Cyril Haearn wrote:honesty wrote:Didn't like Dolgellau, they tried to charge me 20p for a pee...
tried to? Did they succeed? What did you do?
Cycled up the mountain and went behind a tree!
Cyril Haearn wrote:honesty wrote:Didn't like Dolgellau, they tried to charge me 20p for a pee...
tried to? Did they succeed? What did you do?
Cyril Haearn wrote:The Grauniad reports from Llangennech where a school plans to stop using English and only offer tuition in Welsh, apparently many school in Wales are doing likewise
Is that good for the children? I guess most of them learn English from telly etc. But what about the plentyn who only speak Welsh at home, whose parents only watch S4C (like me), when might they learn English, could they be disadvantaged?
I think one can have both, there should be no need to choose
Vocab: plant: child, plentyn: children
Unless they find some non-existent Welsh-only community to live and work in they will need a good standard of written English, whatever anyone thinks about that.
Cyril Haearn wrote:Just been at a talk about another bilingual country, Canada. There too English was dominant for many years, higher education was scarce in Quebec until a few decades ago. Now there are laws favouring French. The language spoken there is different from *standard* French, old fashioned, the people speak slowly. Could be some lessons for Wales there.