I want to be a Welsh speaker because it is the land of my birth, and I can then enjoy sharing with others through the native language
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I now live in Wales and want to respect the Welsh speaking community.
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As part of the Week 10 tasks, I re-read my sentence after posting my practice sentence.
I still love this course a lot. We are saying things to each other in Welsh now at the house, little things when we can like āI did not understand what you said!ā or āWhat did you say?ā or āI would like water.ā
Itās been a lot of fun. We just had our fourth and life is a little hectic schedule wise, but fortunately I can get my daily lessons in during the car ride taking my daughter to and from school.
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I now live in North Wales and want to better understand the Welsh culture and local community.
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Well done 
*I want to be a Welsh speaker because I never had a chance in school in Pembs and I hope it will connect me better to Welsh culture
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I want to be a Welsh-speaker, because my grandfather never got the chance to keep it (or, rather, was so heavily discouraged from using it that he just never did by the time he was an adult). I think about what many of his generation went through with their mother-tongue and I fume.
I hope that becoming fluent will help in the pushback against the old lie that yr iaith Cymraeg is dead.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because learning Welsh might provide me a better understanding of Welsh culture. Although I grew up in Sir Benfro Welsh was not taught in school.at that time.
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I want to be a welsh speaker as its part of my heritage
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I want to speak Welsh because my grandad was a Welsh miner but he never learnt to speak it
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I love the language and want to help keep it alive. It would strengthen the bond I feel with my Welsh ancestors.
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I was born in Wales and learned welsh in school. Then i moved away for many years. At 70 years old i am back in north wales and being a Welsh speaker is definitely on my bucket list to do.
The daily āgamesā seem to have triggered my memory and i am beginning to remember some of the welsh that was lost over the years.
When i become fluent i will be able to chat with my sister in welsh amd watch pobol y cwm lol
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because Iād like to connect with the people, culture and land of my hynafiaid. What will change? Learning the language will inspire me to plan a visit to Wales.
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There are so many reasons why I want to learn Welsh. I first went to Wales on holiday aged 7, thatās 45 years ago and I fell in love with the scenery. Iāve been back there on holiday many many times since, finding more to fall in love with (history, music, people) and about 15 years ago decided that I wanted to live there but life/work/family etc meant that it is only now that I can finally realise my dream. Of course, I donāt have to learn Welsh to live in Wales, but I think it would be rude not to! Also, as a linguist (French, Spanish and Russian) I have found that you can learn a lot about a culture through its language, but I have also found that Welsh is the hardest language Iāve tried to learn so far!! But Iām up for the challenge! Iām hoping that when we move to Caernarfon later this month that I will be able to chat with my new neighbours in their own language.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I want my children to grow up hearing Welsh being spoken at home and I find it embarrassing that Iām Welsh but canāt speak the language (and that my German is better than my Welsh!)
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Iāve started to spend more time per week in a Welsh speaking community than in England and I want to help keep the Welsh language alive.
The best thing is that I can communicate with our friendly taxi man and I know heās sooo proud of me!
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Ohhh, why do I want to learn Welsh? Why donāt I though? Because I love learning a new language, because it lets me connect to my wifeās heritage a bit better (even while they donāt speak Welsh), because itād be a shame if it died out so Iāll do my bit to keep it living.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because i want to experience the hĆ¹ge sense of achievement i would feel for being brave enough to speak a new language, without pressures from others to do so.
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Hello - first post here and as well as wanting to answer the āI want to be a Welsh speaker becauseā¦ā question, I would like to ask a question of my own.
Apart from a very distant Welsh connection in my family - I believe that my great great Grandmother came from Wales - there is no āfamilyā reason to learn Welsh. However, I live within less than a 75 minute drive of North Wales so Wales is my nearest land which has its own language and I have always enjoyed trying to speak as much as I can in the local language of countries I visit when on holiday or on work trips. (Not that I had many work trips but did spend around 3 months in Sweden many years ago). Now retired from work, I have been visiting Wales a lot more than I ever did before - day trips and three or four night stays - and am always intrigued by the language and try to read the roadsigns in both English and Welsh.
Why learn Welsh though if everyone in Wales that I have ever met speaks English? Iām not too sure to be honest as it isnāt to try and make myself understood - I manage that without any bother in English! Iām also not too sure how I would be received when trying to ask for things in shops and cafes in my nearest Welsh towns as I am not too sure how common it is to speak Welsh in places such as Flint and its surroundings which is pretty close to England. Saying all that, there is something good about learning a new skill and picking up the odd word or two when tuned to S4C albeit with subtitles switched on - I would like to get better than that.
Now to my question (and please donāt banish me from the forum for mentioning an alternative to SSi) ā¦
I started my Welsh language learning journey about 6 weeks ago using Duolingo and am still quite engaged with their programme - what are the thoughts on using SSi alongside Duolingo or should I think about jumping ship and use SSi on its own? I have only completed the basic unit on Duolingo but still enjoy the daily challenges.
When it comes to SSi, I am using the free daily audio files at the moment which have been sent each day since signing up 3 days ago. All good but I do find that some of the exercises are getting a little bit too long and it is hard to remember the full sentence that I am supposed to be speaking. I need to pause to try to remember what it is I am trying to say.
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Welcome to the forum Alan 
Donāt worry - thereās absolutely nothing wrong with doing SSiW alongside Duolingo. Duolingo can be great for vocabulary, but do bear in mind that it tends not to be quite as colloquial as the Welsh in SSiW, so you will come across differences which may confuse you to start with. That saidā¦ go for it!
Border towns do tend to have less Welsh - certainly less within earshot anyway - but think of it this way, if you never try to speak Welsh with the people there, how will you know if they speak it or not? Although there are exceptions where learners have had a disappointing reaction, in general Welsh speakers are chuffed to hear people even trying to speak it. (You might like to have a look at a current series āStoriār Iaithā on S4C & S4C Clic if you havenāt already seen it - itās pretty inspiring!)
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