"Any translation project is best approached with a healthy degree of trepidation – language is tricky, is core to us, is more or less entirely arbitrary symbolism... I’ve really enjoyed having the chance to stretch Shaetlan’s function to tell these stories."
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It’s a delightful addition to the Island Voices Videos channel to sit alongside the five previous recordings of Tomás in conversation with Pádraig Ó Fathaigh that are already in our Stòras beò collection. And Brian promises there are more to come still!
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5 years ago. "Nor is this the first time that the Craigard film has taken the lead in test-driving new innovations and community adaptations..."
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A retrospective look always has the benefit of hindsight, of course, when positive patterns are revealed whose emergence could not necessarily be predicted...
Bliadhn' Ùr Mhath!
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"In any event these recordings provide model resources for anyone seeking samples of grounded authentic speech in real-life action." #Gàidhlig #Gaeilge #Gaelic
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Conversation with Cathie. From travelling childhood to North Uist settlement... What a fascinating life story! #Gaelic
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Ten years ago: "Bodach nan Serviettes". 😂
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Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
Updated with new languages added.
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For the sake of completeness - 5th in the series - up to date!
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Updated with new language added.
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Updated with new languages added.
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Updated with new languages added.
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Updated with new languages added.
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15 years ago today - "previewing" Series 2...
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The Collaborative Interactive and Applied Linguistic Links project (CIALL) recorded its most productive year yet in the 2024-25 academic session.. the continuing partnership with Island Voices saw new links created with Catalan, Caribbean Creole, and Farsi interests..
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Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
Noèlia writes “The project ‘Island Voices’ is more than an educational tool or a literary collection of poetic voices. It is a necessary dialogue between cultures." This means we now have five videos in total in our Catalan Selection among all our Other Tongues!
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Parnaz writes: "... I believe that the ‘Island Voices’ project is more than merely an educational resource; it represents an environment in which multilingualism is celebrated as a valuable asset..."
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"... and it sometimes takes us to places where community language connections with our home territory may not always be immediately obvious...."
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Language issues in the mix here in the Storiel.cymru Collections, with a nice wee plug appended to Island Voices' outreach work... 🙂
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"... we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.
Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of #Irish and #Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. #Gaeilge
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"Online publication also means, of course, that live links can be incorporated in the text, so that readers can quickly and easily sample the recordings referred to.. This is no small consideration for a primarily speech-oriented project like Guthan nan Eilean!"
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"The Island Voices documentary, in tracing the life stories of ILT workers and how their careers developed and diversified, reinforces the point that multilingualism is an established fact of UK life, and always has been."
#NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends
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Video number 500(!) from Guthan nan Eilean introduces Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022. Martin MacIntyre narrates in Gaelic. Part of a suite of clips featuring poetry, documentary video, and unscripted conversation. (Full details in the YouTube video description.)
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Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022, has become the latest contributor to the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean Extensions project supported by CIALL.
Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh
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Students at the University of Glasgow studying in the library
New Gaelic Project
Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty.
We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)
"... It’s a project which records the natural speech of Irish and Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. In an additional challenge for Scottish Gaelic speakers, the descriptions are offered in Irish!..."
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Straight to the 40+ videos - with options for learners and non-speakers of #Gaelic
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