Comment by gizajob

I’ve sometimes wondered if there are any welsh speakers who don’t speak any English at all. My welsh father didn’t learn English until he was about 8, and his mother’s English was extremely rudimentary when she used to speak to me when I visited as a child. This is in a village near Caernarfon where really nobody speaks English on a day to day basis, everything is done in welsh. Naturally nowadays the younger generation is completely native-level in English, just strange to think about that even 70 years ago there were a lot of British people who couldn’t speak English.