Online review site Trip Advisor has banned all reviews written in Welsh. (Trip Advisor is arguably the world's largest travel website, and supports languages from all around the world, but they have banned all submissions in Welsh.  Allegedly, the ancient Celtic language, one of the oldest European languages with over half a million speakers in […]

The Welsh language was heard, and interpreted, at the European Union for the first time this week. Welsh Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones, represented Britain at a meeting of European culture ministers and introduced them to the wonderful world of Welsh. (Welsh is spoken by approximately 600,000 people worldwide.)

According to the BBC, more and more state school children in the UK are being taught in Welsh, Gaelic or Irish. The number of Northern Ireland children learning Irish grew from just 484 in 1992 to 3285 in 2008. In Wales, 20% of schoolchildren are now being taught entirely in Welsh - up from 16% […]