It's 2020! You can learn anything anywhere now. I have a couple of academic medievalist friends who speak ancient and modern Gaelic, and it seems like a pretty fun language; the BBC does a radio podcast in Gaelic, so it's easy enough to get daily listening practice. (I plan to learn Icelandic myself, as I have a fascination with Norse mythology, and pretty much the whole body of Norse literature is in Icelandic. Gaelic doesn't have a written literature, really - it's all songs and oral tradition - and I tend to be a reader.) DH