Category: Cyffredinol – General

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Y Mileniwm, 2000 As most of you know, Cymdeithas Madog celebrated the millenium by holding its annual Welsh language course in Wales this past August. Participants all “went home” to Trinity College (Coleg y Drindod), Carmarthen for the annual week-long Welsh submersion course. This marks the first time that the course…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Y Man Cyfarfod, 1999 Well, what a week it was! Cwrs Cymraeg Toronto ’99, Cymdeithas Madog’s 23rd annual Welsh language week, has now come and gone. And from the responses by students and teachers alike, it was a great week of Welsh language learning. For those not able to join us,…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Y Pont Aur, 1998 The seismically active San Francisco area was rocked by the descent of the 22nd annual Cymdeithas Madog week-long intensive Welsh language course. Local organizers David and Karen Evans were on hand greeting students as they arrived, arranging transportation to and from the campus and assisting them throughout…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Y Mynydd Glas, 1996 Roedd cyrraedd Poultney, Vermont, fel cyrraedd Cymru i’r pedwar athro o Gymru a oedd newydd dreulio rhai dyddiau yn ninas wallgo Efrog Newydd. Y wlad yn y lle cyntaf: gwlad fryniog, a’r golygfeydd yn ymestyn yn bell; tomen ambell chwarel lechi’n dringo’r llechweddau uchwben y llynnoedd llonydd……

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Baltimore, 1994 Cwrs Cymraeg Baltimore a’r Fro at Towson State College was another hit. Participants of this year’s cwrs were again treated to the varied teaching styles of the instructors from Wales. Alun Ifans of Dyfed and headmaster of a primary school brought his enthusiasm as well as his special sense…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Waukesha, 1992 The words of lead teacher Clive Rowlands say it all. ‘Arbennig iawn’ is how he described Cwrs Cymraeg Waukesha, which took place at Carroll College from July 25 to August 2, 1992. It was indeed a ‘very special’ course, and not just because it provided an additional seventh day…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Ar Lan Y Niagara, 1991 According to the Buffalo News, if you had been in the vicinity of downtown D’Youville College during the summer of 1991, you would have heard people speaking a “strange musical tongue’ and saying things like ‘bora-dah,’ ‘sootmy?’ ‘de-on-di-awk,’ and ‘naw-sun-law-when.’ They don’t look very musical written…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Cwrs Cymraeg Bro Boston, 1989 On Sunday, July 30, 1989, about 100 students of all ages (well, from age 6 to 86 or so) gathered on the pleasant campus of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts to start our thirteenth Cwrs Cymraeg. Two of those attending, Tom Reilly of New York and…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} From an Acorn Comes the Oak: The Roots of Cymdeithas Madog gan/by Sian Thomas It must have been early in 1977 that Wyn Evans, then-minister of Dewi Sant United Church, Toronto, phoned to tell me that someone was organizing a Welsh course, and he expected me to sign up. I don’t recall being…

{loadposition CMPageHeaderWithLogo} Every summer, Cymdeithas Madog sponsors its week long Cwrs Cymraeg in a different location – normally in North America. In 2009 it was in Camrose, Alberta; in 2010 in Cardiff, Wales; and in 2012, the cwrs will be in Salt Lake City. We are actively seeking potential local organizers for future years and the time to…