More Adults in the UK speak Portuguese Than Welsh

Alan Clogwyn said:
This. Yes they do exist. Right outside the irritating little Cheshireite haven that is Abersoch you'll find locals who can barely string an English sentence together. I fail to see how some of you can't grasp that people in a country with a language of its own actually speak that language?
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it is not so much that they speak their own language, it is more failing to grasp that they can't speak English....it is 2014 now, I'm not from the UK and I got English in school from the age of 6 in the 1970s....I'm totally amazed by that...

Somehow I picture those locals to look like this :)

PS. My family moved in 1647 from the South of Wales to Germany, still got an uncle in Aberystwyth....
 
I've got used to seeing road signs in two languages. For example:

Jijona
Xixona

Javea
Xabia

Villajoyosa
La Vila Joiosa

Alicante
Alacant

But one big waste of money was the signs that read:

Valencia
València
 
Ricardodaforce said:
I've got used to seeing road signs in two languages. For example:

Jijona
Xixona

Javea
Xabia

Villajoyosa
La Vila Joiosa

Alicante
Alacant

But one big waste of money was the signs that read:

Valencia
València
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Here, they have the road signs in Greek characters 400m before junctions and the repeats in Roman characters about 10m before the turning! Luckily we can both read the Greek signs (and have decent maps) so don't often overshoot. The situation isn't helped up in the mountains by the peppering of many of the signs by bullet holes of assorted calibres.

re some Welsh being unable to string a sentence in English together, there are plenty of English people who have problems with that!
 
just now bookmarked that link as sure it will be an interesting read. Am surprised we have more people fluent in German than Spanish though!
 
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