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Wales is, because a large section of the population still bang on about the coal mines being shut down and not being able to find work when it was decades ago that it happened.
'ang on butti! Its 'ard getting work up the valleys mun. I want a well tidy job mun butt and I dont wanna have to go far like.
They only do that when they meet a new English person. Once you get to know them, a thoroughly lovely people with a beautiful country who could conquer the world if they could take the focus off the English for a while.
Take Languages. A second Language in primary schools is fantastic! They just need to switch to the widest spoken language in the world(Mandarin) instead of a language only spoken in one country in the world(and 50 people in Patagonia).
Don't tell PC I posted this - I have a reputation to maintain.....
BP mun! :-)
Mind you - you do live in a pretty anglicised pocket of wales ;-)
Welsh isn't so bad and it is definitely getting more popular here, though this shocked me my daughter is in Year 8 at comp and they are teaching them Mandarin.
I think however this is just sheer luck as she is in the top class/set.
My son too. He goes to a welsh language school.
Apparently they had to get special permission though to teach the mandarin lession via English (you know what I mean!). Couldn't get a welsh speaking mandarin teacher apparently!
Apparently they had to get special permission though to teach the mandarin lession via English (you know what I mean!). Couldn't get a welsh speaking mandarin teacher apparently!
Why on Earth are they bothering with Mandarin? Sounds just like the obsession thirty years ago with UK kids learning Japanese, and what would be the point of that these days?
No doubt in thirty years, after China has declined or been engulfed in debt and Africa is the up and coming country, everyone will be saying it is imperative our kids learn BongoBongo or whatever the latest trendy language there is called!
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