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This website hosts pages of links to video and other materials in the Guthan nan Eilean\/Island Voices Series, and carries news about the project. It is also a means of communicating ideas and suggestions from local and remote users, who may be speakers, teachers or learners of English or Gaelic, or other languages. Comments are invited on any of the posts, and will be moderated before publication.<\/p>\n

Over 150 of the original videos in English and Gaelic can be accessed by clicking on any of the Series One<\/strong><\/a>, Series Two<\/strong> Outdoors,<\/strong><\/a> Generations<\/a>,<\/strong> or Enterprise<\/strong><\/a> plus Extras<\/strong><\/a> tabs at the top of the page. These pages also give links to full transcripts for each clip, formatted as “Clilstore” units (thereby also granting one-click online dictionary access), as well as to catalogues for each collection which list topic, level, and language content of the films. The Playlists<\/a><\/strong> tab gives access to “feature-length” compilations.<\/p>\n

Users are invited to browse through the pages, and pick on anything that engages their interest. The documentary clips give a plain language introduction to a topic or event. These are complemented with more challenging authentic speech interviews with actively involved community members, which will give the viewer a closer and more personal insight into the subject at hand.<\/p>\n

This project remains work in progress, as the homepage blog<\/a><\/strong> continues to record ongoing activity in the community that relates to the language work presented in the core videos, and adds to it. Users are invited to browse through past posts to learn about the history of the project, and see examples of more work by learners and other community members. Alternatively, you can view selections of this work gathered together thematically in the pages titled Bonnie Prince Charlie<\/strong><\/a>, The Great War<\/a><\/strong>, Gaelic Journeys<\/a><\/strong>, Storytellers<\/strong><\/a>, Norman Maclean<\/a><\/strong>, Magaidh Smith<\/strong><\/a>, and St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2<\/strong><\/a>. And comments and suggestions are always welcome!<\/p>\n