A Complete Course for Beginners.
This is a complete course in spoken and written Irish. If you have never learnt Irish before, or if your Irish needs brushing up, this book is for you. Diarmuid O Se and Joseph Sheils have created a practical course that is both fun and easy to work through. They explain everything along the way and give you plenty of opportunities to practise what you have learnt. The course structure means that you can work at your own pace, arranging your learning to suit your needs.
Based on the Council of Europe's Threshold guidelines on language learning, the course contains:
- A range of graded units of dialogues, culture notes, grammar and exercises
- A step-by-step guide to pronunciation
- An extensive grammar summary
- An Irish-English vocabulary list
By the end of the course you'll be able to cope with a whole range of situations and participate fully and confidently in the life of Irish-speakers.