# I need Christmas Gift Help!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 8, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-christmas-gift-help/141351 "2002-12-08T20:03:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-christmas-gift-help/141351/1 "2002-12-08T20:03:05Z")

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My dad wants to learn how to speak Gaelic (Irish Gaelic, specifically) and has recently bought a book on how to learn it. Well, as expected, it’s kind of hard to learn a language without any audio lessons.

So I’m looking for a good “How to learn Gaelic” audiotape - even an audiotape/cd of a book on the same subject.

Is there anything that anyone here could suggest? Perhaps a website that has some good choices? I looked on Amazon and found one or two things, but I thought I’d check here to see if anyone has any better suggestions.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-christmas-gift-help/141351/2 "2002-12-09T03:08:22Z")

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Nothing?

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**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-christmas-gift-help/141351/3 "2002-12-09T03:23:23Z")

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Here’s kind of a crap suggestion – I remember when reading the _Outlandish Companion_ that the author, Diana Gabaldon, said that she receives thousands of requests for help learning Gaelic. I believe that she offered suggestions in the book. You might check it out of the local library and look at that section.

also, I typed “learn gaelic” in google, and it returned a few responses. I like the looks of [http://www.acgamerica.org/language/language.html](http://www.acgamerica.org/language/language.html)

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-christmas-gift-help/141351/4 "2002-12-09T04:23:53Z")

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Thanx, **Tattva**!

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-christmas-gift-help/141351/5 "2002-12-09T22:11:30Z")

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I’d like to point out that if you go looking for a book on “Gaelic” you’re more likely to find the Scottish variety. Irish Gaelic is generally referred to simply as “Irish”.

The consensus on the Gaeilge-B (Irish learners) mailing list seems to be in favour of _Learning Irish_ by Mícheál Ó Siadhail. It shouldn’t be difficult to find at the larger bookstores Stateside.