General Discussion
@Lynne. i see that exeter university have an intake of roughly 1500 chinese students and also run an office in beijing. foreign language teaching in general is on the decline in both schools and universities, but i guess if we do want to promote learning of a second language then it should either be welsh or mandarin, depending on which of those two countries we think will be the dominant economic or cultural influence in the future. french is so passé.
Felly Lynne pam yr ydych yn credu y bydd y Gymraeg byth fod yn ddlanwad economaidd yng Nghymru, rwy'n synnu gan y sylw hwnnw. I would prefer Welsh as it's such a simple language to learn, for anyone who isn't fluent in Welsh I was just asking Lynne why she thought the Welsh would ever be an economic influence in England. As with Onport I too am fluent in Chinese 14, 19, 28, 2 63's y e s de liv or ee
@Andysport: just where exactly in my reply to Neil did I say or imply in anyway which language and country of those he mentioned did I think would be the dominant and cultural influence in the future? What I said (in French) was that I agreed with him.
Do you have a problem with appreciating irony?
Here's the truth
The French plan, build and own a nuclear power station in Sommerset
The Chinese pay for it to be built and also take an ownership share
When it works the British bills DOUBLE in order to pay back the French & Chinese
When it goes tits up like Sellerfield the French and Chinese are nowhere to be seen
Then who pays for the clean up demolition and disposal of the spent fuel rods
You got it WE DO
Yet another total balls up by muppet Cameron and his Conservative multi-cultural nut bags
@Andysport. Gwneud yn dda! See Welsh could work. Who'd have thought that simple conversations in Welsh would ever be seen on the Dawlish.com site. From little acorns. By the way did you see the award for the 'secondary school teacher of the year' was given to a teacher of Japanese. Diolch yn fawr Andysport.
FredBassett a interesting point about Calder Hall or as is now Sellafield renamed so people would not link it to the reactor explosion that was estimated to have caused the death of 240 people. The reactor overheated on the 10th october 1957 and is still capped and hot and will be for hundreds of years i was 10 years old and remember being sent home from School the word was a nuclear bomb had been dropped a very frightening time. My father who farmed in Borrowdale had his milk from the herd collected daily to be disposed off and lambs couldnt be sold as the animals where contaminated from radiation in the grass. I find it strange that these things are forgoten with goverment ministers telling us we have never had a nuclear accident and our nuclear stations are the safest in the world.
Sellafield used to be called Windscale and it was there that the fire occurred. Calder Hall is it's neighbour.
The fire was in a Magnox Reactor at the original Calder Hall site that made material for nuclear weapons Calder Hall generation was alongside it when electricity generation started the original site was renamed. My mothers brother worked at the original site and recieved a high dose of Strontium 90 during the fire and died from bone cancer 25 years later. I just wonder how many folk realise how close we are to Hinkley Point lets hope they never have a problem i am a little biased so i will stop ranting have a cuppa take the tablets and go to bed.