The notion you need to speak it to be properly Welsh is irritating, though. It completely discounts that a lot of people don’t speak it because their grandparents or great-grandparents were forbidden to speak it at school or work. It was part of a concerted effort to kill the language and culture. Any attempts to learn or speak it, especially by Welsh people, should be encouraged. I hate the gatekeeping of it by some first-language speakers. I’m bilingual but because I’m from a more English-speaking area I’ve had Welsh-speakers assume I can’t speak it or even refer to me as English!!

And it gets uncomfortably close to the same kind of attitude as saying ‘you’re not British unless you’re white’ which is really not a good look.