Use Your Welsh

Running from 27 November to 11 December, the Use Your Welsh campaign encourages people across Cardiff and the Vale to use their Welsh in any setting that they can and are able to.

Whether you use your Welsh in full conversation with someone in a coffee shop, or simply wish a colleague a bore da (good morning), people all across Wales should be encouraged and supported to use Welsh in their everyday life, no matter where that is, and whatever their ability may be.

Using Welsh also plays a vital role within health care. For some patients, Welsh is their preferred and/or first language, and by speaking Welsh, this may go a long way in improving their quality of care and understand their wants and needs more accurately. Delivering care in a patients first language improves patient outcomes.

Give it a go these next few weeks and try out a few of the below phrases next time you are out:

·        Bore Da (Good Morning)

·        Prynhawn Da (Good Afternoon)

·        Nos Da (Good Night)

·        Diolch (Thank you)

·        Croeso (Welcome)

·        Sut Wyt Ti? (How are you?)

·        Iawn Diolch (Good, thank you)

·        Dim problem (No problem)