I want to be a Welsh speaker to connect with my ancestral roots and i love Wales.
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Welsh is a British language.
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Because I live in Holland and I miss Wales. I am born in Wales and my family lives in wales. I love the people and the culture. I love hearing Welsh and speaking it. I will feel proud and I won t miss Wales so much . I hope to live in Wales one day so I can speak to the people and enjoy the culture.
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I have loved the music of Datblygu since first hearing them on John Peel nearly 30 years ago, and I want to be able to understand the words without reading them.
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Weāll put in a word for you 
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I want to be a welsh speaker because Iād like to be part of the people who keep the language alive.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because although I live in England and work remotely, I work for a Welsh university, in Lampeter - and when I go there in person, everyone speaks Welsh. Although I have been able to construct a few basic sentences in Welsh for years, I often canāt understand the reply!
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because it would make my dad proud, and I feel very emotive when I think about the reason we donāt all speak Welsh in Wales from birth. Itās a stolen language and that makes me sad.
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Thatās a very powerful reason, Emily - itāll help drive you on when the going gets tough - pob lwc! 
I want to be a Welsh speaker becauseā¦ it is the first language of almost all my family on my Mumās side. I spent so much time as a child staying with my Mamgu and Dadcu in Cardigan. They would teach myself and my sister little phrases of Welsh but it wasnāt until recently I decided to take my learning more seriously. Mamgu was terminally ill and weād taken one last holiday back to West Wales. When I told her I was going to learn Welsh, she cried and the pride on her face is the motivation that keeps me going. She sadly recently passed away, but I felt so proud to be having small conversations in Welsh at her funeral and I think she would be too.
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Thatās such a moving story, Sara - thank you for sharing with us - I can imagine it will certainly help drive you on through the difficult stages
I didnāt learn in time to have a conversation with my Taid - but apparently he corrected everyoneās Welsh all the time, so maybe I dodged a bulletā¦ 
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Iām lucky that my Dadcu is still with us and I get to practise my Welsh with him and my Mum! I know that if my Mamgu was around sheād be saying to me āda iawnā 
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No doubt about it! 
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I want to be a Welsh speakerā¦ because languages are a passion of mine, and I especially love grammar! I live not too far away from Wales and hope that I might one day actually have a conversation in Welshā¦! Although, to be honest, I learn generally learn languages because I love the sound, feel, structure etc of them, rather than actually needing to learn for any specific reason.
In addition, I am a Davies, so I have Welsh heritage on my Dadās side (Trefynwy a.k.a. Monmouth area), so itās possible that there were Welsh speakers in the family at some point.
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Depending how old your dad is, I may have crossed paths with him - Iām originally from Trefynwy too! (If youāre ever in Caernarfon, give me a shout and we can have a chat about it over a panad! )
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Actually the Welsh heritage is going back quite a few generations I think - my Dad and his Dad both grew up in Birmingham. I need to find out at what point they came from Monmouth. But it would be cool to speak Welsh sometime, so Iāll let you know if Iām in the area. I live in Bromyard, so itās not that far 
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Well, this is an interesting question to answer briefly!
Initially I started to learn because my other half is a native Welsh speaker and I wanted to be able to speak some Welsh with her and her parents on our frequent visits. Also speaking a little Welsh with her at home in England felt good in the surrounding sea of monoglots.
Now that Iāve properly started, Iām enjoying the richness of the language and how it sounds and the long heritage and connection to culture.
In particular, Iām now starting to really appreciate the great variety and flexibibility of all the dialects, the different way Welsh āworksā as a language and how this also makes you think differently. As a result, as someone who speaks English with a Yorkshire dialect and always felt that I had to ātidy it upā in some situations, Iāve now started celebrating the dialectical variety of the way English is spoken as well and noticing how different āmyā spoken English is as well.
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I want to be a Welsh speaker because I can then begin to speak to my friends in Bethesda next time Iām down there.
Iām hoping that I can have a more sustained conversation in Welsh on the Beddgelert - Caernarfon bus, I tried in August but didnāt get too far!
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As a teenager I listened to John Peel and heard all these Welsh language bands that I still absolutely loveā¦Datblygu being the main reason for me wanting to learn this beautiful language!
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Moving to London at an early age, I missed the opportunity to continue learning Welsh although I have tried to retain the little that I knew. Now, after many false starts, I feel I have found the course needed to fulfill my ambition to enlarge my knowledge of the language and keep my brain active at the ripe age of 89.
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