{"id":2597,"date":"2011-09-26T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:43:59","slug":"digital-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/en\/2011\/09\/digital-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The 24\/7 digital caf\u00e9 for Welsh learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this idea for Welsh learners and I can&#8217;t get it out of my head.<\/p>\n<p>What if there were a way to fire up Skype now and have a spoken conversation in Welsh with somebody?<\/p>\n<p>At the moment you <em>could<\/em> fire up Skype for a chat (substitute Google+ Hangouts for Skype if you prefer) but what if you don&#8217;t know any other Welsh speakers? What if you do know some but they&#8217;re not online right now? What if the timezone you&#8217;re in doesn&#8217;t help? What if you&#8217;re a bit shy and you&#8217;d rather start practising at home before venturing out?<\/p>\n<p>The core of the idea is a way to solve those problems, a 24\/7 digital caf\u00e9 if you like. You would visit this site and declare: I am online at (say) 7PM on Monday night GMT and then people could meet you online for a chat at that time.<\/p>\n<p>You could also also list your skill level if desired, and your interests like mountaineering or literature or Hollywood or cooking or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term it could start with a few conversations here and there. The aim is to have people having Welsh conversations 24\/7 so there are always people online to chat with. If you didn&#8217;t have such a great chat then you bid the person <em>hwyl fawr<\/em> and then move on. It&#8217;s a bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/chatroulette.com\">Chatroulette<\/a> but less random.<\/p>\n<p>The speaking and listening part is important.\u00a0I know there are people on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aberwiki.org\/ChannelCymru\">IRC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clwbmalucachu.co.uk\/cmc\/chat.htm\">channels<\/a> (text-based chat) and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/hedyn.net\/wici\/Categori:Blog_Cymraeg\">blog posts<\/a> and other articles you could read in Welsh online. You could <a href=\"https:\/\/cy.wordpress.com\">start your own blog<\/a>. But this is about speaking and listening.<\/p>\n<p>People around Wales and beyond who are learning the Welsh language usually do so by means of courses &#8211; some of which are predominantly online like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/wales\/learning\/learnwelsh\/\">BBC&#8217;s<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysomethinginwelsh.com\">SaySomethingInWelsh<\/a>, some of which are predominantly offline like those of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acen.co.uk\">Acen<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welshforadults.org\">Cymraeg i Oedolion<\/a> and some of which are probably a bit of both.<\/p>\n<p>But a course on its own is not enough to learn. You need to practise. You need to make heaps of mistakes in a variety of registers and contexts. You need to talk about things you care about and move beyond <em>hoffi coffi<\/em> and <em>dw i&#8217;n dod o<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Has this idea been\/being tried? What about other languages? I&#8217;d welcome comments from anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone interested in being part of some tests? Are any of the above companies\/institutions interested in being part of something like this?<\/p>\n<p>Comments are open.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this idea for Welsh learners and I can&#8217;t get it out of my head.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[53,460,793,52],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iaith","tag-cymraeg","tag-learning-welsh","tag-skype","tag-welsh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The 24\/7 digital caf\u00e9 for Welsh learners - 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