10. Short Debate: Trilingual Wales: The value to Wales of teaching modern foreign languages

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:07 pm on 8 January 2020.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 7:07, 8 January 2020

Okay. Well, just to finish then, I just want to go back to that 2012 point, when I made that policy announcement in the Eisteddfod. The main reason that I switched to Welsh was actually because I'd forgotten most of my French. It's strange for me that my second language is now Welsh and not any of the ones that I learnt in school or elsewhere, not just because it mattered to my friends and my family, but because customers, clients and colleagues valued me speaking the language that mattered to them. If you make that true for the people's French or German or Spanish or Portuguese or whatever it is, then we have something really special to offer our schoolchildren.

On that, I'm hoping you'll be slightly generous, and give one minute to Mike Hedges, Dirprwy Lywydd, and one to Darren Millar as well.