Talk Now! Learn Irish - Beginning Level | 
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Category: Software
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2850
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
Model: AMT5044
UPC: 781735501542
EAN: 0781735501542
ASIN: B0000899NV
Release Date: January 31, 2003
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| Features:
| • | Comprehensive interactive language learning; ideal for beginners | | • | Easy and hard quizzes, plus a challenging memory game | | • | Compare yourself with native speakers; monitor progress | | • | Topics include phrases, food, shopping, telling time, and more | | • | On-screen help available in over 75 languages; printable dictionary |
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Talk Now! Learn Irish - Beginning Level
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 In Muster dialect! March 14, 2004
pietro merletti (Jesi Italy)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Well, I didn't expect that the less used variant of Irish and less spoken was used for a popular game, aimed for the absolute beginner.
Muster dialect has peculiarities, most of it are in grammar, so that it won't be useful even for those that want take a grasp in Muster dialect.
An Ulster or Connaught speaker would have a fairly low point in some games.
No explication about lenitions.
Which is the use of a game that teaches you only to tell correctly the time in Munster dialect? Perhaps to have a job at the local radio station...
In Muster dialect! March 14, 2004
pietro merletti (Jesi Italy)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Well, I didn't expect that the less used variant of Irish and less spoken was used for a popular game, aimed for the absolute beginner.
Muster dialect has peculiarities, most of it are in grammar, so that it won't be useful even for those that want take a grasp in Muster dialect.
An Ulster or Connaught speaker would have a fairly low point in some games.
No explication about lenitions.
Which is the use of a game that teaches you correctly only to tell the time in Munster dialect? Perhaps to have a job at the local radio station...
 This is a great CD for the first learner. July 15, 2003
TpExchange (Everett, Wa United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This CD is a great way to learn the basics of the Irish Language. As previous review indicates, it won't satisfy the experienced that is looking for totally formal language instruction, what it does do is give you the basics and get you on your way to speaking Irish. Once mastered, then you will have the basic tools to go on to the more difficult Irish Instruction. It is presented in an enjoyable, Game type formate that makes it easy and fun to learn.
You won't hear real Irish in that! April 1, 2003
75 out of 77 found this review helpful
I took this CD-Rom from a mediatheque close to home. I have to admit that I already speak Irish fluently and I just wanted to have a look at this cd-rom. I was really disappointed... Well, of course- this kind of CD rom just aims to teach you a couple of words and expressions like "how are you?", say what time it is, and name several items. But unfortunately, what you can hear on this CD isn't native Irish, the speakers have an awful English accent (an crampa gallda, as we say in Irish) - as most non-native Irish speakers have - and aren't able to pronounce the sounds correctly. Native speakers of Irish do thrill the r's as an Italian would do, they do pronounce dental t and d (instead of English alveolar t and d, that you can hear here), they make the distinction between "broad" (velarized) and "slender" (palatalized) consonants, which are so important in Irish, and the speakers on the CD just don't make this distinction at all.
I wonder if the speakers who have been recorded here are able to understand real native speakers of Irish... I guess they're not.
It's just as if you would ask to an English learner of French to record tapes for French language learning material. Of course he wouldn't have a perfect accent.
That what they did with Irish here... I hope that not many people will try to learn Irish with this CD-Rom ! I'd advise to buy Learning Irish (by Micheal O Siadhail), Teach Yourself Irish, or Now You're Talking (if you want to learn respectively Connemara Irish, Munster Irish or Ulster Irish): on those recordings you will hear native speakers and their pronounciation is fine. Or go and spend a couple of weeks (or more) in Western Ireland, in the Gaeltacht. There you'll learn real Irish.
But forget about Talk Now Irish...
Adh mor oraibh, ta suil agam gur Gaeilge bhinn bhlasta a fhoghlaimeos sibh !
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