Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners

✍ Scribed by Tomás Ó hÍde, Máire Ní Neachtain, Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew, John Gillen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Series: Colloquial Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Specially written by experienced teachers, this is an easy-to-use and completely up-to-date course which provides a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Irish, with no prior knowledge of the language required. This new edition offers updated cultural references and new audio material accompanying the course.

What makes Colloquial Irish your best choice in personal language learning?

• emphasis on the language of East Connemara, with a clear pronunciation guide and an appendix on dialectal differences within Irish

• stimulating exercises with lively illustrations

• effective combination of language points, dialogues, and cultural information

• Irish/English and English/Irish word lists.

By the end of this rewarding course, you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Irish in a broad range of everyday situations.

New audio material for this edition is available to download for 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Ag cur aithne ar dhaoine
2 Ag caint fút féin
3 Ag caint faoin teaghlach
4 Ag lorg eolais faoi lóistín
5 Ag caint faoi chaithimh aimsire
6 Ag cur síos ar imeachtaí an lae
7 Ag caint faoi na scileanna atá agat
8 Ag cur síos ar chúrsaí oibre
9 Bia, deoch, agus Ceol
10 Sláinte
11 Cúrsaí siopadóireachta
12 Laethanta saoire
13 Orduithe
14 Socruithe
Grammar summary
Dialect appendix
Key to exercises
Dialogue translations
Irish–English glossary
English–Irish glossary
Index