| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:14 - Jul 24 with 4011 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Yes, let's drag the English school children's education down to the embarrassing levels the Welsh children's is currently at too. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:17 - Jul 24 with 4007 views | mart6 |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:14 - Jul 24 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Yes, let's drag the English school children's education down to the embarrassing levels the Welsh children's is currently at too. |
You being a prime example |  | | |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:32 - Jul 24 with 3977 views | treboethjack |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:14 - Jul 24 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Yes, let's drag the English school children's education down to the embarrassing levels the Welsh children's is currently at too. |
Welsh speaking schools have better records when it comes to exam results, discipline and inspections in Wales. I'm not sure how schools across the border do. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:36 - Jul 24 with 3969 views | Neath_Jack |
All kids in Wales should be taught in Welsh medium schools. With the odd English school dotted about for those that wish to opt out.
F*ck the rest of Britain. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 14:37 - Jul 24 with 3964 views | yescomeon |
Bilingualism is an advantage for children, regardless of what the two languages are. I found the points she made regarding "British Nationalism" to be interesting and echo my own views. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 15:13 - Jul 24 with 3928 views | Johnw102 |
Don't seem to teach English in a lot of schools these days, by what I can gather listening to kids. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 15:27 - Jul 24 with 3912 views | Highjack |
Good god no. We'd all be covered in saliva from head to foot! |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 15:37 - Jul 24 with 3902 views | costalotta |
What a joke!!
Welsh should be optional end of.
I don't argue that there is some cultural positives to this, but c'mon!
Someone in thread asked about the performance of English schools versus welsh schools. The very sad fact is since we've had the WAG and the welsh language activists have had a voice our education system in Wales has become one of the worst in Europe. There are plenty of stats and new stories to back this up.
We should not be gambling our kids education and if they are to learn a language they should be encouraged to learn one with which they can converse with those from other countries. I'd suggest a language from one of the emerging economic powerhouses. |  | | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 16:02 - Jul 24 with 3871 views | Dr_Winston |
Shouldn't even be taught in Welsh schools. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 16:10 - Jul 24 with 3858 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 15:37 - Jul 24 by costalotta |
What a joke!!
Welsh should be optional end of.
I don't argue that there is some cultural positives to this, but c'mon!
Someone in thread asked about the performance of English schools versus welsh schools. The very sad fact is since we've had the WAG and the welsh language activists have had a voice our education system in Wales has become one of the worst in Europe. There are plenty of stats and new stories to back this up.
We should not be gambling our kids education and if they are to learn a language they should be encouraged to learn one with which they can converse with those from other countries. I'd suggest a language from one of the emerging economic powerhouses. |
It always amazes me that children from many countries far, far worse off than ours are able to speak their national language and also speak an acceptable level of English.
Meanwhile children in the U.K speak their national language (English) and that's it. We teach French, German and Welsh one hour a week but nobody learns it. You aren't able to speak the language once you're done in school. It really is staggering.
If I do have children and I lived in Wales at the time I'd undoubtedly send them to a Welsh school so they can speak two languages, although I'd much rather have them learn a more productive language than Welsh which is pretty pointless in my opinion. | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:24 - Jul 24 with 3809 views | Thursday |
As far as I'm aware, there are two compulsory subjects taught in Wales that should be abolished to make way for more suitable subjects. The two subjects should be taught as sections of more comprehensive subjects. Welsh and Religion. Have an encompassing 'Intro to European Languages' as part of History so children can decide on a second language, and pop 'Religious Studies' into Philosophy. To keep it fair, drop 'English' as a second language in Welsh school (if it's compulsory now). |  | | |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:47 - Jul 24 with 3794 views | ApeShit |
Welsh should be optional, outside of Wales it is utterly pointless. |  | | |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:57 - Jul 24 with 3780 views | canhecatchit |
Well I only speak English because as you say they only gave Welsh for a couple of hours a week at our local school. However my three sons were sent to a Welsh medium school and belive it or not have excelled at all subjects. They have also picked up and done well at German Spanish and French.
So don;t say learning Welsh is a bad idea or a waste of time. Just because you couldn't be assed !!! |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:58 - Jul 24 with 3775 views | Jackfath |
Who is going to teach all this extra Welsh? |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:59 - Jul 24 with 3776 views | canhecatchit |
Semme also that English is now being taught as a foreign language in England of all places.
Half the English people can't speak their own language either | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:01 - Jul 24 with 3775 views | ApeShit |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:57 - Jul 24 by canhecatchit |
Well I only speak English because as you say they only gave Welsh for a couple of hours a week at our local school. However my three sons were sent to a Welsh medium school and belive it or not have excelled at all subjects. They have also picked up and done well at German Spanish and French.
So don;t say learning Welsh is a bad idea or a waste of time. Just because you couldn't be assed !!! |
So you're saying the only reasons your sons excelled in all subjects and done well at German, Spanish and French is because they learnt Welsh?
Its not that I can't be "assed" its that I would have no use for it, so it would be a waste of my time. | | | |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:07 - Jul 24 with 3768 views | Thursday |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:57 - Jul 24 by canhecatchit |
Well I only speak English because as you say they only gave Welsh for a couple of hours a week at our local school. However my three sons were sent to a Welsh medium school and belive it or not have excelled at all subjects. They have also picked up and done well at German Spanish and French.
So don;t say learning Welsh is a bad idea or a waste of time. Just because you couldn't be assed !!! |
Anecdotal. | | | |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:20 - Jul 24 with 3753 views | union_jack |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 17:47 - Jul 24 by ApeShit |
Welsh should be optional, outside of Wales it is utterly pointless. |
And in Wales to be honest. |  |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:27 - Jul 24 with 3746 views | perchrockjack |
I recall recently reading standards in Wales were well behind most areas in England so anecdotal indeed. The school my son went to had 98% pass rate in A-D grades ;other areas of Wirral is 40%.
Welsh has no use outside Wales. It is a minority language that's been forced on many kids who will never use it socially/So what.Its more important to bring them up as good citizens who look outside WALES into the big world not hark back to a language that needs government help and money to keep it going.
Wales is well behind in university entrants and how does Welsh help | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:31 - Jul 24 with 3738 views | union_jack |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:27 - Jul 24 by perchrockjack |
I recall recently reading standards in Wales were well behind most areas in England so anecdotal indeed. The school my son went to had 98% pass rate in A-D grades ;other areas of Wirral is 40%.
Welsh has no use outside Wales. It is a minority language that's been forced on many kids who will never use it socially/So what.Its more important to bring them up as good citizens who look outside WALES into the big world not hark back to a language that needs government help and money to keep it going.
Wales is well behind in university entrants and how does Welsh help |
I was going to pin my colours to the mast but you did it for me in the second paragraph Perch. Though your post was probably more polite than mine would have been! | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:45 - Jul 24 with 3725 views | perchrockjack |
Don't mind being shot at but its the truth,really it is.
Welsh would only be spoken in ne WALES parts of CARMS and north PEMBS if not subsidised massively.
WALES is tiny in the world .Its economy utterly reliant on England and bilingualism would help.
KIDS need to be bilingual in langauges that will help them in commerce and business not because of a need to comply by some welsh quango.FRENCH,,Italian,Spanish,German,Mandarin,Portuguese, Japanese are the languages.
Theres not many companies in Wales of any worth to have Welsh as an advantage. Many firms are leaving WALES sadly. MAYBE IF WE GREW UP A BIT AND LOOKED AT THE BIG WORLD we d be better off. | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:59 - Jul 24 with 3708 views | Neath_Jack |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:45 - Jul 24 by perchrockjack |
Don't mind being shot at but its the truth,really it is.
Welsh would only be spoken in ne WALES parts of CARMS and north PEMBS if not subsidised massively.
WALES is tiny in the world .Its economy utterly reliant on England and bilingualism would help.
KIDS need to be bilingual in langauges that will help them in commerce and business not because of a need to comply by some welsh quango.FRENCH,,Italian,Spanish,German,Mandarin,Portuguese, Japanese are the languages.
Theres not many companies in Wales of any worth to have Welsh as an advantage. Many firms are leaving WALES sadly. MAYBE IF WE GREW UP A BIT AND LOOKED AT THE BIG WORLD we d be better off. |
What a load of nonsense from an ex Welshman, now an Englishman.
Pray tell, how is Italian, Portuguese, Spanish are more useful than Welsh? Eh? There is a very small percentage of people that end up in international business where some of those are of use, other than that, they're allright when you go on holidays i suppose. LOL.
Welsh Not. C*nts. | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 19:04 - Jul 24 with 3701 views | Jackfath |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:59 - Jul 24 by Neath_Jack |
What a load of nonsense from an ex Welshman, now an Englishman.
Pray tell, how is Italian, Portuguese, Spanish are more useful than Welsh? Eh? There is a very small percentage of people that end up in international business where some of those are of use, other than that, they're allright when you go on holidays i suppose. LOL.
Welsh Not. C*nts. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers | |
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| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 19:06 - Jul 24 with 3699 views | ApeShit |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:59 - Jul 24 by Neath_Jack |
What a load of nonsense from an ex Welshman, now an Englishman.
Pray tell, how is Italian, Portuguese, Spanish are more useful than Welsh? Eh? There is a very small percentage of people that end up in international business where some of those are of use, other than that, they're allright when you go on holidays i suppose. LOL.
Welsh Not. C*nts. |
There is about 20 countries who speak Spanish as their first language and over 450 million people speak Spanish.
Can't speak for the other languages. | | | |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 19:17 - Jul 24 with 3684 views | Dr_Winston |
| Welsh should be taught in all British schools on 18:59 - Jul 24 by Neath_Jack |
What a load of nonsense from an ex Welshman, now an Englishman.
Pray tell, how is Italian, Portuguese, Spanish are more useful than Welsh? Eh? There is a very small percentage of people that end up in international business where some of those are of use, other than that, they're allright when you go on holidays i suppose. LOL.
Welsh Not. C*nts. |
About half a million people tops speak Welsh. Not all of them fluently. All of them also speak English.
Hundreds of millions of people speak either Spanish or Portuguese.
Simple maths proves the use. | |
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