@Maud_Gonner@glindr.org @HebrideanHecate My great grandparents were fluent in Gaelic, and one of my grandparents knew it, but can barely speak it anymore - she abandoned it when she married into a family that couldn't speak it at all.
Here in Canada, it used to be somewhat common, especially in the eastern provinces, but then the government forcibly stamped it out (along with all the native First Nation languages) long ago. The only languages the government cared about were English and French, and all other languages needed to be erased. It's tragic.
I want to learn it someday, but, sometimes I wonder what the point would even be. No one here speaks it, I doubt I'd ever use it. But I don't want to see the language die, and I know that unless things change, it'll die within my lifetime.