Gaelic Speakers

[Frank MacDuffy]

So would anyone have any recommendations for a website that teaches Scot's Gaelic? I found one site (think it had something to do with BBC) but I thought that someone here might know a good one. Any suggestions?

[JimB]

This isn't a bad one...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/f...eag_air_bheag/

[slohairt]

True, McClef. But Welsh has the mighty "Ll" which for many people proves impossible to pronounce. Sadly we've just about reached the end of my Welsh vocabularly (short as it is). My father-in-law is from Wales and is a Welsh-speaker. Perhaps I should start learning.

Is mise le meas,

Siôn Ap Arth!

[Mike1]

The Save Gaelic site can be a good one, so long as you have thick skin.

If you're really serious, there is always Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland's only Gaelic college. They do distance learning, with telephone conference calls. A pal of mine near Dunblane has participated in their courses.

[McClef]

True, McClef. But Welsh has the mighty "Ll" which for many people proves impossible to pronounce. Sadly we've just about reached the end of my Welsh vocabularly (short as it is). My father-in-law is from Wales and is a Welsh-speaker. Perhaps I should start learning.

Is mise le meas,

Siôn Ap Arth!

True slohairt but the main key is keeping plenty of phlegm in the throat

[Graham]

Good thread here, I would love to learn to speak, I have a book and CD on Scots gaelic, just getting the time to learn!

One thing I know, it's a beautiful language and needs preserving.

[slohairt]

A Ghréamaigh (Graham),

Is the book and CD set called "Teach Yourself Gaelic"? Someone gave me "Teach Yourself Irish" for Xmas one year and it's a pretty good series.

Is mise le meas,

Seán Liosliath Ó hAirt

P.S. This goes out to all the kilties: When I was in school, one area I excelled at was "de-Anglicization" meaning I'm good at taking modern-day anglicized Celtic names & surnames and reverting them to their original form. At one time I used to do this for a heraldry company. Given alternate spellings and such, it can sometimes be difficult. My own last name is anglicized as O'Hart, O'Harte, O'Hairt, Hart, and Harte. So, if anyone wants to know the original form of their name, post it, and I'll give it a try for fun. Even if it isn't Celtic I could tell you a "gaelicized" version - i.e. "Fisher" = Mac an Iascaire!

[MacWage]

A Ghréamaigh (Graham),

Is the book and CD set called "Teach Yourself Gaelic"? Someone gave me "Teach Yourself Irish" for Xmas one year and it's a pretty good series.

Is mise le meas,

Seán Liosliath Ó hAirt

P.S. This goes out to all the kilties: When I was in school, one area I excelled at was "de-Anglicization" meaning I'm good at taking modern-day anglicized Celtic names & surnames and reverting them to their original form. At one time I used to do this for a heraldry company. Given alternate spellings and such, it can sometimes be difficult. My own last name is anglicized as O'Hart, O'Harte, O'Hairt, Hart, and Harte. So, if anyone wants to know the original form of their name, post it, and I'll give it a try for fun. Even if it isn't Celtic I could tell you a "gaelicized" version - i.e. "Fisher" = Mac an Iascaire!

OK,

I've been told my last name may have been Gaelic originally, though I;ve seen it NOWHERE. I've also been told it may be German, though a German scholar (PhD in Linguistics with an emphasis on German and its development) told me it was impossible to be German (Because it is not a possible German construction).
It's currently Wages, and MAY have been Wagers (it is interchangable in early American documents with the same people using both). Been told that it may be a derivation of Wallace (though NO proof or knowledge of the G and L (a "voiced L" ??) thing with Scottish Gaelic.
Any thoughts (besides, Pour a Malt:rolleyes: )?


On topic, I'd love to learn Gaelic too, or at least hear it spoken enough to mave SOME idea of correct pronounciations.

[N. Campbell]

I have picked up a few books from the local library on both Scottish and Irish Gaelic and tried my best to learn some phrases, but I am just not sure if I am pronouncing them correctly, so I get discouraged and stop. Is it really possible to teach yourself Gaelic just from a book?

slohairt, How about the last name Bunt. I believe it might have some Scottish or Cornish ancestry.

[beowulf67]

Slohairt,
One side of my family is Davis, from Wales. I've seen it as McDaibh before.

The other is Aday, derived from Eadie or Addie depending on where you look, both septs of House of Gordon.