We're delighted to be welcoming new students today as Welcome Week begins. Ruth McElroy, our head of school is introducing our school to our Freshers. We hope you have a great time studying with us here in Bangor. Croeso! / Welcome!

Rydym yn falch iawn i groesawu myfyrwyr newydd heddiw ar ddiwrnod cyntaf Wythnos Groeso. Mae Ruth McElroy, ein pennaeth ysgol, yn cyflwyno'r ysgol i'n myfyrwyr newydd. Gobeithio eich bod chi'n mynd i fwynhau astudio gyda ni yma ym Mangor. Croeso!

A new publication from one of our lecturers in French is on the way...

Pob lwc i bawb sy'n derbyn canlyniadau Lefel A heddiw. Eisiau gwybod mwy am gyrsiau #IeithoeddModern ar gael trwy glirio? Cysylltwch â'r llinell gymorth clirio Prifysgol Bangor: 0800 085 1818. 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇨🇳

Good luck to everyone getting exam results today. Interested in clearing opportunities in #ModernLanguages? Ring the Bangor University clearing helpline: 0800 085 1818. 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇨🇳

Ydych chi'n dilyn y Tour de France eleni? Ella byddwch chi'n clywed Rob Hatch, un o'n graddedigion. Dyma fideo ohono fo lle mae o'n dangos ei sgiliau ieithoedd yn ystod y Giro d'Italia rhai mlynedd yn ôl... youtu.be/7K9Z-3Mbmos?...

Don't believe people who say learning a language is always difficult. Some people actually reckon it's a piece of cake. Great to meet visitors to today's Open Day. Siwrne saff adref bawb! / Safe journey home everyone!

Dr. Armelle Blin-Rolland, one of our lecturers in French, has just co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies entitled 'EcoModLang: Greening The field of Languages and Cultures'. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

Mae'r blwyddyn dramor yn gallu bod yn brofiad anhygoel. Dyma rai lluniau gan Chantal, sydd wedi bod yn Valencia eleni / The year abroad can be an amazing experience. Here are some photos from Chantal, who has been in Valencia this year.

Tomorrow (Tues. 20 May) I'm doing a free online talk about Cinema and Globalisation. I'll talk about transnationalism, tariffs and Trump. It's for people thinking about studying at university and you can sign up here: www.bangor.ac.uk/taster-sessi...

GUERNICA - Pablo Picasso. First-year Spanish language students delved into the history of the Spanish Civil War, focusing on Picasso’s powerful masterpiece, Guernica. This work is now on display in room 429.

Next month, I'm doing a free online lecture 'Transnational Cinema: Understanding Film in an Age of Globalisation'. It's for students thinking about studying at university, and will be relevant to both modern languages and film studies. More info here: www.bangor.ac.uk/taster-sessi...

This book about Antisemitism in Football is out next week. It's edited by Emma Poulton, and I've contributed a chapter entitled 'Football and Antisemitism in France: Visibility and Invisibility'. www.routledge.com/Antisemitism...

Following their session on Graffiti in Bangor, our second-year Spanish students created their own design. ¡Buen trabajo!😎🇪🇸

Here are some of the highlights from my recent research trip to Paris where I was focusing on sport and cinema in France...

Dathliadau Blwyddyn Newydd Tsieineaidd ym Mharis. Cofiwch am y digwyddiadau yn Pontio ar ddydd Sadwrn / Chinese New Year Celebrations in Paris. Remember there are CNY events at Pontio this Saturday

Our senior lecturer in German Dr. Sarah Pogoda has written the afterword to Disaster, a novel by Swiss queer author Christoph Geiser.

Rydym wedi mwynhau croesawu ymwelwyr I ddiwrnod agored heddiw / We've been enjoying welcoming visitors to an open day today

2024 was a fascinating year for sport, history, and politics in France. A blog article I wrote for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about #Paris2024 Opening Ceremony has now been published on the journal website as part of a round table about the games: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Braf iawn clywed Eirini Sanoudaki trafod dysgu ieithoedd gydag Aled Hughes ar Radio Cymru / Great to hear Eirini Sanoudaki talking about language learning with Aled Hughes on Radio Cymru: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Anghofiwch am Gavin & Stacey, wnaethoch chi weld Ruben Chapela o'n adran Sbaeneg ar S4C jyst cyn y Nadolig? / Never mind Gavin & Stacey, did you see Ruben Chapela from our Spanish section on S4C just before Christmas? www.facebook.com/S4C/videos/2...

Nadolig llawen bawb! / Happy Christmas everyone! Here's a photo from the archives of some of our staff participating in the 2007 Bangor Santa Dash.

Did you know that our Centre for Galician Studies co-edits one of the leading online journals in Galician Studies: Galicia 21? The new issue is just out, co-edited by our own David Miranda-Barreiro: www.galicia21journal.org/M/index.php

Great to see these pictures from some of our former students on the year abroad in the early 1990s.

Rhai o'n myfyrwyr Sbaeneg yn cyfarfod er mwyn hablar español / Some of our students of Spanish meet up to hablar español

Last month, Dr. Jonathan Lewis of our French section attended the annual conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Along with Professor Sophie Fuggle from Liverpool, he co-presented a paper entitled ‘ “Apolitique et utopique”: The colonial prison island at the end of empire’.

Last month, Dr. Jonathan Ervine (our Modern Languages subject lead) spoke at @footballcollective.bsky.social conference in Newcastle. He talked about visions of masculinity in contemporary French sports films.

Mae hi'n dechrau teimlo'n Nadoligaidd o gwmpas ein adran... / It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in our department...

We're now on Blue Sky, greetings from scenic North Wales! #mfl #modernlanguages