Luath Scots Language Learner sampler
This new edition of the Luath Scots Language Learner featuring updated information is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and grammar books but this is the first-ever language course. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of grammar and idiom that distinguish Scots from English. An accompanying audio recording conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially important to readers from outside Scotland. The audio recording, which accompanies the Luath Scots Language Learner book, conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially important to readers from outside Scotland. It is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and grammar books but this is the first-ever language course. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of grammar and idiom that distinguish Scots from English.
This new edition of the Luath Scots Language Learner featuring updated information is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and grammar books but this is the first-ever language course. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of grammar and idiom that distinguish Scots from English. An accompanying audio recording conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially important to readers from outside Scotland.
The audio recording, which accompanies the Luath Scots Language Learner book, conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially important to readers from outside Scotland. It is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and grammar books but this is the first-ever language course. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of grammar and idiom that distinguish Scots from English.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
Thanks tae aw thaim that gied their helpfu comments on this buik afore<br />
it wis feinisht, bit abuin aw tae Alasdair Allan, Craig Halliday, Dauvit<br />
Horsbroch, Iseabail MacLeod, an John Tait. Thanks an aw tae the<br />
team that recordit the dialogues on the CD – Kenny Anderson, Bill<br />
Copland, Isabel Harrison, Rod Lovie, Jean Redford an Sharon Simpson<br />
– an helpit tae mak it faur better nor it micht hae been.<br />
Maist o the facts an figures in the buik wis taen fae Magnus Linklater<br />
an Robin Denniston’s Anatomy of Scotland, an fae Wikipedia.<br />
Guidance on historical maitters maistlie cam fae Billy Kay’s <strong>Scots</strong>: the<br />
Mither Tongue, fae J Derrick McClure’s Why <strong>Scots</strong> Matters, an fae<br />
correspondence wi Dauvit Horsbroch, Iseabail MacLeod an the late<br />
Robbie Robertson. Spellin an guidelines for pronoonciation is maistlie<br />
fae SLD’s Concise English–<strong>Scots</strong> Dictionary. A guid pairt o the ideas for<br />
the kin o material tae gie wis gotten fae David Hicks’s Calling All<br />
Beginners.<br />
Thanks tae the Buckie District Fishing Heritage Museum for the room<br />
tae record in, an tae Lorna an Peter Simpson for the rehearsal space.<br />
For aw their encouragement, thanks tae Catherine Alexander, Wendy<br />
de Rusett, Howard Evans, Sandy Fleiman, Isabel Harrison, Fiona<br />
Henderson, Viktoriya Karabanova, John Law, Stuart McHardy, Atina<br />
Nihtinen, Elizabeth Quinn, Christine Robinson, Anneli Sakko, Helen<br />
Smith, an aw the members o the <strong>Scots</strong> Speikers’ Curn, Glesca. Thanks<br />
an aw tae Kaija Koo, that the writer playd hir CD Tuulikello mair times<br />
nor he can mind while he wis wirkin on the first edeition, for aye<br />
threapin at him that ‘ei hyppyä tuntemattomaan voi tehdä askel<br />
kerrallaan’.<br />
Thanks tae Gavin MacDougall an tae awbodie at <strong>Luath</strong> Press Ltd.<br />
Last, bit nae least, special thanks tae Billy Kay for giein inspiration tae<br />
the haill <strong>Scots</strong>-language muivement.<br />
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