Category: Languages

Do you speak Scottish Gaelic?

4 April 2018

      I have been living in Scotland for almost a year now. As a huge fan of the TV series “Outlander”, I couldn’t wait to come and discover this country which fascinated me (and still does today!). But if I literally fell in love with this country and my new home, Edinburgh, I … More Do you speak Scottish Gaelic?

Invented languages: Tolkien and the languages of Middle Earth

9 January 2018

J.R.R. Tolkien. Three initials and one name, known all over the world as the author of the famous books, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Within these books, he achieved his greatest work, even greater than writing the books themselves: he created languages. And we’re not talking about a couple of words in … More Invented languages: Tolkien and the languages of Middle Earth