A woman was told to stop speaking 'foreign muck' but was actually speaking Welsh... in Wales

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A mum said was shocked when she was told to stop speaking “foreign muck” to her one-year-old daughter but was actually speaking Welsh... in Wales.

Elin Jones, who lives in Lampeter , was speaking to daughter Elena while out shopping on Saturday, explaining to her about the food that was on the shelves.

To her shock, a customer at the local store in Ceredigion confronted her, and mother-of-three Elin tweeted:

Speaking to WalesOnline, Elin explained how she corrected the woman.

“I think I was pretty calm about the situation to be honest.

“I said to her ‘I think you are misunderstood – I am speaking Welsh to my children’.

“But she turned on her heels and walked away. She didn’t even try and justify what she had said.

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“Wales and the UK is a multicultural country and I love that about it in general and we should be far more accepting.”

Elin, 32, works in a local pub and added: “Most people usually recognise that it’s Welsh, particularly when I’m in Wales.

“But maybe because I don’t sound Welsh when I am speaking it I have had comments from people saying ‘go back to your own country’, which is very funny because I am from Aberystwyth.”

Elin, a Plaid Cymru town councillor, and whose husband does not speak Welsh, is bringing up her children in a bilingual household.

She added: “Our home is bilingual and the children learn it in school too. I’m a first-generation Welsh speaker as my grandparents are from the London area.

“I have always been in Welsh education and they are always really proud that I speak Welsh. I wanted to follow that through in my children too.”

Since her post on Saturday, Elin’s comment has had almost 2,000 retweets and over 3,500 likes.

“It’s gone a bit ridiculous to be honest. I put it on Twitter last night and I checked my account this morning and was a bit shocked!

“It’s in a good way though, we should be promoting tolerance towards all.”

It comes after flagship BBC current affairs programme Newsnight was criticised for its treatment of a debate on the Welsh language last month.

The debate took place after the Welsh Government announced plans to change the way it promotes the Welsh language.

Critics accused producers of “a lack of research, lack of suitable guests and incorrect framing”.

Following the programme, a petition calling for an independent review of how the BBC portrays the Welsh language was launched.