Product Description

Need directions to Dublin? Learn to speak Irish.

With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow any of the Teach Yourself Language Courses Audiopacks at your own pace or use them as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Audiopacks include an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

• Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
• Regular and irregular verb tables
• Plenty of practice exercises and answers
• Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary
• Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
• An exploration of the culture
• And much more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #325999 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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Customer Reviews

Most awful language book I've have ever come across
I have learnt more than a dozen languages by myself, including Hebrew and Norwegian, and I can assure you that this is the worst self-learning book I've ever come across. Although Gaelic is very difficult to pronounce and written in a way that makes French spelling look easy, you wouldn't believe how complicated the first dialogues are and how quickly the people on the recording read the words and sentences right from the start.

I was completely discouraged and since the overall presentation is awful and ugly I threw the book in the dustbin in no time. Learning a language in the 21st century should not be a torture, methinks.

Don't waste your money on this manual.

Seriously Lacking
This is definitely not a book/cd for the first timer. I was hoping for a few "good morning", "how are you", etc to help me become familiar with the language. Unfortunately, the CD goes almost straight to short conversations. I did read the reviews before placing my order and decided to take a chance. Wrong decision.

Even if I had some experience with Irish, the CD is useless without the book and will do me no good listening to it while sitting in traffic. I'll have to find another CD to get started with and save this CD for later.

As for the book, it has a wonderful pronunciation guide - but does me no good since I need to hear the words, not just read them.

Learning Irish
Irish is by no means an easy language to learn and I struggle with it. I couldn't do it at all without the audio portion of the course. I did not give 5 stars because I have nothing to compare it to.