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Gaeilge gan Stró! Beginners Level: A Multimedia Irish Language Course for Adults
Gaeilge gan Stró! – Beginners Level is a multimedia language course for adult learners of Irish. It’s suitable for those who know no Irish or who only know a few basic sentences.The emphasis is on developing speaking and listening skills but students are also given opportunities to read and write the language. Grammar is taught in context, as it’s required.
The course consists of a book and four audio CDs which are closely linked to the book. An online version of the course is available on Gaelchultúr’s e-learning website, www.ranganna.com. The book and audio CDs can be used independently of the online version of the course.
Gaeilge gan Stró! – Beginners Level aims to help those who undertake the course to:
• understand familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases;
• introduce themselves and others, and can ask and answer questions about personal details (e.g. background, where they live, family);
• interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help;
• learn vocabulary relating to everyday topics;
• gain an understanding of some of the basic aspects of Irish grammar.
The course consists of a book and four audio CDs which are closely linked to the book. An online version of the course is available on Gaelchultúr’s e-learning website, www.ranganna.com. The book and audio CDs can be used independently of the online version of the course.
Gaeilge gan Stró! – Beginners Level aims to help those who undertake the course to:
• understand familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases;
• introduce themselves and others, and can ask and answer questions about personal details (e.g. background, where they live, family);
• interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help;
• learn vocabulary relating to everyday topics;
• gain an understanding of some of the basic aspects of Irish grammar.
214 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 2011
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July 25, 2018
An excellent book for an Irish language course. It prepared me well for the TEG A1 exam. Lays a good foundation with practical and useful Irish ...the online version is great too because it’s interactive. The book itself comes with a CD. Met the author once ...great guy! Highly recommended textbook for teachers and students.
August 26, 2025
When I first started taking Irish nearly ten years ago, the textbook we used in our beginner’s class was Éamonn Ó Dónaill’s Gaeilge Gan Stró! Beginners Level: A Multimedia Irish Course for Adults. I can’t entirely remember how far we got into this book in the various semesters I took in the beginner’s course, but we got a decent way in some semesters and we never entirely finished it.
This summer, some of mo chairde from my current Irish course, who also had this book from previous beginner courses, suggested that we work our way through it over the summer when we didn’t have class. I suggested we do two chapters a week for the first 8 chapters, which for most of us were review, and then 1 chapter a week for the rest of it. Voila, over the course of 11 weeks of summer, I have now done all 15 chapters, and for the first time in 10 years have actually finished the textbook!
As far as textbooks go, it is very usable. It comes with 4 CDs (dated!) that allow it to include listening and speaking exercises, in addition to the reading and writing ones. The structure is geared toward conversational usage, with chapters arranged by theme (introducing yourself and saying social niceties, clothes and shopping, work, making plans), lots of role-playing sample conversations, and only a few bite-size grammar concepts per chapter. It’s a very different approach than “Irish Grammar You Really Need to Know,” which is by the same author, but I think that’s very valuable because it’s important to tackle a language from a variety of angles. The book also contains tips on studying and on finding other sources that students can use to build their Irish.
Overall I think it’s a very practical and accessible resource, and I’m glad I finally worked my way through all of it.
Originally posted at Gan stró, gan fadhbanna.
This summer, some of mo chairde from my current Irish course, who also had this book from previous beginner courses, suggested that we work our way through it over the summer when we didn’t have class. I suggested we do two chapters a week for the first 8 chapters, which for most of us were review, and then 1 chapter a week for the rest of it. Voila, over the course of 11 weeks of summer, I have now done all 15 chapters, and for the first time in 10 years have actually finished the textbook!
As far as textbooks go, it is very usable. It comes with 4 CDs (dated!) that allow it to include listening and speaking exercises, in addition to the reading and writing ones. The structure is geared toward conversational usage, with chapters arranged by theme (introducing yourself and saying social niceties, clothes and shopping, work, making plans), lots of role-playing sample conversations, and only a few bite-size grammar concepts per chapter. It’s a very different approach than “Irish Grammar You Really Need to Know,” which is by the same author, but I think that’s very valuable because it’s important to tackle a language from a variety of angles. The book also contains tips on studying and on finding other sources that students can use to build their Irish.
Overall I think it’s a very practical and accessible resource, and I’m glad I finally worked my way through all of it.
Originally posted at Gan stró, gan fadhbanna.
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