Apropos the Luath Scots Language Learner, recommended by Little Hawk, post dated 30 November 2009:

both the book, and the compact disc that goes with it, are on my bookshelf.

Since I'm a Yankee, I'll critique them in Yanktalk.

The book anchors itself in the Scots of what used to be Banffshire, don't know what it is called today, and also leans towards Aberdeen. Geographically this orientation in Scotland is to the Northeast. It favors the coast, and the fishermen, of that region.

Well, George MacDonald, the great fantasy author (his writing persuaded C.S. Lewis to attempt fantasy), was an Aberdonian, so there is a literary link to this part of the land. Which reminds me of "Sir Gibbie," which is a cross between Wordsworth and Dickens, and has much dialogue in Braid Scot.

Caveat/warning:

the speakers on the compact disc sound a bit different than the book -- and these speakers are meant to be working from the "scripts" organized into lessons and tutorials inside the book. If you already have Scots in your ear, and previous exposure, then this may not much disturb you; for someone as complete an outsider as I, this is downright jarring. I refer, for example, to the book saying "Whit" while the speaker says "Fit," and "whiles" versus "fylies."