Doric, a little-known form of North East Scots, is undergoing a pandemic-inspired renaissance. “Slaverin, slubberin, gibberin, gabberin, roon wi a wallop, a sklyter, a sweel,” recited the poet.

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.

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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Earlier this month, the German Ambassador raised concerns with the First Minister about the decline in language learning in Scotland. As exclusively revealed by The Herald, Miguel Berger pointed to ...

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 ...

Up to 27 Gaelic development officers based on Hebridean islands and in rural counties and cities to be laid off Gaelic-language campaigners and MSPs have protested furiously about plans to axe a ...

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...

History: The Stockton Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorders Center was established by the Scottish Rite Masons to assist children through the age of 17 who have speech disorders. The clinic began ...