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
Social Media

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.