Halo, agus tapadh leibh airson an fhailte; from TULSA, OK

[Kiltedjohn]

Sorry to have to admit that I don't understand your native tongue (!), but welcome from a Scotsman living in middle England.

[ThereAreSomeWhoCallMeTim]

Sorry to have to admit that I don't understand your native tongue (!), but welcome from a Scotsman living in middle England.

The Gaidhlig is hardly native to me! My wife I and started learning about 9 months ago, and it's, well... both backward and sideways in it's construction compared to English! But we are very much enjoying learning to speak it. Here in Tulsa, we are fortunate enough to have an active Club called Gaidhlig 918 with some 70 members that meats several times per month to help learn it.

[Kiltedjohn]

Here in Tulsa, we are fortunate enough to have an active Club called Gaidhlig 918 with some 70 members that meats several times per month to help learn it.

Amazing! It is remarkable that there is that level of interest!

[OC Richard]

My accent is real mess and is entirely situationally dependent.

Mine too! A strange hybrid thing, my accent.

If I'm around Southerners or especially West Virginians it's easy to start going down that slippery slope.

About the Gaelic, oddly enough it was offered for a time at the Uni I attended so I have a smattering of 30-year-old University Gaelic.

Another odd thing was that the teacher wasn't Scottish, but Welsh! But he could speak Irish and Scottish Gaelic fluently, I've seen him hanging out with Scots and he got on just fine, it seemed to me. From a linguistic point of view it was cool to have insights coming from somebody fluent in both Goidelic and Brythonic languages.

[Flyboy]

Good day and welcome!
My grandparents were Campbells you’ve got lots of cousins on this forum I see.

[ThereAreSomeWhoCallMeTim]

Good day and welcome!
My grandparents were Campbells you’ve got lots of cousins on this forum I see.

Yes, it would seem that our antecedents have been quite productive!

[Crazy Dave]

Welcome from Silver Spring, Maryland!

[OC Richard]

it's both backward and sideways in it's construction compared to English

My University Gaelic teacher was telling us about "Anglo-Irish" literature I think he called it, written in English by Irish authors to whom English was a second language, which used English vocabulary but Irish grammar/sentence structure/word order. He said immersing yourself in that literature made Irish (and Scots Gaelic) grammar become second-nature.

I don't know anything about it other than what he was saying about it.

He also advised us to read all the Gaelic children's books we could find, watch the Gaelic children's TV programmes, and read Gaelic-language newspapers, which he said, like English newspapers, are written with a limited vocabulary and simplified grammar.