Rosetta Stone Gaelic?

**Burly Brute** · 16th December 10, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by castledangerous

My library system had an on-line version you could use, but now they have Mango

The fruit or the burly guy from Blazing Saddles? ;-)

**castledangerous** · 16th December 10, 01:53 PM

http://www.mangolanguages.com/

**beloitpiper** · 16th December 10, 08:41 PM

I have the Gaelic Rosetta Stone and I think it's a great tool. Yes, Guinness>water and MacBean, they don't give you translations directly, but that's the whole point. You learn naturally. They don't want you to hear Irish and translate it into English in your head. They want you to hear Irish and think in Irish in your head.

**macshorty** · 16th December 10, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by Piper

I realize it's second hand information, but several years ago Uncle Sam sent my son for foreign language training to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA. Once I started seeing the ads for Rosetta Stone, I asked my son if he'd had any dealings with it. He told me he'd looked into it on his own, but was kind of underwhelmed with what you got for the money, it's not a cheap program.

It's too bad they don't teach Gaelic at DLI, otherwise I would have told my recruiter to send me there.

**Arlen** · 24th December 10, 09:19 AM

I'm still just miffed that there's no Rosetta Stone for Scots Gaidhlig!

**Mike M.** · 24th December 10, 11:13 AM

I'm using Rosetta Stone for German. It's pretty good for speaking, listening, and reading, but really needs to be used with a textbook for grammar and spelling. Their approach completely fails to leverage your knowledge of English to help your learning process.

That being said, I'm pretty satisfied. One thing, though...get Levels 1-3 as a minimum. Level 1 won't have enough to let you travel.

**madmacs** · 25th January 11, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Arlen

I'm still just miffed that there's no Rosetta Stone for Scots Gaidhlig!

Not rosetta stone, but there was/is a language series called "speaking our language" which might suit you

**Seanmadra** · 24th May 11, 04:27 PM

I know this is an old post but I'll throw this bit of info up just in case anyone is watching. If by chance you have time to spend a week in Ireland, there is a small place in Co Donegal (http://www.oideas-gael.com/) where you can take Irish classes. They also have a fairly good bookstore (on-line too). Leeds Metropolitan University also offered an Irish night class (1x week for two semesters, levels 1, 2 and three). Not sure if LMU still offers Irish.