i wonder what it is about romance languages that just makes them not click in my brain. french, spanish, and italian are supposed to be some of the easiest languages to learn for english speakers, but i've done all 3 of those and never had much luck.

i suppose with french it could be bc it was taught so badly in school for years so it just always feels annoying and hard to get into bc i never was taught grammar. but honestly the same thing could be said for welsh too, which i can speak now (largely due to self-teaching bc the teachers wouldn't teach us anything useful), and i have a much better time with celtic languages than romance ones. also i did italian for a year at university and i was taught grammar then but the language just didn't click with me. maybe i'll hop around some other romance languages until i find one i click with better. or maybe i'll come back to italian in the future.

“We are not in favour of revitalising Cymraeg as the national language of Wales out of abstract affection for the language, but as a revolutionary strategy to decouple from Anglo-American hegemony and build a new society with our own language, an indigenous means of intellectual and community production at its core. In short, language is a tool for the production of knowledge and the coordination of movements.
Our commitment to the re-establishment of Cymraeg as the primary language of Wales stems from our commitment to Welsh sovereignty; economic, political and intellectual.” – excerpt from ‘The National Language’, soon to be released

trying to get more into writing longer articles and using my blog more, so here's my thoughts on the (mis)use of the word hiraeth.

i know they're all celtic languages, but seeing that scottish gaelic for "tired" is "sgìth" makes me so happy bc it's like.. ahh it's "skwith/skith" and "skuizh" in cornish and breton respectively, and that's so fun for me, i love it when languages are related.