Archive for the 'Websites' Category
Monday, January 8th, 2007
The FW Blog is now feeding its RSS feed directly to BlogCymru.
“BlogCymru.com is an aggregator. That doesn’t mean that it lives in swamps and eats bad actors, it means that it draws a number of blogs (or other RSS sources) together in one place.
The purpose of BlogCymru.com is to draw together stuff (that’s the scientific […]
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
And loads of them. This one is an interesting one for learners such as myself. Morfablog is administered by Nic Dafis, a Welsh tutor (according to Suite 101 - I don’t know who he is myself). And if you want to see how your learning experience compares to someone else, check out Telsa’s […]
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
The Guardian has produced an interesting list of the most useful websites. This sort of list is always a great way of discovering sites which other people have discovered and favour.
Most of the sites listed are the big names such as the BBC, Google and YouTube, but there are some other ones which you may […]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
This seemed a good time to remind us all of the lovely Welsh traditions surrounding the Christmas celebration. The BBC has given us a lovely page on this very topic. So you may want to pay it a visit to enjoy reading and learning about these wonderful customs.
The links in the right-hand column […]
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Send someone you love a Christmas message from you, in Elf form! Visit www.elfyourself.com, upload a photograph of your head, play around with the settings and you’re off!
Once your head is uploaded and attached to the Elf body, you can even add your voice by dialing a US telephone number (not expensive if you have […]
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
Always looking for great Welsh ambassadors, our attention has been drawn to Aled from Radio 1’s Chris Moyles Show.
FW Member Pete-Arr, in the chris moyles podcast post in the Forum, told us about Aled’s recital of the lyrics from a song in the latest podcast - a recital in Welsh.
Always nice to hear Welsh spoken […]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Have you visited the S4C’s Welsh language learners site recently? They’ve done some major additions to the site and now offer several of their regular programs streaming over the web. A big boon for those of us who are not living in Wales!
If you aren’t a regular visitor to their learners site, you’ll enjoy taking […]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
The BBC News website is one of the most popular sites on the Internet bringing unbiased news to the world. But have you ever wondered what people are reading about? Take a look at the Beeb’s statistics page to find out the top stories globally and by continent.
The flash-based data will even tell you how […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Take a look at Apple’s latest TV advert, this time it’s for the new (v2) Shuffle.
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ads/
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Wikipedia, the Free online Encyclopedia, has some interesting information on the Welsh language.
Covering the language’s history, grammar, dialects and more, the Wiki section on Welsh is quite an eye-opener. Even if you come from Wales or live here, there’s still a great deal which you can learn from 10 minutes reading Wiki’s notes.
If Welsh is […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
I’m finally getting around to reading my backlog of National Geographic magazines. I’ve plucked January 2005’s issue out of the stack and have just been reading about coffee - “the world’s most popular psychoactive drug“.
As usual, the photography accompanying the article is outstanding. Take a trip to the National Geographic website to see some of […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Okay, so the US don’t have an embassy in Wales but they do have a ‘Welsh Affairs‘ office in Cardiff.
They inform us that: “Ties between Wales and the United States have always been strong, whether judged by distinguished individuals (such as the 16 signers of the Declaration of Independence and 11 U.S. Presidents who were […]
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