Overview
Main description
It's easy to teach yourself Gaelic!
Complete Gaelic: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Gaelic, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Gaelic with confidence.
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.
Features:
One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language
Table of contents
Introduction / Spelling and pronunciation / 01 How are you? / 02 Where are you going? / 03 How old are you? / 04 I like Indian food / 05 What do you want? / 06 What are you doing? / 07 I can’t hear you / 08 He is from Mull / 09 Where is the bank? / 10 We went abroad last year / 11 I’ll have to go / 12 What do you prefer? / 13 That's better / 14 I’m fed up / 15 We expect to go / 16 Why don’t we go to a disco? / 17 I can’t say for sure / 18 What did you usually do? / 19 What did she say? / 20 They hope to see you / 21 That would be good / 22 Would you like it? / 23 When was the house built? / Revision / Key to the exercises / Gaelic-English vocabulary / Appendix / Grammatical index
Author comments
Author Profile
Boyd Robertson is Principal of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland's Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye.
Iain Taylor has worked with Scottish television and the Scottish Examinations Board.
