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An Caisteal fon Mhuir: A short novel for Gaelic learners
A short novel for Gaelic learners
Inspired by a tale from the Scottish and Irish oral tradition Calum is a fisherman, but he earns hardly enough to make a living for himself and his father, let alone to pay the loans for his house and boat. When he meets a man who makes a lot of money from the sale of seal skins, he decides to become a seal hunter too. All seems to go well, until one day, a seal disappears, with Calum’s knife still in him. Gaelic language learner literature This novel is part of the Arcos Series of Gaelic folk tales for beginning and intermediate language learners. With a limited vocabulary and a strong focus on high frequency verbs and anguage structures, these short novels make the Scottish Gaelic language and folk tale culture easily accessible to learners. Enjoy reading! Contains an extended and optimized Gaelic-English glossary. This glossary helps you to understand the story more easily and spend less time looking up words.
Inspired by a tale from the Scottish and Irish oral tradition Calum is a fisherman, but he earns hardly enough to make a living for himself and his father, let alone to pay the loans for his house and boat. When he meets a man who makes a lot of money from the sale of seal skins, he decides to become a seal hunter too. All seems to go well, until one day, a seal disappears, with Calum’s knife still in him. Gaelic language learner literature This novel is part of the Arcos Series of Gaelic folk tales for beginning and intermediate language learners. With a limited vocabulary and a strong focus on high frequency verbs and anguage structures, these short novels make the Scottish Gaelic language and folk tale culture easily accessible to learners. Enjoy reading! Contains an extended and optimized Gaelic-English glossary. This glossary helps you to understand the story more easily and spend less time looking up words.
84 pages, Paperback
Published October 5, 2023
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March 13, 2024
Sgoinneil agus inntinneach! ‘S e sgeulachd ghoirid a th’ ann an ‘An Caisteal fon Mhuir’. Tha e deagh leugh agus dòigh-obrach chruthachail gu ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig. Is toil leam an leabhar seo gu mòr.
February 14, 2024
Leughadh mìorbhaileach, Is e sgeulachd ghoirid a th’ ann. Another great book from Jason Bond hopefully he will release the audio as he did for Ròna agus Macodrum
May 18, 2025
Learning another language is hard without the resources of specialized programs to help you. Total immersion is the way to go but who has the time? Scottish Gaelic is also incredibly difficult as it has even fewer resources than most.
Being able to read in another language might not help you speak it but it does feel like progress and Jason Bond has written a series of introductory novellas to help with that. It's a few steps beyond See Spot Run but not as daunting as the recently-released Gaelic version of the Hobbit.
The plot is simple and the chapters are short. Half of the page count is devoted to a glossary for you to look up words when needed and my progress with this book positively crawled because I needed to consult it on nearly every page. Which is, of course, my imperfection and not the book's.
My sophmoric Gaidhlig did not make this an easy read but I was able to understand the story!
Being able to read in another language might not help you speak it but it does feel like progress and Jason Bond has written a series of introductory novellas to help with that. It's a few steps beyond See Spot Run but not as daunting as the recently-released Gaelic version of the Hobbit.
The plot is simple and the chapters are short. Half of the page count is devoted to a glossary for you to look up words when needed and my progress with this book positively crawled because I needed to consult it on nearly every page. Which is, of course, my imperfection and not the book's.
My sophmoric Gaidhlig did not make this an easy read but I was able to understand the story!
November 8, 2024
I can easily recommend this along with the other 2 books for Gaelic learners by Jason Bond, Ròna agus MacCodruim and Deirdre agus an Rìgh. Overall it may be a little too simple for more advanced learners but it does contain a very nice range of vocabulary (with a good glossary in the back) and grammatical constructions so it's good for reading practice and refreshing grammar for any learner.
Note for people buying this from Amazon US: The publisher of this is in the Netherlands, and Amazon US is not keeping the physical book in stock. Since at the time of my writing this, it is not available as an ebook, your only option is to order the paperback, which means it will be a print-on-demand copy, despite Amazon listing it as "in stock." The POD copy I got is OK, acceptable for the price, but it is not the same dimensions as Bond's other books in this series.
Note for people buying this from Amazon US: The publisher of this is in the Netherlands, and Amazon US is not keeping the physical book in stock. Since at the time of my writing this, it is not available as an ebook, your only option is to order the paperback, which means it will be a print-on-demand copy, despite Amazon listing it as "in stock." The POD copy I got is OK, acceptable for the price, but it is not the same dimensions as Bond's other books in this series.
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