Hello, my name is Marc. I was going through the emails from SSIW and realised I had not done an introduction on here. I am Welsh, born & bred, I was born in Aberdare and brought up in Merthyr Tydfil. I still live in Merthyr although I currently work for the NHS in Bristol. I am a fairly new learner, the last course I had attempted was the big welsh challenge on the BBC website. In terms of Welsh speakers, I would be the only one of my generation within my immediate family able to speak Welsh. My Grandparents could speak Welsh but never really passed it down and passed whilst I was quite young. As I am getting older I seem to be gaining a greater appreciation for my Welsh heritage. I have made it a very strong new years resolution to learn our language and hopefully by this time next year I will have a little bit of fluency (hopefully!!).
I’m not sure what they are called but I completed the taster? sessions last week and will be starting with the structured course tonight. I am also trying to embrace the language by playing around with the words I have picked up so far and watching S4C where possible. This is where I am at the moment;
dwi trio dysgu cymraeg achos Dwi caru Cymru a dwi moyn yr iaeth cymraeg parhau. Byddwn i caru i allu siarad cymraeg.
Sorry if it doesn’t quite make sense, again it was just an attempt to play around with language a little. Nice to meet you all! 
hope to chat soon!
in Skewen. Impressive Welsh by the way and goes without saying: thanks for your work with the NHS. Go for it.
. Live in Lydney but work in Gloucester. Tried and failed so many times to learn Welsh. Hard when you dont have anyone to practice with. But if SSiW doesnt do it nothing will. Learned more in 6 lessons than ever did with the BBC stuff !