Still busy, but hang on a minute. During my working-from-home lunchbreak, I was noodling around the BBC iPlayer, and came across episode 1 of Speaking Our Language . It only lasted 20 minutes, so I thought I'd give it a go. It's always instructive to encounter language learning - good, bad or indifferent - from the other side of the teacher's desk. It wasn't bad at all, methodologically speaking, though a bit too much L1, maybe, and it was clearly low-budget and not on its first run. I'll watch episode 2, anyways. I'm road testing an iPad for work, so I had a quick shufty at BBC Alba's learning links, and found Learn Gaelic, with lots of links for beginners . There's also BBC Alba , of course. And Radio Nan Gaidheal , which kills two birds with one stone: I like a bit of radio when I'm working, but Radcliffe and Maconie's banter, for example, can be distracting, and working with Radio 4 on is out of the question. Radio in Gaelic means I...