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Gaelic Self-Taught

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Unlike the simpler 'tourist tutorial' style books out there which will tell you how to ask the way to the nearest toilet and not much more this concise but well written book takes a good stab at teaching you not only Gaelic words and phrases but how to structure sentences with relation to tense, etc. The author takes the whole thing very seriously and the book comes across as a competant attempt to write the definitive intro the the Scottish Gaelic language. Good stuff.

This explanation of the grammar of Scottish Gaelic grammar to English speaking learners is clearly laid out, particularly in the contents page. The vocabulary is limited but sufficient. The exercises are translations between Gaelic and English - a rather old-fashioned approach. This book can be viewed as a useful adjunct to a more modern, orally-based course, for an inquisitive or assiduous learner. The orthographic conventions are not modern but not intrusive.