Guidance and Language Resources
Listed below are useful resources and guidance to support you and your department in operating bilingually.
Guidance and Help Sheets
The guidance listed below is tailored to assist Aberystwyth University staff with working within the Welsh Language Standards and the University’s Welsh language policies.
Guidelines
- Correspondence, including Letters, Memorandum, Fax, Labels and Envelopes
- Sending Bilingual Emails
- Tripnotes
- Answering the telephone
- Meetings and Committees.pdf, including Agenda and Cofnodion/Minutes
- Signs and Notices
- Advertisements
- Forms
- Conferences.pdf
- Online forms and questionnaires
- Bilingual Disciplinary Hearings
- Websites
Vocabulary
TermCymru
TermCymru is a terminology database created and maintained by the Welsh Assembly Government Translation Service.
Cysgliad
Cysgliad is a computer package for your PC to help correct linguistic mistakes which includes a dictionary.
For information on how to install Cysgliad on your PC go to https://faqs.aber.ac.uk/index.php?id=696
To Bach – Welsh Circumflex
To Bach is a free software application available to download from the Software Centre which makes placing a cimcumflex and accents for Welsh very easy. By pressing Alt Gr and a letter, it places a circumflex (tô bach) on vowels e.g. â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ
Key Stroke |
Symbol |
Alt Gr + a |
â |
Alt Gr + e |
ê |
Alt Gr + o |
ô |
Alt Gr + i |
î |
Alt Gr + y |
ŷ |
Alt Gr + w |
ŵ |
Alt Gr + û |
û |
Y Porth
Y Porth is an e-learning platform for the Welsh Medium Higher Education Sector which includes learning and teaching resources and information about collaborative Welsh medium modules.
Gwerddon
Gwerddon is an academic e-journal which publishes scholarly research in Welsh in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
Study Skills (in Welsh) for students
Below is a series of help sheets in Welsh based on workshops developed by the author Elin ap Hywel.