Sherrif John Bunnell Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Thanks to the Gaelic mafia, nobody knows what an ambulance or police car looks like these days. https://twitter.com/LadyGrantham645/status/1418341212868599808?s=19 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 https://speakgaelic.scot/ "The BBC together with MGAlba (the company running the BBC’s Gaelic medium TV channel BBC Alba), Bord na Gàidhlig, the Scottish Government, and the Gaelic language college based on Skye, Sabhal Mòr Os***** have funded and developed a £4 million major new initiative to promote learning Gaelic. This involves the release of a wealth of new materials for online learning. These will be more extensive and in-depth than the highly popular and excellent Gaelic Duolingo course and will provide structured learning of the language in four levels, from absolute beginners to advanced learners." Looking forward to this. Hitting a bit of a wall on duolingo/learngaelic and every little helps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 If nippy is pushing this, is she fluent? -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, supermik said: If nippy is pushing this, is she fluent? I think if chaps want to learn Gaelic - and this seems like a decent group - we should let them do so without goading. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 18 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said: https://speakgaelic.scot/ "The BBC together with MGAlba (the company running the BBC’s Gaelic medium TV channel BBC Alba), Bord na Gàidhlig, the Scottish Government, and the Gaelic language college based on Skye, Sabhal Mòr Os***** have funded and developed a £4 million major new initiative to promote learning Gaelic. This involves the release of a wealth of new materials for online learning. These will be more extensive and in-depth than the highly popular and excellent Gaelic Duolingo course and will provide structured learning of the language in four levels, from absolute beginners to advanced learners." Looking forward to this. Hitting a bit of a wall on duolingo/learngaelic and every little helps. I'd be interested to know how folk get on as it's a different pedagogical approach to what has been tried before. I was involved in some of the early trials and it's very much about communication and speaking rather than learning grammar and tables of prepositional pronouns. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 8 hours ago, supermik said: If nippy is pushing this, is she fluent? Because every politician trying to promote science or engineering must be highly proficient in physics, chemistry and biology, having put modern studies on the back-burner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 If nippy is pushing this, is she fluent?Learning a new language is good for the brain.Is there something unique about Gaelic that riles you in this respect? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 4 hours ago, Jeff Venom said: Learning a new language is good for the brain. Is there something unique about Gaelic that riles you in this respect? 'S e amadan a th' ann? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 4 hours ago, Jeff Venom said: Is there something unique about Gaelic that riles you in this respect? Nope but I could think of far better, more useful languages to learn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Nope but I could think of far better, more useful languages to learn.Shouldn't folk learn the languages they actually want to? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Nope but I could think of far better, more useful languages to learn.How do you measure a language as being 'better'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 3 hours ago, supermik said: I could think of far better languages to learn. Snobbery thread for this pish 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 On 16/10/2021 at 16:09, supermik said: Nope but I could think of far better, more useful languages to learn. You've posted this in the wrong thread mate, you're looking for "Calling Cards of Morons". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 On 16/10/2021 at 17:02, Jeff Venom said: On 16/10/2021 at 16:09, supermik said: Nope but I could think of far better, more useful languages to learn. How do you measure a language as being 'better'? When you're in the country it's spoken. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 Sorry Gaelic learners, but I laughed. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) On 01/10/2022 at 21:02, welshbairn said: Sorry Gaelic learners, but I laughed. There's a tidal island up on the north coast called Eilean Dubh, which translates to 'Black Island', pictured below. You'll struggle to find a paler coloured island in Scotland. Maybe they named it at night. Edited October 3, 2022 by Hedgecutter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDuffman Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said: There's a tidal island up on the north coast called Eilean Dubh, which translates to 'Black Island', pictured below. You'll struggle to find a paler coloured island in Scotland. Maybe they named it at night. Was told that although dubh is gaelic for black, when used in sgian dubh it means hidden knife. Maybe this is hidden island. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 37 minutes ago, MacDuffman said: Was told that although dubh is gaelic for black, when used in sgian dubh it means hidden knife. Maybe this is hidden island. It literally means black knife ie a knife hidden in the dark. Dubh doesn't mean hidden. As for Eilean Dubh I can see loads of black on the rocks in that photo. It's maybe Dubh compared to other nearby islands or its black when seen from a distance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 1 hour ago, invergowrie arab said: As for Eilean Dubh I can see loads of black on the rocks in that photo. It's maybe Dubh compared to other nearby islands or its black when seen from a distance. I did consider that, although that's the intertidal zone, which you can only see when the tide's out and it doesn't look like an island. Given that you don't know if it's an island or not unless you have a tide table, I'd be all for Eilean Schrodinger. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satoshi Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 I think Gaelic provides a roadmap for how the Scots language (historically a much more widespread language) can develop in the coming decades. Was it only back in the 80s Gaelic was deemed a language as opposed to a dialect offshoot of Irish Gaelic? Meanwhile, Scots could be a considered a language. Although not mutually incomprehensible with English that didn't stop Norwegian, Danish and Swedish being considered separate language. Scandalous that Scots isn't taught in schools and we are the only nation in the UK lacking a primary indigenous language (Gaelic only ever being confined to a small part of the country). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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