Colloquial Scottish Gaelic: The Complete Course for Beginners

by Katie Graham, Katherine Spadaro

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317305941
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/14/2015
Series:	Colloquial Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	334
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Katherine Macleod Spadaro, Katie Graham

Table of Contents

Introduction; English borrowings from Gaelic; Pronunciation guide; Chapter 1 Unit One:; A bheil Gàidhlig agad?; Chapter 2 Unit Two:; An teaghlach; Chapter 3 Unit Three:; Càit a bheil e?; Chapter 4 Unit Four:; Ciamar a tha thu a’ faireachdainn?; Chapter 5 Unit Five:; Co mheud a th’ ann?; Chapter 6 Unit Six:; Biadh is deoch; Chapter 7 Unit Seven:; An aimsir/an t-s-de; Chapter 8 Unit Eight:; Air an dùthaich; Chapter 8a Sùil air ais (1); Chapter 9 Unit Nine:; Co às a tha thu?; Chapter 10 Unit Ten:; Dè a chuireas mi orm?; Chapter 11 Unit Eleven: Dè an obair a th’ agad?; Chapter 12 Unit Twelve: Curseachadan; Chapter 13 Unit Thirteen: Anns a’ bhaile-mhòr; Chapter 14 Unit Fourteen: Subhach is dubhach; Chapter 15 Unit Fifteen:; Na làithean a dh’fhalbh; Chapter 16 Unit Sixteen:; Cànan is ceòl; Chapter 17 Unit Seventeen:; Deireadh na bliadhna; Chapter 18 Sùil air ais (2); Chapter 19 Leughadh;