Language skills support

Information about learning Welsh or improving your Welsh is available below:

• Information for students about learning Welsh and language improvement
• Information for staff about learning Welsh, language improvement and the mentoring scheme
• Learning Welsh in the community
• Welsh Language Skills Certificate 
• Learn Welsh

Language resources from the Centre of Welsh Language Services which includes the following:

• Help Sheets
• National Database of Terms
• Term Cymru
• Cysgliad
• To Bach – Welsh Circumflex:
  
  • By pressing Alt Gr and the corresponding letter on your keyboard, it places a circumflex (to bach) on vowels e.g. â ê î ô û ŵ ŷ
• Y Porth
• Gwerddon

Aberystwyth University information:

• International English Centre
• English language resources
• Courses
• Target English course

External information:

The Academic Word List is a collection of words that have been identified as being very common in academic writing. It has been identified from a corpus of more than 3,500,000 words of academic text. A detailed definition—and access to the list—is available at English Vocabulary Exercises. The lists include a wide range of interactive exercises to practice your English.

• Essential French in Two Hours with Paul Noble (LinkedIn Learning course - Please login with your AU email and password)
• Lifelong Learning courses: French
• French handbooks

Essential Mandarin in Two Hours with Paul Noble (LinkedIn Learning course - Please login with your AU email and password)

• Essential Spanish in Two Hours with Paul Noble (LinkedIn Learning course - Please login with your AU email and password)
• Lifelong Learning courses: Spanish
• Spanish Handbooks

Aberystwyth University's Language Resources Centre (B Floor, Hugh Owen) contains a wide range of online activities. All of these can be used in the Language Resource Centre when it is not being used for classes.

• Lab 1 open 24 hours (card access)
• Lab2 contains books and printed resources for a number of the exercises linked below (do not remove books from the Lab)
• French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and interdisciplinary (e.g. IPA) resources
• English language resources

The Department of Lifelong Learning offers Modern Languages courses. View their current courses by language:

• Find a Language Course 

If you are a student or staff member at Aberystwyth University, the courses are free of charge.

In addition to these course you can participate in the:

• Language Exchange Platform.
• In-Person Tandem course and Lifelong Learning - Aber Uni (genial.ly)
  • This is a tandem learning programme where you work with a person from another country, or who speaks the language you want to learn. In exchange you help that person with your own language, or the language she or he wants to learn. Follow the link above to find out more and to participate.

Take a look at Lifelong Learning frequently asked questions - if these don't answer your question, please email learning@aber.ac.uk

• FAQs  : Lifelong Learning , Aberystwyth University
• If you are a student or staff member at Aberystwyth University, the courses are free of charge.