David Reynolds, a professor of education at Plymouth University, said learning Welsh had "really taken off" and that any reservations aboutlearning the local language seemed to have disappeared.
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Although outsiders are sometimes enthusiastic about their children learning Gaelic, language campaigners admit that many locals have long thought that it is English that matters most for their bairns' future.