16 November 2009 – 11:41 PM
Google Translate has already accelerated my Welsh learning. It helps to decipher a daunting piece of text. Now Google Translate is instant. They changed the interface slightly and it flashes up the equivalent translation as you type. Boy. In other words you get the same flawed “translations”, now even faster! Try it for Welsh to [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in language, technology
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Also tagged cymraeg, dictionary, english, google, googletranslate, language, learning Welsh, reading, translation, welsh
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29 October 2009 – 4:20 AM
Mostly, what comes from the mouth of Janet Street-Porter is total bum gravy. This is no exception. “We had a Welsh-speaking budgie. My mother missed Wales very much. I don’t feel Welsh at all. There’s no Welsh words for anything modern.” Street-Porter is one of those people who enjoys a level of media coverage disproportionate [...]
Contrary to some inspirational self-help guff out there, there is a time when one should quit. But like Edison and his lightbulb and Moses in the wilderness, this ain’t it. Despite the clear lack of any other similarity between me and those guys, this post is about that. Today’s blog post is about carrying on. [...]
You should have seen the Scrabble board tonight. It was violence, pure violence. Sheer lexical brutality. Above this paragraph could be a photo to illustrate my glorious victory – either a snapshot of tonight’s board or something from Flickr maybe, with a classic edition of the board in all its distinctive colours. But I refuse [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in language, milestones, pastimes
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Also tagged competition, cymraeg, english, facebook, games, letters, losing, qi, Scrabble, sport, welsh, winning, za, zen
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27 October 2008 – 11:50 AM
There’s a scene in Alan Bennett‘s semi-autobiographical play The History Boys where two teachers are discussing the English language. Hector, played by Richard Griffiths, remarks to his colleague that he loves language. Not merely “words”, he says. “That would be so… Welsh!”. They both chuckle. I wasn’t able to quote that one exactly as I [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in britain, england, language, places, wales
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Also tagged alan bennett, cardiff, cwmaman, cymraeg, english, learning Welsh, pellach, slough, welsh, wlpan
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