Isn Gaelic a difficult language to learn?
Many adults believe that Gaelic is a ‘difficult’ language for learners and even the Rough Guide to Scotland says that Gaelic has a ‘fiendish, antiquated grammar’. No language, however, is intrinsically more difficult to learn than any other, or intrinsically ‘antiquated’, although some Gaelic grammar books may look a bit old-fashioned! In fact, it is worth remembering that Gaelic spelling, although it looks complicated to a non-Gaelic speaker, uses the same alphabet as English, unlike Cantonese, Russian or Japanese, to name a few major world languages.
