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Gruff Rhys: I'm totally bilingual!
jmoore by James Moore July 6th, 2001
Although Welsh is his first language, SFA's singer Gruff Rhys has defended claims he's slow when using the English language... bless him.

The told Planet Sound, "It irritates me when journalists write that I speak slowly because I supposedly can't speak English too well. I'm totally bilingual. My friends will tell you I speak just as slowly in Welsh, I'm naturally at a different pace to most people, I suppose different strokes"


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