It wasn’t an actual plan to skip writing anything yesterday or on Monday – just a side-effect of the joys of half-term, and a slight distraction coming my way at […]

Because the SaySomethinginWelsh forum is so multinational, the idea of people speaking Welsh in other countries has become pretty normal to me. I have to make a conscious effort to […]

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 […]