I’ve been super quiet about this, even though I’ve been dying to shout about it for a while. But, now I can let you all in on it.
Marsha, over at alwayswrite.blog, was wonderful enough to interview me and has featured it on her site.
So, if you want to learn a wee bit more about me, check out my interview on her blog!
Did you get hooked on the series Outlander like I did? Susan and her husband, Jez Braithwaite, not only speak Scottish, but they also collaborated to write a series called Things in Scots. I could get easily hooked on it. It’s a challenge to try to read and understand what they mean.
Language is so important to our identity. Not long-ago educators thought you had to erase a child’s first language for them to become fluent in a second or third language. Newer research proved this to be invalid. Susan shares how she felt about her language in this quote.
“As kids, we were discouraged from speaking Scots, so much so, we were given little bits of paper to put in a tin with the English for the Scots words we were meant to stop using.”
Those of you from the United States will notice that some of…
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