It would be unspeakable to lose Gaelic | Kevin McKenna
few other countries have abandoned and despised the way a language that we
Like many others, go ignorant, I really found it when we drink of the Gaelic language was taken. At this time of year when the National Mod is produced, at times I took the TV channel to cover and let the sound of a clarsach and a poem sung in the cadences of the ancient language of m send to sleep, and at the end that the Bacardi and Guinness had begun. Then it is easy to imagine that this language is the language of the Garden of Eden.
times in one night with a scrofulous Gaelic language station, I found this gentle man promise that I register for a course of six months in your language. But not before he had to wear my attempts too predictable and cooked to impersonate the field and the wave of lyrical delivery.
those we encounter in our journey of alcohol that night might well have thought that I was truly bilingual as my sentences became rooted in the rum. Too often, I gave vent to the ignorance of other attitudes that characterize many of my fellow Scots when it comes to "Gaelic" spend much money on promotion, such as Latin and Greek, he no time to die and we put it to sleep and have done with it.
What in the name of the Lord, we thought? There are not many more than 50,000 people speak Gaelic, and if not properly involved in the next five years, the language will surely die.
If we reach this point, this generation of Scots who have been complicit in a serious act of madness. Some of the soul and essence of Scotland were destroyed. Other countries, not many languages ??are very old, and achieves one of the most beautiful music, poetry and prose in the goodness of Scotland.
not many other countries have been neglected, cursed and despised the language of this kind in the way we have.
Last week, a poll released by the Second National Plan for Gaelic, revealed that if the number of children attending primary school Gaelic not doubled to 800 over the next six years, then we as he could and turn off the life support machine at the moment. About 1,000 elderly speakers die each year from Gaelic and is before our eyes. At present, our government gives 5 million pounds of Bord na Gàidhlig pay more than 200 organizations involved in promoting the language and culture. In real terms, £ 5 million is the square root of fuck all and not to keep a school in notebooks and books for more than a few words. Much has been made the decision to grant the BBC Alba TV Gaelic, digital broadcasting license. However, after giving birth are now effectively orphaned. Limping to an annual grant of 12 million pounds, while his cousin in Wales receives about 100 million pounds.
Why this theme? Should not we be more concerned with the shockingly poor absorption of modern languages ??in our schools? These, after all, will better equip our children to endure and prosper in our global society.
- What kind of perverse logic to suggest that we can not learn the languages ??of other nations, without neglecting our own? Recent research in academic education Gaelic has always shown that the Gaelic-speaking students outperform their peers in the study of English and to achieve parity in most other subjects. Gaelic for nice like me, it's probably too late. And if some of the treasures of Iain Crichton Smith, Sorley MacLean and Aonghas MacNeacail must remain behind a veil, you will never experience the pleasure of driving a Bentley just listen to those. But what we also give our children?
songs and poems sung in this language expresses a determination of all people to be free in Scotland and when the rest of us. To appreciate and learn the language is to understand something of what our country is its culture, its identity, its soul. Why are we willing to let die for lack of even a modest investment?
The SNP intends to introduce a new academic year has called for the Scottish curriculum. Which has already attracted the opprobrium now predictable and uneducated working in Scotland, we have come to expect from the imagination of most political parties.
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