Irish
Gain the confidence to start real conversations in Irish. No drills, no memorisation, no pressure.
Key facts:
1 courses
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11 hours
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Absolute beginner to advanced intermediate
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All-audio method
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Downloadable phrase lists
Your learning journey
The Foundation course is perfect for absolute beginners, or those looking to refresh their knowledge. A free, no obligation 20-minute lesson is available as a taster.
Michel Thomas Foundation Irish
£80
Eleven hours of structured learning takes you from the basic building blocks of the Irish language to creating your own sentences.
Listen as two students with no previous knowledge of the language are guided through the foundations of the language and join in as the third student in the class. Pause and respond when prompted to start to put your speaking skills into practice. The courses are unscripted: you hear the students’ real progression from absolute beginners to confident speakers – including their mistakes and the teacher’s corrections. You’ll learn in small, manageable steps, building your ability to produce ever more complicated sentences.
You will start with common and loan words, giving you a substantial starting vocabulary within your first hours of learning. By the end of the course, you will be confidently formulating sentences in the present, future and past tenses.
This course is taught by Patricia Mac Eoin and Eilís Ní Dhúill according to the principles of the Michel Thomas method. Patricia Mac Eoin is a lawyer and accredited translator who has worked in the EU Commission in Brussels as an Irish language translator. She also runs the online business All About Irish. She has written her own series of children’s books in Irish, and translated many children’s books from English and French to Irish.
Eilís Ní Dhúill worked for TG4, the Irish language television broadcaster, as editor and director of Cúla4, an Irish language programming block for children. During her Masters and PhD studies Eilís continued to teach Irish and to lecture in the Irish and Education departments at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she continues to work today.
Eleven hours of structured learning takes you from the basic building blocks of the Irish language to creating your own sentences.
Listen as two students with no previous knowledge of the language are guided through the foundations of the language and join in as the third student in the class. Pause and respond when prompted to start to put your speaking skills into practice. The courses are unscripted: you hear the students’ real progression from absolute beginners to confident speakers – including their mistakes and the teacher’s corrections. You’ll learn in small, manageable steps, building your ability to produce ever more complicated sentences.
You will start with common and loan words, giving you a substantial starting vocabulary within your first hours of learning. By the end of the course, you will be confidently formulating sentences in the present, future and past tenses.
This course is taught by Patricia Mac Eoin and Eilís Ní Dhúill according to the principles of the Michel Thomas method. Patricia Mac Eoin is a lawyer and accredited translator who has worked in the EU Commission in Brussels as an Irish language translator. She also runs the online business All About Irish. She has written her own series of children’s books in Irish, and translated many children’s books from English and French to Irish.
Eilís Ní Dhúill worked for TG4, the Irish language television broadcaster, as editor and director of Cúla4, an Irish language programming block for children. During her Masters and PhD studies Eilís continued to teach Irish and to lecture in the Irish and Education departments at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she continues to work today.
11 hoursBeginner levelMaster three tenses
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