Speaking our Language was a Scottish Gaelic learners television programme that ran from 1993 to 1996. Running for 72 episodes through four series, the series was produced by Scottish Television

Scottish Television

Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...

 (STV Productions) and presented by Rhoda MacDonald, STV's then-head of Gaelic output. It was frequently repeated on TeleG and is now repeated on BBC Alba, and all four series have been released on DVD.

The series was based on Now You're Talking, a similar Welsh-language learners' series broadcast on S4C

S4C

S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...

and developed by Acen, a resource service for Welsh learners, who acted as programme consultants for Speaking our Language.

Structure

Episodes begin with Rhoda introduces where the program has been recorded that episode and what it will cover. Each set of new phrases is introduced by Rhoda and then followed by some short dramatisations which show examples of how the words and phrases are used. Once an episode an extended drama (with a continuing story line through the series) is used to give a deeper example of how the vocabulary introduced in the episode can be used. In the first two series the drama is called "Aig an taigh" (At Home), following a family who have moved to Glasgow and are settling into life there. The episodes are summed up during the episode and at the end with the voice over going over the phrases introduced.

External links

• Information from MG Alba
• Future episodes on BBC Alba