Basic skills are defined by the Welsh Assembly Government as 'literacy in English and/or Welsh and numeracy (in both Welsh and English), as well as English as a second language'.
Diffinnir sgiliau sylfaenol gan Lywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru fel 'llythrennedd mewn Saesneg a/neu Gymraeg a rhifedd (yn y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg), yn ogystal â Saesneg fel ail iaith'.