Pimsleur Irish Quick & Simple Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-8 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Irish (Gaelic) with Pimsleur Language Programs

The product does not come with a transcript, and none is commercially available. However a transcript is available from New England Conradh na Gaeilge... enter gaeilge dot org in a browser. Or enter "Transcript" "Irish" and "Pimsleur" as search terms. You should also be able to find it on e mule and soul seek with the same terms.

Keeping in mind it is a SHORT course,and getting pronuciation out of a book is dead hard. As for no book, I'm a visual artist and a visual learner. I was attracted to the course because I saw it as a way of stimulateing my verbal center. And, given Irish spelling is nothing but grief to the begining English student, I'm thankful a sound only course is available. I ran into a bit of trouble in lesson 4, then I broke through something and it just started tp work. I learned more Irish in a month than I ever had with the more comprehesive, but clumsy "Learning Irish" which I've owned for 10 years! Mind, I'm illiterate now... ;-) My only real complaint is there doesn't seem to be a Pimsleur Irish course as complete as the French or German ones. Cheers all for the warning that it is mainly Munster dialect.

Of course, you can't learn a lot with just 8 lessons, but you will learn them very quickly ! this is really a good system to begin with a new language; a piece of cake ! Well done, Mr Pimsleur!

I work at the TX Renaissance Festival; my character is a bossy Irishwoman. I thought it would add to my character's personality to be able to speak and understand a little bit of the language. While it has always been relatively easy for me to learn to read foreign languages (except for Irish, mind you), trying to speak and understand spoken language has been difficult, since I am one of those people who needs to *see* and *read* what I am learning. This set of CDs is the best set I have discovered yet for learning the Irish language (or any language): you learn bit by bit, like a child learns the language. Other tapes repeat a phrase and then go right on to the next new phrase. This set of CDs not only takes each phrase and teaches it to you word-by-word, but throughout the entire program, it reviews what you learned in the previous lessons. Very helpful for me! By the time this year's renfaire comes around, I will be able to speak *and* understand basic Irish, regardless of the dialect! Not only will that be great for my Irish character, but I have every intention of travelling to Ireland one day, and these CDs will have helped me overcome my basic fear of trying to understand what I am hearing by the locals! Pimsleur rocks! Irish rocks!

I just finished listening to and learning the 8 lessons in the Pimsleur Irish Basic Course. It is fantastic. Like all the Pimsleur programs, they take plenty of time to help you with pronunciation. (You'll need it with Irish.)Yet, they still move along quickly, teaching you more and more each lesson. The only downer was when I reached the end of Tape 8 and realized there was no more. I ENCOURAGE ANYONE WHO LIKES THIS COURSE TO WRITE SIMON & SCHUSTER AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO PRODUCE A FULL 30-LESSON COMPREHENSIVE IRISH COURSE. Irish is a fascinating language, and this is, without a doubt, the best way to tackle learning it.