Re: Learning Welsh

In message <3vtd4vF17ihd6U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
'Thenie wrote:
"David Librik" wrote...
[...]

The Cymdeithas Madog one-week immersion course is still going
strong. 
This year it was in Ohio, next year it will be in California.  See
http://www.madog.org for more information.

I happened on it by chance some years ago, when they were in
Towson, 
Maryland.  Very exciting and very valuable.  I'm very glad I went,
for the immersion intensive (it was 10 days, actually), the local
history lessons (I had no idea how entrenched the Welsh were in the
Maryland/Pennsylvania/Delaware area), and the social gathering

[...]

Plenty more links at:
http://www.newworldcelts.org/welsh.html

I remember a very interesting talk at a Llafur Conference in
Pontypool about a Welsh-language church which kept going in New York
City till, I think, the 'fifties. There may be others surviving.

Pontypool? My home town. Probably the least Welsh language place in Wales.

Mike
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M.J.Powell
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