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Thursday February 12, 2009 On Breakfast TV this morning it was reported the take up of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish is growing big time in our schools. A desire by parents for their children to learn more about their culture is one reason but the second reason is that it has been shown that children who take up languages end up with higher IQ's and do better in schools. Years ago while on holiday in Wales we were in a town flooded with kids out of school over lunchtime. They were all speaking Welsh. I loved it. The only trouble is us poor English feel a bit left out.
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The interesting thing with the Scottish Gaelic though is it is now being taught in schools in parts of Scotland where it was never a native language. Personally I'd rather that in the lowland areas (where I was born and grew up) they taught the Scots dialect so that people could appreciate better that the language the speak day to day is more than just English with an accent.
Posted by Darren Moffat on February 12, 2009 at 01:24 AM PST #
Welsh isnt that hard to pick up a basic knowledge of so that you can understand when they switch to welsh to slag you off without you knowing - its quite amusing when you tell them that you know what they are saying!!
Posted by Chris Talbot on February 12, 2009 at 08:41 AM PST #