Re: Irish vs. Scot Gaelic

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:44:45 -0800, angus <angus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>I've been learning the Irish from tape and CD courses.  I was
>wondering if anyone out there knows how 'different' the Gaelic which
>is spoken in Scotland is from proper Irish...

Not hugely.

>Would a Scot understand me? 

Probably...if you spoke slowly and in a Northern accent...but you'd
have to learn that as well.

>Or should I find a whole new language course to learn?

There are good books on the topic and I found a website that shows
some of the similarities and differences between the two. To my mind,
they are clearly dialects of the same language.

Nik