(CNN) — Gaelic-speaking communities in Scotland are in crisis and the language could die out within 10 years, according to a new study. A team of experts from the University of the Highlands and ...

Kate Forbes, a Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) politician who speaks the language, has proposed a scheme that would potentially develop Gaelic-speaking housing estates to preserve the language.

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Schools across Scotland invited to contribute to help track evolving picture of international language education. The Language Trends Scotland survey is now open for 2025-26, building on the success ...

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Gaelic in Scotland is in a "perilous state" and more needs to be done to "urgently support" language speakers, a Holyrood committee has warned. The Scottish government has introduced the Scottish ...

Teaching a modern language in the UK was once described by the eminent languages educator Eric Hawkins as “gardening in a gale”. But as a languages teacher, the well documented decline in pupils ...

SCOTLAND is setting the agenda for sign language provision internationally thanks to new graduates from the country's first degree course on the subject. More than a dozen new sign language ...

As an American visiting Scotland for the first time, I encountered surprising language differences. While grocery shopping, I learned that "mince" means ground beef and "rocket" is arugula. I wasn't ...