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Just how exactly do you learn Gaelic? | ||
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 9 of 35 12 October 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Hugo one is long out of print and the rights went back to the author. Scottish Gaelic in 12 Weeks is effectively the "new edition" of the Three Weeks course. Edited by Cainntear on 12 October 2011 at 3:50pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 10 of 35 12 October 2011 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
I had been going to say that surely there will be a lonely crofter or whatever in some remote bothy (I got that word from Stewart Lee), with an internet connection, who might be pleased to relieve his solitude via Skype, with only perhaps the occasional bottle of single malt requiring to change hands, but perhaps my mythical crofter is already a member of HTLAL :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6153 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 11 of 35 13 October 2011 at 10:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Agus más mian leat Gaeilge a fhoghlaim, tá neart na cúrsaí.
And if you want to learn Irish, there are plenty of courses. :-) Edited by DaraghM on 13 October 2011 at 10:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5785 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 12 of 35 13 October 2011 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha brilliant, made me laugh my head off, good to see the Scottish entrepreneurial spirit is not dead. On a serious note, whilst personally I could never afford private tuition, I will certainly buy your course if you get the Paul Nobel job, I rate your opinion on languages quite highly (even if I don't always agree) and look forward to seeing what you can do. I've not really got any plans to learn Gaelic, but I think Professor Argüelles makes a good point when he says that sometimes it's worth learning a language purely because a good course is available (his example being "El Catlán sin Esfuerzo"), IMO that certainly also applied to the original MT courses, and hopefully it will apply to yours too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Neil_UK Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5264 days ago 50 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto, Welsh Studies: Polish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, French | Message 13 of 35 21 October 2011 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Next year, the mother of all Scottish Gaelic courses will be coming out, and it will be
called 'Say Something In Gaelic', from the makers of 'Say Something In Welsh'. Like the Michel Thomas Method, 'Say Something In...' is a systematic, all audio, method of learning the grammatical structure of a language without homework, without memorising etc. 'Say something in...' also has listening practice to help you understand what you've learned in fast spoken speech - something the Michel Thomas Method lacks - as well as daily practice sessions to help you maintain what you've learned until you can speak effortlessly. After going through the course, you will have no trouble expressing your everyday thoughts in the language with ease. I can't wait until 'Say something in Gaelic' is released, as there are no good courses currently for learning Gaelic on the market right now. Every Gaelic course on the market revolves around silly dialogues, as if you are somehow going to learn to express yourself that way. Also, every Gaelic course is incomplete and doesn't teach you the full grammatical structure of the language. So, finally, Gaelic is going to have a decent course available, which will be a good step towards making the language more accessible and hopefully more popular. Though if Cainntear has a Michel Thomas like method for Gaelic, that's fantastic too. I'd be interested in that myself at some stage in the future. Gaelic needs better resources, the current methods on the market are very poor indeed. If Cainntear can make and release a Michel Thomas Method Gaelic, it'll no doubt do well. Edited by Neil_UK on 21 October 2011 at 6:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 14 of 35 21 October 2011 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hated SaySomethingInWelsh. It wasn't bad per se, but I found it really irritating. It threw difficult stuff in without teaching it, it repeated the easy stuff to death, and there were several fundamental flaws in the ordering of material. Hopefully the Gaelic version will be better, but that depends on the author. Do you know who's doing it? Edited by Cainntear on 21 October 2011 at 12:20pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Neil_UK Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5264 days ago 50 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto, Welsh Studies: Polish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, French | Message 15 of 35 21 October 2011 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Aran from SSIW has mentioned he has contacts in Scotland who teach Gaelic, but I'm not sure exactly who will be making the course. Maybe you could offer your services to them? The thing about SSIW is that it drills you thoroughly on everything. It's slower than Michel Thomas Method, though, but at least they do listening drills as well as daily practice sessions, neither of which are done in MT Method. Still, no one language method is perfect, even MT Method, good as it is. I would love to see a MT Method (or Paul Noble Method) Gaelic, you do have a market for it so good luck to you if you've come up with such a method to teach Gaelic. I might have Skype lessons with you in the future to learn Gaelic (no time for it right now as too busy with other languages and projects :-( ) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 16 of 35 21 October 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't find the listening sections to be any use whatsoever. Because it was just a series of phrases with no ongoing thread of meaning, they didn't hold my attention....
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