A big part of our shot at the Million Speakers target

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This idea grew out of NAFOW, so I’ve stuck it in the America/Canada section - but it’s relevant to all of us, so I’d love to hear your feedback on it…

Our shot at helping NAFOW *and* breaking the Million Speakers target

I was thinking in Washington about how we help children acquire words. Not how we teach them a whole language - just how we give them a few words. It was because of what Donna Lloyd Jones said about the NAFOW age profile. She was right - it’s not a young crowd. But as I looked around the tables while she was speaking, I could see a different crowd - the people I’d met who were there because they’d learnt some Welsh. It was a much, much younger crowd. And I thought - the language isn’t an add…