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Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg.

S’mae!

Yesterday evening I attended my first Welsh lesson with the University of Wales, Bangor. We were given a sheet with resources online including a link for downloading a Welsh spell checker, nothing for Open Source users or Linux though. There are things out there for Welsh learners and speakers in the open source world though.

Firefox

If you’re not using firefox, you should be, I’m not going to go into why because plenty of people already have.

A Welsh dictionary for the spell checker to in Firefox can be installed from this page. There is also a setting that allows you to specify the languages that you want to read webpages in. To do this go to Edit -> Preferences and then click on advanced. You should see a section titled “Languages” with a button labelled “Choose”, click on that, select Welsh and click add.

If you are particularly brave you can have a go at setting firefox to be bilingual English/Welsh by following these instructions.

Online Dictionary

There is an open source Welsh-English dictionary developed by the Apertium Project that allows quick lookups saves a lot of time thumbing through pocket dictionaries.

Online Welsh-English Dictionary

Bilingual OpenOffice

Agored (A project from the University in Aberystwyth) have a bilingual version of OpenOffice unfortunately it seems that there is only a windows installer. The code may be Open Source though so versions for other platforms may be available in the future. I certainly hope so.

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One Response to “Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg.”

  1. Francis Tyers Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Its worth adding to this the great resources that Kevin Donnelly has available:

    http://www.eurfa.org.uk (Dictionary)

    and

    http://www.klebran.org.uk (Grammar checker)

    Each of them GPL licensed.

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