Just how hard is it to learn a new language? Carol Vorderman has spent two months learning Welsh online, resulting in her presenting a whole weather report in Welsh!
Vorderman took on the challenge as part of a new tv series to be broadcast on S4C later this year, in which five celebrities take to the road with a Welsh-speaking mentor in a bid to learn the nation's mother tongue.
Watch me being a weather woman today IN WELSH 🏴🏴....been learning language for nearly 2 months now online with @aranjones @DailyWelshWords...x @S4Ctywydd @S4C #Iaith2020
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) January 26, 2020
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Carol tweeted about her interest in the language, her family's linguistic heritage and how Welsh was treated in the education system.
Russell....it's an important part of who we are: a happy, loving, big family 🏴❤️ Two generations before me ALL my family spoke Welsh. As children in school (inc my grandad) they had to wear the Welsh "NOT" in school, a punishing means of banishing the language.(More to follow) https://t.co/L8obFraVtk
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) January 26, 2020
cont'd.. Children were forced to speak English in school. If one spoke Welsh, they had to wear a board around their neck with the word NOT on it (do NOT speak Welsh). I believe the last child to speak Welsh that day would be punished. So Welsh was nearly ended through education https://t.co/apCaZ5mT8H
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) January 26, 2020
Cont'd....since about the 60s, schools teaching only in the language of Welsh, have been mushrooming in number. If I was a parent of young children in Wales now, I would absolutely send my children to a "Welsh school".
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) January 26, 2020
Welsh is alive and growing x ❤️🏴 https://t.co/apCaZ5mT8H
Vorderman has inspired BBC weather and TV presenter, Barra Best to follow her footsteps with Irish. Go n-éirí leis!
Ok @carolvorders - my aim is to follow you with Irish. #Gaels #Aimsir #Gaeilge https://t.co/EMSqvo0RsY
— Barra Best (@barrabest) January 26, 2020
