I’m from New York, USA, and I have a couple of reasons for learning Welsh. When we met in 2013, my now-husband and I learned that we share a love of weird sci-fi TV and movies, and one of the first we devoured ...

Hi there. I live in Herefordshire which isn’t too far from Wales. I have spent many holidays in Wales and feel that it is my happy place. I have always loved hearing the lovely musical language and knew I really ...

I have been coming to Anglesey since my childhood, my mother before me and her mother too, I think. Long years of hiraeth to live here and an almost moment followed when my darling ma died in 2006. Post-grad research in ...

Bore da! I’m here because of the Welsh siwgr. My boyfriend is from Anglesey, and I have been living in North Wales for over a year. I love Wales, it’s such a beautiful country that I didn’t know much about it ...

My real journey as a dysgwr (learner) only began in January, but probably took root much earlier through music – but perhaps not the kind of music you’re thinking of! In the 90s I loved my punk and hardcore ...

I left the Rhondda Fach for London when I was just five years old (taking my parents with me), but some of my earliest memories are of older (sadly now deceased) relatives conversing with each other, with neighbours and ...

I like learning languages, considered Welsh as it was the geographically nearest one to me (important during lockdown) and chanced across the excellent SSiW. Without a good course to help me, I would have got nowhere. I ...

I’m Welsh on my mother’s side. As a young lass I’d try to pronounce Llanfair PG and was routinely terrified by Tŷ Chwith when I switched on S4C on family trips to Gwynedd, but was told growing up that the family ...

My father would tell us we were descended from Welsh kings from quite an early age. And after spending holidays on Anglesey my wife and I fell in love with all things Welsh. I saw a post about SSiW and decided to take a ...

Hello! I just finished Challenge 1, and I’m so excited! I decided I loved Wales and the Welsh language with very little knowledge of either after I read The Grey King as a child. Back in the noughties, I met the man ...