The Sun: Gaelic double click
"SCOTLAND’S 60,000 Gaelic speakers are to get their own version of Facebook.
Rosemary Ward and Gillian Thompson are launching their social networking site mygaelic.com later this month. "
“We’ll have links to various places where people can take courses to learn Gaelic. There will also be news links. It’s going to be accessible all over the world and it means ex-pats can find out what’s going on in the Gaelic-speaking world.”
"The girls hope the website will become as popular as Bebo and Facebook in Scotland.
Each new user will have to set up a profile, where they can add friends and chat.
Rosemary, who is acting CEO for Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the Government body responsible for Gaelic speakers, said: “You set up your own social networking profile, have a group of friends, send messages and add comments.”
The site has been under construction for almost two years, and is finally nearing completion. It cost £250,000 to set up and was funded by Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
"Gilllian, director of IT firm Creative Cell, said: “We first got the idea for the site in February 2007 and have been working on it ever since"
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Agus tuilleadh bho làrach eile:
A GLASWEGIAN who can’t speak a word of Gaelic dreamt up Scotland’s new Celtic social networking site.
Hot on the heels of Facebook and Myspace, Scotland’s 60,000 Gaelic speakers now have their own version - mygaelic.com
And English-speaking web surfers will be able to tr*nsl***** the site from the native tongue into English at the click of a mouse.
Gillian Thompson, 31, pitched her idea of a Gaelic facebook-type website to the Bord an Gaidhlig who were looking for ways to reach out to Scots and encourage them to learn the traditional language.
Despite being from the Central Belt and with no knowledge of Gaelic, Gillian wanted to help the Bord an Gaidhlig promote the language.
And she was stunned when they agreed to fund the £250,000 site.
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