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Brief moment of panic when I saw my hometown in the thumbnail.
Want to share a couple of random facts about your Hometown only locals could?
I once went back for 3 refunds when the projector at the cinema in the Miners Welfare Hall broke. The film was "Dude! Where's My Car?" so probably didn't miss much.
I was going to get married in Craig-y-Nos castle, but covid/brexit happened, so had to make do with a registry office in Basel, Switzerland.
The Aubrey Arms was renamed to The All Blacks Arms, after Neath RFC's nickname, but since everyone still called it The Aubrey, the new owners changed it back. Also, the owner before the initial name change murdered his wife, and hid the body in the attic of the shed, where my Mam used to park her bike when she was working at the pub. Fun times.
Also the gates for Buckingham Palace were made in Ystrad. They're proper fancy.
Yes of course.
A) Despite the long name, it's actually pronounced "Gah"
B) Dogging was invented here Huw Edwards
I heard dogging was invented at your mothers house by your dad.
Duolingo is ‘pausing’ its Welsh course despite high demand
'high demand'. Lol
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The latest census showed that despite huge expense and effort, in 2021 there were 24,000 fewer Welsh speakers in Wales than a decade earlier, with the proportion dropping to a record low of 17.8%.
In December 2023, Duolingo announced that the app’s Welsh course had hit a record 3 million learners, proving particularly popular in the US, Argentina, New Zealand and India.
Within a few days of the announcement being made, a petition urging the first minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, to personally intervene with the CEO of Duolingo, gathered a few thousand signatures.
I spoke to Anna Luisa Daigneault, programme director at the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, who sees the power of the internet as a “double-edged sword”.
In his view, communities need a broader framework of “greater self-determination and freedom from human rights violations to ensure that their languages survive.
Te Hiku Media, a Māor-owned non-profit radio station, is the first to build automatic speech recognition technology for an Indigenous language.
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Well Mark, you had the chance to back a welsh-made language learning app startup (made by a friend of mine) and passed them up so they've moved onto other things.
Don't act surprised when an American language learning app decides to drop a relatively obscure language like Welsh.