Did you Know that?
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... the ap Geiriaduron has been downloaded more than 71,000 times. |
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... the Translation Unit translates close to 4 million words annually. |
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... more than 70% of the University’s staff have Welsh language skills. |
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... the Language Technologies Unit is responsible for the Vocab plug-in seen on websites such as BBC Cymru Fyw and Golwg 360. |
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... Welsh medium modules are available in all of the University’s academic schools. |
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... more than 215 teachers and lecturers have completed the Sabbatical Scheme course since its inception in 2007. |
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... Cysill on-line is used to check text 850 times daily. |
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... the Welsh language version of Blackboard (the world's largest Virtual Learning Environment), was translated initially by Canolfan Bedwyr. |
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... the 'Cymorth Cymraeg' pages are the most popular ones on the University website, excluding the homepage. |
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... there are more than 90,000 individual records in the on-line version of Geiriadur yr Academi. |
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... more than a third of the total number of students studying through the medium of Welsh are in ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ. |
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... Canolfan Bedwyr offers a course on how to 'Tweet in Welsh' in its range of professional development programmes. |
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... 500 terms are searched daily through the Porth Termau Cenedlaethol. |
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... the Translation Unit provides simultaneous translation for over 250 events annually. |
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... Canolfan Bedwyr is located in the hall where the Beatles slept during their famous visit to Bangor in 1967. |
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... it is possible to use the Cysgeir programme as a rhyming dictionary and to create lines of ‘cynghanedd’ (poetic harmony). |
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... a Welsh interface is available on fitness equipment across the world following collaboration between Johnson Health Tech and Canolfan Bedwyr. |
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... the centre has sold more than 5,000 copies of the Llawlyfr Gloywi Iaith handbook |
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... terminology for Welsh schools, colleges and universities is standardised at Canolfan Bedwyr. |
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... Canolfan Bedwyr collaborated on the Welsh 2011 Census questionnaire in order to make it clearer and easier to understand. |