Colloquial Scottish Gaelic

The Complete Course For Beginners

Katherine Spadaro; Katie Graham

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Written by experienced teachers, both native Gaelic-speakers, Colloquial Scottish Gaelic offers a series of stimulating and informative lessons in modern Gaelic, the historic language of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The lessons are based on everyday situations and relationships which will encourage students to use the simple dialogues in the context of their own experiences. Gaelic probably arrived in Scotland with Irish settlers in the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. It's influence spread until by the tenth century it was 'the' language at all levels in Scotland. Gaelic dominance was gradually eroded by English. In the 18th century the government tried to eradicate it and it was further undermined by suppression of Highland culture and the Highland Clearances of the 1800s. Now Gaelic is resurgent, with over 140 playgroups throughout Scotland, catering to thousands of children, hundreds of hours broadcast on BBC radio and television and Gaelic societies as far afield as Nova Scotia and Australia.