St David’s Day is the perfect excuse to take a look at the delightful complexities of the language of Wales. Welsh comedian and film reviewer, Gary Slaymaker does the honours. When you’ve been ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology. Cwtch (rhymes with ‘butch’) is a word with two meanings in Welsh: the first is a place to store stuff safely ...

Recently 10 Welsh words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary, which included 'Iechyd Da', 'Senedd', and 'Sglods', which you can read more about here. The decision to include these words in ...

As a born-and-raised Pennsylvanian, I could hardly wrap my head around a non-voweled word when I first heard of the Welsh concept of cwtch (pronounced "kutch"). What Is Cwtch? Cwtch can have several ...

There's nothing quite like getting to grips with the Welsh language. It's beautiful and unique but learning it isn't so easy. However, some words can easily tickle people when they're translated ...

In one study, I examined several thousand tweets featuring the words "Welsh" and "accent" to explore what people were saying about the Welsh accent and their attitudes towards it. I found that ...

The Welsh Government's budget is full of "empty words", Senedd members have said. The finance committee has said "urgent ...

There’s a new hard-to-pronounce, harder-to-translate word in town: “hwyl”. And the Welsh tourist board hopes it will reignite the country’s stagnating tourism industry. Visit Wales has put ...

There was also joy at finding out the first Welsh words spoken in space by a Canadian astronaut in 1998. Others found the similarities between Celtic languages proved to be an advantage when ...

The Welsh Government’s proposed Budget for the next financial year is a plan riddled with ‘empty words’, says the Senedd’s ...

Cwtches were a common sight in hit BBC show Gavin and Stacey, about the love affair between an Essex boy and Barry Island girl The popular Welsh word cwtch has been used for the first time in the ...