NEW online Welsh lessons have become available for those wanting to learn a new language during the coronavirus lockdown.

The National Centre for Learning Welsh has responded to the challenges posed by the coronavirus lockdown with a raft of initiatives to enable adults to continue learning and practising the Welsh language while at home.

Daily Welsh lessons live-streamed on the centre’s Facebook page, online courses, digital learning resources and distance learning are among the developments to support the centre’s learners, which number 13,000 adults across Wales.

This week saw the launch of daily, 10-minute Welsh lessons, which are live-streamed Monday to Friday at 3pm on their Facebook page. The lessons, which introduce basic vocabulary and language patterns and tips on pronunciation have proved popular with learners from as far afield as Dubai and Argentina.

A range of online short courses, introducing conversational Welsh, are also available, while plans are under way to introduce weekly Welsh ‘taster’ sessions for parents of young children, which will also be live streamed on Facebook.

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Efa Gruffudd Jones, chief executive of the National Centre for Learning Welsh, said: “Since taking responsibility for the Learn Welsh sector in 2016, developing digital learning resources has been a priority, in order to give learners flexibility and choice when it comes to learning the language.

“With such firm foundations in place, we’ve been able to fast-track new resources to offer plenty of options for adults to learn and practise at home, whether they’re already following a course with us or learning anew.

“Our community courses have also been able to continue, largely as normal, thanks to remote conferencing technology, and I would like to pay tribute to our course providers and tutors who have adapted quickly to using this technology.

“Above all, we’re delighted to be able to support our learners – with both their learning and from a wellbeing point of view, providing routine, normality and social support during these unprecedented circumstances”.

For more information head to https://learnwelsh.cymru/