The "over-promotion" of the benefits of bilingualism could be contributing to a 60% drop-off in uptake in Gaelic Medium Education (GME) from primary to secondary, an academic has suggested. Dr Inge ...

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

A bheil sibhse ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig? Ma tha, is ann dhuibhse a tha am podcast seo! Tha sreath B1 de phodcast SpeakGaelic ag amas air daoine a tha air adhartas a dhèanamh anns a’ chànan agus tha e ...

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There has been considerable debate in ours Letters Pages about the state of the Gaelic language, fuelled by a warning issued last month by a Holyrood committee. Read our report here 👈 That prompted a ...

Mental agility can be boosted by even a short period of learning a language, a study suggests. Tests carried out on students of all ages suggest that acquiring a new language improves a person's ...

Scottish Gaelic is to be introduced on a free online language learning service with more than 300 million users. Duolingo was launched in 2011 by Luis von Ahn, a Guatemalan immigrant, in Pittsburgh, ...

A new project organized by the Highland Village Museum in Iona, N.S., aims to find out what role the Gaelic language and culture plays in the lives of Nova Scotians today. The research involves ...