My own experiences of Wales and people speaking Welsh are limited to not really understanding the ' Owain Hughes' joke in Gavin and Stacy, childhood trips to Rhyl and Prestatyn and knowing how to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch correctly . The language is a mystery because learning it is not as easily accessible as you'd think. It has a very 'sing song' type of rhythm and has always fascinated me. Rewind to a Friday evening (post- #fridaytwiz ) conversation with Gwyn ( @KingOfAnkh ) and an in-depth conversation about solving maths problems (fuck, yeah... we know how to kick it on a Friday) and he drops the fact that he has to translate all numbers before working out the problem and then translate back. Now, something stirred deep in my brain about Gwyn being Welsh (he makes no secret of it, after all) but I didn't know that Welsh was his first language. ...
... blogging my guts out