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With over 24,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, Essential Gaelic Dictionary is the perfect tool to support your Gaelic learning. This new edition is fully updated to reflect the recently published spelling conventions, and includes a guide to usage and insights from the author to help you learn and remember new words and phrases.
Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features: Not got much time? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. Author insights Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. Test yourself Tests online to keep track of your progress. Extend your knowledge Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of speakers of Gaelic. |
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Professor Boyd Robertson is Principal of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland's Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye. Ian MacDonald is Director of the Gaelic Books Council, based in Glasgow.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent updated edition of John Well's Gaelic Dictionary in the Teach Yourself series. After many years when Scots Gaelic scholars and students had to be content with outdated dictionaries, we now have a wide choice of reference works in modern Gaelic. The advantage of this publication, however, is that it both concise and of handy size, so that it can be carried in the pocket. It includes such technical terms as "computer", "software" and "hardware", besides all basic vocabulary required in everyday life. The Essential Gaelic Dictionary can be heartily recommended.
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I bought this dictionary specifically to try to learn how to spell words that I already understood and knew how to pronounce, so there being no pronunciation doesn't matter. I am learning Gaelic with 'Speaking our Language' using BBC iplayer and I am finding having a dictionary very useful already and it only arrived this morning.
If, like me, you are a beginner, you need to understand lenition, as the dictionary gives the unlenited form of words.
If, like me, you are a beginner, you need to understand lenition, as the dictionary gives the unlenited form of words.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As any learner of Gaelic knows, the relationship between spelling and pronunciation is unpredictable, and the pronunciation of every word has to be learned. (Foreign learners of English have exactly the same problem.) Therefore a Gaelic-English dictionary which does not show the pronunciation of any Gaelic words is pretty useless.
None of the dictionaries currently on the market, to the best of my knowledge, shows the pronunciation. The authors and publishers had the opportunity, in producing this new edition, to remedy this, but unfortunately they didn't bother. There is no indication of pronunciation whatsoever. That is why I cannot give this new edition more than one star.
On the positive side, the layout is very clear, the plural and genitive forms of nouns are given, and there are a few boxes containing cultural/contextual information. Another negative point, though, is the binding, which is not suitable for a dictionary, as I imagine the spine will quickly become creased and pages might fall out.
Having bought this book for £6.99 from Amazon, I am not complaining too much, as it is marginally better than no dictionary at all, but if I had paid the standard list price of £15.99 I would be absolutely outraged.
None of the dictionaries currently on the market, to the best of my knowledge, shows the pronunciation. The authors and publishers had the opportunity, in producing this new edition, to remedy this, but unfortunately they didn't bother. There is no indication of pronunciation whatsoever. That is why I cannot give this new edition more than one star.
On the positive side, the layout is very clear, the plural and genitive forms of nouns are given, and there are a few boxes containing cultural/contextual information. Another negative point, though, is the binding, which is not suitable for a dictionary, as I imagine the spine will quickly become creased and pages might fall out.
Having bought this book for £6.99 from Amazon, I am not complaining too much, as it is marginally better than no dictionary at all, but if I had paid the standard list price of £15.99 I would be absolutely outraged.
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