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I recently had a moan about people not responding to enquiries.

I received a number of varied responses and did put up a reply to

you all. However, I then deleted the whole lot.

I am sorry,but thanks for the opinions.

Feliz Navidad,

Ian

Thank you Ian - it's nice to see an apology where it is due.

There are many reasons why people do not respond to messages as has been explained but there are also many people here on the boards who are more that willing to help you in any way they can.

I hope you will stay on the site and learn to use it in a different and more fruitful way.

Y Feliz Navidad a ti tambien,

Besos,

Dea x

Ian has pm'd me some family searching - I have advised him to post on here - more heads better than one!

Meanwhile whilst we are in Season's Greetings mode...Dymuniadau gorau ar gyfer y Nadolig A'r Flwyddyn Newydd

Jude

Diolch yn fawr Jude,

Dea Xxx

Dea - those two phrases are about the limit of my Welsh! Maybe when I get time to retire I will learn it properly!

Jude

It is not impossible Jude - I learned Spanish when I retired and spent 10 happy years taking groups of people out to 'the real' Spain, looking after them for a week at a time, showing them around and translating for them etc. - I loved it !!

Unfortunately, due to health problems I had to give it up and my Spanish is now very rusty but it was something I wanted to do when I got the time.

Go for it!

Dea Xxx

Joyeaux Noel & Bonne Annee from Canada.

Are you in Canada too Margee? I didn't realise that!

I work for a French company and really should learn French! I can read it and sort of write it (from O level 40 years ago!) but I am not confident in speaking it.

But a I say above....I am passionately Welsh (even though researching my family tree has exposed that I am more Scottish/English (aaaggghh!!! :-) ) but it wasn't taught when I was in school. Both of my daughters can read and write it and if pushed could speak it...I did try to teach-myself (I remember the day of Live-Aid in 1985 having an hour in the park with my Teach-Yourself-Welsh book before playing squash for an hour). As Dea says a retirement goal (I have always been a scientist so learning Welsh French and Spanish as an OAP is a goal) - I SAID IT HERE FIRST!!!

Yes, I'm in Canada, Jude, but probably as far away from Sylvia as I am from you. I'm in Eastern Ontario. I was born in England but emigrated with my family when I was 9.

My son married a French Canadian lass and my 2 grandaughters are perfectly bilingual, speaking French to their mother and English to their father and making fun of Grandma when she speaks French.

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ùr

and I'm basically a unilingual Canadian ............... emigrated here with OH in 1967.

I've forgotten almost all the French and German I learnt at school



OH is half-Welsh, was actually born in Wales, in a nursing home just inside the Welsh border, and spoke Welsh before he spoke English as his Welsh-speaking grandmother was responsible for most of his care from 1940 to 1945

His mother was fluently bilingual Welsh / English, even though she did not speak English until she went to school.

She and her mother had to make sure that OH spoke English before his father returned home :-)




Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :-D