Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 43 minutes ago
Fifth section of Ifor's monologue, with subtitles, transcript, and English translation.
Was it a big step to move back to Wales? How did that desire develop?
Ifor describes his teenage awakening of interest in Welsh, a language he’d always spoken but not learned how to write until deciding to study it for O level, and then A level after leaving school as a university entry requirement to study Welsh and Welsh history in Wales. He then married and settled down, eventually in Caernarfon, the town with the highest density in the world (nearly 90%) of Welsh speakers. He reiterates that the density of Welsh speakers varies across the country, noting an emergent demographic challenge in the language’s stronghold areas, ironically just as legal status and rights are being underlined. Nevertheless he defines himself as optimistic, taking some comfort in historic migration patterns which ended with strong identification with Welshness among previous incomer movements, while acknowledging the importance of supportive popular will to recreate a contemporary Welsh identity.
Transcript here: multidict.net/cs/12438
Full English translation here: guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ifor-5-translation.pdf
Part of the "Welshman from London" series of videos for the Island Voices "Extensions" series. More information here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/ifor-ap-glyn-welshman-from-london
Fifth section of Ifor's monologue, with subtitles, transcript, and English translation.
Was it a big step to move back to Wales? How did that desire develop?
Ifor describes his teenage awakening of interest in Welsh, a language he’d always spoken but not learned how to write until deciding to study it for O level, and then A level after leaving school as a university entry requirement to study Welsh and Welsh history in Wales. He then married and settled down, eventually in Caernarfon, the town with the highest density in the world (nearly 90%) of Welsh speakers. He reiterates that the density of Welsh speakers varies across the country, noting an emergent demographic challenge in the language’s stronghold areas, ironically just as legal status and rights are being underlined. Nevertheless he defines himself as optimistic, taking some comfort in historic migration patterns which ended with strong identification with Welshness among previous incomer movements, while acknowledging the importance of supportive popular will to recreate a contemporary Welsh identity.
Transcript here: multidict.net/cs/12438
Full English translation here: guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ifor-5-translation.pdf
Part of the "Welshman from London" series of videos for the Island Voices "Extensions" series. More information here: guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/ifor-ap-glyn-welshman-from-london
