Category Archives: Living Cornwall

Every Tuesday, Matthew Clarke writes a Cornish language column in the Western Morning News’s Living Cornwall section. This podcast supports the article by reading through the Cornish and adding a lesson.

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Endangered languages can be saved by social media

By Matthew | Published: February 18, 2012
As a Cornish business and a Cornish speaker, I work very closely with the Cornish language and social media in several ways. I have a part-funded podcast radio service in Kernewek which goes out every week. Radyo an Gernewegva is not only published on its own website, but also on twitter @Kernewegva and through Facebook. [...]
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Remembering my family in Cornwall.

By Matthew | Published: January 29, 2012
Everytime I return to Liskeard, my memory is drawn back to my great gran and great aunt who used to live in the town. The Spiers clan used to own the Hotel Nebula up until the mid 1980s. It was (and still is) a small hotel up one of the back streets of this East [...]
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Learning Cornish: Questions and Answers

By Matthew | Published: January 12, 2012
A yll’ta dos dhe’n kevywi haneth? Gallav. My a yll dos. Na allav. Ny allav dos soweth.   A wre’ta dos omma yn fenowgh? Gwrav. My a wra dos omma yn fenowgh. Na wrav. Ny wrav dos omma yn fenowgh.   A vynn’ta prena an desenn joklat ma? Mynnav. My a vynn hy frena. Na [...]
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Gig Zone Cornwall

By Matthew | Published: October 15, 2011
This is a monthly music programme for Cornwall. It is styled like T4 (sort of) and is irreverant and fun!
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Cornish lessons / Dyskansow Kernewek

By Matthew | Published: July 2, 2011
Cornish language lessons blog getting Cornwall started in speaking the Kernewek language.
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Cornish lesson

By Matthew | Published: April 17, 2011
A quick Cornish language lesson
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Living Cornwall Podcast 26

By Matthew | Published: March 15, 2011
It is hoped that a large area in the middle of Camborne, Pool and Redruth will be turned into a park by November. ‘Heartlands’ is a park built around Robinson’s Shaft to make a centre for the World Heritage Site. There will be a hall for displays, a market, a playing place, and offices for social enterprises. Around the shaft will be gardens, lakes and places for children to play.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 24

By Matthew | Published: March 1, 2011
It is great to see our language used more and more across Kernow. I was in Helston last week and I saw a sign for a new housing development named ‘An Henlys’ (the ancient court). There is another in Camborne called Boslowen (happy abode).
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Living Cornwall Podcast 22

By Matthew | Published: February 14, 2011
Sharp’s Brewery has been bought by international drinks group, Molson Coors, for £20 million. The buyers have said that they want to keep the brewery at Rock. It produces 75 thousand barrels a year. There are eighty people working at the brewery, which makes the famous beer – ‘Doom Bar’.
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Living Cornwall Podcast 21

By Matthew | Published: February 8, 2011
Cornwall has chosen the group to go to Ireland this April to the Pan Celtic Song Competion. ‘Green Shoots’ is a group of young girls with a fiddle player and harpist. The lead singer of the group is a girl who is only eight years old.
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