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Has anyone learned Gaelic (Irish)?

pontifex

pontifex

Lifer
If so how did you do it?

I see Rosetta Stone offers it but A) it's expensive and B) I'm not sure how confident I am that I would stick with it to justify the price.
 
From what I gather Rosetta Stone isn't that great, but their advertising is fantastic. I wouldn't bother.
 
Look into an Irish heritage organization near you. They may be able to turn you on to a person that teaches Gaelic.
 
How to learn to speak Irish:
Step 1: Consume one bottle of Jameson
Step 2: ....
Step 3: Now you speak Irish
 
I thought it was bigger in Scotland...

Rosetta Stone is useful for casual, low pressure learning. Just keep in mind that you probably won't learn jack shit if you don't spend time memorizing, writing, and speaking it. I blow through the lessons while surfing and watching TV. I did 5 levels of Rosetta Stone Spanish. Unfortunately, I've done virtually no self-study.

The price has come down a lot from a couple years ago -- used to be ~$400 on sale, it was recently down to ~$200 during the holidays.
 
gorcorps said:
I've heard good things about this site, and really wish they had Japanese available. Seems like they pretty much just stick to the latin languages :\
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It's all user-sourced, so it requires people willing to do it

It's a great site though. I don't think it will actually get you fluent, but it will get you a strong base and let you know how serious you are about learning.
 
Strk said:
https://www.duolingo.com/
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I had that on my tablet but I don't recall Irish being one of the languages offered.

I do see it on the website though. Will check it out.

I'm really into Irish mythology so would really help to learn how to pronounce some of the names and words, or know what some of the words mean.

I like traditional Irish music as well.
 
pontifex said:
I had that on my tablet but I don't recall Irish being one of the languages offered.

I do see it on the website though. Will check it out.

I'm really into Irish mythology so would really help to learn how to pronounce some of the names and words, or know what some of the words mean.

I like traditional Irish music as well.
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its more of a scottish thing dude or if you are from nova scotia aka down east.
 
Mayne said:
its more of a scottish thing dude or if you are from nova scotia aka down east.
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I'm pretty sure the dominant Gaelic dialect is Irish. It, along with English are the two official languages, with Irish being first(though less used). Scots Gaelic is derived from Irish.
 
lxskllr said:
I'm pretty sure the dominant Gaelic dialect is Irish. It, along with English are the two official languages, with Irish being first(though less used). Scots Gaelic is derived from Irish.
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And while watching Outlander, I did some research and, apparently, they kind of systematically got rid of Gaelic in Scotland after the 1750-ish Jacobite rebellion?
 
Imp said:
And while watching Outlander, I did some research and, apparently, they kind of systematically got rid of Gaelic in Scotland after the 1750-ish Jacobite rebellion?
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That sounds right. I used to casually study Celtic history(Gaelic preferred), but I kind of got out of it, and a lot of my memory is foggy. Gaelic was generally persecuted in the British Isles because it was a threat to English power.
 
lxskllr said:
That sounds right. I used to casually study Celtic history(Gaelic preferred), but I kind of got out of it, and a lot of my memory is foggy. Gaelic was generally persecuted in the British Isles because it was a threat to English power.
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It wasn't persecution we just didn't realise they were trying to communicate, all we saw was them spitting in our general direction whilst making weird noises so we killed them.
 
Imp said:
I thought it was bigger in Scotland...

Rosetta Stone is useful for casual, low pressure learning. Just keep in mind that you probably won't learn jack shit if you don't spend time memorizing, writing, and speaking it. I blow through the lessons while surfing and watching TV. I did 5 levels of Rosetta Stone Spanish. Unfortunately, I've done virtually no self-study.

The price has come down a lot from a couple years ago -- used to be ~$400 on sale, it was recently down to ~$200 during the holidays.
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Its more of a novelty in Scotland, speak Gaelic to 90% of the Scottish population and you'll get a look like this --> 😕
 
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