Pan-Celtia Blog

Tá mé ag fóghlaim Gaeilge
Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gaidhlig
Dwin Dysgy Cymraeg

Talking about the Celtic language learning stuff.

http://www.lexicelt.org
(entirely in Welsh or Irish)

http://www.omniglot.com

www.daltai.org
(Find classes in Irish)
(Great site for many languages and scripts)

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Celtic
• language
• Welsh
• Irish
• Scots
• Gaelic
• Scottish
• Gaeilge
• Cymraeg
• Gaidhlig
• Goidelic
• learning

[SummernlightningUSA]

Wow I was not aware ancient celtic women had dyed emo hair...

[animalunaris]

@SummernlightningUSA Ancient? Ancient?? Are you calling me old? Well, that's true in a way, I'm a little too old to have ever been emo. I was a mosher back in the day. Emo isn't considered very respectable over here after you leave high school.

[TheXand19]

@animalunaris Immigration to the cities was actually one of the main contributing factors that destroyed Gaelic as a ubiquitous language in Scotland since it was spoken by disliked Catholic working class immigrants so it came to be seen as something undesirable so the Gaelic speakers raised their children to speak English and Scots instead. You're right that there are a few courses on it but there aren't any native speakers left in the cities.

[animalunaris]

@TheXand19 Actually Edinburgh and Glasgow are high concentration points of Gaelic in the lowlands because of immigration and the universities teaching it, I'm not saying you'll hear it in the street every day but it can be found there.

[animalunaris]

@TheXand19 Technically Scots Gaelic is spoken in higher concentration, while Irish may have more speakers the Gaeltachts are more diluted, whereas somewhere like Lewis, being so isolated is very concentrated.

[Eadailteach]

@arivas713 Here's another nugget of information, your new found consultant on the Gàidhlig Language is one the most rabid anti Gàidhlig trollers on utube, you can safely discard his analysis, here's the real one- The Language has more than 100,000 speakers worldwide, and learners in many countries incl. USA, Canada, Australia and Germany, I can't vouch for the X man but for those who would liked to learn and visit you'll get a real "Failte gu Alba" and its real Gaelic Heart. Slàinte!

[TheXand19]

@arivas713 Ahah, best of luck then :P Another nugget of info is that had King Arthur existed he would likely have been a Briton in England and would have spoken a precursor of Welsh :D

[arivas713]

@TheXand19 welsh it is. for me it was a toss up between Irish (because it was is an official national language) and Welsh which always attracted me because of what u just said and how interesting it sounded to my ears.-wish me luck!

[TheXand19]

@arivas713 You can still do courses on Scots Gaelic and there's some people in the West Coast that speak it but you won't find any speakers of it in the cities :(

Welsh would be good to learn though since that's what the Britons in England, Wales, Brittany and Scotland used to speak, or at least an older version of it and it's still spoken a lot in Wales I think.

[arivas713]

@TheXand19 thats kinda sad actually, i have always wanted to learn a celtic language and its a shame it has gone by the wayside.