I want to be a welsh speaker because I feel I missed out when at primary school. The class I joined was considered too old to be learning welsh with 11+ looming.
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I am totally with you! I always felt like an imposter being fiercely patriotic and coming from a Welsh speaking family, but not speaking Welsh myself. Also my grandparents first language was Welsh. My gran had Alzheimerās and reverted to Welsh, before she lost her speech and I wish I had found this course before! But we are here now and doing it 
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Ditto 
into my wish I had found this way of learning sooner, Iām sure our respective grandparents would be proud of us both
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I fell in love with the country, the culture and the language when I visited Wales 22 years ago - itās that simple. And because J.R.R. Tolkien said that Welsh is the language of heaven.
I hope that when I return one day Iāll have the courage to strike a real conversation with a native speaker. Until then, Iāll try to learn enough Welsh to start reading books and listening to audio books.
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Croeso (Welcome)ā¦and depending on where you are there might be Welsh Speakers nearby ā¦and there is the Welsh Speaking Practice option if not - where you can hook up with other learners and speakers only.
Rich 
I want to play a full part in my childrenās lives
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I am learning welsh āproperlyā because the incidental welsh we use in our english medium primary school just wasnāt enough for me any more. Iām excited and privileged to be helping the next generation to become bi-lingual welsh people.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I am Welsh, live in Wales, but donāt (yet) speak it. Iād love to be able to speak Welsh with my Welsh-speaking friends.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because my 5 year old is in Welsh speaking school and I want to help him as much as I can with his education (and preferably speak to him in Welsh without him finding it funny that Mummy struggles with it so much!)
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Same here. I was born and brought up on the South Coast of England. My father was English and my mother Welsh. Donāt know why but I always felt very patriotic for Wales and even as a youngster would proudly announce that I was half Welsh. I even sang the Welsh national anthem at primary school on St Davidās Day. Grew up supporting Welsh rugby and loved hearing my mother and grandmother talking Welsh. Just wish my mother had taught me. Now living in Wales and so happy to have discovered SSiW so I can realise my dream of speaking the language.
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So many reasons. But the main one is that I have a ten-month-old son now, who was born in Wales, and I want to help him to grow up bilingual so that he can feel more connected to this beautiful country and its culture. I would love to continue to learn alongside him so that I can keep up, and the thing that I hope will happen as a result of me learning is that we can chat away in Welsh when heās older.
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I have similar reasons Robert - I moved to Wales two years ago, and I want to be able to confidently speak the language of the country I live in, to respect the culture, the language, and the people.
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Me too, Paul, I moved to North Wales from England two years ago and I want to be able to confidently speak the language of my adopted country.
Me too Carole - I moved to North Wales from Cheshire two years ago. I live in Wales and therefore I really want to speak the language of my adopted country.
I love being Welshā¦and I want to have a proper conversation with Heulwen! 
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I want to show the children in my future classroom (I am a trainee primary school teacher) that the Welsh language is not dying. I am so proud to be Welsh and will be even more proud if I can say that I can also speak our beautiful language!
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When visiting a county I would always learn the basics of the languageā¦so now living here, it would be rude not to!
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Because I live in north wales and people speak welsh here
I hope to be able to understand what is going on at my childrenās school!
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I live in Wales & Iām very sniffy about people who go off and live in Spain & France for years & donāt bother to learn to speak the language ā¦ oops
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Absolutely! Until now I have not lived in the country whose language I am learning - France, Germany, Austriaā¦ (excluding England, as I was born there!). I realise what an amazing opportunity I now have in my āthird ageā! 
I have already had some very interesting conversations - not IN Welsh so much, but as a result of my saying, āDw iān dysgu Cymraegā. I even met someone who was born in the same hospital as me - 6 years earlier! All through my language learning.
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