{"id":508,"date":"2020-01-23T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/?p=508"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:21:45","slug":"free-online-ou-scots-language-and-culture-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/2020\/01\/23\/free-online-ou-scots-language-and-culture-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Online OU Scots Language and Culture Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of the Scots Language and Culture Course is now available. Or, if you haven&#8217;t tried Part 1 yet, it&#8217;s still available so give it a go!<\/p>\n<p>This course teaches aspects of Scots, one of the three indigenous languages spoken in Scotland alongside English and Scottish Gaelic.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a conventional language course \u2013 it teaches the Scots language through the culture where it is spoken, underlining the role of Scots in Scottish culture and society \u2013\u00a0past and present.<\/p>\n<p>The course is written for a broad audience ranging from Scots speakers, to people who want to find out about and learn some Scots, as well as teachers and other educators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of the Scots Language and Culture Course is now available. Or, if you haven&#8217;t tried Part 1 yet, it&#8217;s still available so give it a go! This course teaches aspects of Scots, one of the three indigenous languages spoken in Scotland alongside English and Scottish Gaelic. This is not a conventional language course&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}