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Learning Irish, New Edition: Text (Yale Language)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 491
EAN: 9780300064629
ISBN: 0300064624
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 11, 1995
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Editorial Review:
Book designed to be used in conjunction with cassettes "'Learning Irish", ISBN: 0300064632 - sold separately.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Irish for linguists
This book is brutally fast-paced, and seems to assume a pretty solid knowledge of linguistics. For example, in lesson 2, it states, "A second person singular pronoun, e.g., tú, tusa, is used wen addressing one person. A second person plural pronoun, e.g. sibh, sibhse, is uned when addressing more than person. The plural is not used to express politeness or formality". That last sentence would be utterly cryptic to someone who has never studied a language that makes a T-V distinction. On the ... Read More
Rating:  - Audio Cassettes???
I've used the textbook in class, and it was great with the help of a teacher. But as a teach-yourself with audio cassettes...I mean, audio cassettes!! It is a hopelessly outdated - not to mention annoying to use - technology. Wait for a version with CD's, otherwise this is a very difficult text for self-instruction.
Rating: - Speaking is not Understanding
Overall, I say this is a great book. I have learned how to speak the Irish language as fluently as an American who has not traveled across the seas can. What leaves this book at four stars and not five for me is the complexity of the design in the book and the simplicity of the explanations.
First of all, I spent ten minutes trying to find the pronunciation table of the different consonants and vowel combinations. They were hidden in the back with a bunch of other appendixes that I felt ... Read More
Rating: - Essential Irish Language Text
This book is an essential one for anyone who wants to learn Irish. It contains 34 well-written chapters, pronunciations, and a lot of grammar. The glossary in the back is useful, but to get into the nitty-gritty of grammar details and for a more comprehensive word list, you should probably buy a companion dictionary or grammar book.
Rating:  - How does this book compare to others for learners?
Many others have reviewed fairly the strengths and weaknesses of LI. I wanted to offer advice to beginners wondering if this is the best book for their needs. Yahoo groups are making their way through LI as one group focused on Connemara dialect-- for the Cois Fharraige version as spoken along the Co Galway coast is that which Ó Siadhail teaches; other Yahoo groups are learning Munster or Ulster Irish with different texts; another group takes the Standard "school" Irish via Mairead Ní Ghrada's primer ... Read More
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