#beginners gaelic

[elipapayo]

Gaelic is such an interesting language, both in spelling an pronouncement.

Ag cur sneachta = Snowing. How to pronounce this? Aug er shnota. OR Aug er snota.

But then there's some words like Anocht. It's night. Or Tae, Tea. BUT THEN THESE ASSHOLES HAVE TO EXIST.

THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN "speaks" is

Labhraíonn.

LIKE WHAT.

NO.

and it GETS WORSE.

Dia Duit, Faílte! Tae nó Caife? le bainne? Buíochas le Dia, níl sé fliuch! An bhfuil tirim ach grianmhar? Huh? Tá sé ag cur baístí??

Dies.

[witchoftheouachitas]

Something funny about being a celto-norse pagan witch living in the US Southern ✨Biiiiible✨ belt (specifically Arkansas) is that in public, when, for example, after checking out with the cashier, you tell them “have a blessed day!”

They automatically usually think you’re Christian; however, did you specify who is doing the blessing?

Nope!

They’re thinking you meant it from YHWH/Jehovah/Jesus/etc. but they don’t know that you actually meant it from yourself or *insert deity here*.

“Have a blessed day!” is a great closeted witch phrase!

[an-spideog]

Hey, I saw your post about better resources for learning Gaeilge and I was wondering if you had any for Gàidhlig? I'm painfully aware that Duolingo is shit and I want something better I'm just, other side of the world and don't know where to start

I'm not super qualified in the realm of Scottish Gaelic so I'm just going to talk about the resources I've seen when dipping my toe in.

I would say that Scottish Gaelic actually has a lot better direct alternatives to Duo than Irish does - i.e. stuff that's high quality and accessible, for free online aimed at beginners.

Specifically the stuff on learngaelic.scot and speakgaelic.scot. There's a mix of different resources on there but as someone who already speaks Irish, something I found really useful was An Litir Bheag which is a series of recordings of little stories for learners with a transcription in Gaelic and a translation into English.

I think there's more foundational stuff on there too, SpeakGaelic is like a whole course I think, and on LearnGaelic there's the old course Speaking Our Language which I've heard good things about.

In terms of a textbook, I've used Learn Scottish Gaelic in 12 Weeks, the name is unrealistic lol, but the content is useful.

Oh also Gaelic with Jason on Youtube is good, he makes like comprehensible input style story videos about stuff, and also videos explaining grammar concepts.

If other people know of more resources feel free to add them.

[gaelicwordofthesometimes]

So you want to learn Scottish Gaelic

These are just some resources and organisations I have found/used in my learning so far

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig - The Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a Gaelic school on the Isle of Skye. They offer both in person and long distance courses in a variety of Gaelic related subjects and a variety of levels. Obviously I wouldn't recommend taking on a full university degree unless you're really interested in that as it's a lot of time, money, commitment etc, but I've listed them because they're a major contributor to the Gaelic learning world. They also have online summer courses for learners of various levels

Duolingo - This is a great starting place. Their Gaelic course was created in partnership with the the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. The full grammar notes for the course can be found here. From what I've found, this course is estimated to get you to roughly A1 going on A2

LearnGaelic - This website has a mixture of basic grammar intro lessons as well as a dictionary. I find that the dictionary sometimes has trouble filtering relevance of vocab, but overall I find it quite helpful

Gaelic Books Council - The Gaelic Books Council supports Gaelic writers and publishers, promoting and selling Gaelic books in a range of genres. They have both original works, and popular works which have been translated into Gaelic

Acair Books - A Stornoway based publisher of Gaelic, Scots and English books. They have a large selection of children's books which are great for beginner learners, but also have adult books

The Scottish Book Trust - A charity dedicated to reading and writing in all of English, Scots and Gaelic. You can browse their website for a range of poetry, prose, learning resources, writers' awards and fellowships

Am Faclair Beag - The Little Dictionary. I find this dictionary is slightly better at filtering by relevance than the LearnGaelic dictionary, so I often use it to cross reference. LearnGaelic has a tendency to give you the most obscure translation first, whereas Am Faclair Beag will usually prioritise more common translations

Speak Gaelic - Speak Gaelic is a series created by BBC ALBA. There is a YouTube series with Joy Dunlop, a podcast with John Urquhart, and a website with quizzes to test your learning. The initial series is roughly A1, with some of the later episodes aiming for A2. A good intro, though the website is known to be a bit glitchy

Beag air Bheag - Little by Little. Also by the BBC, this is a slightly more advanced series than Speak Gaelic, but hosted by the familiar John Urquhart. I can't find the exact CEFR level, but I seem to remember it being advertised as B1-2

BBC ALBA - The BBC's Scottish Gaelic programs. I occasionally scroll through their iPlayer. Some of the shows have captions which I find helpful, although not all do. Children's TV is always a great way to learn a new language as it is designed with children learning the language in mind. I think I saw they had some Moomin Valley last time I looked

Faclair nan Gèidheal - The Dictionary for Gayls (gay/queer Gaels). This is a great resource filled with a tonne of terminology relating to the LGBTQ+ community. This is where I get vocab like tar-ghnèitheach and neò-bhìnearaidh from

Open Book Reading - An organisation who run Gaelic speaking, reading and writing sessions both in person and online. I'd recommend looking at their Eventbrite page

The Mega Folder - I'm sure people have seen me talk about this before. I'd personally recommend Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks

Editing this to specify that Gaelic means the Scottish variety. If people keep tagging this as Irish I swear to God

[misscalming]

DND WITH THE TOS CREW

Scotty : 10/10- does the best voices - quick at the maths part - strongly influenced by Gaelic folk stories - makes cool puzzles to solve - runs the most G rated campaigns out of everyone - swears sometimes and apologises for it - really likes teamwork and found family tropes - makes cool as fuck props - dresses up as a wizard - very wholesome - super passionate - beginner friendly -

Uhura : 8.5/10- actually keeps the players on task - good at organising shit - probably makes up cool fictional languages/texts to decipher - makes cool puzzles for players to solve - u feel a little stupid when you can't solve the really hard riddles tho -

Bones : 7/10 - has zero patience - would either rage quit or make the bosses impossible to kill - takes sick pleasure out of taking away everyones hit points - runs the shortest campaigns - kills off everyone as quickly as possible - only became DM after agreeing to play dnd but only if he could be the DM - you miss one session and you come back to see your character has lost 3 limbs and is on 2 hit points

Kirk : 10/10 - goofy voices - makes the best NPCs - kinda gets distracted by players' discussions - runs some of the longest and weirdest campaigns out of the lot - makes heaps of props (not quite as good as scotty's but close) - low key a people pleaser and indulges really dumb side quests the players make up like finding the toilets or some shit - basically all the main "important to the plot" NPC's he plays are hard flirts - has spare dice for everyone - makes awesome stories and great at entertaining everyone with his villain speeches - gets really upset but tries to hide it when you have something on and miss a session and you feel really bad because he puts a lot of effort into the campaign and it means a lot to him - would love to sit down and make character sheets with beginners but doesn't have the time :(

Spock : 7/10- great atmosphere - will put on Vulcan music and vividly describe some waterfall for 30 minutes - kinda boring? - but okay if you like poetry - doesn't let you mess with the NPCs or do ridiculous shit - says "Are you sure you wish to do that?" a lot - impossible to beat bosses - "love wins" every fucking time and fighting never actually solves anything - cock blocks u from the NPCs :( - does not have spare dice for everyone and will make u leave if you don't bring your own dice - no variety in the roles he can play - every npc is just a Spock self insert clone lol - doesn't give you time to think about what to do or let you talk to other players if their characters are physically separated from your own for "realism"

Chekov : 6/10 - communist manifesto role play - feels like you're in an episode of Seinfeld on crack - makes really confusing plots with twenty storylines and thinks he's a literary genius - does really bad accents - spits when he gets too into it - which is often - if you sit a few chairs away and are there for some nonsensical shit he's the dm for you - takes it so seriously you have to laugh - Spock just silently stood up and left after 3 minutes of the first session and never came back - makes really good drawings of everyone's characters tho - just a bad star trek episode in dnd form

Sulu : 4/10 - doesn't really know what he's doing - god his voice tho - forgets the rules sometimes - "uhh what happened last session again?" - "What happened to (insert NPC name here)?" - "Oh- uhh they died, moving on" - doesn't have the drive to be the DM at all really - probably makes nice stories which criticise capitalism - makes you bring your own dice, character sheet and miniatures

Chapel : 6/10 - accidentally shows everyone her notes - lets the players run the game - spends half the time flipping through the handbooks looking for random monsters to throw in on a whim - dedicates herself to her speeches - likes player debates - pretty good at steering the plot

[vamp-screams]

LANGBLR INTRO

Hi, I'm Escher! I'm a Scottish trans man who loves reading, vampires (as per the autism special interest) and dungeons and dragons. I'm fairly new to language tumblr but I want to be more active in learning!!

Languages:

English (native language)

French (intermediate, conversational)

Romanian (beginner!)

Want to learn:

Scottish Gaelic (to help feel more connected to my culture)

Spanish

Latin

To be added to tbh

Feel free to follow (I follow back from @dinwarden ) if you are learning any of my languages or are in the language learning community!

[languageswithhomer]

❀𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚𝒃𝒍𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐❀

Hi there! My name is Phi, I’m from the UK and I’m currently studying a Linguistics and Languages degree. My dream is to become a Speech Therapist (also an author, translator and language teacher on the side - I have a lot of dreams, and most of them are about words!) ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

why have I made this blog?

Since I am a distance-learning student, it can sometimes be difficult to find the motivation to study so I really hope this blog will hold me accountable and keep me productive.

I also really admire the studyblr & langblr communities and hope to make some friends who are similarly passionate about all things languages! ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

what languages will I post about?

Languages I speak/ am currently learning:

♡ English (Native/ C2)

Posts will be tagged #english and/or #english resources

♡ Castilian Spanish (intermediate to advanced/ B2 -> C1)

Posts will be tagged #castellano and/or #recursos castellano

Please note: I refer to the language as Castilian/ castellano instead of Spanish/ español out of respect for the co-official languages of Spain and also to recognise the language’s divergence from its Latin American variants

♡ German (Beginner/ A2)

Posts will be tagged #deutsch and/or #deutsche ressourcen

⭒ I will make posts expanding on my background with each language soon ⭒

Languages I hope to start studying soon:

♡ Scottish Gaelic or Greek or Hawaiian

I intend to begin independent study of one of these languages in September - October 2024, though I haven’t decided which one yet!

♡ Russian or Kyrgyz

My friend and I are going to begin buddy learning one of these languages in March 2025, it’s up to her which one.

♡ Catalan

I’m so excited to learn Catalan but, given its similarities with Spanish, I don’t want to confuse myself. So I intend to start learning it when I have finished my degree in May 2027!

⭒ If you have any questions or advice for me based on these languages, please don’t hesitate to drop me an ask or a message ⭒

Other languages I’m interested in (warning: there’s a lot):

♡ Irish, Welsh, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, Italian (especially Sicilian), Cherokee, Navajo, Guarani, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Korean, Yiddish, Hebrew, Bengali, Basque, French, Monegasque, Portuguese, Arabic, Ladino, Old/ Middle English, Hawaiian, Cantonese

What are my other passions?

♡ Books and poetry (I have a book blog @phireads if you’re interested)

♡ Writing

♡ Fibre arts (mainly knitting, crochet and sewing - though I really want to try embroidery and beading)

♡ Baking

♡ Reading

♡ Language conservation

♡ Wildlife (especially British, especially birds)

♡ Period Dramas

♡ History (with a focus on fashion history)

♡ Classics (as in Greco-Roman, my study buddy is a marble bust of the Greek poet, Homer, who is the namesake of this blog)

⭒ That’s all for now, I’ll be regularly posting study content at the end of September with the start of the academic year. So excited to meet you all! ⭒

[orangezeppelin]

Just a quick update video since I feel like it's been a wee bit, today I'm sharing a timelapse of my digital coloring process (I have no damn idea what I'm doing). I have a new tablet with IBISPaint preinstalled* and it includes the feature of making a timelapse video. It will be fun to make digital art content for my channel since that hasn't been easy in the past.

I also did a major overhaul of the artcave, and I'm planning a video showing off the changes once I get some more things hung. I also want to paint some new art to hang.

Another major change is that I just had my last day at the wildlife clinic after 6 very fun years. As much as I enjoyed cleaning poop and being bit by opossums and doing ungodly amounts of laundry (I'm not really selling the experience, am I?) I need to have at least one day of the week to do NOTHING. Because I forgot how to take days off.

Something I didn't touch on in the video was that I want to jump back into studying Gaelic, and start making Gaelic videos and zines. I'm a beginner so I might need to defer to native/advanced speakers on things, but Gaelic is cool so it is all worth the struggle of understanding the grammar.

*IBISPaint can be used for free, and there are some extra things you can unlock by watching an ad (or doing what I do and closing your eyes and counting to 20. The Ads will not win! There is also a paid version of the app which seems reasonably priced. I'm sticking to the free version for now.

[languagehealing]

50 Beginner Scottish Gaelic Words

Pink – Pinc

Red – Dearg

Orange – Orainds

Yellow – Buidhe

Green – Uaine

Blue – Gorm

Purple – Còrcair

Brown – Donn

Black – Dubh

Gray – Glas

White – Geal

1 – Aon

2 – Dhà

3 – Trì

4 – Ceithir

5 – Còig

6 – Sia

7 – Seachd

8 – Ochd

9 – Naoi

10 – Deich

Head – Ceann

Hair – Falt

Eye – Sùil

Ear - Cluas

Nose – Sròn

Mouth – Beul

Arm - Gàirdean

Leg - Cas

Hand - Làmh

Foot - Cas

Mother – Màthair

Father – Athair

Child - Pàisde

Daughter – Nighean

Son - Mac

Sister - Piuthar

Brother – Bràthair

Grandma – Seanmhair

Grandpa – Seanair

Aunt – Antaidh

Uncle – Uncail

Clothes – Aodach

Shirt – Lèine

Pants – Briogais

Shoe – Bròg

Water - Uisge

Bread - Aran

Cat - Cat

Dog - Cù

[saiph0]

hi hi! what first inspired you to start conlaning? what are some tips you would give to beginners? this is not a call for help what LOL wdym /j/j/j

LOL hi!! thanks for the ask :)

oh boy this'll be a long one, sorry in advance,,,

If anyone has any other tips please feel free to add on!

So I think what inspired me to start conlanging was the dream I had several years ago that started the world of Amatɔqa. In the dream the citizens of the hidden city spoke their own language, though I couldn't recall what was a part of it, so at first I only made up a few words and phrases that are now obsolete.

Another thing that really inspired me to actually get serious about conlanging was the sounds of different natural languages that I found super fun to hear/say.

For example: the "x" sound in the Mandarin word "xièxie"; The sound of Russian; the throaty "kh" or "ch" sound (equivalent of [x] in ipa) of Arabic and Scottish Gaelic; and the list goes on!

As for tips for beginners, man that's a bit of a tough one! It'll depend on what the best-feeling approach would be for you! I'll give some ideas I have though:

The international phonetic alphabet has been my best friend!

If your first language is English, especially American English, you can start out small with this wikipedia article on the ipa sounds we have in English. It was really helpful for me because of how overwhelming the full ipa chart looked to me in the beginning

There's this youtube channel: Glossika Phonics that has a lot of videos on examples of the different sounds in the ipa. It's not always perfect but very helpful for tongue and mouth positioning!

There are some sites that have ipa readers in which you can test out different sounds.

There are also sites with interactive ipa charts that have sound clips of each

Other Tips!

If you like having book resources, I definitely recommend "The Art of Language Invention" by the one and only David J. Peterson. It has so much info on breaking down languages; sounds; grammar; writing systems; and all of that good stuff!

If you really wanna jump into using that conlang and constructing sentences, focus on grammar! I tend to focus on tenses and word order in the beginning because that's the hardest part. Once I figure out grammar, I can make more vocab and just jump into creating sentences!

Experiment experiment experiment! Mess around with putting different sounds you like together and try to figure out which combinations you want to exclude from the language; make random symbols, look at r/neography on reddit for really cool stuff; you can always change stuff later

Definitely look at other natural languages for inspo! What sounds good? What similarities/differences do they have with your first language?

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Oh god I think i could ramble on forever but I hope this was at least a somewhat helpful start! I'm super open to chatting further if you have anymore questions or just want to share what you've made so far :)

[corvid-language-library]

Norwegian Bokmål for Total Beginners (January 2024 Crash Course)

25. Nordic Countries

Welcome to day 25! We're doing pretty well here, huh? :D Today we're learning the names for the nordic countries!

land (n) - country

Norden - the north (specifically the nordics)

Norge - Norway

Danmark - Denmark

Sverige - Sweden

Finland - Finland

Island - Iceland

Færøyene - The Faroe Islands

Bonus

språk (n) - language

nasjonalitet (m) - nationality

Grammar: Language & Nationality

Unlike English where we can change the word of the country in any number of ways to get the language/nationality (France -> French, Germany -> German, Norway -> Norwegian, Sweden -> Swedish, China -> Chinese etc), it's pretty easy in Norwegian: it'll always end in -sk:

Norge -> norsk (Norwegian)

Sverige -> svensk (Swedish)

Danmark -> dansk (Danish)

Finland -> finsk (Finnish)

Island -> islandsk (Icelandic)

Færøyene -> færøysk (Faroese)

This pertains to both the language and the nationality:

Han er norsk. Han snakker norsk. (He's Norwegian. He speaks Norwegian)

Vi er finske. Vi snakker finsk og svensk. (We're Finnish. We speak Finnish and Swedish)

Den islandske mannen snakker islandsk og dansk. (The Icelandic man speaks Icelandic and Danish)

Er dere færøysk? Snakker dere færøysk? (Are you Faroese? Do you speak Faroese?)

Note: all countries are capitalised just like in English, but languages and nationalities aren't.

Your turn!

Here's a list of countries in alphabetical order. Find your country and tell me what languages you speak! If your country or language isn't there, you're welcome to look it up, reblog and add it (there's like 200 countries and over 7000 languages in the world so I'm not gonna list them all, sorry. I chose the countries I did because I have or have had followers of those nationalities)

I'll go first!

Jeg kommer fra Storbritannia. Jeg er britisk. Jeg bor i Japan. Jeg snakker engelsk og norsk, og jeg lærer meg japansk. (I come from the UK. I am British. I live in Japan. I speak English and Norwegian, and I'm learning Japanese)

🇬🇧->🇳🇴

Argentina/Argentinian -> Argentina/argentisk

Australia/Australian -> Australia/australsk

Austria/Austrian -> Østerrike/østerrisk

Belarus/Belarusian -> Hviterussland/hviterussisk

Belgium/Belgian -> Belgia/belgisk (Flemmish = flamsk)

Bosnia & Herzegovina/Bosnian -> Bosnia og Hercegovina/bosnisk

Brazil/Brazilian -> Brasil/brasiliansk

Bulgaria/Bulgarian -> Bulgaria/bulgarsk

Canada/Canadian -> Canada/kanadisk

China/Chinese -> Kina/kinesisk

Croatia/Croatian -> Kroatia/kroatisk

Cyprus/Cypriot -> Kypros/kypriotisk

Czechia/Czech -> Tsjekkia/tsjekkisk

Egypt/Egyptian -> Egypt/egyptisk (Arabic = arabisk)

England/English -> England/engelsk

Estonia/Estonian -> Estland/estlandsk

France/French -> Frankrike/fransk

Germany/German -> Tyskland/tysk (Yiddish = jiddisk)

Georgia/Georgian -> Georgia/georgisk

Greece/Greek -> Hellas/gresk

Greenland/Greenlandic -> Grønland/grønlandsk

Hungary/Hungarian -> Ungarn/ungarsk

India/Indian -> India/indisk

Ireland/Irish -> Irland/irsk

Israel/Israeli -> Israel/israelsk

Japan/Japanese -> Japan/japansk

Korea/Korean -> Korea/koreansk

Latvia/Latvian -> Latvia/latvisk

Lithuania/Lithuanian -> Litauen/litauisk

Mexico/Mexican -> Mexico/meksicansk

Moldova/Moldovan -> Moldova/Moldovisk

The Netherlands/Dutch -> Nederland/nederlandsk (Frisian = frisisk)

New Zealand/New Zealander -> New/Ny Zealand/new/ny zealandsk (Aotearoa = Aotearoa)

Palestine/Palestinian -> Palestina/palestinsk (Gaza = Gaza, the West Bank - Vestbredden)

The Philippines/Filipino -> Filippinene/filipinsk

Poland/Polish -> Polen/polsk

Portugal/Portuguese -> Portugal/portugisisk

Romania/Romanian -> Romania/rumensk

Russia/Russian -> Russland/russisk

Scotland/Scottish -> Skottland/skotsk (Scots = skotsk, Scottish Gaelic = skotsk-gælisk)

Serbia/Serbian -> Serbia/serbisk

Slovakia/Slovak -> Slovakia/slovakisk

Slovenia/Slovenian -> Slovenia/slovensk

South Africa/South African -> Sør-Afrika/sørafrikansk

Spain/Spanish -> Spania/spansk

Thailand/Thai -> Thailand/thailandsk

Turkey/Turkish -> Tyrkia

The UK/British -> Storbritannia/britisk

Ukraine/Ukrainian -> Ukraina/ukrainsk

The USA/American -> USA/amerikansk

Vietnam/Vietnamese -> Vietnam/vietnamsk

Wales/Welsh -> Wales/walisisk

Zimbabwe/Zimbabwean -> Zimbabwe/zimbabwisk (Shona = sjona)

[maevefinnartist]

Would you recommend Morgan Daimler's books on Gaelic paganism? Are they considered reliable resources? No shade at her or anything, I'm just a beginner to the field :)

sorry I just saw this!! yes and no. she knows her shit. her translation of Cath Maige Tuiread is my favorite because she doesn't shy away from any unpalatable or difficult-to-translate material. for example Elizabeth Gray's translation misses entire passages that were considered unimportant, grotesque, or nonsensical but Daimler gives you the whoooole deal and I LOVE that. her Pagan Portals series is...eh. none of the material is incorrect, but the vibes are off. she's definitely guilty of that Irish American attitude of over-romanticising Ireland in a gross way, and she & Lora O'Brien are best buddies and promote a very cultlike atmosphere in their Facebook group ("do it my way or you're doing it wrong, if you disagree with me you're a bad pagan and also kicked out of our circle and also all my followers will cyberbully you, if you don't buy books and ritual tools from our personal friends you're a bad witch", stuff like that). as long as you're capable of using critical thinking, I recommend hers (and Lora's) books.

[studyscrasic]

Hello and welcome! My name is Nate (he/they, and generally fond of masculine pronouns in gendered languages).

I'm 27, a native English speaker (from the USA), and currently back in school working on finishing my bachelor's degree.

As far as languages go, I study Norwegian (B1), German (A2), Scottish Gaelic (A2), Irish (A1), and Yiddish (very beginner)

My main areas of study are biology, the history of science, and science communication. Some of my favorite areas of science/biology include ecology, evolutionary biology, and paleontology, and some of my favorite historical topics include the European medieval & Renaissance era (especially medieval & Renaissance science), transgender history, and the intersection of superstition/folklore and society during eras like the witch trials.

I work in the special collections of my university library, in particular in our LGBTQ+ history collection and historical medical library. I've also done a lot of museum and herbarium work in the past, both in exhibits & collections

My non-academic or language-related hobbies include playing viola, geocaching, cosplay and historical costuming, writing fanfiction, and foraging!

[c-kiddo]

How good are you with Gallic? Can you speak it better than you can read it or vice versa? Sorry if this is nosy at all. I am also sorta learning another language and wanted insight on other learning tools and things

(btw :-o its spelled Gàidhlig, Gaelic in english) i'm beginner level at it. definitely can understand it written better, i can speak some things a bit but im very forgetful and also its a language thats been purposely attempted to be killed off so its very hard to find people to speak to irl which is the best way to learn things.. i did save a masterlist th other day though because since its scotland there is still gàidhlig tv and road signs and things so thats nice. i'm using th duolingo course though, taking many notes of the words + sentence structure + pronunciation. ive only been more committed to recently though, especially going to keep trying for th new year

[anarchotolkienist]

I don't know how asking asks work, so please forgive me if I've already made this ask.

1. What dialect of Gàidhlig are you learning on DuoLingo?

2. Do you have any resources for Gàidhlig you recommend for people trying to learn the language?

3. Are there any good university level programs worth attending to learn Gàidhlig?

I hope to move back to Scotland in the future and want to help preserve the culture of my spouse and our kids that white supremacy stole from my family. Any additional resources are always helpful!

No bother at all!

1. Is this the passive you or the singular you? I myself am not learning any dialect at all on Duolingo because I was already fluent when it came out, but wrt grammar Duolingo teaches you the standard mid-minch, which is mostly used by the various Gaelic churches these days, and for pronounciation they give you a good cross-section of ages and islands. You will have some examples of native speakers from all the islands, North to South, that is to say, all dialects that are relatively lively today. In other words, no mainland speakers, if those are the dialects you yourself are interested in. However, learning the grammatical standard and island dialects will be useful to you even if this is what you're interested in - it's much easier to modulate from the standard than it is to scratch learn a specific dialect.

2. Depends on where you are in the world and in Scotland! But I'm assuming you're not in the country, based on the moving back comment, and if so I'd recommend the resources from SpeakGaelic (a podcast, tv programme and lesson plan) - the A series is aimed at early learners and is much better for explaining grammar than Duolingo is. I'd also recommend getting in touch with some class or course, to have someone to try speaking to and to correct you if you're wrong, so you don't accidentally naturalise a mistake in your own Gaelic. Shoot me a DM or another ask with where you are based and I'll see if I have some specific recommendations if you want :)

3. Well, I'm very biased but I think the University of Glasgow has a very good beginners course, which is the one that I did myself. They also have Bliadhna Bhogaidh, a year-long intensive for intermediate speakers that's not part of a programme, so you don't need to committ to a four-year programme, and a large and very active Gaelic society, the Comunn Oiseannach. Other than that, the Gaelic collage on Skye might be worth attending, depending on your level and what you feel you need, but that will depend on the year.