Bilingualism: Why boosting the rights of minority language speakers could help save Gaelic in Scotland
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 09:01
in Psychology & Sociology
In recent months there has been talk of a "Gaelic crisis" in Scotland, based on a study that predicts Gaelic may be disappearing across the country. I do not speak Gaelic, but I have spent five years researching bilingualism, and as a German native speaker who has lived in Scotland for over a decade, I am intimately familiar with what it means to communicate in a second language.