Elaine McClarence
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My story is simple. My grandparents were Welsh speakers but my mother was punished at school for speaking welsh so they stopped talking to her in her own language. When I was growing up I could learn Latin, French and Russian but not my own language. I went on to learn to speak Swedish fluently, Spanish well and even Italian, German and French to some extent but Welsh has been in my heart.