Thigibh an-seo!

Study & Live the Gaelic Life amidst our North Uist Gaelic Community

​From Intermediate to Advanced in 4 weeks

Fast-track Communication Skills Development (with reading & grammar & conversation)

Interview will take place to check written evidence of your prior learning at intermediate level, your reading, grammar and conversation skills, to ensure everyone can work at the same level. Post-beginners can do the 1-week access course to prepare.

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4 students (max. 8 places) needed each week for the week to go ahead. Priority goes to those doing the 4 weeks.

We will confirm the go ahead by February (or sooner) if it is possible to run the school.

Clicking RSVP does not commit you to the summer school, it just helps us keep track who to send updates to and gauge what interest is like. 

If there are sufficient RSVPs, we will get in touch with everyone to sort out the registration in February 2025. 

Class-room based teaching 9am - 3pm (1 hour lunch & study time) with 1 afternoon Uist excursion per week included (different every week).

(Accommodation, transport and meals not included).

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Learning is cumulative and everyone starts from Week 1. You have the choice of booking 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks..

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1 week   21/07/25 - 25/07/25       £375 (1 day of activities & volunteering at the Agricultural Show, North Uist)

2 weeks  21/07/25 - 01/08/25      £700 (1 day around North & South Uist & Berneray & Grimsay)

3 weeks  21/07/25 - 08/08/25      £900 (1 day in Barra & Eriskay)

4 weeks  21/07/25 - 15/08/25   £1,000 (1 day in Lewis/Harris)

Love Gaelic (taught only, not self-study) students & alumni have a discounted rate and only pay £200 per week.

We provide tuition, learning resources and transport for excursions only.

Transport to and from ferry/airport/accommodation can be arranged for an extra fee (during the weekend only). We will review availability for transport during the week nearer time, we only have 4 spaces in the car and if need to hire a minibus - an extra fee will need to be paid by students.

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Full payment to secure your place is due on registration (once the course is confirmed to go ahead with enough students) and is non-refundable (unless you can not attend due to plane or ferry to the island being cancelled). Places can not be reserved, it is first paid, first served basis.

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If you are interested in learning or speaking a specific dialect, you could also check out the other Gaelic learning providers on the other Hebridean islands. We can only advise on the protected dialect we use in our classroom and you will be expected to use ours only (non-negotiable, if you persist in using another dialect or disregard lesson instructions, you will be removed from the course without refund). We will not discuss dialect differences or linguistic history. Gaelic can differ in vocabulary use, pronunciation, gender of nouns and phrase use, depending on location. The important thing for learners is not to mix them up and respect the uniqueness of each dialect, in order to preserve its characteristics for future generations.

Here are some useful links:
 

Isle of Skye - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 

Isle of Lewis - Ravenspoint

Isle of Islay - Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle 

Isle of South Uist - Ceòlas

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We are following the GOC (Gaelic Orthographic Conventions), however we acknowledge that this is optional and not everyone is adapting these. (e.g. in some places, both accents are still in use). We can't give advice or help with learning based on the previous or other learning systems.