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Teach Yourself Gaelic

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I like these books -- I listen to them on my ipod when driving, to get the feel of the language.

This is an excellent course aided by the audio pronunciation CDs. However, this is the exact same book and CD set, with nothing added, as the "Teach Yourself Gaelic Complete Course Audiopack" by the same authors, Robertson and Taylor, that Amazon sells as well for $18.45 instead of $47.??. I don't know what's up with that. The ONLY different is one comes in a clear plastic case and one comes in a purple colored case with the "heather photo" on it. Same sturdiness/density of plastic as far as I can tell.

These tapes ARE the welcome companion to the print ed. _Teach Yourself Gaelic_ (by Robertson & Taylor, c1993, 2003,) with the same "heather" cover. Becasue most Scottish Gaelic texts don't give a hint to the pronunciation, which does not resemble the spelling of the words, the tapes are a must.

(I believe there is an error above. This is NOT by Roderick Mackinnon in this iteration & not a companion to Gaelic, by Roderick Mackinnon.)

Caveat: Both books _Teach yourself Gaelic_ by Robertson & Taylor, & _Gaelic_ by Roderick Mackinnon are Scottish Gaidhlig (not Irish Gaeilge.) Also Mackinnon does include pronunciation guide for each of the vocabulary words.