i wish i spoke fluent...

it may be all i've ever known, but i certainly don't speak or write it properly.

the part of my family heritage that i've chosen to obsess over most. ('dw i wedi dysgu siarad cymraeg ers un mlynedd nawr, ond dw i ddim yn siarad yr iaith yn dda iawn, eto. - i have been learning to speak welsh for one year now, but i don't speak the language very well, yet.)

abby (my wife) and i are currently trying to teach ourselves to sign. we're likely going to enroll in a class this fall. that way, when we have a kid(s) we can teach it to sign at an early age. it's supposed to promote language skills at an earlier age than oral speech, alone. also, studies have proven that bilingual households produce children with a higher rate of learning. something to do with better abstract thinking and conceptualizing.

the other celtic/brythonic heritage i have. the language is similar to welsh, having been split from it around 600 AD, as the saxons pushed westward through britain. cornish is nearly extinct due to continuous inmigration from the rest of england. it's also very similar to breton (brezhoneg), the language spoken in brittany, france. not all of france speaks french - see, ya learn something new every day.

just cause it seems way easier than what i'm trying to learn right now and it's spoken by a large part of the world. it's a shitload more practical than learning welsh. i had three years of spanish in high school, but i didn't really apply myself. i think i'd learn it much easier now that i find studying interesting instead of complete hell. (i say three years of spanish, but what i really mean is, spanish 1, 2 and 2.)

just to be able to cuss in german. fun things like "svinehund!" and "sheiskopf!" (pig-dog! and shithead!) welsh has one similar to svinehund, "cachgi" - pronounced "kach-gee", meaning: shit dog. it's another way to call someone a coward.

just 'cause sigur ros would be a lot cooler if i knew what the hell they were singing about. though, it's probably just a bunch of pretty songs about sardines and lightning gods.