Maeo wedi canu arna ni fatha cenedl o bobl sydd yn siarad o fatha iaith gynta. Ail iaith fyddo yn y dyfodol yn anffodus.
I’m not Welsh, and lived most of my life in England, but moved to Wales recently. Originally I’m Polish.
I absolutely ADORE seeing Welsh everywhere. Occasionally I’ll even put on BBC Cymru just to listen to a bit of it. I’m unlikely to learn it myself, but if I had children here I’d definitely support them learning the language.
It’s a unique language, in a very unique place. I wish the Welsh language, and its people, all the best going forward! 🙂
Also had this playing on loop for a good while now 🙂 [https://youtu.be/rFI6GIp-sbc](https://youtu.be/rFI6GIp-sbc)
Well the Eisteddfod was awesome this year. So many people there. Even on the rainy days. For now I’d say there’s still hope for the language.
The problem that the Welsh Language faces is the same wider problem that Wales faces as a whole. Wales is a relatively poor part of the UK with an aging population that is growing slower than it needs to in order to sustain public services at the level is needed to keep them the same. That means in order to keep the NHS going ever year, everything else gets real terms cuts, which make the services worse.
We can create another strategy, it will just go on a shelf somewhere. Politicians can move some money around and pretend they are investing new money when they obviously aren’t. Unionists will blame the Senedd, Nationalists the UK Government, both will rally against any proper change to planning or economic reforms that are difficult but unpopular.
Definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I honestly think Welsh should be offered in all UK schools — it’s one of our indigenous languages and has suffered so much with previous attempts to wipe it out. I’m doing my best to learn Welsh with books and Duolingo, but it’s tough going.
There’s hope, but there’s also concern.
Hope is because there are an increasing number of Welsh speakers, especially in the younger generations.
Concern is because of the amount of use of the language. And that in turn is because many of these younger Welsh speakers are not first language, having learnt it in school. They may well have learnt it from a young age but if it’s not the language of the home it will unlikely ever be the language that they naturally turn to.
I wouldn’t want to get to the position that Ireland is in, where 2/3 of the country can speak the language, but only a very small minority actually use it. But I have a feeling that might be the way we’re heading. From that position to the language just being something of academic study is a fairly small step.
I live in a village in rural Ceredigion. In the time I have been here (30 years) I’ve seen the language of the village centre change from predominantly Welsh to predominantly English. This is largely because of outsiders moving into the village. But whatever the reason, it’s another Welsh heartland village lost. This is unsustainable if the language is to have a future; we need communities where the default language is Welsh, otherwise it will slowly fade and disappear as a language of the home.
Welsh language schools are part of the answer, but they can’t be the only answer. Welsh needs to be the language of homes, and encouragement and support needs to be in place for that, if the one million speakers target means anything more than quite a lot of people having learnt enough to tick the “Siarad Cymraeg” box on a form.
Maybe my experience because of where I live is slightly pessimistic, and I’m sure others will have a different view.
Keep it going in museums etc, but stop plastering it everywhere in completely English speaking places.
Having it as the first thing on road signs in Monmouthshire is ridiculous.
By the time you’ve scanned down to the bit anyone actually understands you’ve missed your turning or crashed.
I do not speak Welsh (I could when I was in a Welsh primary school but moved to England for a few years and was bullied) but I have ensured my children do by sending them to Welsh school.
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Maeo wedi canu arna ni fatha cenedl o bobl sydd yn siarad o fatha iaith gynta. Ail iaith fyddo yn y dyfodol yn anffodus.
I’m not Welsh, and lived most of my life in England, but moved to Wales recently. Originally I’m Polish.
I absolutely ADORE seeing Welsh everywhere. Occasionally I’ll even put on BBC Cymru just to listen to a bit of it. I’m unlikely to learn it myself, but if I had children here I’d definitely support them learning the language.
It’s a unique language, in a very unique place. I wish the Welsh language, and its people, all the best going forward! 🙂
Also had this playing on loop for a good while now 🙂 [https://youtu.be/rFI6GIp-sbc](https://youtu.be/rFI6GIp-sbc)
Well the Eisteddfod was awesome this year. So many people there. Even on the rainy days. For now I’d say there’s still hope for the language.
The problem that the Welsh Language faces is the same wider problem that Wales faces as a whole. Wales is a relatively poor part of the UK with an aging population that is growing slower than it needs to in order to sustain public services at the level is needed to keep them the same. That means in order to keep the NHS going ever year, everything else gets real terms cuts, which make the services worse.
We can create another strategy, it will just go on a shelf somewhere. Politicians can move some money around and pretend they are investing new money when they obviously aren’t. Unionists will blame the Senedd, Nationalists the UK Government, both will rally against any proper change to planning or economic reforms that are difficult but unpopular.
Definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I honestly think Welsh should be offered in all UK schools — it’s one of our indigenous languages and has suffered so much with previous attempts to wipe it out. I’m doing my best to learn Welsh with books and Duolingo, but it’s tough going.
There’s hope, but there’s also concern.
Hope is because there are an increasing number of Welsh speakers, especially in the younger generations.
Concern is because of the amount of use of the language. And that in turn is because many of these younger Welsh speakers are not first language, having learnt it in school. They may well have learnt it from a young age but if it’s not the language of the home it will unlikely ever be the language that they naturally turn to.
I wouldn’t want to get to the position that Ireland is in, where 2/3 of the country can speak the language, but only a very small minority actually use it. But I have a feeling that might be the way we’re heading. From that position to the language just being something of academic study is a fairly small step.
I live in a village in rural Ceredigion. In the time I have been here (30 years) I’ve seen the language of the village centre change from predominantly Welsh to predominantly English. This is largely because of outsiders moving into the village. But whatever the reason, it’s another Welsh heartland village lost. This is unsustainable if the language is to have a future; we need communities where the default language is Welsh, otherwise it will slowly fade and disappear as a language of the home.
Welsh language schools are part of the answer, but they can’t be the only answer. Welsh needs to be the language of homes, and encouragement and support needs to be in place for that, if the one million speakers target means anything more than quite a lot of people having learnt enough to tick the “Siarad Cymraeg” box on a form.
Maybe my experience because of where I live is slightly pessimistic, and I’m sure others will have a different view.
Keep it going in museums etc, but stop plastering it everywhere in completely English speaking places.
Having it as the first thing on road signs in Monmouthshire is ridiculous.
By the time you’ve scanned down to the bit anyone actually understands you’ve missed your turning or crashed.
I do not speak Welsh (I could when I was in a Welsh primary school but moved to England for a few years and was bullied) but I have ensured my children do by sending them to Welsh school.