- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; Pap/Cas/CD edition (1 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415206774
- ISBN-13: 978-0415206778
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.4 x 5.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Colloquial Scottish Gaelic offers a series of stimulating and informative lessons in modern Gaelic, the historic language of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The lessons are based on everyday situations and relationships, and the step-by-step approach has been devised to make speaking, reading and writing Scottish Gaelic easy and enjoyable. No previous knowledge of the language is required.
Features include:
* emphasis on up-to-date, conversational language
* clear explanations of how the language works
* helpful grammar notes
* comprehensive vocabulary lists (Scottish Gaelic-English and English-Scottish Gaelic)
* lively illustrations throughout.
These cassettes, which accompany the coursebook will help perfect your listening and pronunciation skills.
Features include:
* emphasis on up-to-date, conversational language
* clear explanations of how the language works
* helpful grammar notes
* comprehensive vocabulary lists (Scottish Gaelic-English and English-Scottish Gaelic)
* lively illustrations throughout.
These cassettes, which accompany the coursebook will help perfect your listening and pronunciation skills.
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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone who has used one of the other titles in Routledge's Colloquial series will know exactly want to expect. The book is an introduction to the Scottish Gaelic language for students presumed to have no previous knowledge. The emphasis is on building oral proficiency and the language presented has a concrete context in real-world situations e.g. shopping, food and drink and hobbies, usually presented in the form of lively dialogues. Grammatical explanations are clear, concise and again rooted in a real-world context. The book has a clear layout and it is easy to locate information within the text. As with other Colloquial textbooks, the authors do not attempt to cover too much material in each chapter (of which there are sixteen), although a wide range of topics and contexts are dealt with during the course.
The pronunciation of Gaelic does not come over well on paper, although the introduction to the book does give a good outline to the subject. However, a student serious in wishing to learn the language would be well-advised to buy the cassette which accompanies the course. This contains many of the dialogues and texts spoken by native speakers and will aid good pronunciation.
Self-study is not the easiest way to acquire a new language. However, if your aim is to learn modern, spoken Scottish Gaelic, you have an excellent opportunity with this course.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This a a very comprehensive course, but is only for beginners in the sense that it starts at the beginning. It is not an easy course to take, and requires much dedication and time to complete. Forewarned is fore-armed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I find this the worst of the three main self-tuition Gaelic books. On the positive side, it has clear layout, sensible structure and quite useful vocabulary lists, some of them in pictorial form. Both Gaelic-English and English-Gaelic word lists are included at the back. On the negative side, the explanations of grammar are decidedly sketchy - there is virtually nothing about forming the genitive case - and some of the exercises are rather awkward for the solitary learner, in that they are too little directed and demand too much imagination. Also, just like Teach Yourself Gaelic, no attempt is made to render pronunciation in print. The two CDs are very comprehensive, with several items for each lesson, but, as another reviewer points out, the `continuity announcer' has an appalling monotonous tone. Overall: not bad, and useful if you have the other two books too, but could be an awful lot better.
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Too vague in many places
While this course imparts a lot of useful vocabulary I found it skimmed over too quickly points of grammar (although there is a brief grammar summary at the end which is why I'm... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mike
Speak as you hear
This is very helpful for early or new learners.Whilst being accurate it is not too academic in tone and really helps with the colloquial use of the language. Read more
Published 18 months ago by annie
perfect teaching tool
not much to say really other than this is truly on of the best teaching tools i have ever used. it WORKS and it works VERY WELL. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by Lord Calum Anderson
Colloquial Scottish Gaelic
The best language course I have tried in many years of learning languages. You MUST make sure you buy the book and the accompanying CDs. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2009 by A. Howes
Excellent!
I feel that Scots Gaelic is a fading language compared to Irish Gaelic and this is a shame.
I am trying to learn it and combine it with a program called BYKI4 Express. Read more
I am trying to learn it and combine it with a program called BYKI4 Express. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2009 by Simon J Pattison
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