Is there anyone who speaks Scots here?
I'm really into learning languages and I want to learn a language that is similar to English (not because it's easy but because I think it would be fun to compare them) and Scots is the only one that's actually similar. Dutch and to a lesser extent the other Germanic languages have similar words and phrases, but even Dutch is still pretty different from English.
When I first found Scots, I initially didn't think about learning it because I thought that finding people to practice with when there are only ~1.5M speakers would be too hard. I started learning Dutch the other day, but today I decided I might as well try to find native speakers before fully committing to Dutch because if possible I'd rather learn Scots.
Basically my question is are there any Scots speakers here that would be willing to have conversations with me in Scots? I would really appreciate it. If you know of a better place online than Reddit to look for Scots speakers I'd really appreciate it if you told me where it is.
Posted May 4, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC