Registration is open for 2024 – 2025 Gàidhlig classes
Thigibh a-steach!
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR
THE 2024 – 2025 ACADEMIC YEAR!
To learn more about our curriculum, tuition, and how to sign-up for classes click here!
Learning the language is the foundation for understanding the music, poetry, and stories of the Gaels. Join us for classes and immerse yourself in the language and heritage your ancestors wanted to bequeath to you, a language as beautiful as the landscape.
Classes start after Labor Day and run through June 2025. Learning levels this year include New Beginner, Advanced Beginner, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, Advanced 1, Advanced 2, and Fluent.
Our Approach: Developing Gàidhlig Thinkers and Speakers
While designed to foster conversational ability in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic), the curriculum has at its core the principle that the worldview of the people is embedded in the language, and that familiarity with the culture permits a more nuanced and deeper understanding of the spoken tongue.
In all units we strive to immerse the students in the flavor, character, mindset, thinking processes, and worldview of Gàidhlig and the Gael. Hopefully the result will be that we produce Gaelic thinkers as well as Gaelic speakers.
If you have questions about the program, please write to sgoilgaidhlig@gmail.com
Nach ionnsaich sibh Gàidhlig còmhla rinn am-bliadhna?
Won’t you learn Gàidhlig with us this year?
Mòran taing a h-uile duine.
Suas Leis a’ Ghàidhlig!
Language Village Schedule: April to September 2024
Thigibh don Bhaile Chànain!
The Language Village is an interactive, engaging space at festivals in which Scottish Gaelic / Gàidhlig is being spoken, people are being introduced to the language, and everyone can take part in singing, learning, and other activities – from new learners to fluent speakers.
This year we will again be at several festivals. Check out the list below for our current stops. We’ll update it as we go. At each one, we will run a variety of language activities throughout the festival designed to appeal to children as well as adults, including sessions on Gàidhlig poetry, Gàidhlig song, and introductory Gàidhlig classes, plus a participatory waulking song session, displays of the history and cultureof the Scottish Gael, an area for games and other activities in which you can learn and use some Gaelic, and impromptu poetry, music, and conversation. Read More
Thigibh do Chèilidh na Bealltainn (Come to the Beltaine Cèilidh)
Didòmhnaich, 5mh an Cèitean
2f – 5f
Cèilidh Dhualchasach
A’ roinn Biadh, Ceòl, Òrain, agus Sgeulachdan
Thigibh ann cuide ruinn!
Sunday, 5 May, 2 pm – 5 pm
Traditional Cèilidh
Sharing Food, Music, Songs, and Stories
Join us!
The cèilidh will held on a farm in Frederick County, Maryland.
The address will be given out only to those who register.
Bidh fàilte air a h-uile duine! – Everyone is welcome!
Royal National Mòd Gold Medalists to attend the 2nd Annual Chesapeake Mòd
Tha deagh naidheachd againn!
Am-bliadhna, bidh e na urram dhuinn fàilte a chuir air Emma Sgalpaigh agus Iain MacCarmaig, a bhuannaich bonn òir a’ Mhòid Nàiseanta Rìoghail 2023. Bidh iad còmhla rinn aig an Dàrna Mòd Bliadhnail Chespeake, le cead bho Chomann Ghàidhlig a’ Chomuinn, ann an Alba.
We have good news!
This year, we will have the honor to welcome Emma MacLeod and Iain Cormack, the 2023 Royal National Mòd gold medal winners. They will join us at the Second Annual Chesapeake Mòd, courtesy of The Gaelic Society An Comunn Gaidhealach, in Scotland.
MÒD CHESAPEAKE
Saturday, 3 August 2024: 10 am – 5 pm (doors open at 9:00 am)
St. Vincent Pallotti High School, 113 St. Mary’s Place, Laurel, Maryland 20707
Mòd Chesapeake is sponsored by
Sgoil Gàidhlig Bhaile an Taigh Mhòir, Gàidhlig Photomac, and
An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach
Nach tig sibh ’nar cuideachd – Please join us
CEANN-LATHA ÙR / NEW DATE! Thigibh Còmhla Rinn Airson Cèilidh Imbolg!
Get to know each other! Use your Gàidhlig!
Bring a poem, a song, or a story!
Potluck feast – bring a dish!
A bheil thu airson tighinn? Cuir d’ ainm gu h-ìosal.
Ceistean? Sgrìobh thugainn aig sgoilgaidhlig@gmail.com
Want to come? Register below.
Questions? Write to us at sgoilgaidhlig@gmail.com
Cèilidh Samhain
Cèilidh Samhain
Bidh fàilte air a h-uile duine! – Everyone is welcome!
The cèilidh will held on a farm in Frederick County, Maryland.
The address will be given out only to those who register.
The farm in Frederick County in autumn color.
Get to know each other! Use your Gàidhlig!
Bring a poem, a song, or a story!
Potluck feast – bring a dish!
Gàidhlig lesson on farm life as we walk the land!
A bheil thu airson tighinn? Cuir d’ ainm gu h-ìosal.
Ceistean? Sgrìobh thugainn aig sgoilgaidhlig@gmail.com
Want to come? Register below.
Questions? Write to us at sgoilgaidhlig@gmail.com
Gàidhlig classes start after Labor Day. Will you join us?
Thigibh a-steach!
CLASSES START NEXT WEEK!
YOU CAN STILL REGISTER!
Our Approach: Developing Gàidhlig Thinkers and Speakers
In all units we strive to immerse the students in the flavor, character, mindset, thinking processes, and worldview of Gàidhlig and the Gael. Hopefully the result will be that we produce Gàidhlig thinkers as well as Gàidhlig speakers.
Mòran taing a h-uile duine.
Suas Leis a’ Ghàidhlig
New Podcast Release – Am Mòd ann an Ameireaga a Tuath – The Mòd in North America
We are excited to announce the release of our most recent podcast:
Am Mòd ann an Ameireaga a Tuath
The Mòd in North America
Reminder:
THE CHESAPEAKE MÒD
Saturday, 12 August 2023: 10 am – 5 pm (doors open at 9:00 am)
St. Vincent Pallotti High School,
113 St. Mary’s Place, Laurel, Maryland 20707
Nach tig sibh?
Podcast Release: Opening the Gate: Ethnic diversity amongst Gàidhlig learners
We are excited to announce the release of the first episode in Season 2 of Sgoil Gàidhlig Bhaile an Taigh Mhóir‘s Facing Our History – The North American Gael series: Opening the Gate: Ethnic diversity amongst Gàidhlig learners. Seall air an duilleag seo – Check it out!
You can find us streaming on the following sites or wherever you get your podcasts:
Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, & TuneIn+Alexa
In this podcast we are speaking with two Sgoil Gàidhlig Bhaile an Taigh Mhóir students, Gloria Ngo and Farida Shourbaji. Don’t sound like particularly Scottish names? True. While many people may feel they have a sense of what a Gael looks like, there are speakers of color in the Gaelic learning community that through the language and culture forge a bond that makes them part of the wider Gaelic community. In fact, people of diverse ethnic backgrounds have long had a claim on the language. This may be particularly true in the United States where cultures have mixed through marriage and proximity regularly. This challenges a common perception that Scottish ethnicity is essential and biological.
Listen as we explore how Gloria and Farida opened the gate to incorporate Scottish Gaelic into their sense of belonging.
A bheil ùidh air a bhith agad air Gàidhlig ionnsachadh?
Have you wanted to learn Scottish Gaelic?
Registration is Open
for the
2023 – 2024 Academic Year
To learn more about our curriculum, tuition,
and how to sign-up for classes click here!
Language Village Schedule for the Virginia Scottish Games – Thigibh don Bhaile Chànain!
Thigibh don Bhaile Chànain!
A chairdean,
We have finalized the schedule for the Language Village at the Virginia Scottish Games, which will held on September 2nd and 3rd 2023 at The Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia.
We are very pleased to have Seán Heely returning to lead the Gàidhlig song workshops. Fàilte air ais a Shean!
Thigibh air chéilidh!
Come for a visit! We’d love to see you, learn with you, and celebrate with you.
SCHEDULE – SATURDAY
10:00 am – 10:45 am: Gàidhlig Song Workshop with Seán Heely
11:00 am – 11:45 am: Gàidhlig Language for Beginners
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: Gàidhlig Poetry
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm: Cape Breton Step Dancing with Brendan Baggitt
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm: Waulking Songs & Activity
SCHEDULE – SUNDAY
10:00 am – 10:45 am: Gàidhlig Song Workshop with Seán Heely
11:00 am – Noon: Children’s Program – Gàidhlig songs and games for children
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: Gàidhlig Language for Beginners
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Waulking Songs & Activity
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm: Cape Breton Step Dancing with Brendan Baggitt
Gnàthasan-cainnte agus Seanfhacail – Phrases and Old Sayings
Geur-bheachdan Gàidhlig – Gaelic Insights
Sgoil Gàidhlig Bhaile an Taigh Mhòir 