The Welsh education authority have made Welsh compulsory in schools, which a lot of English speaking families are very pleased about. If you chose to live in a country where their own language was mostly spoken, you would be want to learn that language to be able to coverse with others. There are Welsh interpreters at The Hauge, should they be requested, the same as they have interpreters in other languages. As for Wales being an "antiquated dump", guess what , we do have running water, & electiricity. Oh & we can read. Yes, there probably are people with ruddy faces, but that`s what you get when you work outside in what we have plenty of FRESH AIR. The sweaty backs, yes probably, bought on by WORK.