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Irregular verbs: Beir (Birth/Bring/Take/Catch/Bite): Imperative
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Irregular verbs: Tar (Come): Imperative, present, past
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Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
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Slender and broad consonants: Single consonants
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Meeting, Greeting and Introducing!
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Irish surnames
Nouns: The Vocative Case
Pronouncing Irish First Names
Pronouncing short vowels: Single vowels
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Pronouncing short vowels: Vowel groupings
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Irregular verbs: Téigh (Go): Imperative
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Verbs: The verbal adjective
Easily Confused Words: Similar-sounding words
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Possession: Introducing the Genitive Case
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What’s your name?
How are you?
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I’m fine, thanks
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Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Verbal noun
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The Song’s Story – Trasna na dTonnta
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Module 1: Meeting and Greeting
Saying hello
What’s your name?
How are you?
Saying goodbye
Your first conversation
Irish first names
Calling someone by name
Meeting a stranger
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To be or not to be
Where do you live?
Placenames of Ireland
7 Counties and provinces of Ireland
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What is your home like?
Upstairs downstairs
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Are you married?
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To have or have not
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Family
This is my friend
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Irish surnames
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The present tense
How often?
Gaelic games
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Talking about pastimes
Games and Stories
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Workplaces
What is the time?
Days of the week
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What is the date?
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Meals and Menus
Please and thank you
Shall we go out for dinner?
Ordering food in a restaurant
Ordering drinks in a restaurant
Module 7: At the Weekend
Taking it easy
Housework
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What did you buy?
The past tense
Duties, obligations, abilities
The verbal noun
How was your weekend?
Purpose and reason
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Buying an outfit
Transport
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Places around town
A day trip
Asking in a shop
Conversation in a shop
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Where did you go?
North, south, east and west
Did you enjoy your holiday?
How was the weather?
Travel and tourism
Booking a hotel room
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Module 10: Plans & Celebrations
Making plans
New Year’s Resolutions
The future tense
A night on the town
Let’s go out tonight
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St. Patrick’s Day
Halloween
Christmas
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Irregular Verbs: Clois (Hear): Present
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Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Imperative, present, past
Irregular verbs: Faigh (Get/Find): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
Irregular verbs: Feic (See): Imperative, present, past
Irregular verbs: Feic (See): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
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Irregular verbs: Tabhair (Give): Imperative, present, past
Irregular verbs: Tabhair (Give): Future, verbal noun, verbal adjective
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I Prefer This
Video: Preferences
I Love It – I Hate It
Conversational Connectors
Video: Conversational Connectors
Say It With Emphasis: Pronouns
Say It With Emphasis: Nouns
Cúrsaí – Le Cairde agus Sa Bhaile
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Finer points of saying goodbye
Saying goodbye conversation
Asking: isn’t?
Asking: who is?
What would you like to do?
Introductions & Relationships: This is my friend
Introductions & Relationships: A friend of mine
What is your home like?
Asking: why isn’t?
In the house
Cúrsaí – Love and Hate
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Are you married?
Cursing: Shock, dismay, angry retorts
Cursing: Curses and name-calling
Love and terms of endearment
Cúrsaí – Introduction to Irregular Verbs
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Irregular verbs: Abair (Say): Imperative
Irregular Verbs: Abair (Say): Present
Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Future
Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Past
Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Present
Verbs: Forming the infinitive
Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Imperative
Verbs: An introduction to the irregulars
Cúrsaí – Meals and Ordering Food
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Ordering drinks in a restaurant
Drinks
Ordering food in a restaurant
Food and meals – dinner
Food and meals – lunch
Food and meals – breakfast
In a café
Video: Mealtime Phrases
Cúrsaí – Introduction to Nouns
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Common prepositions: Two common ways to say
Simple prepositions
Video: Simple prepositions
Plural of nouns
Video: Plural of Nouns
Initial mutations: Four changes
Cúrsaí – Days, Months And Time
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What is the time?
Video: Telling the time
Days of the week
Video: Days of the Week
Seasons and months
Video: Seasons and months
Cúrsaí – Ag Tosú Amach
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Irish language alphabet
A word about dialects
Word order in sentences
Cúrsaí – Bitesize Taster Course
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Taster – Learn Some New Words – Trasna na dTonnta
Taster – A word about dialects
Taster – What’s your name?
Taster – Comhrá 01 Conversation Practice
Taster – Excuse Me, Please, Thank you
Taster – Video: Polite Phrases
Taster – Start a Conversation
Taster – Pronouncing long vowels
Taster – Describing People
Taster – Video: Practice Of long vowels
Taster – Let’s Sing Trasna na dTonnta
Taster – Creating short sentences
Taster – Count from 1 to 10
Cúrsaí – Phrases you can use every day!
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Possession: Whose
Verbs: The past tense: affirmative
Possession: More about possessive adjectives
Possession: Using possessive adjectives
Video: Singular Possessive Adjectives
Up and down
Excuse Me, Please, Thank you
Video: Polite Phrases
Cúrsaí – Days and Holidays
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Halloween
St. Patrick’s Day
Christmas
Video: Festive Greetings
Video: Holidays
Holidays
Cúrsaí – Crash Course: Nouns 2
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Nouns: Gender: Adjectives and pronouns
Nouns: The genitive case with the definite article
Video: Declensions
Nouns: Finding the genitive form
Nouns: Gender: Determining gender
Nouns: Gender: The nominative and genitive cases
Video: Determining word gender
Video: Finding the genitive form
Nouns: Declensions
Cúrsaí – Crash course: Nouns 1
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Video: Prepositional Pronouns
Video: The preposition ag (at)
Common prepositions: Other common ways to say
Common prepositions – ag (at)
Initial mutations: Eclipsis
Initial mutations: Lenition
Initial mutations: Prothesis
Prepositional Pronouns
Cúrsaí – Ask Questions in Irish
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How to answer a question
How to ask a question
Video: Asking questions
How to answer negatively
Asking: why?
Where and When?
Cúrsaí – Meeting, Greeting & Introducing
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Where are you from? (Cúrsaí)
Spelling rule
Greeting an acquaintance
Meeting a stranger (Cúrsaí)
Video: Where do you live?
Where do you live? (Cúrsaí)
Countries and nationalities (Cúrsaí)
Everyday phrases for conversation
Do you speak Irish?
Video: Everyday phrases
Slender and broad consonants: Single consonants
Introducing people (Cúrsaí)
Meeting, Greeting and Introducing!
Slender and broad consonants: Consonant groupings
Video: Caol le caol, leathan le leathan
Spelling rule
About Conversation Practice
Cúrsaí – Introduction: Pronunciation
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Irish surnames
Nouns: The Vocative Case
Pronouncing Irish First Names
Pronouncing short vowels: Single vowels
Pronouncing long vowels: Single vowels
Video: Short vowel groupings
Podcast: Vowels
Pronouncing short vowels: Vowel groupings
Pronouncing long vowels: Vowel groupings
Cúrsaí – Your Guide to…Numbers and Counting
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Numbers to 19 followed by a noun
Video: Counting things to 10
How old are you?
Video: Asking someone’s age
Ordinal numbers – 1st, 2nd, 3rd…
Counting people
Numbers over 20: Counting
Video: Counting people
Numbers over 20: Numbering things
Cúrsaí – Food and everything delicious!
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Food and meals
Video: Ith (Eat)
Irregular verbs: Ith (Eat)
Cúrsaí – Starting with Numbers
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Numbers to 20
Count from 1 to 10
Video: Count from 1 to 10
This and That
The definite article
Cúrsaí: Weather and Going Places
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Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Verbal Adjective
Video: Where?
Asking: where?
Weather phenomena
Video: The Weather
Talking about the weather
Video: Téigh – Go
Irregular verbs: Téigh (Go): Imperative
Irregular verbs: Téigh (Go): Present Tense
Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Past
Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Future
Irregular Verbs: Téigh (Go): Verbal Noun
Cúrsaí: Work and Words
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Possession: Multiple owners
Professions, occupations
The workplace
Discussing jobs & professions
Verbs: The verbal adjective
Easily Confused Words: Similar-sounding words
Easily Confused Words: Words that look similar
Easily Confused Words: The importance of accent marks
Possession: Introducing the Genitive Case
Video: Possession – Our, Your, and Their
Cúrsaí – Your First Conversation as Gaeilge
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Your first conversation
Video: Replying to Dia duit
Saying Hello back
Video: My Name Is
What’s your name?
How are you?
Video: Three ways to say How are you?
Video: Replying to How are you?
Saying goodbye
Video: Goodbye
How to start a conversation in Irish
I’m fine
And you?
I’m fine, thanks
Cúrsaí – Hobbies and your pastimes!
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Sports and activities
Video: Talking about Hobbies
Hobbies
Irregular verbs: Bí (Be): Verbal noun
Colours
Verbs: Going, doing, seeing
Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Past
Irregular Verbs: Déan (Make/Do): Present
Cúrsaí: A Trip Around Town
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Video: Directions
Giving directions
Asking in a shop
Buildings and structures
Public signs
Amenities
Media and technology
Means of transport
Clothing
Body parts
Asking at a hotel
Booking a hotel room
Talking about your health
At the doctor’s office
Conversation in a shop
Animals
In the countryside
Sing a Song in Irish
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Trasna na dTonnta
The Song’s Story – Trasna na dTonnta
Let’s Read Trasna na dTonnta
Learn Some New Words – Trasna na dTonnta
Let’s Sing Trasna na dTonnta
Beidh Aonach Amárach
The Song’s Story – Beidh Aonach Amárach
Let’s Read Beidh Aonach Amárach
Learn Some New Words – Beidh Aonach Amárach
Let’s Sing Beidh Aonach Amárach
Bean Pháidín
The Song’s Story – Bean Pháidín
Let’s Read Bean Pháidín
Learn Some New Words – Bean Pháidín
Let’s Sing Bean Pháidín
Tús Maith
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Two Irish recipes
Why did you do that?
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Module 1: Meeting and Greeting
Saying hello
What’s your name?
How are you?
Saying goodbye
Your first conversation
Irish first names
Calling someone by name
Meeting a stranger
Greeting an old friend
Module 2: At Home
Where are you from?
Countries and nationalities
To be or not to be
Where do you live?
Placenames of Ireland
7 Counties and provinces of Ireland
Talking about possession: my, your, his, her
In the house
What is your home like?
Upstairs downstairs
Module 3: Friends & Family
Talking about family
Are you married?
Counting people
To have or have not
Describing people
Family
This is my friend
Talking about love
Introducing people
Irish surnames
Module 4: Hobbies & Pastimes
Hobbies
Sports
I like to play
Music
The present tense
How often?
Gaelic games
Traditional music
Talking about pastimes
Games and Stories
Module 5: Working Life
What do you do?
Jobs and professions
Discussing jobs and professions
Do you like your job?
Workplaces
What is the time?
Days of the week
Daily routine
Months and seasons
What is the date?
Module 6: Food & Drink
Hunger, thirst (and other feelings)
Food
Drinks
Likes and Dislikes
Meals and Menus
Please and thank you
Shall we go out for dinner?
Ordering food in a restaurant
Ordering drinks in a restaurant
Module 7: At the Weekend
Taking it easy
Housework
Doing the shopping
What did you buy?
The past tense
Duties, obligations, abilities
The verbal noun
How was your weekend?
Purpose and reason
Module 8: A Trip around Town
Buying an outfit
Transport
Public signs
Giving directions
Places around town
A day trip
Asking in a shop
Conversation in a shop
Clothes and fashion
Colour, size, etc
Module 9: Weather & Travel
Weather
Comparing weather conditions
Talking about the weather
Where did you go?
North, south, east and west
Did you enjoy your holiday?
How was the weather?
Travel and tourism
Booking a hotel room
The weather forecast
Module 10: Plans & Celebrations
Making plans
New Year’s Resolutions
The future tense
A night on the town
Let’s go out tonight
Holidays and festivals
St. Patrick’s Day
Halloween
Christmas
Your favourite festival
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Three ways to say How are you?
Replying to How are you?
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Cruinneas 1 – An Aimsir Chaite
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Numbers and Counting – introduction
Overview of number systems
Challenge: Identify the dialect
Nouns – introduction
Gender and declensions
Basic numbers
Counting things
Counting people
Ordinal numbers
Initial Mutations
Séimhiú (aka lenition)
Initial Mutations – Summary
H and T prothesis
Urú (aka eclipsis)
DNTLS (“dentals”)
Initial Mutations – introduction
Dealing with Dialects
Introduction to Dialects
Dialects – Grammar
Dialects – Vocabulary
Dialects – Pronunciation
A Guide to Numbers and Counting
A Guide to Nouns and Cases
Cúrsaí – Cairde agus Clann
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Family
Talking about family
Creating short sentences
Creating short negative sentences
Verbs: The present tense
Describing people
Verbs: to be
Video: to have
Verbs: to have
Coming Back to Irish Taster
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Bitesize Beo Scripts
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Comhrá 02: Your Family
Comhrá 03: Your Occupation
Comhrá 04: The Weather
Comhrá 05: Your Pets and Hobbies
Comhrá 06: You and Ireland
Comhrá 07: Faster, Slower
Comhrá 08: Choosing a Dinner
Comhrá 09: Directions
Comhrá 10: Arranging to meet a friend
Comhrá 11: Visiting family
Comhrá 12: Cooking Dinner
Comhrá 01: Introducing Yourself
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