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page of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (SMO), The Gaelic College on the Isle of SkyeA really interesting site with access to oral history articles and original field recordings from the journal "TOCHER" including some Gaelic stories, songs and interviews, with English translations, and also some interesting articles in English and Scots. You need to have a frames capable browser and a RealPlayer for RealAudio streams to hear the audio material - there are links there to obtain the free RealPlayer if you don't have it.
A set of 22 graded lessons for beginners. These consist of simple reading exercises and vocabulary lists. There is no information on pronuciation or grammar. They are useful as a supplement to other materials for extra reading practice and vocabulary building.
Page with several Gaelic poems or songs, English translations, vocabulary, and information about the poets.
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page of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (SMO), The Gaelic College on the Isle of SkyeMajor site for those interested in Gaelic. Tons of information and links. A lot of the site is written in Gaelic, but there are some information pages in English as well. The site hosts many pages of interest. I have included separate links below to some of them. The college and the web site are located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland and sometimes you may have trouble connecting. Just try again the next day, it's well worth a visit.
Home page of Cànan at SMOThese folks are the publishers of the excellent "Speaking
Our Language" Gaelic Learning materials - books, audio tapes,
and video tape lessons. They have an on-line catalog of learning materials
and various other Gaelic related items. There is an on-line order form
and they accept credit cards.
NEWS - All the Speaking Our Language
video lessons for both Series One and Series Two
are now available directly from Cànan in standard USA NTSC video format. That's 4 sets of tapes
covering the first 36 lessons in the course.
(Unfortunately Series Three and Four are still only available in
the European PAL video format which you can only use if you have a multi-standard VCR or by getting
the tapes converted to NTSC format)
CLI publishes a bilingual learners magazine "Cothrom"
filled with articles of interest to learners and Gaels, all the article
have parallel Gaelic and English. You can subscribe on-line at their site
(they also take credit cards now) and you can also get an audio tape with
each issue with native speakers reading some of the articles. The Gaelic
in the articles is not "beginners" Gaelic though, it is "real"
Gaelic so it is of more use to intermediate and advanced learners, although
the articles in English are worth getting the magazine for anyway. The
magazine also now includes a section called "Fios"
which is a newsletter for beginners.
The CLI site also has many other other useful booklet/audio cassette packs
for learners for sale and a Karaoke Ceilidh tape/book that is great for
learning some famous Gaelic songs.
There is also a database of information on Gaelic learning groups
and classes around the world.
Homepage for the Scottish Gaelic Society of America - Information on joining the ACGA and some useful information for learners.
last update 8/2/2002