Scottish Gaelic, Scots an aw

Some people like this course:
https://speakgaelic.scot/

Which has an accompanying YouTube series
http://www.youtube.com/@SpeakGaelic
as well as a podcast.

SpeakGaelic seems really good.

The vocative case with masculine names: https://duome.eu/tips/en/gd#Names-2

I'm talking to you, Fhearghais.

Further explanation: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36574749/Madainn-mhath-Fhearghais

This is a great list of resources!

Have just started my Duolingo journey with Scottish Gaelic inspired by this thread, having avoided both for stubbornly long. Lot of salted gannet and Irn Bru so far.

:)

Just occurred to me that IRN BRU and Runrig are near anagrams.

But what I really came to post is:

Some visual differences between Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the accent marks go the other way (although maybe at one point they went the same way). Also there was a spelling reform in Irish to trim off some of the unpronounced consonant clusters.

That being The Gaelic-English Dictionary, by Colin Mark, who also wrote Gaelic Verbs: Systemized and Simplified.

Apparently Colin B. D. Mark didn’t start learning Gaelic until he was turning forty. Sometime afterwards he wrote the verb book and then spent twenty-five odd years on the dictionary.

Guy who wrote another, century-old dictionary people still use also learned the language as an adult, Edward Dwelly.

Should have responded to your post by saying
Is math sin.

Also I did the first four sections of the first topic of SpeakGaelic and can attest that it really well-done.

late seeing this thread so apologies if somebody's already mentioned this brilliant story

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

Wow, thanks

Feel like maybe the word “Scots” should be added to the thread title as well.

Even this Mango course I can get free through the library seems to have some good intro stuff.

(xp) "An aw" as used in the famous phrase, "Aw naw, no Annoni oan an aw noo".

...and indeed, "Twa pehs an an ingin ane an aw".

So would it be correct to add “Scots an aw” to the thread title? I don’t quite get the subtleties.

Yes.

I don't really know what they're talking about in the Guardian article re the use of 'an aw'.

Even if the new thread title is incorrect:
a) we can fix it again if needed, assuming mods don’t take offense
b) we may end up learning more from the error
c) it’s all good, after all it’s not like it’s Wikipedia an awor something

One of the useful things about Scots which English no longer has is that the word 'no' exists in two different forms.

"Is there an equivalent in English?"
"Naw, there's nae equivalent in English"

Or better still..

"Naw, there's nae equivalent in English, at least I'm no sure there is".

Now I am, um, mulling over whether to add “noo” at the end as well.

Nae noos is guid noos.

I think the Guardian article is trying to say "an aw" technically can't be used the same way as "also" because it can't appear *before* the extra thing. Instead of saying it's the same as "and all", they could've used "too".

Never thought of that about "nae" as well as "naw" before. Bit like the French "aucun" or German "kein". Fun!

Kein' Angst, Baby!

Really came to say that people love love love this guy: https://gaelicwithjason.thinkific.com/

I don't think he is taking any one-on-one students anymore but you can still look at some of his materials, get a regular email and sign up for group classes.

Video courses. One of them is free.

Just found mention of this this!
https://www.taic.me.uk/feuch/index.html
Have no idea what it is, just about to click through now.

(xp) Surefire way to get a Scotsman interested.

That's sort of a test/demo version, here is the main site: https://www.taic.me.uk/

Depends on how you feel about The Witcher. (xp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5U15iFPM8

Or just look at some of his other videos.
http://www.youtube.com/@GaelicwithJason

This guy totally reminds me of being a high school student and sitting in an enrichment class taught by one of the former mathletes who has come back from college break, except I don't get lost so quickly.

for all the accents in Skellige there's not many (or any?) Scots ones tbf

he's right tho it's immediately piqued me interest in the video

Lol

Don't think I've linked https://learngaelic.scot/ yet. There's a ton of stuff there but it can be hard to navigate. I can never remember which sections I've visited before.

Think you have to go here to get the written materials for that free Witcher course: https://gaelicwithjason.thinkific.com/courses/take/the-witcher-1

Reminder to the thrifty Scotsmen on the borad: SpeakGaelic is also free: https://speakgaelic.scot/

Don't think I encountered it yet, but apparently Duolingo has a discussion on the Falkirk Wheel in some lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxxz45z4H2c

He’s nae eel-drooner

Dè an aois a tha e?

Tha mi coma.

I did watch the BBC Alba (Gaelic) Hogmanay Show - and usually do most years - because it's the only place you're guaranteed good music to see the New Year in.