'I want to be a Welsh speaker because...'

[Jonson]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because it will will help connect me to me Welsh ancestors.

One thing I hope will happen after I become a Welsh speaker is that I will go to Wales and have a conversation with a native speaker.

[fazu]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because Wales has been my adopted home for several years now and I love living in Wales and it has been my dream for a while now to have a conversation with my Welsh family & friends in Welsh.

[alan-charlesworth]

I know what you mean! I’ve been in Wales for a long time now, and so many of my closest friends are first language Welsh speakers, I feel it’s important to be able to engage with them in their preferred language.

[tudor-hughes]

It is absurd that I cannot fluently speak the language of my late father, a member of the Gorsedd and something of a name in Welsh literary circles. This is what happens if you’re a Londoner albeit one made entirely of Welsh stuff. Although I can speak a certain amount of Welsh my vocabulary is inadequate and needs a big improvement. When this happens I’ll feel a bit more fulfilled.

[steve-pugh-1]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because it is my own language, yet I can only use this foreign one (English) at the moment. I look forward to reclaiming a major part of my heritage and culture.

[claire-29]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because it will give me confidence and I want to be part of the million Welsh speakers project, and I will learn useful skills like how to master SoundCloud along the way,

[andrew-birch]

Why: I want to be able to speak the language of my home country.
What: To be able to have conversations with my grandad in Welsh.

[ian-james]

after more than 40years of living away I am beginning to realise that I’m probably not going back on a permanent basis, so learning the language, after many false starts, is my way of preserving my identity as Welsh.

[mary-goddard]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because my Dad was Welsh and, although I was born and brought up in England, I feel more Welsh than English - I also want to surprise my Welsh cousins when I visit.

[stephen-22]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because my mum’s family are from South Wales and were Welsh speakers

[rachelb66]

if I moved to Spain, I would learn Spanish. I moved to Wales, so I want to learn Welsh.

[julia-potter]

I have had a fascination with the Welsh language since I was a student in Cardiff living with Welsh speakers - I have now moved to North Wales, so a wonderful opportunity to make speaking Welsh a reality…

[christine-mclafferty]

I have always believed that if you live in a country, you should make the effort to speak the language.

[Ben.Henriques]

This is one of my reasons too!

[Ben.Henriques]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because I’ve always wanted to learn a second language and Welsh is beautiful.

[ffion-green]

I want to be a Welsh speaker because I think it will change my life

[clare-19]

I want to be a Welsh speaker as growing up in Liverpool, we spent our summers in North Wales & I loved listening to the language. I then lived & worked in South Wales for a few years before moving back to Liverpool. I now have 3 children & I am loving sharing my new knowledge of the beautiful language with them.

[mark-barry]

I’m Welsh, but have a terrible record of leaning languages…and never had a single lesson of Welsh in school (in 1970s!). Now I’m 56 and really want to try and attain at least a basic conversational capability in Welsh.

Diolch
Mark

[aliC]

It will!

[Nefyn]

I want to become more proficient in Welsh simply because it may help silence the many Saeson who ask me why anyone would want to speak Welsh! Apart from the obvious responses about culture, nationality, and the nearly 1 million who do, does anyone have a better response?