| Genre: | Language Learning |
| Director: | Anne Buckland / Ken MacGregor |
| Presenter: | Rhoda MacDonald |
| Voices: | Iain MacRae |
| Theme Music Composer: | Phil Cunningham |
| Opentheme: | Performed by Wolfstone |
| Language: | English and Scottish Gaelic |
| Num Seasons: | 4 |
| Num Episodes: | 72 |
| Executive Producer: | Rhoda MacDonald |
| Producer: | Amanda Berry (Series 1 & 2) Anne Lorne Gillies (Series 3 & 4) Erina Rayner (Series 4) |
| Editor: | Andy Boyd, Pat Doherty |
| Location: | Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Company: | Scottish Television |
| Channel: | Scottish Television Grampian Television |
Speaking our Language is a Scottish Gaelic learners' television programme that ran from 9 January 1993 to 22 November 1996. Running for 72 episodes through four series, the series was produced by Scottish Television and presented by Rhoda MacDonald, STV's then-head of Gaelic output. It was frequently repeated on TeleG and is now repeated on BBC Alba, and all four series have been released on DVD.[1]
The series was based on Now You're Talking, a similar Welsh-language learners' series broadcast on S4C and developed by Acen, a resource service for Welsh learners, who acted as programme consultants for Speaking our Language.
Each episode begins with Rhoda introducing where it was recorded and what it will cover. Each set of new phrases is introduced by Rhoda and then followed by some short dramatisations which show examples of how the words and phrases are used. Once an episode an extended drama (with a continuing story line through the series) is used to give a deeper example of how the vocabulary introduced in the episode can be used. In the first two series the drama is called Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Aig an taigh (At Home), following a family who have moved to Glasgow and are settling into life there; whereas in last two series the drama for intermediate learners Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Càirdeas (Friendship) is about the complexity of love and friendship among the protagonists – Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Ceit, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Anna, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Iseabail, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Tormod, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Iain, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Seumas, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Murchadh, Bill, Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Eòghainn etc. The episodes are summed up during the episode and at the end with the voice over going over the phrases introduced.