Get Access Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course For Beginners Brought To You By Thomas Ihde Offered As Digital Copy

used this as a textbook for my Irishampfirst year first and second semesters classes,

The book is not ideal for a textbook, It is written with selflearners in mind and the exercises are useless in a classroom setting, The explanations and layout are not ideal for a textbook,

That being said, it is better suited

as a textbook than any other 'textbook' for Irish I have seen or worked with.
It is at least appropriate for a college level, and at least includes explanations and references, It at least does include albeit not much cultural information and context,

If we compare this book to other Irish textbooks, it is excellent, But the competition is anything but fierce, If we compare it to textbooks for any other language, it is woefully inadequate, Quite a few typos, but fine overall, I should have used the accompanying CDs more, but oh well, It's nice to have one of the authors as your teacher directly, A good book covering basic conversational Iirsh emphasis on Cois Fharraige dialect, but may be a little difficult for a beginner as the texts are not translated and vocabulary is sometimes introduced without comment.
Specially written by experienced teachers, 'Colloquial Irish' includes emphasis on the language of East Connemara, stimulating exercises with illustrations and effective combination of language points, dialogues and cultural information.
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