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The aim of Teach Yourself Irish
is to teach you to understand basic, everyday Irish.
It is suitable for both the complete beginner and for
Irish people who have learned some Irish at school but
who have had little opportunity of speaking it. This
is a functional course, based on the kinds of situations
in which Irish is used, each of which is dealt with
in a separate unit.
The first half of the book includes
much of what you would expect to find in a phrasebook,
and enough Irish for you to get by in simple situations.
The second half of the book will prepare you to be more
adventurous, and at this stage you can make more use
of the appendices at the back of the book. The recorded
material to accompany the course is available separately
as a double CD or double cassette or together with the
book in a pack. |
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Diarmuid O Se, co-author, is
a lecturer at University College, Dublin. He has worked
as a secondary teacher and language laboratory instructor
and was for many years a researcher at the Linguistics
Institute of Ireland.
Joseph Sheils, co-author, is
Head of Modern Languages at the Council of Europe in
Strasbourg. He was previously Head of the Department
of Language Pedagogy at the Linguistics Institute of
Ireland. He is an experienced teacher, teacher-trainer
and curriculum developer. |
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