IT is the secret to learning good English – go to a Gaelic school. Research has shown that learning in a minority language makes you better at speaking a global one. Scientists have long known that ...

There has been considerable debate in ours Letters Pages about the state of the Gaelic language, fuelled by a warning issued last month by a Holyrood committee. Read our report here 👈 That prompted a ...

Three officers are receiving tuition and the training has been offered to others based in the Western Isles.

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Scottish Gaelic is to be introduced on a free online language learning service with more than 300 million users. Duolingo was launched in 2011 by Luis von Ahn, a Guatemalan immigrant, in Pittsburgh, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fieldworker Amber Buchanan interviews native Gaelic speaker Jean MacKay at her home in Westmount, N.S. (Amber Buchanan - image ...

Police officers in the Highlands and Islands are learning Gaelic as part of a drive to build stronger connections with the communities they serve. Three officers based in Inverness, Stornoway and ...

The Big Gaelic Survey has been commissioned by the language's development body, Bòrd na Gàidhlig and also MG Alba. The study of media, such as BBC Alba and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, has three ...