Curious about the Scots language - its history and what it's like? As an English polyglot, I wanted to experience learning a language closely related to English. I signed up for a three week course and was pleased to find my friend Richard Simcott was a classmate.

In this video, I take an informative and humourous look at the history of Scots and its relationship to English (they are sisters separated at birth but strongly influencing each other in later life). I then share my favourite bits of the pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar of Scots.

Fellow polyglot, Richard Simcott and I then get together to discuss our experiences of learning Scots, and, in Richard's case, Ladino, Frisian, Scandinavian languages and Bulgarian coming from Macedonian.

I hope this whets your interest in the Scots. If so, make sure to check out the following resources:

Free series of videos by Michael Dempster:
   • The Scots language an accent - web ve...  

http://www.scotslanguage.com/

Dictionaries:
http://dsl.ac.uk/
https://www.scots-online.org/mobile/d...

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Acknowledgements
Huge thanks to Michael Dempster for sharing his passion for his native language
Thanks to Richard Simcott for a most agreeable blether
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Thanks also to Karen Grimmer and Michael Bird of Lowestoft for Aethelfrith's accent

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