Next year I have the option of taking Irish or Scottish Gaelic at University. I'm leaning towards Scottish Gaelic as it is more in tune with my ethnicity (while I'm Scottish-Irish by decent, I'm way more Scottish than Irish). Does anyone here speak Gaelic? Is it a hard language? Do you think there will ever be a resurgence in popularity? Any info would be great, thanks.

My name, Ian, is Gaelic.

Kind of hard. The spelling looks as though a retard was picking letters out of a hat and decided to call them "words" (no offence to anyone, it's a very nice language when spoken).

Examples:
Beaudchais (Thank you)
Geimhreadh (Winter)

Pronounced, respectively, 'bekkas' and 'gyee-ryee'. Odd language.

Oh yeah man. Who would guess Celidh is pronounced "Kay-lee." I could figure out the pronunciation quickly though.

Yeah, I'm sure once you get the pronounciation and little things like what letters aren't pronounced (which should be not terribly hard for an English speaker!), it shouldn't be terribly difficult. I know only one person who learned Gaelic, and he's a retard. Heh.

Are you on the East coast? There seems to be a lot of interest in Gaelic over there... and next to none here in BC. I don't think any of the Universities here even offer Gaelic. Well, at least UBC and SFU don't.

It's one of the most difficult IMHO. Besides the endless tables of declensions and conjugations to memorize, few of it regular, you also have the wonder of mutation, which changes the beginnings of words on an almost random basis.

Ie solt die brun'n karre gebruk'n. Of woi de witt'n hem'm?

If you know this, YOU ROCK!

"Je kan de bruine kar gebruiken of wil je de witte hebben"?

What does this have to do with gaelic?

I duno what the hell that is but it sure as hell ain't Irish.

We did it in school, Irish that is. I thought it was ok. Hard at times but definitely learnable.

Bhuel... Go neiri and t-adh leatsa a chara!

Chuaigh me go dti an siopa agus cheannaigh me an crack. D'ith me an crack.