
The new series focuses on advancing language ability as Joy Dunlop and Calum Maclean work with intermediate level learners.
The new series focuses on advancing language ability as Joy Dunlop and Calum Maclean work with intermediate level learners.
“This is such a symbolically significant step as this is the first time ever that Shetlanders can see their own language represented as an equal among other languages on one of their own historical sites.” Prof. Dr. Viveka Velupillai
“Villain, I have done thy mother.” From Titus Andronicus
A global database has been created linking linguistic and genetic data entitled GeLaTo (Genes and Languages Together).
Harry Josephine Giles’s Deep Wheel Orcadia has won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction.
“I’m continuing to read ‘Orkney Shore’, in which Robert Rendall mentions the muddle which the Latin names for shells had got into due to different people in different places using different spelling”
” Is there another country anywhere where actually teaching your own language in your own schools to your own people would be seen as somehow controversial and politically divisive?”
“Jumping sharks and dropping mics – Modern idioms and where they come from” goes through the origins and use of various idioms such as “Groundhog Day”, that colour our everyday communication.
“Consultation is an important part of the process, so I would encourage anyone with an interest in the plan to share their views.” Professor Todd Walker
“Overall, this is a beautifully written book. I loved the poetic nature of its verses.”