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A unique DVD-based package, featuring audio-visual recordings of authentic natural speech, Speaking Irish / An Ghaeilge Bheo gives learners the perfect opportunity to improve their comprehension skills and familiarise themselves with the living language.

The package includes a DVD featuring unrehearsed interviews with more than 20 fluent Irish speakers, representing all three regional dialects. The interviews were filmed on location throughout Ireland, and feature speakers from Kerry, Donegal, Dublin and Galway. More than 45 interview segments are organized into twenty thematic sections, covering all aspects of contemporary Irish life, such as the environment, family, politics, entertainment, and cultural traditions. The supporting book is attractively designed and includes a transcript of all the interviews on the DVD as well as notes on vocabulary, pronunciation, idioms and cultural issues.

Tá meas agam ar na daoine a chuir seo le chéile.

Yeah I have that and I have to say I am very pleased with it, speakers from Munster, Connacht, and Ulster.

I learn something new every day from it! Its really for intermediate to on the road advanced learners.

Lughaidh is not too happy with it -apparently it mixes learners and natives with impunity

Yeah he said that it lacks Gaeltacht speakers, but there is a few though like for example the first girl who is from Connemara and describes the sea, and the one of the most beautiful golf courses situated in Conamara and Liam he is a Gaeltacht speaker from Donegal (I'm friends with him!)

I still reccomened it though, it will get you to a higher step of getting more competent in speaking Irish.

Does anyone know about Turas Teanga, is it any good?

Turas Teanga is good if you already speak some Irish. My only fault with the dvds is that you can't put Gaeilge subtitles to go with the Gaeilge speech. I would like to build more of a correlation in my head between the Irish I'be been studying in books all these years and what it actually sounds like.

English subtitles are pointless as your brain will just lapse into reading the english and tune out the Irish.

What type of learner does it target for? Beginnes, Adcanced, Intermediate, no Irish at all?

Intermediate probably. Hard to say really. What would you consider an intermediate as opposed to an advanced learner?

I have a copy and am already using it in my intermediate class, as we're fortunate to have a TV & DVD player there.

It's a bit beyond what most beginners could use, but folks with a year or more of studies are probably ready for this.

"Speaking Irish: An Theanga Bheo" addresses one of the important needs that learners outside of Ireland have -- that is, to develop an "ear" for Irish as spoken by people other than their teacher and/or fellow students. Short of sending folks to a Gaeltacht or immersion event, this is the next best thing.

I don't think that "Gaeltacht speakers" are the focus here -- it's to understand the widest possible range of accents/dialects, even those with less-than-perfect Irish ( and even the native speakers on the DVDs aren't perfect!).

This DVD & book will help get the learner out of the unavoidably "closed" environment of the sounds/pronunciations in their classrooms and beginning to understand the wider world of Irish speakers.

By the bye . . . the best price in North America, as far as I know, is on Amazon.com.

An ndéanann mé staidéar in aisce? B'fheidir go bhfuil an cúrsa seo an mhíorúilt go lorgaí mé!

http://www.amazon.com/BMV-Quantum-Subliminal-Programming-Ultra-Silent/dp/B000KC0 OCW/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=miscellaneous&qid=1206486318&sr=8-10

There's just one catch, a Dhomhnaill: is féidir leat a lán Gaeilge a fhoghlaim i do chodladh, ceart go leor. Ach ní féidir leat í a úsáid i do dhúiseacht!

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Speaking Irish / An Ghaeilge Bheo

Tá mé díreach tar éis an pacáiste seo a ordú ó ChIC. Is dóigh liom go bhfuil sé tábhachtach chuile shórt Gaeilge a chloisteáil agus a thuiscint. Tá súil agam gur fiú an t-airgead é! Ach má tá Aonghus agus Cionadh sásta leis, is dócha gur fiú.

Tarraingíonn Antaine anuas ceist mhaith faoin easpa fotheideal Gaeilge ar DVDs de chineál seo. Aontaim go hiomlán .. Tá sé riachtanach dar liom gur féidir é rogha teanga a bheith ann, go háirithe mar tá na cúrsaí seo dírithe ar dhaoine a bhfuil meánleibhéal Gaeilge acu

Speaking Irish can also be ordered from Daltai.