GAELIC The Complete Course for Beginners Katherine M. Spadaro and Katie GrahamThe Colloquial Series Series adviser: Gary King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: Afrikaans Japanese Albanian Korean Amharic Latvian Arabic (Levantine) Lithuanian Arabic of Egypt Malay Arabic of the Gulf and Mongolian Saudi Arabia Norwegian Basque Panjabi Bulgarian Persian * Cambodian Polish * Cantonese Portuguese * Chinese Portuguese of Brazil Croatian and Serbian Romanian Czech * Russian Danish Slovak Dutch Slovéne Estonian Somali Finnish * Spanish French Spanish of Latin America German Swedish Greek * Thai Gujarati Turkish Hindi Urdu Hungarian Ukrainian Indonesian * Vietnamese Italian Welsh Accompanying cassette(s) (*and CDs) are available for all the above titles. They can be ordered through your bookseller, or send payment with order to Taylor & Francis/Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants SPIO SBE, UK, or to Routledge Inc., 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001, USA. COLLOQUIAL CD-ROMs Multimedia Language Courses Available in: Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish Colloquial Scottish Gaelic The Complete Course for Beginners Katherine M. Spadaro and Katie Graham TLE a 0 we ni *& Franc London and New YorkFirst published 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2001 Katherine M. Spadaro and Katie Graham ‘Typeset in Times Ten by Florence Production, Stoodleigh, Devon. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives ple All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Spadaro, Katherine M., 1965- Colloquial Scottish Gaelic : the complete course for beginners / Katherine M. Spadaro and Katie Graham. p.cm 1. Scottish Gaelic language—Textbooks for foreign speakers— English. 2. Scottish Gaelic language—Self-instruction. I. Graham, Katie, 1939- II. Title. PB1523 .S63 2001 00-055221 491.6'382421—dc21 ISBN 0-415-20675-8 (book) ISBN 0-415-20676-6 (cassettes) ISBN 0-415-20677-4 (book and cassettes course) *...as gach uile thréibh, agus theangaidh, agus shluagh, agus chinneach .. .’ (Revelation 7:9b)