Pupils will be taught Scots to see if it can help improve attainment. Children at Banff Academy in Aberdeenshire have teamed up with the University of Aberdeen for the study. It will examine whether ...

The Scots language is in danger of dying out, experts have predicted. Language-learning app Busuu researchers have named 12 UK and European languages that are at risk of extinction in a bid to ...

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

A free online service has more users learning Scottish Gaelic than the number of people who speak the language in its first week, according to the app’s developers. The Scottish Gaelic course was ...

Foreign language subjects are being squeezed out of many secondary school timetables in Scotland, analysis from BBC Scotland's The Nine can reveal. More than half of the schools that responded to the ...