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 ...

There was a line Nicola Sturgeon kept repeating. Scotland, the former first minister would often say, deserved the chance to be an “outward-looking nation”. I am sure she meant it. The old SNP leader, ...

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, ...

An online dictionary has rediscovered lost Gaelic phrases and words. The meanings of the long-forgotten expressions have also been revealed. Faclair na Gàidhlig seeks to provide a better understanding ...