While Irish is a compulsory part of the school curriculum for primary and secondary school students in Ireland, other countries have no options for formal schooling or lessons in the Irish language ...

Every Thursday, I give God. I agonized over writing that sentence, the first in the college essay about studying Irish that I was convinced would determine my future. I was applying early decision to ...

Irish language teachers across the world have scores of students in their classes, some of whom are expats or have Irish roots while others have never encountered Irish culture before. “You never know ...

Launched to coincide with St Andrew’s Day this year on November 30, language app Duolingo’s Gaelic course attracted an impressive 103,000 active learners in its first two weeks – outstripping the ...

Teachers and students are taking to TikTok to promote the Irish language to hundreds of thousands of people online in a newly emerging digital trend. The hashtag ‘irishlanguage’ has been used on ...

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

I grew up in Catalonia and, until the age of 15, attended my local state school where every subject was taught in Catalan. Catalan wasn’t the topic of education; it was the medium of education. Yet ...

Language learning app Duolingo has launched the beta version of its new Scottish Gaelic course, with more than 20,000 people already signed up. An endangered language, Scottish Gaelic is predominately ...

I am proud to have made the choice to learn Irish and be part of a community that is ever growing ...