I want to be a Welsh speaker because I loved living in Wales, and I’d love to go back someday, and in the meantime, I want to feel the connection to Wales that comes from learning the language.
Also, it’s kind of cool to be learning the UK’s only official language 
I want to be a Welsh speaker because
I have lived in Wales since 1985 - 34 years now! That’s far longer than I have ever lived anywhere else. I love everything about it. I signed up for the Wlpan course some years ago, but I let other things take priority and dropped out - this is something I hugely regret. I should have prioritised it and stuck with it - and now I intend to do just that.
)I want to be a Welsh speaker because I live in Wales and this way I can communicate better with my family (in law) who are all native Welsh speakers (I’m Dutch).
One thing I hope will happen when I speak Welsh is that my wife says to me: ‘Da iawn, dwi’n falch o ti.’
One side comment. I received the same task in week 10 and week 16 of my course. As a result I have posted this twice.
My husband is a first language welsh speaker and I want our children to grow up learning both Welsh and English and feel comfortable speaking both languages at home.
I want to be a Welsh speaker because I’ve come to realise the importance of speaking Welsh in relation to our national heritage.
It’s something I hated learning at school and saw as little to no value as I went through my 20’s but as I get older I realise that it’s important to not let the language die and how it’s huge part of Welsh culture that’s to be celebrated.
Hi Ieane, my daughter is also 7 and nearly fluent already. She’s in Welsh medium school and it’s so amazing that she gets to grow up bilingual but there is now a challenge on us isn’t there! Our youngest is now in Derbyn so they will soon be scheming if we don’t know what they are saying 
but that said, I’m loving learning the language, and the way my daughter’s face lights up when I try out my Welsh with her makes it all so worthwhile. 
I want to be a Welsh speaker because
I want to be a welsh speaker because welsh is a beautiful language and it is necessary in order to be part of our local community and for future employment prospects. It frustrates me enormously that I can’t speak welsh when attending meetings, thus separating me from others. I love the welsh and everything about north wales.
I want to be a Welsh speaker because…I want to be able to speak my native language just for the sake of it, because I think it is beautiful and I want to support the efforts to create many more Welsh speakers in Wales. It will hopefully mean that I can join in conversations with friends and colleagues at Trad Folk festivals, particularly the Lorient festival in Brittany.
I want to speak welsh because I have lived in Wales for 45 years and I now have a baby grandson who’s first language will be Welsh. I want to be able to speak to him in Welsh and it will help bond our two families 
I want to be able to speak Welsh so that when my two children go to Welsh medium school they won’t be able to talk about me in their own secret code. I hope that I’ll be able to experience Welsh culture with them as they grow up
Because I love languages. I’m not from Wales but moved here and want to respect and be a part of the culture. My husband is from Wales and has always thought that he couldn’t learn Welsh. However because I’m learning he’s now trying and we’re practicing together. My hope is that this continues!
It will allow me to communicate with my daughter as she progresses her Welsh at school and enable me to help her become excited about it.
I’d like to be able to answer Yes to the follow up question I always get when proudly describing myself as Welsh, “do you speak the language?” . I’ve always felt a little less Welsh when I’ve had to admit I don’t.
After recently marrying, my husband moved down from Scotland to live with me in North Wales and has wanted to learn the language to feel more a part of the place and so we are learning together (he’s ahead of me now though which is slightly annoying)
I want to be a Welsh speaker because I am proud of my heritage. I hope to be able to chat with my Welsh speaking friends and customers.
To re-learn a language lost to me a long time ago!
I want to be able to talk with my clients and my work colleagues in the language they are comfortable speaking in
I want to speak Welsh because I find it a beautiful language! Despite never having been to Wales, I can do my part in preserving endangered languages. I originally wanted to learn because I find it really interesting, and because I think what Wales has done to bring it back is really inspiring (Llanfair PG’s ploy worked on me!). Once I speak it, I hope for someone Welsh to come into the shop I work at so I can surprise them 
I want to be a Welsh speaker because it is a challenge for my 65 year old brain and because I love visiting Wales.
I want to be a Welsh speaker because I love Wales, my mum’s family is Welsh, I would like to be able to talk to people in Welsh when I am in Wales, and I would like to do something that for years has seemed like a huge challenge!