Jan. 8th, 2026

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I'm reading Tintin in welsh so it's not the longest book and I've already read all the comics loads of times in English so I know what's going on, but there's still loads of words I don't know. Which is fine because like I said, I already know what they're saying because I'm so familiar with it in English. But I still feel the need to look up every word I don't know. Which means it's going to take ages to get through a 60-page comic book :')

I read 5 pages last night but I stopped because I ended up with an annoyingly long list of words to look up. My Welsh could be soooo much better if I liked words...
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Sometimes it feels so disheartening, I feel like I will never be fluent in Welsh or anything else I'm trying to learn. It's so frustrating, I feel like I'll never be good at any of this. I should have grown up with this but instead I'm having to learn it and approach it from the outside and it sucks and I suck. I generally try to have a positive attitude when it comes to learning languages on this journal, but I cannot deny that being from a minoritised culture and not growing up speaking the language natively sucks so badly. I will be ok soon I'm just having a bad moment where everything feels hopeless. I've been feeling so irritable today.

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S.H.M. Mac Giolla Íosa Gilbert

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