Colloquial Scottish Gaelic

by Katherine M. Spadaro, Katie Graham

Colloquial Scottish Gaelic provides a step-by-step course in Scottish Gaelic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Scottish Gaelic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:


progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text an overview of the sounds and alphabet of Scottish Gaelic additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues.
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Scottish Gaelic will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and for students taking courses in Scottish Gaelic.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Genres: Scotland, Linguistics, Language, Nonfiction, Reference, School

334 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2001

Reviews

[W.G. Saraband · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have tried a few DIY-books for learning Scottish Gaelic, but I found most a bit lacking in different regards. They either lacked clarification in regards to pronunciation, failed to provide clear, understandable explanations for things, or just advanced at a rhythm nearly impossible to keep up with without losing yourself.

This has been the best book so far on the subject, and the one I found most helpful to pair with other resources like learngaelic.scot.

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars rounded up. I really enjoyed and appreciated this book. My only beef is that partway through, they stopped giving translations with the dialogues. Those would have been extremely helpful for the entirety of the book. The accompanying audio was pretty amazing.

[rabbitprincess]

For our Gaelic class.