Scots First: Kist o Riches

Alistair Heather is the first to take up the latest “Sharing Gaelic Voices” challenge, as Scots becomes the ninth addition to our “Mother Tongues and Other Tongues” collection of languages!

It started with a recent post to the Scots Language Forum on Facebook to see what interest there might be in recording Scots voiceovers to Island Voices documentaries. Alistair was the first to respond, and chose to rescript (and update) the popular clip about Tobar an Dualchais.

As usual, we’ve also created a Clilstore unit (5904) to accompany the video, so you can check any unknown Scots words in an online dictionary.

This is our first video in Scots. It may not be our last. Many thanks to Alistair for starting the ball rolling. Watch this space!

Alistair Heather is the Scots Editor at Bella Caledonia.

Originally fae a wee village in Angus he’s bade aa owre, fae Burgheid tae Leith, ayewis wi his lugs tuned in tae the Scots tongues aroon aboot him.

He’s in his final year o an MA in History at Aiberdeen Uni.