Any Scots Gaelic speakers on here?

[Abitrary]

ah noodled ah noodley toneet, me youngy chicken. Sed she to unknownst to her leetle, leetle grandymammy. Donst she call me a LEETLE GRANDYMAMMY nurdled her grandy, end givst er a little winky, out the corner 'o 'er pork pie.

 

[sloe]

ah noodled ah noodley toneet, me youngy chicken. Sed she to unknownst to her leetle, leetle grandymammy. Donst she call me a LEETLE GRANDYMAMMY nurdled her grandy, end givst er a little winky, out the corner 'o 'er pork pie.

Shameless plagiarism.

 

[HJ]

funny I was in the outer hebrides recently and heard people speak it a lot, but I've never heard it on mainland scotland...

Thanks for the tip ColinJ

I know several people in Edinburgh who can speak it and I have even heard people speaking it on the bus, tourist obviously...

For my self I only ken a wee bit of map Gaelic, the names are often very descriptive...

 

[ColinJ]

Apparently, Burras = Caterpillar!

I asked my mother about Gaelic when this thread started. Since then she's been dropping Gaelic words into conversations which I'm finding a little disconcerting, having not heard her do this in over 50 years! I'm staying with her for a few days and this afternoon we were watching the delayed F1 coverage. In one ad break she suddenly got quite animated and asked "What is that horrible burras!" I looked up from my paper and saw that there was an ad for Cadburys Creme Egg Twisted on. Her eyesight isn't quite what it used to be...

 

[furball]

ah noodled ah noodley toneet, me youngy chicken. Sed she to unknownst to her leetle, leetle grandymammy. Donst she call me a LEETLE GRANDYMAMMY nurdled her grandy, end givst er a little winky, out the corner 'o 'er pork pie.

na bi gorach

 

[furball]

As a regular visitor to the Western Isles, mainly Harris, since 1984 I too feel I should learn at least a few words if only good morning, thank you etc

Good morning = madainn mhath (mh sounds like v, th is silent)
Thank you = tapadh leibh (dh is silent and bh sounds like v)

 

[niseach]

Strange to hear people talking about gaelic on a cycling forum. Most of my family are native speakers from Lewis, but down here I wouldn't have thought that anyone evens knows the language exists. Looking to learn to speak it properly (As well as read and write it) with a class somewhere in the North West, but I don't hold out much hope. I have a huge collection of gaelic music, although I wouldn't class RunRig as being a gaelic band - there are far better out there. Can recommend a lot if folks are interested - a lot available on itunes as well.

Anyone hears of classes do get in touch.

Tapadh leibh!

 

[DJ]

Yes I think a few of people would be interested. So feel free to give us some recommendations. I was born on Islay but have'nt lived there since a boy.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Strange to hear people talking about gaelic on a cycling forum. Most of my family are native speakers from Lewis, but down here I wouldn't have thought that anyone evens knows the language exists. Looking to learn to speak it properly (As well as read and write it) with a class somewhere in the North West, but I don't hold out much hope. I have a huge collection of gaelic music, although I wouldn't class RunRig as being a gaelic band - there are far better out there. Can recommend a lot if folks are interested - a lot available on itunes as well.

Anyone hears of classes do get in touch.

Tapadh leibh!

Surely the way ahead for the language is for the SNP to campaign on the basis of compulsory bilingualism.