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The Prospect podcast #40—Why everyone should learn a dying language

Cal Flyn tells Prospect why she is learning Scottish Gaelic

July 04, 2018
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This week Cal Flyn speaks to Stephanie Boland about Britain’s other languages. Flyn wrote about learning Scottish Gaelic in our July 2018 issue. But what is the place of Gaelic in Scotland—and are dying languages really worth saving?

Flyn certainly thinks so, and argues that all of us should be taking lessons.

Previous episodes of the Prospect podcast can befound here