Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Celtic Languages

Colloquial Scottish Gaelic provides a step-by-step course in Scottish Gaelic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Scottish Gaelic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
• an extensive range of focused...

Seoid de chuid litrIochta na bpAistI atA in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," a foilsIodh den chEad uair sa bhliain 1865. FoilsIodh aistriUchAn Gaeilge le Nicholas Williams sa bhliain 2003, agus cuireadh amach an dara heagrAn de in 2007. Is sa bhliain 1922, Afach, a foilsIodh an chEad leagan Gaeilge, a rinne PAdraig O Cadhla (1875-1948), ach is deacair teacht ar chOip den leabhar sin inniu, agus is beag duine a bhfuil sE lEite aige. Is sa bhliain 2015 atA an t-atheagrAn seo d'aistriUchAn UI Chadhla A fhoilsiU, 150 bliain tar Eis chEadfhoilsiU "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." --- The...

This work by Brendan Halligan is comprised of four essays that explore areas of early Irish society and Old Irish, and were written as part of the author's undergraduate studies in Trinity College Dublin.

The pieces cover four main themes: the beginnings of writing in Old Irish; an examination of the old Irish Wisdom Texts, or advice on the appropriate mores and ethics of the old Gaelic hierarchy; status in early Irish society with particular attention paid to its "hierarchical, inegalitarian and aristocratic" nature; and finally an examination of the controversy over...

Intermediate Irish is a jargon-free workbook examining the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, the Grammar develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners.

This user-friendly workbook includes:

• terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples
• exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text
• translation exercises
• an exercise key.

The Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the modern Celtic languages and their current sociolinguistic status along with complete descriptions of the historical languages.

This comprehensive volume is arranged in four parts. The first part offers a description of the typological aspects of the...

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook provides a jargon-free introduction to the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, this Workbook develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners.

This user-friendly workbook includes:

• terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples
• exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text
• translation exercises
• an exercise key.

Because there are no native speakers of Cornish, there is always the danger that revivalist will shape the revived language according to certain preconceptions. This was certainly true of Jenner and Nance. Revivalists should always be careful to study thoroughly the remains of the traditional language, and thus to base their speech on what is found in the texts rather than on either of the other Brythonic languages or on their own preferences. This is as true for matters of orthography and phonology as it is for the lexicon. In this book certain aspects of the Cornish consonantal system...