Hallo, is mise Ashely agus tha mi a Halifax. Hi, my name is Ashely and I am from Halifax.
I never expected to learn Scottish Gaelic, but in the first year of my undergraduate degree I had to take a language credit. Why would I take something ‘useful’ like French, when I could instead learn a language currently spoken by less than 50,000 people? I have never been very good at making what others consider wise academic decisions. I have a master’s degree in religious studies, a penchant for learning dying languages, and my most recent career shift has been into a turbulent film industry. When I saw Scottish Gaelic as a course offering, I felt something more valuable than quantifiable usefulness: a connection to my ancestral past.