Should I learn Gaelic?

What’s the worst that can happen? You try and you don’t quite get the hang of it or you didn’t enjoy it as much as you thought you would. Perhaps, you actually enjoyed it and a year from now you will be able to read, write and speak the language.

Gaelic: Is it really worth investing in?

Gaelic was Scotland’s mother tongue and was at some point, spoken by the majority of Scots. Today only 1.1% of Scots speak Gaelic and despite the limited numbers, this still makes it one of Scotland’s oldest surviving languages.

Glasgow is home to the largest Gaelic-medium school in Europe and in 2010, Glasgow University awarded its Headteacher an honorary doctorate in recognition of her contribution towards Gaelic Medium Education (GME). The city has a large number of media companies which include both Bòrd na Gàidhlig and BBC Alba. But when an increase in funding was announced by the previous First Minister, Alex Salmond, people began to complain saying the money could have been spent elsewhere.