A CANADIAN living in Gwynedd who is learning Welsh is launching a new initiative to help others pick up the language.

A stick or plaque was given to any child heard speaking Welsh during school, to be handed on to whoever next spoke the language. At the end of lessons, the child left with the Welsh Not was punished.

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At Olchfa School in Swansea, only the Welsh lessons are given in Welsh, and head teacher Julian Kennedy estimated the proportion of time needed to study Welsh to the required standard would ...