It has been a lifetime ambition for me to learn Welsh – I am now in my 60’s. All my ancestors spoke welsh on both sides – from Caernarfon on my Nains side and Rhosllannerchrugog on my Taids. My Dad was ...

I didn’t expect to move to Wales. I came to the UK from America to study after all that time home during Covid made me decide to finally in my late 30’s pursue a degree. My partner is from England, so I looked into ...

I fell in love with Wales while visiting from Southern California as a teenager. I stayed with a lovely host family in a small village near Cardiff while my parents were off doing something on their own. Over tea in the ...

I originally wanted to learn Welsh because I have no contact with family, and my siblings and I were never really taught any family history, and since (as far as I know), our main ancestry is Welsh, I figured learning ...

My husband is from South Wales and never learned to speak Welsh. We moved to Carmarthenshire in 2020 just before lockdown. I took early retirement from Teaching and my aim was to volunteer in our village school. Our ...

I was born and raised in Wales by an English Father and Irish mother. They settled in Wales as it was in the middle of the two. I learnt Welsh in school and wasn’t very good. I now live in Ireland where I work as a ...

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus pawb! My name is Andrew and I started SSIW about a month ago. I grew up in Wales but moved to London a decade ago for work and can often be found at the London Welsh Centre on match day! I learnt ...

I am from the midlands with a Welsh mother (from the Llyn Peninsula) who speaks Welsh and until a few years ago, Welsh grandparents living on the Llyn who also spoke Welsh (and many ancestors from the Llyn going back ...

I’m English and live in the Midlands but have some Welsh heritage. My dad used to talk about spending time in South Wales with his grandmother, but I also found out recently that his dad was born in Newport, so the ...

I am a Scot, brought up in London. I am 74 years old. I have been fascinated by Wales and the Welsh language since boyhood. My only claim to “welshness” is that my father’s people are from south western Scotland, ...