The interesting responses to my piece about belonging and America last week (coupled with one or two tired idiots banging on about ‘dead’ languages!) has got me thinking about what […]
So… MANY… interesting responses to my piece about America yesterday… And I’ve GOT to share one of them – a fascinating piece of thought/explanation from Kass (see http://www.kassmcgann.com): ‘As an […]
Last August, I was a guest speaker at the North American Festival of Wales in Washington D.C. It was an incredible event. They’d pretty much taken over the Hilton in […]
Very occasionally, people are downright nasty to Welsh learners. I’d love to say it never happens – but it does – it happened to me, once, and left me feeling […]
After one of my earlier posts about English people learning Welsh, I got a message that said I should write about English people who are ‘secretly terrified of Welsh.’ I […]
It seems to break down into 3 general reasons – one a bit more unexpected (to me, at any rate!) than the others. First of all, there’s the obvious – […]
That’s the single most common – and most painful – challenge for English people learning Welsh. It’s kind of baked into the hills around here – it’s probably our single […]
