Daily Post teams up with S4C for Welsh Learning Week.

IF you're keen to learn Welsh, thenNant Gwrtheyrn, theWelsh Language and Heritage Centre (pictured above),is the place for you.

Weekend,five and 12 day courses are available year round for learners of all levels. Choose from full board/self catering accommodation or join the classes daily. Classes are informal and fun. Entertainment is arranged most evenings.

You don't have to be a Welsh learner to visit Nant Gwrtheyrn. A new Heritage site has recently been opened giving visitors THE Daily Post has teamed up with S4C and the Welsh Language and Heritage Centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn to promote Welsh Learning Week, starting today.

The Week is an initiative led by S4C,designed to encourage more adults to take up Welsh language learning.

Nia Parry, who presents S4C's learners programmes Welsh in a Week and cariad@iaith, will visit 15 companies across Wales during the next five days, giving short Welsh lessons which will hopefully encourage the employees to carry on learning Welsh after her departure.

Nia will also teach employees some vocabulary relevant to their work.

To mark this year's initiative, the Welsh Language and Heritage Centre at Nant Gwrtheyrnthe opportunity to enjoy a taste of the Welsh language and culture,local history and nature.

Nant Gwrthyern also now has an Education Officer who can arrange various tailor- made one --day and residential courses for schools and youth groups.

In 2004,new courses for experienced learners and fluent Welsh speakers will look at aspects of Welsh culture such as literature,history,art and music.

Contact 01758 750334 or [e-mail] for more details.

(the location for learners series cariad@iaith) is offering Daily Post readers an opportunity to win a week's course at the Centre completely free of charge, the course to be chosen from those on offer there between September and December this year.

The Centre is also offering four runner up prizes -a 20pc reduction off a week's course of your choice,again from the courses on offer between September and December 2003.

Located in one of the most stunningly beautiful valleys in Wales, the Centre is the perfect place to get away from it all and totally immerse yourself in the language and culture.

Throughout this week, free Welsh Learning Week information packs are also being made available. Each pack contains an audiotape featuring basic Welsh phrases and vocabulary, an accompanying booklet, a diary, and information on where and how to learn Welsh. The packs can be ordered free from Learn Direct on 0800 100 900 or on line at S4C's dedicated Welsh learning website, www.s4c.co.uk/cymraeg.

This is the third year that the initiative has been held and in that time 9,000 information packs have been distributed. In 2000/2001 a record number of 24,000 adults enrolled for Welsh lessons.

S4C Chairwoman,Elan Closs Stephens, said: ``The Welsh language is a vibrant, living language that can be used in any environment and as the Welsh language tour shows, there's interest in learning Welsh from all quarters. Welsh is also fun and that's an important part of what we'll be doing during the Week, and also in our Welsh learners' series, Welsh in a Week (startingon S4C on Tuesday,9 September,9.00pm) and cariad@iaith (starting on S4C on Tuesday, 16 September, 9.00pm).

The Week is supported by the National Assembly for Wales.

To enter the competition, look out for tokens to collect all this week,only in the Daily Post, starting below today. More details tomorrow.

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S4C's Nia Parry sets out on her travels Picture: HUW JOHN