Kate Forbes MSP Speaking Scottish Gaelic in Scottish Parliament
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Kate Forbes MSP talking about including Scottish Gaelic in UNESCO so that it can continue to be taught in Schools around Scotland.
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Don’t stop speaking our minority languages in Europe. It makes us very rich. Don’t let them disappear.
They shall be preserved and kept that way
I'm from America but I couldn't agree more!
@@Oak6
With all languages, hell look at the Hebrew language which today is used as a spoken language in the State of Israel 🇮🇱 along side with it's sister language Arabic who played and still plays a key role in the language especially words used in the spoken language that cannot be found in the literal and biblical grammer since the language is so old.
@@Oak6 Do you know Euskera which is a language spoken in the Basque Country region of Spain, is also spoken in Boise, Idaho?
@@mikhailabunidal9146 You had to ruin it by mentioning thar illegitimate state
As a Scot, I don't personally speak Gaelic but I so wish I did. It's such a beautiful language and I'm frankly saddened by the fact that my school neither speaks nor teaches it. I'm attempting to learn via duolingo but it isn't going great so far, haha. I wish more Scottish schools talk Gaelic.
Good to see more people are learning the language, good luck with Duolingo!
@@DonFlufflesPrime I'm taking the course through Duolingo. I came to this video to see if could recognise any of the spoken language.
Now, Duolingo aims to give basic understanding - not fluency - with the completion of the course. I'm around 40% of my way through the course and could understand about 25% of what she said. I think the full course will give a decent basis to understand and speak the language.
@@davidcheater4239 Agreed, Duolingo definitely falls short of full fluency, but it can certainly help as a starting point to get conversational fluency. Also, good luck with Duolingo!
@@DonFlufflesPrime At this point, the Scottish Gaelic course is one of the courses that doesn't check the learner's pronunciation. I use Hebrew liturgically, and used to live in Germany so I have some experience in different grammar/pronunciation.
But Duolingo is quite clear that it's no substitute to using a language with fluent speakers.
I’m from Edinburgh but I was luckily brought up fluent in Gaelic as my gran is from Stornaway and it’s good to see how many people are interested in learning it😊
I am Greek and hearing her fight for her language made me tear up. No language deserves to become extinct. All languages are human heritage and deserve to be preserved.
Don't have Greek characters on my pc keyboard so I'm gonna have to thank you in English as I hate typing Greeklish.
Thank you Yiannis! Sincerely from a Scot who learned more Greek from one year in Cyprus than I learned Gaelic my whole life in Scotland. Currently trying to fix this.
Languages become extinct because no one uses them or their language base dies off. Simple social evolution, regrettable maybe, but neither good nor bad. Scots Gaelic is a dead language at this point.
@@andrewelphick2304Spart
Are you doing your part in protecting Tsakonian and Aromanian?
@@andrewelphick2304Languages are brutally suppressed by colonizers who literally beat indigenous children for speaking their own language and practicing any of their culture. They are not “dead” languages. They are suppressed languages.
In Dublin, road signs are in Irish first and English underneath. It's like this in many parts of Wales as well, no reason it shouldn't be the same in Scotland.
Ceapaim go bhfuil na focail Gaeilge ró-beag, is maith liom ag léamh na comharthaí bóthar as Gaeilge, ach uaireanta is féidir leis deacair dom a dhéanamh :(
And in Los Angeles and New York, they’re in Chinese.
The problem is Scots too. Which one should be in top? Maybe in the Highlands Gaelic and in the Lowlands Scots. In either way English is gonna be down
The signs are in Gaelic and English in the Highlands and Islands.
It is like that in parts of Scotland.
However, it is also worth remembering that, despite political attempts to give the impression that Gaelic is the natural "our own language" choice for all of Scotland, it isn't. The areas where you are likely to find a Gaelic-first speaker are quite small, and the number of people is also very small. In very large parts of Scotland, no one speaks Gaelic at all, and in many of those areas, no one ever did. Bilingual English/Gaelic signs would be utterly inappropriate for large parts of Scotland where Gaelic simply isn't even spoken at all by anyone. Indeed, in many parts of Scotland, promotion of Gaelic, rather than the more natural local languages and dialects, is regarded as somewhat insulting.
In parts of Scotland where Gaelic has never been spoken, we still have ambulances with "Ambaileans" written on them, or police cars with "Poileas" and I've really got to ask why. No one in the area speaks Gaelic and no one, Gaelic speaking or not, needs the "clarification" that the white car with the blue and yellow chequered vinyls, flashing blue lights and sirens is in fact a "Poileas" car. If it only said "Police", it would not be confusing. What's important here?
There are millions of £ spent in Scotland propping up Gaelic, and doing so in areas where it is not naturally spoken. You can get significant grants to make your signage and information English/Gaelic bilingual in museums, natural sites (e.g. forestry) etc for... tourists! No tourists needs Gaelic. It's a political initiative, rather than one that is wanted or needed in many areas. I get that it's "part of the experience" but it's not actually readable by the visitors.
I'm not saying that Gaelic shouldn't be supported (in areas where it is appropriate to do so), but it is being supported, even pushed, in areas where it is not needed, not appropriate, and large sums of money are being spent on that support.
Pet theory: Alec Salmond visited Wales and saw all the bi-lingual signs and thought "I'll have some of that to help me carve out a new Scottish identity" regardless of the cost, or appropriateness of doing so.
It's a false political narrative that Gaelic=Scotland's language. Indeed, I live near where the advance of the Gaelic speaking hordes was stopped in battle several hundred years ago. ;)
Greetings from Nova Scotia / Alba Nuadh
Kate Forbes is wonderful. What a display of Gaelic! My family is Mexican-American and my daughters loved hearing songs in Gaelic and tried to learn them. I love how Gaelic sounds :)
Its heartening to see Gaelic making a comeback.Although the official figures still remain 1%..Padraig Pearce said,a people who abandon their language,have abandoned their souls
Not sure I would use an IRA fanatic as a reference point.
@@ayrshireman1314 There was no IRA in 1916 and Pearse was widely regarded as one of the leading Irish language academics. It was said he was one of the two main scholars on the history of the language at the time he was executed.
@@ronaldobrien6870 Yes, he was a brilliant man, but also a nationalist blood-obsessed fanatic, the two arent mutually exclusive. And whilst the IRA didnt exist in 1916, the IRB did. Two cheeks of the same arse, to be crude.
@@ayrshireman1314 But his point on language is not an invalid one. He was a linguistics expert and one of the leading figures in the revival of the Irish language (something acknowledged even by the likes of Lady Gregory and WB Yeats after his death).
@@ayrshireman1314 ..its important to keep our language alive,no matter what you say
I’ve been learning Gaelic on Duolingo and I cannot express how helpful it is to listen to parliament talks spoken in Gaelic with the subtitles. It really helps with cadence and pronunciation. Thank you.
Me too, that was so cool! I understood a lot of words and got a lot of the context.
@@Michael-bf1dt Tapadh leat, a Mhicheal, agus deagh dhùrachd dhut. (luckily we can translate the Gaeilge and the Gidhlig!)
@@stephro74 Is deas bualadh leat
@@Michael-bf1dt No, I'm in the US. My husband has Scottish ancestry, as well as Irish and English. That's really the only reason I can think of for why I decided to learn Scots Gaelic 😆
@@Michael-bf1dt Tapadh leat!
Official languages in Canada are foreign immigrant languages, recent arrivals here. For over a century, the Canadians have deliberately tried to eradicate the indigenous Native American languages, and they've succeeded at that for some of them. Even now, Canada puts multi-millions of dollars into universities for language instruction in various languages from around the planet, but comparatively they put a drop in the bucket if it's indigenous languages.
In Ireland, everyone has to learn Irish from Junior infants (age 4/5) to 6th year (age 17/18)
And it's taught awfully, it's taught like a subject and not like a language
@@danielcowan87 exactly, I've been learning German since 1st year and Irish since junior infants, to put it into context, I know way more German than Irish (I'm about 60% fluent) and I've been learning Irish for 13 years, last week we needed to write a 4 page essay meanwhile I can barely hold up a conversation in irish, that sums it up
@sarah lilburn Yeah Gaelic wasn't even the original Celtic language of Scotland, it was a Brythonic language like Pictish if I'm not mistaken
@@adamfinnegan735 I learned more Irish in 3 weeks in the Gaeltacht than in a year or two in school despite the fact that we only did an hours class during the day and spent the rest of the time playing sports, talking as Gaeilge, dancing during the Ceili's, etc. I was asked by my Bean an Ti, is your German as good as your Irish? I replied "Nios Maith". She was surprised and mentioned that I had been doing Irish since I was in Infants!
@@danielcowan87 - Correct, Scots Gaelic today is a blend of Old Irish and Old Norse. Irish Gaelige modernised through the centuries but Scots Gaelic remained stuck in its roots, there's a lot of similarities still between the two, just as there are similarities between Norse and Scots Gaelic.
But the language was never really accepted by Scotland, as they had their own (Pictish, as you mentioned), and Scots Gaelic remained consistent amongst the Isles.
Quite remarkable really when you think about it, that the small cluster of islands which at times would have had no more than a couple of thousand people living there have managed to keep the language going for over a thousand years.
I am an American teacher of British Literature, and I find this fascinating. I hope that the UK will promote the preservation of these rich languages. One day, I hope to travel and hear people speaking this language; it is enchanting.
After I get fluent in learning German I'm planning to learn Gaelic! It's such a pretty language
Is fìor thoil leam a’ bhidio seo. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig a-nis, ged a tha mi trì fichead bliadhna a dh'aois.
I love this video. It inspired me to learn some Gaelic even though I am 60 years old.
We need our younger ones to learn it to keep it relevant to our culture and heritage for many years to come..
All for them speaking it! Why not, it is their historical language.
Even as far down as Ballater in the shire the gaelic was spoken over doric
Not a Brit, not an European. But I belong to the nation who's people were shot and martyred for speaking their language.
And I respect that all the tounges deserve to be preserved.
English subtitles are awesome
Yes, but the message is there without translation. Scottish is their own people and the English are controlling and suppressing their language through education.
@@draigporffor3288 Drivel.
@@draigporffor3288 English has become the global language!! It was of the greatest English exports!! But it's now the global language of in the world of communication !!!! One kingdom 1 language !! Too many languages just like different tribes/ races in the same country create barriers !!!
@@nigelpilgrim4232 not the point
@@nigelpilgrim4232 “1 kingdom, 1 language” maybe we’d want to be part of your so-called kingdom if you didn’t rip away our language and belittle our people. Scotland is her own country, yous are just feart of losing the income we generate. Saor Alba! 🏴
Hearing Kate talk Gaelic reminds me of when my Nanna use to talk and sing to me in Gaelic when I was little. God I miss hearing her talk Gaelic to me. 😔
@@mmzddx96 Thank you, that's so kind of you to say and yes, both myself and my hubby are learning Gaelic. Or in my case, relearning/refreshing my knowledge of it and then we're going to introduce it to our young son. 😁
That's how you protect your culture: You speak your language you delight your fellow country- women and man so that they fall in love with the music of your words and want to say them with you, want to taste the meal you cooked because it says "sit down, eat and tell a story."
You are not convinced? Have you ever wanted to share a meal because someone stood in front of a flag and yelled "I hate other people"?
Using Gaelic protects Irish culture.
This made me cry and I don't know why. I really wish I'd learned gaelic in school now.
Duolingo! I understood a lot of what she said and picked up on a lot of words and context, just with 15 minutes a day or so for the past few years.
those were your ancestors telling you to preserve that treasure. As a native Catalan speaker from the Balearics i think it is crucial to keep this incredible heritage. it expands your mind heart and soul.
Katy is my local msp! Legend!
I've been doing the Scottish Gaelic course on Glossika and I'm absolutely stoked how much of this I could understand already
My Grandfather Hugh Macdonald who was born in Polin, near Kinlochbervie, spoke Gaelic to me when i was a child in Cellardyke.
I congratulate you good for you you never supposed to lose your mothers language my country was invaded for thousands of years. We still speak are native language everywhere.
As a Englishman of Pakistani descent I have grown up speaking my mother tongue of Mirpuri at home and English outside. Nowadays the Youth can't even speak the dialect much. I hope the Scottish can preserve their Gaelic language. It's fascinating to hear.
you're not an englishman
@@laki5717 Aye he is
I've been to Scotland maybe 8 times.Have not heard anyone speak it yet.But hopefully in the future😜The Scottish countryside is truly beautiful.Hope to learn a few more words next time I'm up there.Last time I learned that Dumfries is Dùn Phris.
Cyfarchion o Eryri,Cymru.
O bydded i hen ieithoedd barhau!😁😜
Brilliant let’s see more of this Gaelic language in Alba 🏴
But this is only one of the Gaelic dialects.
Beautifull language. Please preserve and spread it!
Scottish Gaelic is now on Duolingo. I’m American but my dad’s side of the family has Scottish roots. So I’m gonna try to learn it in my free time and someday I’ll save up to go visit Scotland.
I'm on my second year. I live in Oklahoma but I'm incredibly passionate about the preservation of the language.
I'm learn gaelic scottish, i loved this language and who speak , beatiful!
The language of this silvery tongue is beautiful and it has a musical quality . David Murison once said to me on language either use it or lose it. I had spoken Gaelic and written a song in the old language but because few speak it and prefer Scots or English I have indeed lost it; except for a few expressions. Therefore, use it or lose it!! Well done Kate Forbes. Our local Laird during the 45 was Alexander Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, perhaps a relative and his close friend was Cameron of Lochiel and their Painting with Charles Edward Stuart hangs in Hollyrood Palace.
Whoah.. really cool.. glad of the subtitles but this lingo's well easy on the old lugs.. x
So wonderful to hear our sister language spoken like this. What a beautiful language it is! O Gymru â chariad
Kate Forbes is amazing.
People like Kate will keep Scothland Scottish. We need more of this in Ireland. From Israel.
The Celtic languages needs revival like Hebrew
Should be taught instead of some other foreign language. They should teach our kids our history, our traditions and our languages. Most Scottish kids are taught about Martin Luther king and Rosa parks as supposed to Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. Two great men who literally preserved the existence of Scots a people.
I don't think this is true. I was taught a lot of Scottish history in primary and secondary school and my daughter is getting the same kind of lessons. And foreign languages are much more useful in the modern world. Learning a language they'll likely never use seems a waste of resources.
@@carolineritchie9642 I disagree. I know more about America in the 60s than I do my own history and culture. Its shocking.
I literally learned about both at school. In fact according to how SQA Highers for history work you MUST learn about a Scottish history topic and a world history topic such as the Atlantic slave trade.
So it is misleading to imply that children are not being taught about the history of Scotland when in fact they most certainly will be. What do you have against learning foreign things?
@@avenger1_gbo260 for me it went:
Scottish wars of independence,
the rough wooing Mary Queen of Scots and the Protestant Reformation
The Industrial Revolution
The Atlantic slave trade
Hitlers rise to power
What a sad world we live in where Scottish language is fighting for the right to exist in a country called Scotland.
The mother tongue should be used on all road signs and correspondence so people can use it in everyday life.
Except it isnt the mother tongue.
ayrshireman1314 how do you have time to reply to every comment with your stupid shit?
@@ayrshireman1314 The nation of Scotland (I am using the true meaning of the word, not the meaning used by those that do not understand how it works) is Gaelic at heart, which of course includes the Gaelic tongue.
@@thewaysofoldvideoarchive1443 No, if you think so, then you are lacking in knowledge of our history.
The Scots came from Ulster and bits of Western Scotland and one day spread their culture and tongue to almost all of what is now Scotland. Remember, a nation is not a country, so Scotland as a nation is still Gaelic. I know about Scottish history and I also know that Scots and English must make way for Gaelic to be as widespread as it once was.
Gaelic: the language of the Elves.
Never mind booing England in football, THIS is what I call a true patriotic Scot.
I grew up in scotland. I havent stayed there for over 20 years but have decided to start learning. Such a shame its not taught in all schools, at least partly. Tha a ghaidlig breagha!
I understood everything except the last bit. Im guessing "have a nice day".
@@gavinmcinally8442 I started learning not long ago it means Gaelic is beautiful
I think the problem in Scotland (unlike Wales with Welsh) is that Gaellic was never spoken in all of Scotland with English always being spoken in the South and East of Scotland. Gaellic was brought over by the immigration of Irish peoples to the highlands and Islands. And before English came in to Southern/Eastern Scotland people had spoken Welsh (or the Northern Brythonic version of the time). Yr Hen Gogledd.
@@aldozilli1293 Rubbish Gaelic was spoken in the south of Scotland. Most definitely in the Dumfries and Galloway area. Please check you comments are correct before posting them.
Wonderful, it reminds me of the elves from middle earth, like the elves, we must not let it’s beauty fade from the world.
I understand everything she saying as native Irish Gaeilge speaker as it was the Irish Gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and Isle of man knowing as Manx Gaelic changed through time somewhat by the saxon murders .. Scottish are pics back then knowing as the picland let's make a celtic union Ireland Scotland Wales keep our native tongue alive and leave the EU and UK unions 🇮🇪🏴🏴❤️
Pictish is lost forever, unfortunately.
I have never felt so ashamed to listen to my native tongue being spoken, and not understanding it one bit, we were offered French, German, or if lucky Italian, but not Gaelic, this must change our children should be given this opportunity in primary school and in deed all the way through education, bring back our language now not later. We talk of Independence but not in our language why because England or rather London makes the decision on what we Scottish learn, enough is enough, all Scottish people in futre should learn the language of our country, it is their right.
There is no one native tongue in Scotland. No national language. Gaelic is hugely important, but its just one of many languages in the history of our country. As an Ayrshireman, whose lowland ancestors will have spoken Brythnic also known as Brittonic or Cymric, I am acutely aware of that. Pictish, Cymric, Galldovidian Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, Latin, Norse, as well as Gaelic.
@@ayrshireman1314 Thank you
@@Jim-si7wz but it was the scottish parlement that got rid of the language 🤔
Yes please preserve our cultural heritage
As a Scottish-American the concept of this language in and of itself is almost alien to me. While Scots in Scotland begin learning the language that our ancestors spoke again, a noble thing in my opinion, many millions of American Scots view English as our only language.
ONE of the languages your ancestors spoke.
Because youre american and no Scot..
And this is why I’m learning Scots Gaelic to help preserve an ancestral language of mine.
Easy to see where the Elves language came from Lord of the rings
Really - there is no Elvish language - it is Quenya, one of the Elves languages which is featured and it is derived from the Old Norse family of languages.
@@charlestaylor3027 derived mostly from Finnish, not Old Norse
Absolutely brilliant we Scottish should speak Gaelic just to confuse the English 😜
"And let the English SEE you do it."
No need. Sitting in Heathrow once and listening to two gentlemen converse at the next table. I asked the fellow sitting across from me "What language is that?" He replied, "They are Scottish from Glasgow". And I was born in my native California and was raised from the age of 4 by my grandmother from Ayr.
They get mad
@@aodhanmaccuinneagain7413 is as Eire mé an bhfuil tú in ann mé a thuiscint? Tá mé in Ann rúinín beag de na rudaí atá siad ag rá a thuiscint. An bhfuil sé ag fáil bháis thoir ann?
Well, I'm English and I'm learning Gaelic so I can confuse you Scots...its a beautiful language full of mystery + images.
I find it amazing that Wales and Scotland stand out for their Welsh and Gaelic language while the middle part of the UK has english which everyone speaks 😄 Welsh and Scots are special
kids should learn this in Scotland instead of German or French, don't get me wrong those 2 languages are great but we should learn our own before learning others
Historically, its also a foreign tongue.
there is a few schools that teach it, my old secondary one use too, but i think the problem is theres not enough teachers to teach it :(
@@ayrshireman1314 yeah, like 1200 years ago. Ha ha ha ha. Seriously, though, it is sad that Pictish has disappeared without a trace.
Living in England, I missed out on benefits other Europeans were allowed: Germans, Polish. even the French were granted assistance to find employment (eg Licence assistance, mobilty grants etc). I was told that as an 'English speaker' I was not considered 'Foreign Enough' for those same aids. I told her to Kiss My Arse in Gaelic, She was oblivious.
🇮🇪🏴
On Sunday, May 1, 2022, I made the decision to learn both Spanish and Scottish Gaelic. So far, gle mhath!
2 years on and still comments that are brilliant to see👌 I am learning Scottish Gaelic now and yes its tricky at first but once you have been doing it for a while, you do start picking it up like no ones business. Scots Gaelic has been a denied language for at least 4 centuries now, with not enough people at home who have any knowledge of the language. English was forced upon Scotland and many more countries (including Ireland and Wales), it was not just taught, but forced. After the ban in the 1600s, in the late 1800s any child heard speaking Gaelic in Scottish schools were belted by teachers, and if refused to give the names of any other Gaelic speakers, further punishment was met. I do not just feel that fellow Scots dont know enough of our own language, but also not enough about Scottish History as a whole. By learning Gaelic you could be helping in sustaining the language and help bring it back to Scotland's heart where it belongs.
Awrighty im in renfrew but willing tae travel an always wanted tae learn it but never know where tae go or who to see. Any info or even meetin yoirself would be a help if possible
@@jimmyboynottknown7713 Start using Duolingo its very interactive and useful.
@@Sabhail_ar_Alba thankyou fir yir help . i tried tae find classes but the this corona pish started
English had been in Scotland since the 12/13th C, long before the 1600s. It was the lingua franca of Scotland south of the Highlands. So to say it was forced on the whole nation isnt correct.
@@ayrshireman1314 if you look at the 1800s the British belted and whipped children in schools if the children spoke as little as 1 word of Gaelic. If those children refused to give the names of other Gaelic speakers, such as older family members or friends, further punishment was required. So to say it was forced on the whole nation is actually correct.
i wish i was taught Gaelic in school...
I'm scottish but none of my family speak scottish gaelic (that i know of) as most of us now live in England so i thought it would be nice to learn it myself and teach it to my kids in the future in hopes to not loose the language. I know i'm only 14 but think it would be nice :)
Dayum
albert bahoogadin Who's denying you grow up and stop acting the fucking victim
@albert bahoogadin If thats the way u bring confidence to the younger generation..i pity u.
@albert bahoogadin I will dont worry :)
for more than 90% of scots gaelic has NEVER been a heritage or culture. gaelic was always a minority language spoken by very few people. Gaelic is the language of the northern and western part of the highlands and islands. which was not densely populated. The fast majority of scots spoke english. So kindly take your gaelic and fuckoff to Skye
You love to see it. Long may the Gaelic languages continue to live
Have a look at UA-cam clips of Gaelic psalm singing, absolutely beautiful.
Ps she will be next leader of Scotland.
Hypnotising
I'm 3rd generation South Asian Brit from England and I support the revival of Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh languages.
Such a beautiful language that us Scots need to keep alive and not let it die, we need to cherish and preserve our Scottish Culture and language, God bless you Kate Forbes 🏴💙
I as an American both wish we had a cool language to speak like this and also feel like I’m watching the lord of the rings meets parliament.
Well you've got your native American tongue I guess
Deathwhistle You mean the people the settlers mostly killed off
I’m Australian with Scottish roots and I’ve visited Scotland once and hope to go next year. I’m Became interested in Scottish Gaelic , and learning very slowly via dualingo. I heard it is a dying language so I hope she can revive it in Scotland
Gaelic sounds a lot like Icelandic language, its pretty cool...my Dad is Russian and he speaks a bit of Finnish, but Gaelic is very unique
Well google added the translation part, but does not provide it being vocalized.
Are there any parts of Scotland where the language is spoken regularly instead of English? Like if you go into a bar or grocery store you here everyone conversing?
Mainly spoken in rural areas up in the north of Scotland. It suffered because it was seen, until recently, as an unsophisticated "peasant" language. The tide has turned and now is hopefully this and all the other Celtic languages will thrive and survive.
Go to the Hebrides, either Outer Hebrides or Inner Hebrides. It's spoken far more in the Outer Hebrides though.
That's where this dialect originates from, and that's where it was kept alive for over a thousand years before mainland Scotland decided to eventually acknowledge it (after doing so much to undermine it historically).
Scots Gaelic on the mainland isn't good. The diction is terrible, the cadence is wrong, and the pronunciation is regrettable because they tend to have thick central belt accents that ruin gaelic but don't realise it because the rest of us are often too nice to tell them lol.
@@EpicTutorialTips S ann as an Tir Mor a thainig an canan ged s air an eileanan s tha e nas laidir an diugh. Cha d fhuair mise latha sam bi foghlum anns an canan. Thog mi e o chionn fhada lem chluais. Chaneil grammaire uamhasach math agam ach tuigidh mi torr s rinn mi cinntech gun d thug mi dham chuid chloinne e.
I'm learning Scots Gaelic currently, have been for a little while, to feel connected to my ancestors - the Fletcher clan. I have always felt closer to my Scottish side than my Irish side.
Tá sí go hálainn🇮🇪
Tha i breagha🏴
T’ee aalin 🇮🇲 (I think)
Ar fad!
This is what I’m trying to learn on Duolingo rn
Same here
In recent years, there has been a growing popularity in the ability to learn about one’s family history. Genealogy apps, along with DNA testing, has allowed for many people to look deeper into the past at where they may have come from. I myself, finding deep roots in Scotland, as far back as the 11th century have taken a serious interest in learning the history of a culture I had never known. Over the past few months, I have been astounded at finding the number of those here in the US, who have or are studying Scottish Gaelic, simply because of their interest in their families history.
Go for it Kate - and be proud (and I'm English)
Protect the language in English myself but languages like Scottish Gaelic. Welsh and Irish
Go raibh míle maith agat :) here in Ireland our language will continue decreasing unless the government either changes the curriculum, because Irish is taught horrificly, or make every school in the country teach classes through Irish only, I am almost fluent in Irish having learned it outside the education system and it would genuinely be heartbreaking to see our language continue to decline, sadly, many people in Ireland have negative attitudes towards Irish and see it as "useless" they don't realise the rich cultural and historical significance of our language and they don't realise why we even speak English in the first place as the history of the British empire's role in the decline of Irish isn't really talked about enough. Thank you for your kind words, agus Mairfidh Gaeilge go deo :)
Come on Scotland!
There is a major college on Skye which offers courses devised to be done over the Internet. Duo lingo does have some advantages. It is Free and will give you enough words to form your own sentences. Downside is it not provide a grammar, nor does any one check your pronunciation. I use it and I find it very easy to access and work through.
Well done
Vamos Highlanders....👍👍👍
I am currently learning this language because one of my haplogroups goes straight back to the Picts. I know the Picts had their own language, but which one of the two would possibly be closer to what they spoke: Welsh or Scottish Gaelic? Any ideas?
Pretty Scottish girl telling me to learn Gaelic.
I'm no ways Scottish, but you got me interested.
Glé mhàth :)
Slainte mhath!
🇮🇪🤝🏴 Gaelic brothers
Simply beautiful
Celtic countries: "we're not English"
England: "don't you dare speak back slave!"
@@libertylovingbeckles6797Even so, England hates the idea that Celtic countries might not consider themselves a part of them. They SAY some "right" things and begrudgingly give back power but when it all comes down to it Cofiwch Dryweryn.
Meh. Scotland's a complicated place. The simplest you can put it is that we're a celtic-germanic hybrid nation.
Notice how many members had to use translators
That's exactly the point of the speech, dummy. She's is fighting to preserve Gaelic language in Scotland, which since the Highland clearances has all but died out.
Can you read? Or just too lazy to inform yourself before feeling the need to open your yap and let the shite pour out?
It sound so beautiful, all the more so when it comes from this pretty lady.
Look at the state of you son. Keep dreaming
They say that people who speak Ulster Irish can understand scots gaelic
I’m a Scottish Canadian with, unfortunately, no Gaelic. It’s very nice to hear a whole speech and not just a few words. To my untrained ear, it’s sounds sort of like a mix between a Scandinavian and Middle Eastern language.
Sounds almost Portuguese sometimes. That's probably because Portuguese has a lot more Celtic influence than Spanish, from what I hear.
Ah,the English subtitles are hilarious,lol...it's making me laugh so much,that my bleeding whiskey is falling all over the laptop,lol...but was suprised at how well she spoke Gaelic..my dialect is from Cape Clear,at the southern tip of Eire,and it sounds just the way we speak...
I think it is a beautiful language and wanting to learn it. However, me being from the southern potion of the U.S I have been told I have a very pronounced southern accent. I butcher the English language enough without butchering such a beautiful language like Scottish Gaelic.
You have a perfect right to speak the English of your region. Nobody is going to tell me my French from Québec is inferior to what anyone in France speaks.
Beautiful this is the way it should be im scottish with gaelic in my blood wish i could talk it next generation will be taught it as a 2nd language instead of french
Tha Albais na chànan brèagha.
Yea, gaelic is really wonderfull
Very interesting language to listen to.
I'm English, speak English and have found it difficult to learn other languages due to being partly deaf. But I try, and I think we should all support the preservation of languages. I find it so arrogant when people dismiss minority languages. My dad's family came from Scotland, and now that I have better hearing aids, I might see if I can learn at least a little of this lovely language.
This is perfect. Scotland forever!
Why do most countries try to make non official languages disappear?
In the Middle Ages there were a few criteria on how countries were defined. One obvious criteria is religion. Another is language. As smaller polities united to form the nation states we know today a movement was formed in each state to unify the customs, laws, religions and language in each state so as to avoid division or possible rebellion or secession in the face of rivalries from competing states. Nearly all small polities suffered persecution and pressure to adopt the language, customs and religion of a dominant power, often under threat of imprisonment or other sanctions from the dominant state.
The smaller nations of Europe such as the Basques, Bretons, Irish, Scots and Catalans have suffered persecution for trying to preserve their languages from extinction and enforced assimilation into a dominant culture.
In modern times there is a counter movement to restore lesser used languages and try to reverse the damage done in older times.
SNP “we want to see an open inclusive and diverse Scotland an NO TORY CAN STOP THAT!!,”
Kate Forbes “ NO non Gaelic speakers can buy homes in my constituency,”
Bit of a constrast from the party line but who cares independence now!
@drdisrespect needs to listen to this
I hope we can revive our beatuiful language
God bless her.
A lesson for England. If Scottish Gaelic can be spoken in the Scottish parliament, Welsh in Wales, it won't be long that The Palace of Westminster will have MP's speaking Conish, Manx, and Shelta. No more people with the mentality of speaking only English.
The Scots, Manx etc should not be present in Westminster as they have their own parliaments now.