I want to become a Welsh speaker so I can join in conversations with friends and at work in Welsh, I live in an area where there is lots of Welsh spoken and I’d like the confidence to join in.
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… I regret not sticking with it after school. Learning Welsh now would make me feel like I have achieved the impossible. I would also love to be able to speak another language so 2 birds…
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Erm…because I live in Wales. Because I would like to speak with people in my community in their native language, to become more a part of what goes on locally. It is embarrassing that I have been going to classes for many years and know lots of words but still cannot speak except in class. This course is really, really helping! Hwyl, Wolfe
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to have chats with my partner in our native language and to one day work and live in Welsh
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53 years ago, on the day I moved to England, on my first day of a new career I was approached by a new work colleague and asked the following question. Hello boyo do you speak Welsh? I informed him that I was unable to speak a single word. The retort I received burned in my soul to this day, “so you are just an Englishman with a funny accent” Following that encounter I tried many ways to learn Cymraeg but with hindsight I never stood a chance. That has all changed thanks to SSIW in particular to the 6-month course, I am only on week 5 but at long last I can stand proud as a Welsh speaker.
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So I can say stuff like “Sbiwch yn y maes 'na. Dyna geffyl brown yn gwisgo siaced efo streipiau du a gwyn, sy’n gwneud iddo fo edrych fel Sebra”
(“Look in that field. There’s a brown horse wearing a jacket with black and white stripes, which makes it look like a Zebra”)
Yes, I actually saw the same in Deiniolen yesterday. And the stripes were wavy in a Zebra-like way. Now I want one of those jackets. If I don’t get a real horse to put it on, it would make a rather different Mari Lwyd in the New Year …
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perffaith
I was thinking about buying one for my horse, but I’m not sure I can stretch to that amount for old Fatso.
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I have lots of Welsh speaking friends who I’d like to talk with in ‘our’ language and we’d like to visit Patagonia and speak Welsh there!
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I want to learn Welsh because I feel robbed of a part of my heritage, from a decision that went back to the days of the ‘Welsh Not’ in my family. I don’t want my grandchildren to feel the same way when they grow up.
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That’s both powerful and very familiar. With that kind of feeling in your heart, you WILL achieve this. 
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I have been trying to learn Welsh for years too, since I met my husband who is 1st language Welsh. I have done 3 different evening classes and never been able to speak outside of class. Now just starting week 8 of the 6 month course I’m having conversations in Welsh with my husband every day 
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Da iawn, Sonia a croeso!
Because I teach in a school in Cardiff, and have to use incidental Welsh. I’d love to be able to truly understand the Welsh culture, and feel that learning the language will help with this.
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…because I want to be able to buy milk in the co-op,stamps at the P.O and nails at the ironmongers in Welsh in Penygroes when I visit my daughter and son-in-law who live nearby. What difference to my life will it make? When I can do that I will sing my little head off on the drive back to Lancashire. (and it won’t hurt to be an old codger dad impressing his daughter and her husband - who are way ahead of me in learning Cymraeg…)
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I want to be a Welsh speaker so that I can communicate fully with friends and work colleagues, and to add to my cultural experience.
Ok, so I know that I cheated and that’s 2 reasons really 
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because / dw i’n moyn gallu siarad Cymraeg achos…
I’m hoping to go to Bangor University and I want to be able to speak the community language of Gwynedd, just as I’d learn German if I went to study in germany
Dw i’n gobaith astudio ym Mangor a hoffwn i fedru siarad yr iaith gymunedol Gwynedd, fel byddwn i’n dysgu almaeneg os ro’n i’n mynd i astudio yn yr Almaen
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It will be such a positive example to your pupils for them to see you diving in like this too! 
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Oh - we just did!
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