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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Ceol 06, Ceol '07, List of Artists Who Have Released Irish Language Songs, Ceol '08. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ceol 06 is a 26-track double album of songs in Irish, to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. It sees the combination of established acts such as The Corrs and The Frames, alongside newer talents such as Traic Ó Braonáin and Ross Breen. The songs many of them written in Irish, others translated from English include Mundys reinvention of his hit, "Mexico", and the Mongrels reading of two poems conjoined. All acts gave their time free of charge and profits go to Concern to assist in their work in Mozambique. CD 1 CD 2 ...http://booksllc.net/?id=7286421 ... Read more

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fun and informative - in a rambling sort of way
One gets the impression that the author wrote this book mostly for his own entertainment - he's fascinated with Celtic languages and wants to write about them.He has no particular point to make other than to share the joys of initial mutations etc. with whoever will listen.The result is a very entertaining book, not particularly scholarly, but certainly informative and the reader comes away with a good overview of the subject. ... Read more

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Chapters: Irish-Language Singers, Scottish Gaelic Singers, Enya, Talitha Mackenzie, Julie Fowlis, Fiona Mackenzie, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Catherine-Ann Macphee, Bodega, Mary Jane Lamond, Jessie Maclachlan, Iarla Ó Lionáird. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961), better known as Enya, is an Irish vocalist, instrumentalist and composer. The media sometimes refers to her by the Anglicized name, Enya Brennan; Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Irish language, her native tongue. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to perform solo. She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts. Shortly afterward, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her unique sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations. She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies and she was named the world's best selling female artist of 2001. She is Ireland's best-selling solo musician and is officially the country's second-largest musical export after the band U2. Her album sales stand at 70 million as of 2009, with over 26 million in album sales in the US. Her work has earned her, among other things, four Grammy awards and an Academy Award nomination. She has performed in 10 languages during her career thus far. Enya was born in Gweedore (known in Irish as Gaoth Dobhair) in County Donegal into an all Irish-speaking and musical family, the sixth of nine children. Her grandparents were in a band that played th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9482 ... Read more

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Compact Irish, a stand-alone 10-lesson (5 hours) program, teaches beginning language strategies for essential communication and traveling needs.

HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT®

What is the Pimsleur® difference?

The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Irish structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Irish can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.

The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or even thousands of words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts.

When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That same learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed.

WITH PIMSLEUR YOU GET:

• Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,
• Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,
• The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,
• 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.

Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without books, written exercises, or drills. ... Read more

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Makes Learning Irish/Gaelic Easy Peasy
I listen to the first CD and then I'm speaking Irish/Gaelic, it's pretty nice, fast--I like fast.

I'm also conditioning myself to learn through hearing, I'm usually a visual person who needs to see/read what I'm learning but in this case I'm forced to learn just by listening. Sure, I'm up for the challenge.

p.s. Since it's been so easy to learn a language using Pimsleur, I've been splurging... well, I've taken Pimsleur German (I'm up to level 2 on that one), Pimsleur Spanish, Pimsleur French and Pimsleur Irish... it's so fun!

Yes, you may find these at your local library too...

Pimsleur Irish Language Review
I just listened to Pimsleur's Irish audio sample, available on line.I am a native speaker who has tutored Irish Gaelic for several years.My husband asked me to check it out as a way to determine the quality of Pimsleur's Spanish course, as we're both interested in learning Latin American Spanish.

The first lesson consists of a brief conversation:

Person 1:Hello
Person 2:Do you understand Irish?
Person 1:I don't

It then proceeds to break the sentences down, working backwards not only word by word, but syllable by syllable.This process is repeated over and over and is a bit slow for folks who would be paying full attention.These phrases constitute the entire 30-minute first lesson. The word Pimsleur uses for "Irish" as in "Irish language" is actually wrong.I checked a dictionary to see if it existed in a dialect I'm not familiar with.It doesn't.There are two words that translate to "Irish language":Gaeilge and Gaelic.Pimsleur's sound file annunciates what sounds like Gaelinn. This is the name of an organization in Ireland that promotes Irish language and culture.

Irish Gaelic is a complicated language to learn.Its verbs change according to person, tense,
and whether or not you're making a statement or asking/answering a question.
In this first lesson, the verb "to understand" is taught in its basic name, question and
answer forms--all of them different sounding--which I think is a little complicated for a first lesson, especially as it does so without explaining the grammatical rules associated with type 1 verbs.I don't understand why it doesn'tbegin with the simpler and basic "hello/how are you?/I'm well thank you/and you?/what is your name?/blank is my name" material.


In short, I don't think this Irish language course is very good, but then since it costs only $50.00 (as compared to $169.00 for Spanish), Pimsleur may agree with that.The "Teach Yourself Irish" book with CD and "Buntús Cainte" books with CDs are better, though not excellent by any means.

Róisín

For those who are rusty, not beginners.
I returned this product. No book comes with it, so you're not entirely sure how to truly pronounce what's being said. The audio goes by very fast, and makes you feel like your winging it.

I was able to find a much better one (Teach yourself Irish).

I would recommend this to someone who is rusty on their Irish, but already knows the language.

transcript
The product does not come with a transcript, and none is commercially available.However a transcript is available from New England Conradh na Gaeilge... enter gaeilge dot org in a browser.Or enter "Transcript" "Irish" and "Pimsleur" as search terms. You should also be able to find it on e mule andsoul seek with the same terms.

Not bad for absolute beginners-- I wish it went further
This is a review of the version with a gold and green trimmed cover inlarger plastic tape case, and 5 CDs; it also exists in a 4 CD version in a white paper box with a Celtic Cross. The third and newest version here, just out in Feb. 2007, is apparently significantly more money and has Simon & Schuster's name added to the crimson cover. I cannot confirm that the contents are the same, but my suspicion is that they are across all three versions (the other two are cheaper than this newest issuing!). The 4 CD paper box is the same core as the 5 CD plastic one-- the only difference is an admittedly useful fifth CD that explains the Pimsleur method and how to get the best use out of the system; this fifth CD may have been added after users complained that the 4-CD version gave no printed material (that's the whole point of Pimsleur on the other hand!) and no context. I found the extra 5th CD helpful in learning how the Pimsleur system was invented and applied to the audio lessons. I might add that despite their shortcomings, you can upload Pimsleur CDs to a computer or MP3 or iPod player and have instantly portable Irish practice.

What follows is my Amazon review of the plastic box 5CD set... The pros and cons of these tapes have been sufficiently enumerated by the reviewers who've posted here (that is, at the earlier version for these tapes, i.e, the 4CD box!) . What I want to add is that the "First Course" version (a green cover, no Celtic Cross, more rectangular, whereas the Quick & Simple version is in a square white box) has not 4 CDs but 5. This 5th, called a User's Manual, explains how Dr. Paul Pimsleur developed his method of language learning and then introduces the rationale and set-up that the lessons will follow. Why mention this? On the 4CD newer version, it seems that no orientation is given. I happened to find the "Short Course" version, and having heard the 5th disc first, it greatly eased my expectations when I cued up the first lesson. Naturally, when you're beginning to study a language where for an English learner, Irish orthography differs so much from the spoken sounds, further jitters caused by not knowing why the Pimsleur method eschews texts only worsen one's readiness to learn Irish by imitation and example, as done here.

I leave the Munster dialect debate aside; I think that having speakers in all three major regional dialects would have been preferable, to condition one's ear to how Irish is spoken in the media. Now that you can get RnG feeds at your computer, hearing "real" Irish in its native setting is possible anywhere. The use of these tapes, I suppose, is to make you wrap your tongue and clear your throat around strenuous attempts to keep trying to speak out loud a bit of Irish. Granted, by the end of 8 hours you'll be able to hold a rudimentary conversation, but if you know that the course only aims at this limited ability, perhaps you'll better be able to judge if it's the kind of learning aid that works for you. These tapes are in many public libraries too, by the way. For eight hours of drill, they're cheaper than any tutor and for learners like me who get too nervous to speak well when put on the spot in live settings, these tapes offer a more encouraging environment to learn in.

I agree with many users: not having the text in front of me was far more a disadvantage than a help, since I learn best by "seeing" in my mind's eye the spelling of the words that I am speaking. Not being able to do this with Pimsleur does put stress on the learner, but if used in conjunction with other tapes and books, it does force you to try to enunciate, however imperfectly, some approximation of spoken Irish. I kept figuring out after being found wrong by the "answer" on the tape that only belatedly could I match the phrase said to the my delayed realization of how the phrase would be written. You have to repeat lessons, therefore, to get the value out of these tapes. That User's Guide 5th disc tells you that competency is when you're getting around 80% of the answers right, and I know that nearly no honest learner just starting out is likely to score this all the way through eight hours--especially given the dialectal distinctions between the two voices heard and articulation hurdles you must jump.

True, however drastically the words as written differ from those spoken in Irish, not having a sense of how "ca bhfuil" is said vs. spelled will not help any learner wishing to set a solid foundation in Irish. Thus, I would take on these tapes only after having a basic foundation in at least having read in book form the phrases generally employed at this level of conversation. Their one advantage: any tapes goading you to say something out loud make you less of a passive learner overconfident that simply looking at dialogues in a primer will push you to fluency.

I do wish that the makers would make a series by Pimsleur with advanced levels of Irish for conversation; this type of speaking practice beyond the few phrases taught here is a sorely needed product that outside Ireland itself is still often far from readily available on CD for higher-level but still beginning learners. ... Read more

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Q&S Irish, a stand-alone 8-lesson, 4 hours, audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. ... Read more

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Beginner Irish Lesson
I am very satisfied with my purchase of this product.I have had to listen to each lesson three or four times but feel very comfortable with what I have learned.I am looking forward to being able to use my new language when I visit Ireland in a few weeks.I know from experience that the Munster dialect is spoken in the Dingle area as I have been there before and couldn't understand a thing the people were saying.I'm looking forward to being able to carry on a conversation with them this time.

unsatisfied
Quick delivery on a dodgy product. Disappointed with BOOKRACKRH. This product arrived incomplete - there was only 3 of the 4 CD's in it's SEALED package.... I made 3 emails to contact BOOKRACKRH and NO REPLY !!!!!! What am I supposed to do with Lessons 3,4,5,6,7,8 and no Lesson 1 & 2???????? Very unsatisfied.

Pimsleur Quick & Simple Irish
In just a few weeks - and 'studying' while driving - I have been able to just about master 8 units of basic conversational Irish by using the Pimsleur 'Quick & Simple Irish, Part 1' CD program. It saddens me that Part 2 is no longer available. My hope is that major booksellers such as Amazon.com will request it from the publisher. There are more people like me who regularly travel to Ireland and are interested in learning conversational Irish, a beautiful language that should be kept alive(and I am not even of Irish ancestry).

Maith go leor
This is very good little introduction to the Munster dialect. It is not a full blown teach yourself the whole shebang in seven days type of course. Considering all of the courses floating around today which focus on Connemara, having at least one which balances them out is very nice. Plus my people came from Kerry(insert grin here).

One minor downside is a lack of printed material. This is why other reviewers have complained about
the speakers saying the same words differently. No, they are not.

Example:
Ask: An dtuigeann tú Gaelainn? (gwaylin)
Answer: Tuigim beagán Gaelainne.(gwaylinuh - note the terminal "e")

The full transcript is at [...] and can be very useful for newbies.

Tantalizing Introduction to Irish
I'm writing a novel that has more than a few Irish characters, and bought this course to get a feel for the language. It has been a pretty rewarding experience. Though it indicates that it will allow you to speak and understand Irish in 8 audio-only lessons, in reality, the four hours of instruction really only serves to get you started. I've listened to each lesson four or five times and feel confident in my grasp of the material, but were I to have a conversation with a native Irish speaker, it would have to be a very simple conversation, and one carefully restricted to the areas covered by these lessons. But Quick and Simple Irish is good enough at what it does, that I really wish Pimsleur would release a volume 2 and 3 in the series, as it does for many other languages.

My only other minor quibble is that the two native speakers they use in the lessons often pronounce the same words and phrases differently, despite the fact that the course is supposed to use the standardized version of Irish taught in most Irish schools.

One final note of caution. This is an audio-only course: it won't give you any sense of the relationship between written and spoken Irish (which, to American ears, seem barely related). You'll need other resources to help you there. But for $15, it's a bargain. ... Read more

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Title: Celtic Presence: Studies in Celtic Languages and Literatures, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish.(Book review)
Author: Glanville Price
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 102Issue: 1Page: 178(2)

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