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Colloquial Scottish Gaelic
The Complete Course for Beginners
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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.
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THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES
Series Adviser: Gary King
The following languages are available in the Colloquial series:
| Afrikaans | Greek | Russian |
| Albanian | Gujarati | Scottish Gaelic |
| Amharic | Hebrew | Serbian |
| Arabic (Levantine) | Hindi | Slovak |
| Arabic of Egypt | Hungarian | Slovene |
| Arabic of the Gulf | Icelandic | Somali |
| Basque | Indonesian | Spanish |
| Bengali | Irish | Spanish of Latin America |
| Breton | Italian | Swahili |
| Bulgarian | Japanese | Swedish |
| Cambodian | Kazakh | Tamil |
| Cantonese | Korean | Thai |
| Catalan | Latvian | Tibetan (forthcoming) |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | Lithuanian | Turkish |
| Croatian | Malay | Ukrainian |
| Czech | Mongolian | Urdu |
| Danish | Norwegian | Vietnamese |
| Dutch | Panjabi | Welsh |
| English | Persian | Yiddish |
| Estonian | Polish | Yoruba |
| Finnish | Portuguese | Zulu (forthcoming) |
| French | Portuguese of Brazil | |
| German | Romanian |
COLLOQUIAL 2s series: The Next Step in Language Learning
| Chinese | German | Russian |
| Dutch | Italian | Spanish |
| French | Portuguese of Brazil | Spanish of Latin America |
All these Colloquials are available in book & CD packs, or separately. You can order them through your bookseller or via our website www.routledge.com.
Colloquial Scottish Gaelic
The Complete Course for Beginners
Second edition published 2014
by Routledge
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and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
Š 2001, 2014 Katherine Macleod Spadaro and Katie Graham
The right of Katherine Macleod Spadaro and Katie Graham to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in an...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Frontmatter 1
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- English borrowings from Gaelic
- Pronunciation guide
- 1 A bheil GĂ idhlig agad? Do you speak Gaelic?
- 2 An teaghlach The family
- 3 CĂ it a bheil e? Where is it?
- 4 Ciamar a tha thu aâ faireachdainn? How do you feel?
- 5 Co mheud a thâ ann? How many are there?
- 6 Biadh is deoch Food and drink
- 7 An aimsir/an t-sĂŹde The weather
- 8 Air an dĂšthaich In the countryside
- SĂšil air ais (1) Review (1)
- 9 Co Ă s a tha thu? Where are you from?
- 10 Dè a chuireas mi orm? What will I wear?
- 11 Dè an obair a thâ agad? What work do you do?
- 12 Curseachadan Pastimes
- 13 Anns aâ bhaile-mhòr In the city
- 14 Subhach is dubhach Happy and sad
- 15 Na lĂ ithean a dhâfhalbh Days gone by
- 16 Cà nan is ceòl Language and music
- 17 Deireadh na bliadhna The end of the year
- SĂšil air ais (2) Review (2)
- Leughadh Translation of reading passages
- Key to exercises
- Grammar supplement
- Verb glossary
- EnglishâGaelic glossary
- GaelicâEnglish glossary
- Grammar index
- Topic index