A handy pronunciation guide:

[freep]

http://forvo.com/search/A%20bheil%20...dhlig%20agat?/

Works for many languages including Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Cymraeg (Welsh) as well as most others.

[Profane James]

Used it many times - I also like that it has audio most of the time..

[RectaPete]

Should help me in my quest to learn Irish and Scots Gaelic. In addition to the tense and contextual mutations, the spelling really gets me. I'm getting slightly better at gleaning a pronunciation from text only, but still need a lot of help.

[freep]

I've learned a trick to spelling and pronunciation in Celtic languages:

The letters look the same as in English but have different values sometimes. If you can figure out what those letters are how they're pronounced, you've got a start.

For example, in Cymraeg or Welsh, an 'f' is pronounced as an English 'v'. Ff is pronounced as an English 'f'. D is pronounced the same as in English but dd is pronounced 'th'.
So, Caernarfon (a town in n. Wales) is pronounced Care-nar-Von. Yr Wyddfa (Snowden peak) is pronounced Ear-with-va.

In a similar fashion in Gaelic bh is pronounced v so Siobhan (a given name) is pronounced Sho-vaughn. I tried to name my daughter Siobhan but was overuled by my wife. <sigh>

The following is English then the same thing but written in the Welsh alphabet. Very illustrative.

Good luck: I hope that you can read this, and that it makes sense to you. If you can read this, then you are doing fine and will have no problems at all in learning our fine Welsh alphabet.

Gwd lwc. Ai hop ddat yw can ryd ddys and ddat yt meiks sens tw yw. Iff yw can ryd ddys, dden yw ar dwing ffaen and wil haf no problems at ol yn lyrnyng awr ffaen Welsh alffabet.

[RectaPete]

In a similar fashion in Gaelic bh is pronounced v so Siobhan (a given name) is pronounced Sho-vaughn. I tried to name my daughter Siobhan but was overuled by my wife. <sigh>

I'm well aware of how Siobhan is pronounced as I get called it half the time! It can't be the only Irish girls' name beginning in S they've ever heard of!

The following is English then the same thing but written in the Welsh alphabet. Very illustrative.

Good luck: I hope that you can read this, and that it makes sense to you. If you can read this, then you are doing fine and will have no problems at all in learning our fine Welsh alphabet.

Gwd lwc. Ai hop ddat yw can ryd ddys and ddat yt meiks sens tw yw. Iff yw can ryd ddys, dden yw ar dwing ffaen and wil haf no problems at ol yn lyrnyng awr ffaen Welsh alffabet.

I can read it quite well. At the moment though, I have very little interest in learning Welsh except for comparison purposes. Being of quite a bit of English blood there's a chance I could have a Welshman in the woodpile, but as I said, I'm investing my energy into learning Irish.

[Finistere]

I've learned a trick to spelling and pronunciation in Celtic languages:

The letters look the same as in English but have different values sometimes. If you can figure out what those letters are how they're pronounced, you've got a start.

For example, in Cymraeg or Welsh, an 'f' is pronounced as an English 'v'. Ff is pronounced as an English 'f'. D is pronounced the same as in English but dd is pronounced 'th'.
So, Caernarfon (a town in n. Wales) is pronounced Care-nar-Von. Yr Wyddfa (Snowden peak) is pronounced Ear-with-va.

In a similar fashion in Gaelic bh is pronounced v so Siobhan (a given name) is pronounced Sho-vaughn. I tried to name my daughter Siobhan but was overuled by my wife. <sigh>

The following is English then the same thing but written in the Welsh alphabet. Very illustrative.

Good luck: I hope that you can read this, and that it makes sense to you. If you can read this, then you are doing fine and will have no problems at all in learning our fine Welsh alphabet.

Gwd lwc. Ai hop ddat yw can ryd ddys and ddat yt meiks sens tw yw. Iff yw can ryd ddys, dden yw ar dwing ffaen and wil haf no problems at ol yn lyrnyng awr ffaen Welsh alffabet.

Hi freep, Yes your right that DD is the TH sound in english but the TH sound in THE not as in THOUGHT, that is still TH, sorry for the capitals I'm not shouting I'm just trying to illustrate the difference my friend. Kit

[freep]

If not as in thought, then as in what?

And in Gog or Taffy?