Partnerships
Building close, trusting partnerships is vital to the long-term development of SSi.
In addition to government supported bodies in Wales, we are building close working relationships with commercial entities, workers bodies and entrepreneurial networks to explore a myriad of opportunities across the globe.
These include:
- Developing dedicated Welsh language resources for members of Unite
- Running a summer promotion for On The Beach holiday makers to learn Spanish
- Teaming up with Welsh diaspora organisation, Global Welsh, to promote Wales
- Working with a number of local Sri Lankan organisations to explore Tamil and Sinhalese education
On the Beach Collaboration
On The Beach is a major British package holiday company, whose most popular holiday destination is Spain.
In 2022, SaySomethingin ran an initiative with On The Beach, whereby their holidaymakers destined for Spain could access our Spanish classes to give them greater confidence when away from home.
This initiative proved so popular that we repeated it for the 2023 holiday season.
Triongl
Triongl is one of Wales’s most exciting film and television production companies.
SaySomethingin maintains that film production has an important role within Welsh language development and as a result are working to build ‘TriSSI’, a digital voice coach to support cast and crew working on bilingual productions, with specific focus on back-to-back content.
Tea Leaf Trust
Since 2022, SSi have been carrying out a pilot in urban and rural locations in Sri Lanka to develop courses in English for Tamil and English for Sinhalese.
In partnership with The Tea Leaf Trust we have introduced the AnyoneCanTeach [ACT] initiative, designed to give locals the ability to generate income, through becoming teachers of spoken languages, using the SSi methodology.
Bangor Uni
Bangor is our hometown and the towns University is world-renowned.
In addition to some of our staff having studied there, we are looking to work with their internship initiative.
We are always looking for the best locally based employees and the internship scheme is a perfect introduction to really talented people.
Global Welsh
Wherever you go in the world there is an Irish Bar or groups who boast strong Scottish connections. The three most recent American Presidents have pushed their Celtic connections to these two countries.
Wales seems to hold back in pushing itself forward – that is where Global Welsh seeks to extend influence, linking the Welsh diaspora across and building a global community.
SSi supports the Global Welsh aim to promote Welsh business and is an active member of their Connect programme.
Trade & Invest Wales
At the beginning of 2023 SaySomething was part of a Trade and Invest Wales mission to Ireland.
Our mission is to help all indigenous and endangered languages, so exploring Irish language possibilities with a wide variety of Dublin and Galway based language organisations, has helped us in our plans for an Irish version of SSi.
S4C
SSi has long helped celebrities learn Welsh for their appearance in the S4C TV show Iaith ar Daith. From Ruth Jones and Carol Vorderman, via Rakie Ayola and Chris Coleman, to Katie Owen and Mike Bubbins, the SSi methodology has helped all build confidence in the language to be able to speak it confidently on national television.
Read more about the National Centre for Learning Welsh
SSi has developed a close partnership with The National Centre for Learning Welsh to create a number of important Welsh language initiatives:
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- An iOS, Android and web-based module for Arabic, Pashto & Dari speaking Asylum Seekers / Refugees to learn Welsh direct from their native tongue
- A pilot for 16-to-18-year-old six formers, college attendees & apprentices to improve their Welsh speaking ability in the workplace from their phones, laptops or tablets
- A scheme for Year 7 schoolchildren in 11 English medium schools, building their confidence in Welsh at their pace on their own device
- Ongoing digital learning support to adult classroom schemes
