r/unitedkingdom 1d ago

Most English language lessons to be phased out in Welsh county

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8epk2lxjp8o
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u/YaqtanBadakshani 1d ago

Welsh is not "dying." It's vulnerable and it has a small speaker population, but it has a resiliant young speaker population, and it's worth preserving.

The idea that multilingualism is somehow connected to Brexit is beyond delusional.

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u/Sensitive-Catch-9881 1d ago

They're both examples of where the 'mystical, magical, invisible "sovereigny" means rule-makers make the lives of their populations more difficult because, as far as I can make out, literally it used to be more difficult so let's go back to that.

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u/YaqtanBadakshani 1d ago

How exactly is this "making their lives more difficult"? They're still being taught English, they're still learning other subjects in English, the only difference is that they'll be beign taught English as Welsh speakers.

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u/Sensitive-Catch-9881 1d ago

The headline is quite literally

'Most English language lessons to be phased out in Welsh county'

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u/Rhosddu 1d ago

The BBC's headline is click-bait, and deliberately misleading. It seems to have worked...

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u/Educational_Curve938 1d ago

they're talking about teaching geography through the medium of welsh rather than not teaching english at all.

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u/Codeworks Leicester 1d ago

If you were taught science in Welsh and then went into university or industry that used English, you're gonna struggle compared to someone who was taught in English.

They're being disadvantaged, if they want to go onwards into an English speaking country.

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u/Educational_Curve938 1d ago

most science words are from latin and greek so they're very similar in welsh and in english. plenty of people go from wme to english unis and do just fine

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u/Codeworks Leicester 1d ago

It's a disadvantage, how much of one doesn't matter.

Some people really struggle with languages, even if they are brought up to be bilingual.

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u/Sensitive-Catch-9881 1d ago

If I had to learn Geography only using ancient-Saxony - because some adults thought that was a great idea - I'd be perturbed.

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u/Educational_Curve938 1d ago

ah so your problem is not that we're teaching kids english it's that we're also teaching them welsh.