Cymdeithas y Dysgwyr, better known as CYD, is a movement that offers social opportunity to bring Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 learners and speakers together so that Welsh learners can improve their oral skills in the language and get a deeper understanding of Welsh culture.

This can happen

• at local branch level
• by branches joining together to arrange area activities
• by joining national activities such as the quiz, residential weekends etc.

One of its founders and current honorary president is Professor Bobi Jones

Bobi Jones

Emeritus Professor Robert Maynard Jones , generally known as Bobi Jones, is a Welsh Christian academic, one of the most prolific writers in the history of the Welsh language. A versatile master of poetry, fictional prose and criticism, he is now in his seventies and still producing work of a high...

, a renowned Welsh scholar.