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Aisling_M · "Giostaire" Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 3,317

Let's not use this thread for discussion but only for INFORMATION for the people who come to the forum. Feel free to add additional posts to this one with any other helpful links that pertain to the question above.

Some of these links are for beginners. Some more advanced.
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/5433/intro.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/blas/learners/

http://www.erinsweb.com/gaelic1.html

http://w3.lincolnu.edu/~focal/index.html

http://www.daltai.com/grammar.htm

Software to Purchase

TeachMe! Irish:

http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/learn/

Méabh

Also important for learning is reading....this site has very fair prices (same as one would pay in an Irish Book Store) for Irish Books/Books on Tape/Dictionaries et cetera

www.litriocht.com
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Dá fheabhas é an t-ól is é an tart a dheireadh.
However good the drinking, thirst is how it ends.

Deb

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/blas/learners/beag1.shtml

This is a good place to start for someone not yet ready to purchase materials. Although there will be dialect differences in pronunciation, it will still provide an excellent base to build on.
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Tá mé ag foghlaim i gcónaí. With translations, it is best to wait for someone more adept than I to confirm.
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Deb
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When the one man loves the one woman, and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave Heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

Tadhg an Mhargaidh

http://www.fiosfeasa.com/bearla/language/intro.htm

The section on the Sounds and Spelling of Irish is very good.
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Ní amadán é an té a thugann rud uaidh nach bhfuil inchoinnithe le rud a shealbhú nach bhfuil inchaillte - Jim Elliot

Aisling_M · "Giostaire" Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 3,317

Here's one from Pól.

http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~green/spelpron.htm

Mürk

http://homepage.eircom.net/~eofeasa/lessindex.htm
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Deir Erik: Foghlaimígí gaeilge!
Erik ütleb: Õppige iiri keelt!
I have good Irish. Gan amhras!
My translation is seldom incorrect

Aisling_M · "Giostaire" Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 3,317

Found another great site with sound files.

These lessons have been taken from a book called 'Learning Irish' by Mícheál ó Siadhail

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/gaeilge/

BrianT

I have a number of short but simple "Irish Lessons" that are sent to me via the AOL Irish Heritage Group that I'd be willing to share if anyone ever wanted them.
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Learning Gaelic gradually, wait for more experienced speakers.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam

Deb

If you've purchased the Irish On Your Own set, and find that you can not play the cassette tapes in your vehicle (as I discovered when my tape player bit the dust - but the CD player still worked), you may be interested in a little piece of software that helps you copy from cassette to CD from Blaze Audio. The program is called "RipEditBurn" They have a 30 day evaluation trial copy so you have nothing to lose in giving it a shot. I bought the full package and plan to copy all of my cassette tapes. (You can do vinyl LPs as well!)

You simply need a decent tape player - like a shelf unit - not necessarily a mega stereo component piece of electronic equipment - although you can certainly use it if you have it! I just didn't want to disassemble all of the components in the entertainment unit, so I just temporarily moved the small shelf unit in next to the computer. You just need the main piece as you can hear what's going on through your computer speakers.

If you have an RCA jack on your soundcard and and a line out on your stereo "source" you are good to go. If not, you can still do it with a line-in jack on your sound card, you just don't get the same quality sound. Even if you have older equipment without the line out jack, if you have a pre-amp, you can still do it, it's just a little more difficult. But they have pretty good instructions and there is a help forum as well.

Be sure to take the "Wave Breaker" trial as well so that you can break the tape lessons into smaller segments to burn to your CDs. You can not fit as much on a CD as they have on the cassettes. But I only had to use 6 CDs to get the 5 tapes copied over.

You can make the tracks as wave files OR as MP3s.

Here's the site: www.blazeaudio.com

They give you free upgrades for life, so every time they make an improvement or enhancement, you can download it for free.

They've just released an enhancement to remove voice tracks from files, as well as removing just characteristics from either the left or the right channel. Pretty cool stuff.
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Tá mé ag foghlaim i gcónaí. With translations, it is best to wait for someone more adept than I to confirm.
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Deb
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When the one man loves the one woman, and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave Heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

Deb

Site has lessons:
http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/brain/lang/

The pronunciation guide has been a great help to me - I've made my own pdf version of it with some minor changes to it.

In looking through the site now that I have found it again, it looks as if the site owner has made some modifications since 7 or 8 months ago when I first found it.

It's a pretty good site.
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Tá mé ag foghlaim i gcónaí. With translations, it is best to wait for someone more adept than I to confirm.
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Deb
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When the one man loves the one woman, and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave Heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

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