Learner Stories

English born, but with a Welsh name and north Welsh ancestry. When I first left school I went to work with the Forestry Commission in Gwydir Forest, in the Conway Valley for a year, living with a Welsh speaking family ...

I just started and I’m very excited! I’ve been interested in Wales for a bit now. I love folk tales and land with rich stories. I love poetry, storytelling, and music. I’ve been learning the harp and I did not ...

I’m learning Cymraeg with SSiW and loving it. I started y Cwrs Ylpan in Bangor 30-odd years ago, but found it really hard to keep up and my Welsh stayed stuck at a few words. Now I’m living in Shrewsbury and ...

My son introduced me to SaySomethingin Welsh and, as a fun time to bond with my just out of college kid, I started learning Welsh with him. This was before the new course.  Together, we got to lesson 9 or 10, then life ...

So… I had a dream a few months ago in which I could speak fluently in Welsh. I’d just spent a weekend in Betws y Coed, so I guess it makes sense that the trip would turn up in a dream? When I woke up I decided to ...

I’m Gordon. I’m English and spent most of my professional life in universities teaching and research language (linguistics) and languages (French, English). I’m a grammarian by profession and worked until 2007 at ...

My story – I’ve been in Wales most of my life (born and raised, for the most part, here), primarily in the North East, where the language isn’t (or wasn’t) a priority as I saw it – I got an ‘E’ at ...

Helo Bawb! I don’t have any Welsh heritage myself (that I’m aware of) and live far away in the US. However, some of my favorite stories have featured Wales/Welsh, such as Dark is Rising, Prydain, Lord of the Rings, ...

Helo Bawb. Hi Everyone. My story is probably a bit dull to most folks here, but I simply love Wales. I’m a 54 year old English bloke that Ancestry tells me My DNA is 2% Welsh… Hahahaha I first visted Anglesey in ...

I grew up in an English speaking part of south Wales, and was never aware of the Welsh language. Now well into retirement I started learning Welsh via learnWelsh.cymru. I started doing this to reclaim both my Welsh ...

Hi! I am a polish national, who has lived in Manchester for the last 11 years. Following Pandemic and Brexit we were on the brink of moving back to the formal EU. Me and my partner had been going to Anglesey more and ...

After 23 years I took a DNA test through Ancestry which led me to find out who my real dad was. We connected and started talking a lot. I saw that I had Welsh ancestry as my grandmother was Welsh. Through ancestry I ...