Speaking our Language
If you are a complete beginner episodes 1-18 will take you (step-by-step) into conversational Gaelic and introduce you to the basic language skills you will need to speak Gaelic.
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking someone how they are (using the plural / polite form of you)
- Telling someone how you are
- Greetings and their replies
- Discussing the weather
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Saying who you are
- Asking someone’s name (plural / polite form)
- Gaelic forms of names (first and last)
- Inviting someone in
- Introducing someone
- Introducing members of your family
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking someone where they live (plural / polite)
- Placenames / Street names
- Asking someone’s address
- Giving address
- Numbers
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking where someone comes from
- Placenames
- Do you speak Gaelic?
- I’m learning Gaelic
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Drink names; saying please
- Addressing someone by name (the vocative case)
- Asking someone what they would like
- I would like...
- Drinks
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- I like...
- I like to...
- Activities / Sports
- Saying you don’t
- Asking someone whether they like something
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking someone if they have children
- I have a son / daughter
- Saying that you have children
- Counting people
- Telling someone to hurry up
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking someone the time
- Telling the time
- Asking when a place opens
- Asking when a film is on
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Saying what your job is
- Asking someone what their job is
- Asking someone where they work
- Saying where you work
- Saying that you are unemployed
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Saying goodbye
- Apologising and saying you have to go
- Departing transport
- Travel costs
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking someone where they are going
- Saying where you are going
- Saying what you are going to do
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking someone where they went
- Saying where you went
- Asking someone where they were
- Saying where you were
- Saying what you went to do
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Saying pardon
- Apologising and telling someone to speak slower
- Asking someone what they said
- Saying you don’t know
- Saying you don’t understand
- Saying you understand
- Asking what something means
- Asking how to say something
- Extra phrases
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Summary of previous language
- Introducing members family
- Saying where you work
- Saying where you are going
- Saying where you were
- Asking where you are going
- Saying hurry up
- Asking the time, saying you don’t know
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Telling someone to sit down
- Telling someone to wait a minute
- Encouraging someone to do something
- Telling someone to close the window
- Telling someone to open their mouth
- Telling someone to stop doing something
- Telling someone not to do something
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Rooms of house
- Types of house
- Asking where someone has a house
- Saying what type of house you want
- Saying where something is in the house
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking what something costs
- Saying what something costs
- Asking if they take credit card
- Saying something is cheap / expensive
- Saying that you only have...
Other learning resources:
The videos on this page will help you learn about the following:
- Asking what someone has
- Saying what you have
- Asking what type of item someone has
- Saying there is nothing left
- Asking what someone is like
- Describing what someone is like
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