Irish, Compact: Learn to Speak and Understand Irish Gaelic With Pimsleur Language Programs (Basic) Audio CD – Audiobook, 6 February 2007

I am refreshing my Irish. This series is clear and concise

I haven't had a chance to do the entire course set. I started it when it came..the course came on time in great shape, it is well packed and easy to get going. when you start the course it is easily explained, it is all very relevant, they start slowly and explain how it works, they are clear, the sound quality is good. its done by a good voice. I just wish they had courses that were higher level. I guess you gotta start somewhere right!? I have always been very interested in irish history/culture. ever since I found out I have so many forefathers from there. the irish people have a very proud history- like many European nations tho their culture and history is kind of mixed up because of false info/confusion.. this is a great course for anybody interested in learning irish Gealic! id recommend it for sure.

Je cherchais depuis longtemps une bonne méthode pour apprendre quelques rudiments du gaélique irlandais. Jusqu'ici, je n'avais trouvé que des livres ; les seules méthodes audio étant encore en format cassette.L'avantage de la méthode Pimsleur est qu'elle se base sur de l'audio sans support visuel, leur vocation n'est donc pas d'apprendre à écrire une langue, mais d'apprendre à la parler, ce qui dans le cas du gaélique ou un "bh" se prononce "v" me parait tout à fait acceptable.Le coffret se compose de 10 leçons en format CD rom (que j'ai converti pour les mettre sur mon iPhone - les CD doivent trainer quelque part chez moi).Les première leçons sont très simples et apprennent les rudiments de la langue ("bonjour", "comment vas-tu ?"...), mais progressivement, cela se complexifie : je n'ai pas encore réussi à passer la 5ème leçon même après des mois d'écoute intense.C'est donc une très bonne méthode qui permet de se familiariser avec la sonorité de cette langue difficile.A noter toutefois qu'il s'agit du dialecte du Munster, qui diffère des dialecte du Connacht ou d'Ulster.

The Pimsleur method of learning is easy to use what driving and convenient to repeat a lesson if needed.

Pimsleur is a good course for learning how to speak and hear a languages and the pimsleur Irish one is no exception. I just wish they made Welsh one too and maybe even a Scottish Gaelic. Especially welsh since it has Native speakers as apposed to the Scots Gaelic one that doesn't. But unfortunately pimsleur is usually only audio so if you want to read and write a language than pimsleur is not a best choice, but to speak and hear it is excellent. Especially since the spelling of Irish has a tricky often doesn't pronounce every letter separately which is similar to English in that respect so it would be better for pimsleur to give a Visual approach to a language too especially the Irish one.