Having left the Rhondda Fach for London when I was just five (taking my parents with me), I’m now trying, over sixty years later, to build on the bits and pieces of Welsh that I have to achieve a certain level of conversational proficiency. I speak German fluently, having spent the majority of my working life there. This gives me confidence to believe that I’ll get at least some of the way towards achieving my objective, even though I unfortunately don’t have the advantage in Staffordshire of living near any native Welsh speakers. I’m going to have to rely quite a bit on SC4 and BBC Radio Cymru for company!