Unit 13 - An important cultural site in the Highlands
Tursachan Chalanais "The Callanish Standing Stones "
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The Callanish Standing Stones are an important neolithic site on the Isle of Lewis, much visited by tourists. In this section you will learn some phrases which are useful in speaking to people who run tourist enterprises. Here is some vocabulary:
- tursa
- standing stone
- tursachan
- standing stones
- ionad cultarail
- cultural centre
- ionad-tadhail
- visitor centre
- luchd-turais
- tourists
- muinntir an àite
- local people
- dualchas
- heritage
- sean
- old
- bùth
- shop
- taigh-bìdh
- café
- taigh-beag
- toilet
- seann rudan
- old things, antiquities
- arc-eòlas
- archaeology
- arc-eòlach
- archaeological
