{"id":36593,"date":"2018-12-17T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=36593"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T09:59:29","slug":"cymraeg-2050-welsh-assemblys-plan-one-million-welsh-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/cymraeg-2050-welsh-assemblys-plan-one-million-welsh-speakers","title":{"rendered":"Cymraeg 2050: The Welsh Assembly&#8217;s plan for one million Welsh speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In 2017, the Welsh Assembly announced their plan to boost the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050, but how is the plan affecting the language one year on?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36634\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36634\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Sexy-Outside-Senedd-Cropped-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36634\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/Sexy-Outside-Senedd-Cropped-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> The Welsh Assembly Building &#8211; Y Senedd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2011 Census revealed that the number of Welsh speakers had declined since 2001, which acted as a wake-up call for the government to realise things needed to change.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, they announced their ambitious goal of reaching one million Welsh speakers by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Their vision was that by 2050, Welsh would be used in all aspects of life, and that even non-Welsh speakers would recognise its contribution to the country&#8217;s culture and society.<\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One million Welsh-speakers by 2050 is the long-term goal of the Welsh Assembly&#8217;s plan, but this is a strategy that they are implementing right now.<\/p>\n<p>Between now and 2021, the government want to increase the language transmission rate, focusing on ensuring that all children are able to leave school with the ability to speak Welsh.<\/p>\n<p>A year after the plan was published, a StatsWales study revealed the growth in Welsh-speakers since the 2011 Census, with many attributing this to the government&#8217;s strategy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36601\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/cymraeg-5c-2020_34747846-2-625x1444.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"1444\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36601\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/cymraeg-5c-2020_34747846-2-625x1444.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"1444\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>One primary focus of the Welsh Assembly&#8217;s plan is Welsh-language provision in Further Education.\u00a0Jacob Morris is Cardiff Students&#8217; Union&#8217;s Welsh Language Officer, whose job is to ensure the Welsh language is treated fairly within the university.<\/p>\n<p>As a Welsh and Politics student, Jacob has a special interest in Cymraeg 2050, and says that the goal is achievable, but not without hard work.<\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh Assembly have a strategy to reach one million Welsh speakers by 2050, but is their plan already creating change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":36633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[606,616,722],"class_list":["post-36593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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