Introduction to Learning Welsh on the Internet

Listed below are some of the features of the language course:

This is the only University accredited Welsh language learning course available on the World Wide Web. In order to gain your first 40 credits, you will need to sit an oral and written test. Students in Wales will be able to take the test at a designated learning centre and overseas students will be able to take the test on the Web / telephone / use video conference facilities.

This course is therefore a pathway into Higher Education. Your initial 40 credits may be added to, by other courses on the Web or by traditional schemes of study, so you can eventually gain sufficient credits (360) for a university degree.

The course has been designed for absolute beginners. However, to gain maximum benefit, more progress will be made if it is combined with conventional classes which allow opportunities for oral practice. The Department of Welsh organises intensive residential and nonresidential courses at Lampeter on a regular basis.

There is a facility for learners to contact each other and to share information and to practise communicating in Welsh.

Although the course is designed to be self-propelled, each student is allocated a tutor from the Department of Welsh, University of Wales Lampeter, who can be contacted directly, via e-mail, to discuss linguistic difficulties.

The course includes essential aural elements.

It is intended to create an archive of complementary web based written materials to accompany the course.

A taster is available here.