well?

I'd say "No" but you'd expect that...
:-)

Dae we need yin?

Yes!! It's all being lost due to the influence of TV. It suffered major damage due to the Scottish cringe where they tried to hammer it out of us in the schools, but the last 40 years or so, thanks to the media, has seen a rapid increase in the ground lost. Young Scots can hardly speak their own native language, and I hear basic Scots words, when used, being spoken in a very anglified way.

Why Scots would say "no," is beyond me.

I'm from Inverness. Therefore, Scots is not my own native language.

Many Young Scots can hardly speak English either.

I doubt if anybody would be interested, as everybody wants to learn English, the international language. Scots would be of no use outside of Scotland, so why bother?

It's like saying "Larn yersel Geordie". It's good for a laugh but that's all...

I've been ranting for years about the lack of language education in schools. From age 5 (or earlier ) there should be conversational classes , preferably two different , a Germanic and a Latin for example.
Should it be Scots, no, because I don't consider it a language, note that I said "I".

Nobody is advocating throwing away standard English St George. This is what the naysayers here in Scotland always come up with. It's a deliberate misunderstanding of the facts in an attempt to make their case. You see and hear the same thing all the time in the world of politics. We'll always have standard English, but there's no need to let Scots disappear. It would be a great loss.

I find the richness and diversity of our means of oral communication throughout our landmass both fascinating and essential to each and everyone's identity and sense of place. This is now mainly based on English, so how many centuries would we have to delve back to discover our authentic tongue, and where would we set the base line for this authenticity? How many different regional languages would we rediscover? At what point does language become dialect?

But what would the course teach? The Lowlands Scots spoken here in Galloway very different to the Northern Scots of Caithness, and other regions are different again. Make formal course of it and I suspect you would land up homogenising them all and doing more harm than good.

One thing you might teach is precisely what the dialectal variations within Scots are. They aren't obvious and I certainly couldn't say anything linguistically informed about it.

People manage to study Portuguese and Spanish despite the substantial differences between European and South American forms of each. For that matter, English has more dialectal variations than anything else labelled as a single language, and somehow that gets on the curriculum in a lot of not-too-backward places without homogenizing the way they speak in Chicago, Barbados and Melbourne.

In not too distant future the Scots language will be lost unless the bairns are taught it ? When I perform a poem written in the Scots language to an audience with an average lifespan of 60 years , the audience are bemused , they've never heard the like ? , or it has went in one ear and out the other , are the Scots ashamed of the wye they speak ? Are there any performers of Scots language poetry out there apart from the very few I meet at Keith and Muchty traditional music festivals ,