You don’t read Welsh? If not, how will you know the Diweddaraf Newyddion o’r Cymru (Latest News from Wales)? It’s hard to use y we (the Web) if you don’t understand the language.
The BBC understands, so its new media department in Wales has created Vocab, an open-source website tool that offers English-language pop-up translations of Welsh words. Try it yourself on the BBC’s Welsh-language news page.
It may not let you fluently read Welsh (for that, you’ll need the BBC’s Learn Welsh pages), but at least you won’t be uninformed while strolling through Cardiff. Journalist Robert Andrews‘ blog provides more details about Vocab.
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