twitch of twitch.cymru

trying to make my first zine or something :P it's really a web-weaving post that's been sitting in my tumblr drafts since like april of last year, but i'm re-working it into a printable and foldable zine format :P

happier with that page now :) + another page w/ a the war of the worlds quote (the ant metaphors in twotw are what initially inspired this tbh)

i don't think speakers/learners of majority languages realise how non-politicised their languages are?? or maybe that's the wrong word bc everything is politicised to some degree in some way whether people realise it or not i think. but there were students from the modern foreign languages department (so english speakers learning italian/french/spanish/german) complaining bc "how dare our lecturer bring politics into the classroom" but like. as a speaker and learner of multiple minority languages it feels weird and wrong that politics wouldn't be brought into lessons?? like the act of speaking and learning welsh is inherently political whether i want it to be or not. learning celtic languages means having to learn about all the politics surrounding the languages and their histories and erasure. and obviously languages like english and french and spanish etc are political too, but in a different way. but majority language speakers learning other majority languages don't seem to realise this?? at least in my experience. idk how to word this.

trying to make my first zine or something :P it's really a web-weaving post that's been sitting in my tumblr drafts since like april of last year, but i'm re-working it into a printable and foldable zine format :P

got an italian speaking exam tomorrow an i am so so anxious about it, i've missed a lot of my italian classes nd tbh i've been more focused on welsh and irish since they actually relate to my degree, and italian doesn't. i know this speaking exam is only one part o the ovrall grade for the module, but oh my god i feel so embarrassed when i make mistakes. i feel like i'm letting my lecturers down :( i know i'm not going to do great and it's too late now and i'm stressed