDUALLY WRAPPED IN PLASTIC.

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@signor_piccolo

2 years

There are some days in Welsh school where I think "Wow, this is hard". Then I remember the first time I set foot in a Welsh-medium school, and everything was white noise, and now I'm actually taking lessons. Easy to forget that the goalposts have been moved.

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@signor_piccolo

2 months

Absolutely delightful. I've watched this about 5 times and I can't stop chuckling!

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Peter Gillibrand

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2 months

“I don’t know what you’re saying” Brilliant interview after a girl wins a competition at the Welsh language Urdd Eisteddfod - where more than 100,000 children/young people perform things like dancing and singing.

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@signor_piccolo

3 months

Honest to God, if you're bored and lonely in Wales, you're doing it wrong.

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Manon Steffan Ros

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3 months

Absolutely devastated to hear that this couple has left. Gutted. Heartbroken. What WILL we do here in boring Wales without them?

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@signor_piccolo

3 years

Ar ôl 10 mis, dw i eisiau dweud diolch... Roedd y cwrs #cymraegmewnblwyddyn yn anhygoel, a dw i wedi gwerthfawrogi'r cyfle i ddysgu Cymraeg yn fawr iawn.

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@signor_piccolo

7 months

IDIOM CYMRAEG YR WYTHNOS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "Ar bigau'r drain" In English, we'd say "on tenterhooks", but the Welsh phrase means "on the point of thorns". I'm currently waiting for my passport renewal. #idiomyrwythnos

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@signor_piccolo

2 months

Second language Welsh speakers - a top tip for you. Speak slightly slower. It'll not only make you sound calm and chilled, but it'll give your brain the extra processing time to recall vocabulary and form your intended sentence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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@signor_piccolo

1 year

At 23:59, 6 minutes ago, we felt our whole bed move. Inexplicably. Google tells us there was an 4.2 magnitude earthquake in South Wales. What the actual? @BBCNews

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

3 months

A very happy 98th birthday to my incredible grandmother Glenys, who has fewer wrinkles than I do. A strong, Welsh woman of kind heart, she is an inspiration.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

Just renewed my driving licence. They asked if I wanted my address in English or Welsh. Do I even need to tell you what I picked?

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7 months

We're all still calling it Twitter, right?

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@signor_piccolo

12 days

Should I...? BBC News - William and Kate seek new assistant who speaks Welsh

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Kate and William seek new royal assistant who speaks Welsh

The Prince and Princess of Wales are looking for a new assistant private secretary who must speak Welsh.

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

17 days

Totally in love with this gorgeous plaque, handmade by a student's dad. The translation, I believe, is 'The strength of a nation is its knowledge'. I'm looking forward to giving this pride of place in my new classroom!

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@signor_piccolo

2 years

This week saw two "firsts" in my Welsh journey. 1) I taught a morning of literacy to year 3 and 4, on my own. 2) I led my first Welsh choir rehearsal. Working in Welsh-medium has given me truly authentic ways to practise Welsh. The training wheels are off! 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👨‍🎓

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@signor_piccolo

1 month

Our village choir, @KitchenSingers , singing Calon Lân at our village fête at Grosmont Castle on Saturday. I wonder how much singing these walls have heard in their 900 years, and how much of it was in Welsh 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Jonny Bach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

@signor_piccolo

1 year

Being a teacher around Y Fenni means that running into people I know is pretty regular. What surprises me is that around 50% of them are people I switch to Welsh for.

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@signor_piccolo

2 years

Nadolig llawen oddi wrth dau athro blinedig!

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