Male Illustration

Alexander E

In June of 2025, my wife, two kids, and I made a trip to the UK. We are from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, which is a very small town in Cent...
Androgynous Illustration

Matthew

I’ve been learning Welsh on and off for ages. But I decided to accept a job offer in a bilingual organisation, and now I have to use Wels...
Androgynous Illustration

Sara

Using the language every day is absolutely the key. I know my Welsh has come on so much since I first started working in a Welsh-essentia...
Male Illustration

Nigel

I’ve been using SSiW for about a year now and supplement it with Duolingo. I started the whole Welsh learning process about 2 years ago. ...
Female Illustration

Eliza

I actually started with the Gaelic language to be able to enjoy folklore in its own tongue. Then a fellow language enthusiast suggested I...
Female Illustration

Faith

Both my paternal grandparents were born in North Wales and came to the US before my dad was born. Dad had no interest in learning the lan...
Female Illustration

Sara

There’s a real element with SSiW of “trust the process”. Don’t expect to remember everything straight away - we all need to repeat things...
Female Illustration

Magen

I started learning Welsh with SSiW because my grandfather was a fluent speaker, but it was never passed down. I always felt like somethin...
Female Illustration

Kate

I come back to SSiW again and again. When I first found SSiW it was only a couple of years old, and I was an adoptee who didn’t know much...
Androgynous Illustration

Richard

Originally from Beddau, an English-speaking town near Pontypridd. Historically, my family came from all over West and North Wales in ...
Androgynous Illustration

Jeremy

I’ve been learning Welsh with my partner for 3 months now using SSiW (we’re on level 13, course 1). She’s from Swansea originally, bu...
Male Illustration

Mike

After 37 years of living in Kent, we’re moving coast to coast to Pembrokeshire. My 5-year-old will be learning at school, so we felt ...