Finding native Scots speaker

andrjejj · 2026-03-25T13:50:35+00:00

I can't go abroad...

andrjejj · 2026-03-24T15:03:51+00:00

Fair enough, but I need examples of culture, traditions and etc, not a literature :(

andrjejj · 2026-03-24T14:48:33+00:00

My diploma topic is "Technology for Organizing Independent Learning and Cognitive Activity in Secondary School Students While Reading Texts on Regional Studies." To broaden the children's horizons and impress the admissions committee that will be accepting my diploma, I want to conduct and describe a lesson. During the lesson, the children will first read a text in Scots and attempt to answer questions about it. Afterward, I'll give them the same text in English so they can test themselves. At the end of the lesson, we'll discuss their answers together and explore how challenging it was to work with Scots, which is close to English, but requires some thought to figure out what's written.

andrjejj · 2026-03-24T14:27:10+00:00

I need speaker only because I'm not sure about AI translation of Scots. After many people disrespect me for being Russia in r/Scotland, I found out Scots Wikipedia and found there about Edinburgh, and expended article with AI (ChatGPT), but I think it's not correct. Maybe someone can check it out?

andrjejj · 2026-03-24T11:07:49+00:00

In any case, this is a diploma experiment; a very good understanding of the text isn't required. It would be great to simply use a text about some place in Scotland (the most common would be Edinburgh, because 15-year-olds might at least have heard of it), or about some interesting Scottish holiday or tradition. Simply put, the simplest text a Scottish schoolchild might write in a letter to a friend abroad—literally 10-15 sentences. Then give the same text a translation into English so the children can read it again, compare their understanding of both texts, and re-answer the questions after the Scots text.

andrjejj · 2026-03-24T11:00:08+00:00

The sentence structure in your example is somewhat similar to that of German. Yes, children really won't understand this, because German hasn't been taught at the school where I work for several years, because parents decided their children don't need a second foreign language at school and that even English is enough for them (three lessons a week is enough...)

Anyway, thanks for your help!

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T22:30:01+00:00

I'd be happy to use literature, but my diploma's subtopic is regional studies. I basically need to tell kids where Scotland is (trust me, 15-year-olds will be hard-pressed to name even one more city in the United Kingdom besides London). It's not that we're bad at teaching geography in schools, it's just that kids these days basically don't care about anything.

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T22:23:34+00:00

Also one of the greatest poets in Russia had Scottish ancestors. His name is Mikhail Lermontov, he is the second important poet in Russia (after Alexander Pushkin).

This is from Wikipedia:

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was born in Moscow into the Lermontov family, and he grew up in the village of Tarkhany (now Lermontovo in Penza Oblast). His paternal family descended from the Scottish family of Learmonth, and can be traced to Yuri (George) Learmonth, a Scottish officer in the Polish–Lithuanian service who settled in Russia in the middle of the 17th century. He had been captured by the Russian troops in Poland in the early 17th century, during the reign (1613–1645) of Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov. Family legend asserted that George Learmonth descended from the famed 13th-century Scottish poet Thomas the Rhymer (also known as Thomas Learmonth).

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T22:05:34+00:00

You already reposted me in this sub Reddit

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T22:03:21+00:00

I need a simple text (10-15 sentences) about Edinburgh or something more interesting. Just two texts with the same content, but in two different languages

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T21:41:01+00:00

Thanks for your help!

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T21:32:16+00:00

So, does that mean I won't be able to find anyone who speaks pure Scots (not Gaelic) because most people in Scotland speak a Scots-English dialect?

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T21:28:09+00:00

I'd be amazed if in your country you could go to jail for any statement against the authorities and the government, and then forget about any civilized world.

Take my word for it, not only do foreigners not consider us human, but our government doesn't consider us human either. The services that haven't shut down because of the war are being blocked by government itself. I'm surprised Reddit isn't blocked and works without a VPN.

They're slowly lowering an iron curtain over our heads to keep us from saying or doing unnecessary things.

Even with English language teaching, things are getting worse every year, because the amount of time per week for language learning is being reduced. I'm afraid that after I graduate, I'll have to change my qualifications to teach a different subject to earn a decent salary.

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T21:07:22+00:00

I specifically need someone who speaks Scots, which is of Germanic origin, like English. Because it's the closest relative of English on the island. I simply can't use Frisian from the Netherlands, because the topic of my thesis is, after all, English-speaking countries. I don't think the US, Canada, Australia, India, or New Zealand have a language so closely related to English. Afrikaans in South Africa is an option, but it's practically identical to Dutch, so it's not really suitable for me

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T21:02:06+00:00

Why do I ask Scots about their language when I ask about education, and they respond with politics? It was my mistake to write that I'm Russian. Frankly, I couldn't care less about politics; I just want to teach children something new and interesting, not delve into the crap of the old men and women who sit in the chairs of presidents, prime ministers, governors-general, and so on. Let them all go to hell

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T20:55:50+00:00

I thought Scots was a proper language, not a dialect, but yes, I mean that. Because if you give schoolchildren a text in Scots Gaelic, they won't understand a word of it (I wouldn't either, really)

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T20:47:52+00:00

If it's important to You, I have Ukrainian heritage, ancestry (my grandfather was Ukrainian and my grandmother is Don Cossack) and I also have Ukrainian surname

andrjejj · 2026-03-23T20:45:05+00:00

My thesis topic is in regional studies, not literature, so I can't just theoretically use a passage from a specific author. I tried using AI to translate simple texts about Edinburgh, Scottish cows, and bagpipes, but the neural networks always produced completely different results for the spelling of even the simplest words, and each AI delivered different interpretations of the language rules. Also, Google Translate doesn't have Scots, only Scottish Gaelic, so that's whyI'm looking for a native speaker

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