Blether Wi Heather - Alistair Heather talks to Dawn Leslie
Wir fair excitit tae let ye ken that Scots scriever Alistair Heather is gaein tae be presentin a series o three programmes in the Scots leid stertin Thursday 3rd September at 7pm BST. Alistair’s first guest is Dawn Leslie. Based in Aiberdeen, Dawn is a linguist fa’s research is interestit in perceptions o language, wi a particular focus oan attitudes towards Scots.
08 Scots - Language An Accent - Pairts o Speech - Prepositions & Conjunctions
In this final video in the series we explore Scots Prepositions and Conjunctions. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk
07 Scots - Language An Accent - Pairts o Speech - Modal Verbs & Adverbs
Wee explore the Scots modal verbs which support the main verbs, and Adverbs. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk
06 Scots - Language An Accent - Pairts o Speech - Verbs & Auxilliary Verbs
We explore main verbs, tenses and how Auilliary Verbs support main verbs in Scots. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk
05 Scots - Language An Accent - Pairts o Speech - Determiners, Pronouns & adjectives
We explore the words in Scots which make nouns more specific. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk