The "over-promotion" of the benefits of bilingualism could be contributing to a 60% drop-off in uptake in Gaelic Medium Education (GME) from primary to secondary, an academic has suggested. Dr Inge ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

Language learning app Duolingo has launched the beta version of its new Scottish Gaelic course, with more than 20,000 people already signed up. An endangered language, Scottish Gaelic is predominately ...

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

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German students make up the biggest number of overseas students studying the Gaelic Irish language at a Scottish Gaelic college. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college in Skye, has more German students ...

Mental agility can be boosted by even a short period of learning a language, a study suggests. Tests carried out on students of all ages suggest that acquiring a new language improves a person's ...