Scottish Gaelic, Scots an aw

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.

did some of the Gaelic Duolingo course last year, just to get the basics. found pronouncing surprisingly easy and spelling really difficult.
(incidentally did the word grotty come the Gaidhlig word "grod" meaning rotten?)
anyway the best thing to come from this was finding the Alba kids show Geamaichen Gorach ("Silly Games"), wonderfully daft stop motion stuff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rdz1/geamaichean-gorach-series-2-episode-17

Tell you one thing: because the two languages in the thread title are in different families, there’s nae danger o confusing them.

Trying to focus on the Gaelic Spelling Rule to gave myself half a chance. (xp)

Give.

Tae gie masel

Hing in, zappi!

Stoap greetin, bubblie!

I’m sair hauden doon by the bubbly-jock.

It’s ma ain threid oniewey.

Blether tae CrackGPT

Peety me!

The words came clattering out of his mouth like chuckie stanes on a tin.

https://mapofstories.scot/the-story-of-the-laird-of-the-black-arts/
Ye ken?

Peety me!

Has Boaby Gillespie posted itt yet?

Was hoping you would attend to that.

Have been asked to read the Ode to a Haggis at a Scottish poetry night next week, partly, I think, because my accent is thought to be authentic enough. Excitedly working on my Burns voice, of course nothing like my actual one, as we speak.

Also didn't realise Aonghas MacNeacail had died - quite an important figure in modern Gaelic poetry and keeping the language alive culturally. Lovely obituary here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/17/aonghas-macneacail-obituary

Great stuff all around, thanks for posting!

https://learngaelic.scot/sol/episodes/ep.jsp?prog=1&clip=2

Halò.
Ciamar a tha sibh?
Tha gu math.

Are you still doing this, verhexen?

I am! Managing about 20 minutes a day. It's quite exciting starting to hack away at a language I've always thought would be impenetrable despite the geographic proximity. I speak French and German but have only dared pick up little bits of other similar European languages so this is thrilling new territory.

First takeaways: so far the early vocab isn't as far from English/Scots as I thought, I can often find a rationale or a mnemonic for the nouns at least. Bit exhausted by all the pointing out Irn Bru and salted gannet and thanking Anndra and Ealasaid but I'm assuming that this is helping teach me something with repetition.

I haven't properly used Duolingo before and while I'm trusting the algorithm, I definitely would benefit from some instructions/explanations along the way. I tend to actually enjoy the grammar element of language learning and find the rules a fun hook that helps when confused. It feels odd to be able to form sentences now but still have to kind of guess why words add an "h" after the first letter sometimes, when you say "tapadh leat" and "tapadh leibh", etc. unless I look it up.

Might need to take up one of the resources you suggested above alongside the owl...

just realised ive been so focused on moving house i forgot abt burns night, maybe i shd celebrate tomorrow night, the o/g date (before the burns soc checked the actual parish records)

Took a little staycation from these and did a little bit of Irish since one of the apps just added it. It’s close enough to be confusing, will probably have to refocus soon.

Coffee Break Gaelic has dropped. Think I will try the podcast but don’t want to pay for the full course.

I always enjoyed this, which finds an appropriate form/dialect/register of Scots to match the demographic background of each author (that could be much more elegantly put, but you know what I mean):
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4174Zwgyn2L.jpg