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List of Scottish Gaelic Learning Resources

2GreyCats
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List of Scottish Gaelic Learning Resources

Post by 2GreyCats »

Halò, a h-ùile duine!

This is a very extensive list originally posted on the Scottish Gaelic Forums by CFCUJY. (Note: I did not create or compile any of this— all I did was grab it and run to post it over here.)
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Here is a list of resources and links:

At Learngaelic.scot, there are two sets of “letters” – one for beginners and one for more advanced learners. There is a new letter about every week or two and all the past letters are on the website (several hundred past letters in each series). Topics vary and include folklore, history, Gaelic, nature.

Little Letters for intermediate users include audio and pdf with full translation. https://learngaelic.net/litirbheag/index.jsp

Letters for Learners include audio, pdf of Gaelic, and key terms and phrases translated - for more advanced learners. https://learngaelic.net/litir/index.jsp

Also on LearnGaelic there are quite a lot of other learning options with sound files (and sometimes plus video) that also include a full or partial translation. I have the Beginner’s Course on my phone. It has 60 lessons: https://learngaelic.net/lg-beginners/index.jsp

The Little by Little course is 35 lessons that include 2 or 3 conversations with Gaelic text and English translations, plus a little grammar and recordings for every conversation. Probably works best on a laptop. https://learngaelic.net/littlebylittle/index.jsp

Finally at LearnGaelic there are clips from all 4 TV series (18 shows each series) of Speaking our Language. Each clip has Gaelic text and English translations. Each lesson includes grammar points and a quiz at the end if you want to take it. The full videos are on youtube.

https://learngaelic.scot/sol/index.jsp

There is a BBC Alba youtube page that (probably) works world wide (iplayer only works in the UK) -- here is the path: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QfDP ... qDg/videos

If you are in the UK -- BBC iplayer plays many BBC Alba shows

Acair has free recordings of some of the books it sells. Here is the free recording path. You have to go thru some steps to "buy" the recording, but then get a free immediate download. https://acairbooks.selz.com/

And here is the path to Acair Books, if you want to purchase any books. I bought the Spagan books when they were on sale for £1 each, because the recordings were also available. https://www.acairbooks.com/

Scotland's Parliament has a "word of the week" blog and a soundcloud page. https://soundcloud.com/scotparl/sets/ga ... f-the-week

Storlann has a number of pdfs and recordings for learners at its website. Here is the main page for their Ceumannan series of books. There are pdfs of the books, answer files, and recordings for all the lessons. http://www.storlann.co.uk/ceumannan/index.html And here is the pdf for Ceumannan Book 1: https://www.storlann.co.uk/ceumannan/le ... mbined.pdf

Akerbeltz.org has many pages of learning material. These are detailed grammar explanations by topic (see the contents page) and mostly don’t include recordings, except for the sound files. For example -- Fuaimean na Gàidhlig (Sounds of Gaelic) for learning pronunciation start here: http://www.akerbeltz.org/index.php?titl ... a_Gàidhlig

Beagan Gramair – Divides grammar topics by parts of speech. The contents page is here: http://www.akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Beagan_gràmair

Misneachd has put up a helpful padlet, with many Scottish Gaelic online resources grouped by CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) levels - A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2. It's called "Goireasan Ionnsachaidh" and here is the path: https://padlet.com/misneachd/ionnsachadh

Gaelic by Jason on youtube has a lot of great teaching videos and there is a playlist for beginners. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVX7Ra ... 7LEuli05tw

Gàidhlig Gu Leòr has a youtube page with a series of review videos for the Scottish esgoil National 5 Exams. There is also a padlet with pdfs of the slides. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QhuY ... /playlists

https://padlet.com/gaidhligguleor/esgoiln5

At gaelicbooks.org (Comhairle nan Leabhraichean - The Gaelic Books Council) you can buy the Ceumannan books (see Storlann note above), DVDs for the Speaking Our Language shows from the 1990s (see LearnGaelic note above), and books mentioned elsewhere in the Duolingo forum such as Gaelic in 12 Weeks (OMaolalaigh), Complete Gaelic (Robertson and Taylor), Teach Yourself Essential Gaelic Dictionary (also Robertson and Taylor), Gramar na Gaidhlig (Byrne), for example.
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Artorol
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These will be really useful in the future, thanks!

If I knew how to thank people, I would thank you!

I am currently learning..

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Thanks!

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2GreyCats
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Post by 2GreyCats »

What I forgot to say is that SpeakGaelic.scot is another source for free Gaelic instruction on its own site. I assume that it and LearnGaelic are affiliated.

https://speakgaelic.scot/start-your-gaelic-journey/

It also has a podcast, which you can listen to on BBC Alba:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09yhvbd

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Misneachd also has a YouTube channel which corresponds to their lessons found in that Padlet link. Right now there are about 20 videos (A1 level) available. Each video is about 40-50 minutes long and is a really great resource. Hopefully they continue to put out the remaining videos for the A2 lessons and beyond!

Is mise rraine. Tha mi air a bhith ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig airson dà bhliadhna. Slàinte.

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karopapier
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Mòran taing!

As for the books, I'd like to add Ronald Black's "Cothrom Ionnsachaidh" to the list - an incredibly thorough grammar book that I can't recommend highly enough.

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Post by NioX »

Here are a quiz YouTube channel, along with TikTok and Instagram accounts, dedicated to learning new Scottish Gaelic words as part of your daily routine.

viewtopic.php?t=27442-youtube-channel-i ... s-everyday

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