When she heard Welsh spoken for the first time YuQi Tang thought it was the most “exotic, sexy” language she’d ever heard. Three years on, the Welsh learner from Shanghai is so fluent in the language she teaches Welsh through the medium of Mandarin Chinese to hundreds of followers in China - as well as Mandarin through the medium of Welsh.
Teaching Welsh on the channel BiliBili - the equivalent of YouTube in China - YuQi goes by the name Miss Morwenna and also explains Welsh culture to her more than 300 followers. She said this is a “hobby” while her day job is teaching Mandarin and developing Mandarin courses through the medium of Welsh and English at the University of Wales Trinity St David.
When YuQi, originally from Shanghai, moved to Wales three years ago with husband Scott Griffiths, she said she had not realised how widely Welsh was spoken here. The Welsh Government wants to expand the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050 and some people want second home owners who speak Welsh to have preferable treatment when it comes to taxing those with two homes. You can read more about that here.
