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 Bangor University.
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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.