Welsh-speaking inmates have been told to use English by staff at Wales' biggest prison, according to former inmates. Speaking to researchers at Cardiff and Liverpool universities, ex-prisoners at HMP ...

Prisoners at Wales' largest prison have been told to stop speaking Welsh, according to former inmates. Ex-prisoners thought HMP Berwyn in Wrexham would be a prison predicated on respect for Welsh ...

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All over the world, people are increasingly looking for more effective language education. In the US, for example, there are now more than 800 dual language programmes aiming to produce bilingual ...

Welsh language schools have started hiring English-speaking teachers due to a staffing crisis, a council has heard. Welsh medium schools have strict language rules and traditionally ban the use of the ...

A women's football team have claimed they were mocked by the opposition during a match for speaking Welsh, and told to "speak English". The Felinheli team have complained to the Football Association ...

Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...

The number of Welsh speakers has fallen in the past decade as fewer children are speaking the language, new figures show. In 2021 an estimated 538,000 people in Wales aged three years and over (17.8%) ...