What a lovely story! I had no idea you were part of Jon’s long-running quest to win back the lost lands…
And diolch o waelod calon i ti, Mark, am bob dim ti wedi ac yn dal i’w wneud… 
I’m delighted to hear that two such lovely people are Skyping… 
Diolch o galon, @Novem! You’ve been a source of inspiration to me for a while now, and I’ve enjoyed our conversations a lot - in Welsh and Italian too - and I’m very glad to hear you find them pleasant too:) Whenever you are free, I would really like to speak again:)
And I would like - again - to thank all the people here, especially @aran, @Iestyn, @CatrinLliarJones - for all the love and energy and time you’re putting into SSI and the forum. It really changes people’s lives for the better.
Sadly not, I’ve dropped out of formal education for the time being and am just hanging around the streets causing trouble…
Typical Welsh speaker…
YAY!
I love this one!
It’s Wednesday again and so here’s my this week’s Diolch to one of those people who somehow travelled along with me on my learning traill. But first (as always) some replies, replicas and what’s more to it to some of your posts (which are not neccessarly connected with me at all). So, let’s begin:
Thank you @BronwenLewis. The pleasure was all mine. I was thrilled with how much Cymraeg and how good you speak even then and knowing you once visited my little country added to the great mix. If I halped you gaining confidence at that time and managed to ensure you that yur Cymraeg is more then good and you’re prepared to go out in the wild, then the happines is all mine. We should talk again at some point. And, thank you for opening your home to me. If I’ll ever come to Cymru again I’ll make sure to at least pop in to say hello and have a little sgwrs with you if not the other. Well, you never know what life throws at you and my last year was really pure evidence that this is true.
@margaretwerdermann thank you for yuor encouragement you are giving to us all. If any of my posts was at least a bit helpful to you, I’m happy.
In Slovenia. where there’s no native Welsh speakers (to my knowledge).
My third thank you goes to one of my most tireless followers on Twitter - passionate Welshman and admirer of my little country Slovenia - Siôn Jobbins, writter of some books such as Phenomenon of Welshness, The Welsh National Anthem and more, and many more articles and one of those who helped to enable gaining Welsh identity on the Internet with .cymru domains.
We met on twitter in March 2013 through one (kind of) little quarelling about how Welsh people should do more for their language and how Slovenians were and are in practically the same situation and since then we have quick tweet chats in Cymraeg or English (it depends) now and then. He mostly allerts me if there’s something important going on in connection with my country and Cymru, and he was the one who allerted me to Slovenian Celtic Languages student Jan in Aberystwyth about who I’ve written on here some time ago.
I thank him for being such passionate admirer of my little country Slovenia but also the person who encouraged me many times to go on with my learning especially at very beginning of my learning journey when I hardly started with SSiW. But the most of all I’m really thankful for our breef meeting at the National Eisteddfod last year where he was the one who spotted me and started conversation - all in Cymraeg. I surely didn’t speak Cymraeg as good as I do now (despite after-bootcamp effect), but he wasn’t even a bit willing to switch into English for what I am most thankful. Thank you Siôn for everything you (unknowingly maybe) did for me. With tweet chats in Cymraeg, with allerting me to happenings, with making me aware you’re reading my tweets and answering them if the occassion is such, you’ve made me more willing to put more hard work into my learning when I was almost determined to quit. Thank you for speaking with me and thank you for following me on the social media. It really means a lot to me.
To be continued next week …
I have a pre-Monday diolch! Thought about saving it for Monday but this’ll make me find another one.
I work as a physiotherapist in paediatrics. A few of my patients are from Welsh speaking families. One set of parents in particular have been so supportive about my Welsh. I had a conversation about learning Welsh. From then Dad hasn’t switched to English unless there’s some really technical stuff. Then a couple of appointments in Mum brought him instead of Dad and, straight away was in Welsh (she’s a teaching in a Welsh Primary). So today, we had our 4th appointment completely in Welsh.
So a massive thank you to them for their patience!
Great story - and from personal experience, I’ll bet they were delighted at being able to use Welsh, rather than needing to be patient…
Diolch Aran.
Using Welsh with patients, well just anywhere really, has definitely given me a new insight when speaking to patients and families. It’s that extra awareness of having to use mutually intelligible language. I definitely feel I can empathise more with our non-English first language patients too.
So for that last part; diolch to the fab four and SSiW! You’ve not only made me a Welsh speaker, you’ve made me a better human 
I think we’ve come along for the ride as you’ve been making yourself a better human - which is an enormous privilege for us…
YES! YES! YES!
Oh, I’m so happy for you @AnthonyCusack! I know how good you speak Welsh so this is only one confirmation more that I was right saying that you’re a good (no … great!) Welsh speaker!
Da iawn ti!
wooohooo!
Diolch Tatjana! Everyday is a school day, still enjoying learning!
Sometimes I’m playing around the forum just searching things of my interest and I found out I have to put a bit of EDIT here because I found “real” Dave Rogers (the right one) on this forum. So the thanks I’ve mentioned in the post goes to you @daverogers in deed and all the rest you can read here.
So @Dysgu-Cymraeg let me be excused for the mistake (as I’ve already said) … unless Dave somehow opened 2nd acount here.
I’m really enjoying going ‘back in time’ and thinking about all the people I have to thank…
This week’s thank you from me goes to Eleri Swift Jones - she was my tutor when I moved to Porthmadog - and she was the first person to tell me that she thought I would become a fluent speaker - which, as you’ll know from your own experiences, is a HUGELY important moment - it still means the world to me, thinking about it now…
She also made the very interesting comment that stayed with me permanently - which I’ve now seen over and over in other learners - that people who use their first language to a very high level of proficiency often find it psychologically more difficult to acquire a second language - because they’re less willing to accept the process of making mistakes and losing status.
It was certainly one of my main challenges - and that comment became a huge part of why I spend so much of my time on here emphasising the enormous importance of mistakes…
Diolch, Eleri! 
142 comments in 20 days - I’m loving this thread…
My big thank you this week goes to @carolynh who I met at Bootcamp. Carolyn, if you don’t know her, has the greatest sense of fun ever… her dry wit, laughter and sense of enjoyment carried me through Bootcamp. Thanks Carolyn, I wouldn’t be speaking Welsh today without all you help!
Just reading through an old thread and I realised how much I miss @owainlurch on here. I know there was a spat between him and another member (of which I have my opinion on who the aggressor was) but I saw him as a very valuable member of this forum. His replies always seemed to be from his knowledge base and not the result of a Google search made to look like his own like we see now and then. When he did research he always referenced. Above all I liked his sense of humour, his wit, his writing style, and his grace. He was always willing to help. So … Thank you @owainlurch.
I among all. Guilty as charged! But at the end we kind of settled the things for what I’m endlessly thankful. And after that he came back (at least for a while). The latest I know, @owainlurch was quite busy with the family and things so I hope this is really the reason why.
Owain, I hope you’re right. I actually mss you too. My thenks will come in full amount but a bit later though. For now … Thank you for everything you’ve done for me and you’ve (not knowingly maybe) done a lot, believe me.
Hwyl!
Tatjana