Irish-Language Radio: A Free Resource for Language Learners

Raidió na Gaeltachta Irish radioWhen I first started learning Irish, I was really jealous of friends who were learning Spanish. Here in my home in California, you can just turn on the TV or radio and be instantly immersed in Spanish. You can surround yourself with the language all day long if you want to, picking up vocabulary and useful phrases and absorbing its rhythms while learning a bit about Latin American music and culture.

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How to Pronounce “Agus tú féin?” in Irish

Steve asked us:

Hi! Just something I’ve noticed while working both through your site, as well as Micheal O Siadhail’s _Learning Irish_. From your site, I’m hearing “Agus tu “F”ein?” and from Siadhail’s site, as well as the old BBC’s “Little Bit” Irish series, I’m hearing “Agus tu “H”ein?” Is it just a question of dialect? Are the two mutually understandable, or would listeners assume I was a country bumpkin if I were to speak one version or the other?

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Irish Singer Shares More Songs in Irish

Mary Murphy Irish Singer

Mary Murphy is an Irish singer based in Canada (and also a member of Bitesize Irish Gaelic, by the way).

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Should I Choose Rosetta Stone for Gaelic, or Bitesize Irish Gaelic?

Jason will be visiting Ireland, and had the following question for us:

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Should I get Irish software, learn Irish online, or something else?

Old Irish language roadsign

Old Irish "Automobile Association" road sign with Irish Gaelic, shown in a Connemara pub.

Mark was kind enough to take the time to send us an email from Oklahoma with the following question:

Dia dhaoibh a Saša and Eoin,

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Winners for Irish Pronunciation Cheat Sheets with Worksheets

Pronunciation Cheat Sheets for Irish Gaelic

Pronunciation Cheat Sheets for Irish Gaelic

People over the years have said to me “I would love to learn to speak Irish, but it’s not written like it’s pronounced”.

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Free online beginners course launched for Irish Gaelic

Irish for Beginners

Irish for Beginners email series by Bitesize Irish Gaelic

We’ve launched a free “Irish for Beginners” course

If you’re not yet a Bitesize Irish Gaelic member, read on (if you’re already a Bitesize Irish Gaelic member you don’t need to sign up since you already have access to these lessons and many more).

To give you a taster of our language program, we’ve packaged five Bitesize Irish Gaelic Irish lessons into one free email course.

Irish for Beginners – How to get it

With Irish for Beginners free course, you can learn Irish online. Every few days, you’ll get a new free lesson, and you’ll get our normal weekly newsletter updates for learners.

If you don’t speak a word of Irish, but would love to begin by trying to learn Irish for free, here’s your chance.

Click here to sign up for the free lessons.

Warning! This is a new email series, so there may be some mistakes. If you do sign up, we’ll welcome all feedback on what you think of the free course.

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Irish Singer Shares Irish Language Song, and Interview

Mary Murphy Irish language singer

Mary Murphy - Canadian-based Irish singer.

We got chatting with one of our latest Irish language lessons members. Her name is Mary Murphy – an Irish singer and writer based in Canada. Here she shares one of her songs to listen to, along with an interview about her songs, writings, and learning the Irish language.

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Watching “An G Team” on TG4? Try our lessons

TG4 Irish language television are showing a great programme called An G-Team.

An G-Team is a reality TV show about non-Irish speaking communities in Ireland. They are competing to show how well they can improve the amount of Irish being spoken in their community.

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68 Gaelic Pronunciation Recordings Added

Great news for our Irish language program members. We have re-developed the first lessons of Bitesize Irish Gaelic to offer a better integrated beginners course to the Irish language over the first five lessons.

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