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Learn Guernesiais and keep it alive

GUERNSEY’S own language needs your help and support. There are probably only a few hundred fluent speakers left, the vast majority of whom are aged over 65. We are very lucky to have our very own language which is now, along with English and standard French, one of three official languages in the island. I arrived in Guernsey in 2005 and as a French speaker wanted to find out all I could about this Norman language. Luckily for me, I discovered a weekly course with Hazel Tomlinson on BBC Radio Guernsey. I then went on to attend evening classes with Hazel’s husband, Professor Harry Tomlinson, joined the Assembllaie d’Guernesiais, where I had the pleasure of meeting many more fluent speakers and then did some more courses with Jan Marquis before entering the Eisteddfod and eventually winning a few times...

Readers' Letters|Mar 29, 2021
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