1. Amcanion / Objectives
to understand the importance of learning a language in today’s world
to be aware of the advantages of learning Welsh and becoming increasingly bilingual

2. No! Does everyone in the World speak English?
75% of the world does NOT
speak English at all

3. Because languages can get you a better paid job
Because languages improve
your understanding of how other people live and think
Because you can travel more and
meet new people
Because languages can get you a better paid job
Why do we need to learn other languages?

4. Why do we learn ‘Cymraeg’?

5. Because we live in Wales and Welsh is our language

6. Therefore, it can raise your marks in other subjects!
Educational benefits
Because learning another language boosts your brain power and makes you brainier!
Therefore, it can raise your marks in other subjects!

7. Because learning another language makes you more creative!
Educational benefits
Because learning another language makes you more creative!

8. Because it helps you to learn other languages!
Educational benefits
Because it helps you to learn other languages!

9. Because it helps us to respect other languages and other cultures
Tolerance of other languages and cultures
Because it helps us to respect other languages and other cultures
It allows us to communicate with more people in the community

10. Because your future best friend might speak it!
Tolerance of other languages and cultures
Because your future best friend might speak it!

11. Employment advantages
Because more and more employers in Wales are looking for workers who can speak Welsh

12. It might help you to land your dream job!
Employment advantages
It might help you to land your dream job!

13. EWCH AMDANI!
Pob lwc!

14. Why learn Welsh? Improve your career chances;
Dysgwch ddwy iaith er mwyn llwyddo yn y byd gwaith!
Improve your career chances;
learn Welsh, it’s a great advantage!
Learning another
language increases
opportunities and
choices
Evidence from across the World shows that children who can speak 2 languages can think more creatively and tend to do better in IQ tests
Because we live in Wales
and Welsh is our language
Having 2 languages, means that we inherit 2 cultures and gain 2 different worlds of experience; with a language goes a wealth of history, songs, music, stories and poetry
Why learn Welsh?
Learning another language helps us to do better in other subjects
It makes us nicer! Research from Cambridge University has found that having another language makes us better able to tolerate differences in cultures, creeds and customs and also better able to find solutions to conflict
More and more employers in Wales are looking for workers who can speak Welsh