Minority Languages in UK

Introduction

Now there are many languages which are about to disappear from the world. In the UK Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Cornish and Irish. Those are very important things in the world as culture. I would like to introduce you a language being about to disappearing focusing on Welsh.

Welsh

Welsh uses two languages, which are English and Welsh. When you get to Wales, you will see signs written invitation in two languages. However those who speak Welsh are not so much. Why is it disappearing? I will explain below.

It is said that Welsh was taught by Celt before Roman attacked Britain island. In 1284, Wales was dominated by England. In 1536, Wales became a part of England. By this, Wales was banned to speak their language, Welsh. After that, those who speak have been disappearing gradually. In, 1801 the rate of people who speak Welsh was more than 80%, however, in 1960s about 20%. But recently those who speak Welsh is increasing a little by movements to save it. The Movement Graph and The Rate of people using Welsh Here.

England didn't allow Welsh to speak their language in public places such as court, school and etc. But interestingly, in a church, it was allowed because England wanted to spread their religion in Wales immediately. To spread it, it is convenient to use Welsh in Wales. The book about England's religion was published. Welsh used it to learn their language at that time. There were discrimination against people speaking Welsh. Sometimes, teachers hit their students with stick when students used Welsh in school.

Welsh is often used in the middle and the north part of Wales, but it is hardly spoken in the south area, where industry flourish. now by the movement to protect Welsh, a number of people who speak welsh is increasing a bit. 20% of welsh speak it.

Solutions

How can we protect them? I think we should use media such as TV, newspaper, Internet, radio. We have to use those things to get information. So if minority languages is used, they have to remember. I think it is the best way. And other solutions are like, to build museums, to make a opportunity to meet who speak minority languages, to make signs using Welsh languages in the city. If famous people speak those language on TV, it must become major language.

references: wikipedia

:http://aitech.ac.jp/~yoshiga/WALES/WALES.html

Harrow School

Introduction
I would like to introduce Harrow. Harrow is privae school which you have to pay a lot of money to enter. You have to pay £ 23.625.
13 to 18 years old people go to here. I will write about the history of Harrow and paticular words used only in Harrow.

History
There are 800 boys in Harrow school. Harrow was established in 1243, so it has many traditions and rich history. Of course, there are many famous people who graduated from this school. I would like to mention about that below.

Harrow Words
At Harrow, there are many wards used only there. I would like to introduce some of them below.
Beak-teacher
Bill Book- a small book which includes aspects of Harrow.
Ducker- swimming pool
Tosh- a bath of shower
Shell- the youngest year group at harrow
Remove- the second year group at Harrow.
see other words here

Harrow has their important song written by John Farmer, who was head of music, in 1864. Boys sing it every term in their houses and whole school students sing it to audiences of Parents. Twice a year Harrow invites previous Harrovians to hold concert and Churchill song is sung in Autumn.

Harrow has their original sport called Harrow Football. It is played by eleven player. Player have to score goals more than opponents. the ball is made of leather. Player mainly use their feet but they may use any part of their body to propel the ball.

If you think about Harrow, you may think is to study hard. However there are not only study but also outside activity such as music, drama, visual art, sport and other activities. I saw a movie that Harrovians was playing Judo. They are doing a lot of activities. more activities here