The Haunbuik was designed as a quick guide for people with a reasonable familiarity with the spoken tongue. If you are in this position, the more you write the quicker literacy will come.There is at least one mailing list for Scots SCOTS-LANG (email me for details) and plans for several Web sites. Once you have confidence, the Usenet groups soc.culture.scottish and scot.general sometimes carry Scots traffic, but they can be critical environments. scot.scots has recently started, but as the scot. groups are not carried by all servers, traffic is low at the moment. If you are a complete beginner, GLEG from Scotsoun is a good starting point and they also stock other prose and poetry tapes. In either case build up your own vocabulary lists and carefully read as much as you can.
There are several Scots language groups now springing up in Scotland to help conversation.
Alas grabbing the first Scotsman or woman you meet may not help you much. Many Scots have a confused and sketchy knowledge of their language and some are ambivalent. Don't be surprised by
Whit ye lernin tha fur?