What happens to pupils’ Welsh after they leave school?

Daniel Patrick Strogen, PhD Candidate in Linguistics, Swansea University Wales has an ambitious goal: to achieve one million Welsh speakers by 2050. Schools are central to this. For many children, particularly those who do not speak Welsh at home, school is where they learn the language. But learning Welsh at school is

Ade Lukmanul Hakimmm/Shutterstock Wales has an ambitious goal: to achieve one million Welsh speakers by 2050. Schools are central to this. For many children, particularly those who do not speak Welsh at home, school is where they learn the language. But learning Welsh at school is not the same as continuing to use it