Quote Originally Posted by Graham
I promised to update you on Scotspeak.
The package arrived today. there is a book and a CD.

Initial response: a waste of money.
The book is complex, it goes into consonants, vowels, diphthongs and all kinds of stuff that is well over my uneducated head.

The CD is nothing more than recorded conversations from scottish speaking folk, very interesting, but I fail to see it as a tool to learn Scotspeak.

I'll chalk it up to experience.

Saddly, I must point oot that consonants, vowels, diphthongs, and I could list off 24 more words like that just on the fly..... Are the basis of any language. Its what gives a language its ability tae comunicate inteligently, and by inteligently I mean cohesivly. (I realise me spelling is horrid, but I dropped oot shortly after learning tae spell me name, and I still get that wrong some days.)

Only reason ye dunno the rules o' english in regards tae consonants an' vowels as yer learning with that book/CD set is because ye already have it memorized. Ye dun need tae know how an ignition on a car works tae turn the key. ;)

I know ye already know this, but sometimes ye canna see the sliding glass door fer the bump on yer head.