Gaelic

by Boyd Robertson, Iain Taylor

Learning Gaelic as easy as 1-2-3

With this book, Gaelic is attainable for any beginning student. You can use "Teach Yourself Gaelic Complete Course" at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, "Teach Yourself Gaelic " begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises Step-by-step guide to pronunciation Practical vocabulary Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Bilingual glossary

Package includes two 60-minute CDs and a book.

Genres: Nonfiction, Language, Reference, Scotland, Linguistics

Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Terence Gallagher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book covers a lot of ground very well. The exercises are quite inventive (for example, having to rearrange the words in a sentence so that it reads as proper Gaelic) and drive home the points made in the text. There are also plenty of grammatical notes and paradigms, something that is given short shrift in too many modern language classes. I bought it because I listen to a lot of Scottish Gaelic music and I was often perplexed by features of vocabulary, syntax and pronunciation that I couldn't put a reason to. This book did a great job clearing up those perplexities. It has a good topical index but I think it would really help to have some grammatical tables at the back for easy reference. Comes with two audio CDs.

[Tasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would have to say based on the book layout if you want to learn and understand the language this is the book for you. I will say that I did not get the audio from the library (not sure why) but assuming I had it I think this would be the best choice. I did manage to get the audio for a different Gaelic course authored by Robertson and it's been great. I'm still on the basic "Hello, How are you?" but only because I've not given it enough attention.

[Pam]

This was the first readthrough of a quite difficult language book. After the first chapter, I absorbed very little. I will be using it as a reference, and going back through it again later.

I was distressed that, while the first chapter was very basic, it immediately jumped to complex structures without any help along the way.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

it is not a good "Teach Yourself" type of book. gaelic is a hard language and this book does not help make it easy.

[rabbitprincess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Because I love Gaelic. :)

[Tracy · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is THE most difficult language for me to learn. But the book does it's best to teach you how to speak it.

[Megan]

Teach Yourself Gaelic Complete Course by Boyd Robertson (1995)

[Mark Woodland · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, all right. However, not as easy as it sounds, since Gaelige is a difficult language. I have recorded sources that have been a lot of help in using this book.

[Crystal Jewell Killeen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this to accompany my other learning materials for Scottish Gaelic. So far it is a very good study guide, and I have learned quite a bit from reading it and listening to the CD's.