ATRR tour documentary

[El Macho]

From MKNEWS :
ALL THE ROADRUNNING: On Saturday 3rd August at 23.15 BBC Alba, the BBC's Gaelic-language television channel, will broadcast an hour long programme recorded in LA during Mark and Emmylou Harris' 2006 All The Roadrunning tour. (29/07/13)

In gaelic language...it'll be hard to understand !
Who speaks gaelic

[dustyvalentino]

According to sky tv guide it is real live roadrunning.

[Knopflerfan]

According to sky tv guide it is real live roadrunning.

Yep just looked on channel guide and it will be an edited 'Real Live Roadrunning'

You well Dusty??

[dmg]

From MKNEWS :
ALL THE ROADRUNNING: On Saturday 3rd August at 23.15 BBC Alba, the BBC's Gaelic-language television channel, will broadcast an hour long programme recorded in LA during Mark and Emmylou Harris' 2006 All The Roadrunning tour. (29/07/13)

In gaelic language...it'll be hard to understand !
Who speaks gaelic

Funny that hardly anyone speaks Gaelic now and yet we have a lot of our train stations names in both languages!  Linlithgow station, only about 4 miles from where I live is called Gleann Iucha!

[Jules]

A pitty that nobody speaks gaelic... Do you learn it at schools at least?

[dmg]

A pitty that nobody speaks gaelic... Do you learn it at schools at least?

It's still spoken in some areas in the far north where it's rural and it is being kept alive by schools where it's still being taught (again in northern parts).  It's never spoken or taught in the central belt where I and 70% of the population live. 

[dustyvalentino]

A pitty that nobody speaks gaelic... Do you learn it at schools at least?

It's still spoken in some areas in the far north where it's rural and it is being kept alive by schools where it's still being taught (again in northern parts).  It's never spoken or taught in the central belt where I and 70% of the population live.

Not actually true, most councils have at least one school where Gaelic is taught, even in the central belt.

[dmg]

A pitty that nobody speaks gaelic... Do you learn it at schools at least?

It's still spoken in some areas in the far north where it's rural and it is being kept alive by schools where it's still being taught (again in northern parts).  It's never spoken or taught in the central belt where I and 70% of the population live.

Not actually true, most councils have at least one school where Gaelic is taught, even in the central belt.

Really?  Is that the posh ones?

[dustyvalentino]

Here you go!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_providing_Gaelic_medium_education_in_Scotland

[Jules]

When I visited Glasgow and Edinburgh, I had the impression that Gaelic was a language spoken by anyone as all signs were on both English and Gaelic... Strange.

Where I live in Spain (Valencia) most of the people speaks Valenciano and Spanish, and the signs are in both languages, sometimes only in Valenciano. I thought that situation with Gaelic was the same in Scotland, and also Ireland, as I recall signs in Gaelic in Dublin as well   

[dmg]

Here you go!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_providing_Gaelic_medium_education_in_Scotland

Checked my area and it states: "No Gaelic medium education exists in Falkirk at present."

Interesting data though.

[Jules]

Here you go!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_providing_Gaelic_medium_education_in_Scotland

Checked my area and it states: "No Gaelic medium education exists in Falkirk at present."

Interesting data though.

That makes no sense to me, it should be teached in schools, all schools. Its something cultural and the way to preserve languages as part of the culture is teaching them in all schools, that makes people feel it as something that belong to them... IMHO

[dustyvalentino]

In theory that's fine, in practice however it is a dying language, despite millions being spent in an attempt to keep it alive, I certainly see no benefit in my kids learning it, would be better to learn Chinese.

[dmg]

In theory that's fine, in practice however it is a dying language, despite millions being spent in an attempt to keep it alive, I certainly see no benefit in my kids learning it, would be better to learn Chinese.

+1

[Jules]

In theory that's fine, in practice however it is a dying language, despite millions being spent in an attempt to keep it alive, I certainly see no benefit in my kids learning it, would be better to learn Chinese.

I see it from the cultural point of view. There is a difference between a death language (latin) and a dying one. The dying one dies because nobody takes care of it, and the cultural point of view is save it.

Unless nobody gives a damm, so, let it death