DoOr wrote:is Doric easy to learn? i recently visited Aberdeen and Inverness and i found the language fascinating although i couln't read a single word!
Is these anything common between Doric and Gaelic?
Bentje wrote:If you're living in Edinburgh and are working mainly with people from a middle-class background then you should be fine. Equally, many people are capable of modifying their speech to reflect the situation — in other words, quite a lot of people will automatically speak in a way that's closer to Standard English when speaking to you anyway, because they'll subconsciously assume that you'd have difficulty understanding them otherwise.
ego wrote:Bentje wrote:If you're living in Edinburgh and are working mainly with people from a middle-class background then you should be fine. Equally, many people are capable of modifying their speech to reflect the situation — in other words, quite a lot of people will automatically speak in a way that's closer to Standard English when speaking to you anyway, because they'll subconsciously assume that you'd have difficulty understanding them otherwise.
That's what I was expecting too but I can't say I noticed it
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