{"id":1377,"date":"2012-04-23T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2012-04-23T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:47:43","slug":"lithuanian-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2012\/04\/23\/lithuanian-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am P\u00e0ipear is the local community newspaper for the Uists, here in the Outer Hebrides. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that interest in it is restricted to just these islands! There are subscribers in various countries around the world &#8211; wherever families with Uist connections have chosen to settle.<\/p>\n<p>And now, through the Island Voices\/Guthan nan Eilean connection a growing body of language learners (of both Gaelic and English) are also taking an interest. There is a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampaipear.org.uk\/guthan-voices\/\">&#8220;Guthan: Voices&#8221;<\/a> tab on the Am P\u00e0ipear website featuring homegrown lifestyle pieces created in English or Gaelic by local community members, and it&#8217;s proving popular with online visitors from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/studentsampc3a0ipear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1374\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\" title=\"Students get hands-on experience\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/studentsampc3a0ipear.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/studentsampc3a0ipear.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/studentsampc3a0ipear-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/studentsampc3a0ipear-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaampc3a0ipear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1376\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\" title=\"The unit is demonstrated\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaampc3a0ipear.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaampc3a0ipear.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaampc3a0ipear-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ritaampc3a0ipear-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>And another area of interest is the development of the Clilstore online learning platform with multiple dictionary access, in a partnership with the European <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languages.dk\/tools\/index.htm\">TOOLS<\/a> project. So now, for example, vocational students at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprc.lt\/\">Marijampole Vocational Education and Training Centre<\/a> in Lithuania are finding out all about Am P\u00e0ipear as they test drive an early prototype English <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/wordlink\/?navsize=1&amp;sl=en&amp;url=http:\/\/www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/clilstore\/page.php?id=75\">learning exercise<\/a> with online Island Voices video, wordlinked transcript, and supporting Hot Potatoes crossword exercise. This project has some way to run yet, but it looks like connections between our &#8220;offshore&#8221; islands and mainland Europe are getting shorter already!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1375\" title=\"Clilstore page - click on any word to get a dictionary translation\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ampaipclilstore1.jpg?w=1024\" width=\"430\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ampaipclilstore1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ampaipclilstore1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ampaipclilstore1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ampaipclilstore1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ampaipclilstore1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am P\u00e0ipear is the local community newspaper for the Uists, here in the Outer Hebrides. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that interest in it is restricted to just these islands! There are subscribers in various countries around the world &#8211; wherever families with Uist connections have chosen to settle. And now, through the Island Voices\/Guthan nan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2012\/04\/23\/lithuanian-linkage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lithuanian Linkage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}