Other Island Voices

One part of the day job (POOLS 2) takes me to another island this week – Cyprus – also bilingual at least, though perhaps less comfortably so than home. So here’s a multilingual mixture, “hosted” first in the Language of Eden:

And here in the Other Tongue:

Musical Appendix

Bi Beò: But where’s the drummer boy? Uilleim, cà’ bheil thu?

All the excitement over phonecasting and what it can mean for language learning has left musical interests a little in the shade.

But here’s the thing. You don’t have to use a phone. In time-honoured fashion you can also upload traditional MP3s…

So – purely in the interests of balance of course – here are a couple of Bi Beò samples to flesh out my earlier post on “Gaelic reggae”.

“Sgath Sgitheanach” (a’ moladh ar nàbaidhean…)

“Sùilean dubh nan eilean” (an guth binn aig Seumas a-mach air a’ chuspair as fheàrr leis.)